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Old 02-21-08 | 09:57 AM
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"Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everyone else?"

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Old 02-21-08 | 09:59 AM
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That quote looks like it has a freewheel, to me.
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Old 02-21-08 | 10:03 AM
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From: ~Serenading with sensous soliloquies whilst singing supple sentences that are simultaneously suppling my sonnets with serenity serendipitously.~ -Serendipper

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That quote looks like it has a freewheel, to me.

Flip flop hub.





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Old 02-21-08 | 10:05 AM
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edit: also--

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

-Eric Hoffer
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Old 02-21-08 | 10:14 AM
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From: ~Serenading with sensous soliloquies whilst singing supple sentences that are simultaneously suppling my sonnets with serenity serendipitously.~ -Serendipper

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"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

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Bono apropo.
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Old 02-21-08 | 10:33 AM
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Old 02-21-08 | 10:38 AM
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From: ~Serenading with sensous soliloquies whilst singing supple sentences that are simultaneously suppling my sonnets with serenity serendipitously.~ -Serendipper

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You get an 'A' for effort, I suppose.




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Old 02-21-08 | 11:13 AM
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Old 02-21-08 | 11:29 AM
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"I thought of that while riding my bicycle" - Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity.
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Old 02-21-08 | 11:35 AM
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Old 02-21-08 | 11:36 AM
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From: ~Serenading with sensous soliloquies whilst singing supple sentences that are simultaneously suppling my sonnets with serenity serendipitously.~ -Serendipper

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"The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

"Heraclitus

That's more like it.
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Old 02-21-08 | 11:45 AM
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Old 02-21-08 | 11:55 AM
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Old 02-21-08 | 07:37 PM
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“The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?”

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Old 02-21-08 | 09:09 PM
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Old 02-21-08 | 11:13 PM
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Old 02-22-08 | 01:27 AM
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Old 02-22-08 | 01:45 AM
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Old 02-22-08 | 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted by SeanBonham
"The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living."

Heraclitus is tight!
Wow. A surprising reference to "the Obscure".

Also,
"Phusis kryptestai phile" : "nature loves to hide"
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Old 02-22-08 | 03:13 AM
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Old 02-22-08 | 09:07 AM
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"don't meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup" - My Mother (she said it all the time, she didn't write it)
a variant of "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.", from Lord of the Rings.
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Old 02-22-08 | 10:05 AM
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Im glad to see that Im not the only with the cynical quotes of the day on their iGoogle page.

My addition:
"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
- Jane Wagner
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