Great Quotes III: Source and Context are Key

[gay_Aleks]

Or perhaps, by "adjust", the author of the quote would mean "learn by".

Which means: don't invade Russia, don't massacre millions of Jews and Slavs.

Seems like an easy lesson.

 

[bhsup]

"Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything." - The Rt Hon. The Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS

 

[gay_Aleks]

Time to contact the army and fire the cannons from Aurora, in that case?

 

[classical_hero]

Or perhaps, by "adjust", the author of the quote would mean "learn by".

Which means: don't invade Russia, don't massacre millions of Jews and Slavs.

Seems like an easy lesson.

Yeah, he should have invaded Great Britain first.

 

[gay_Aleks]

He should've just stopped at taking back Lorraine-Elsass from the French and Prussia from the Poles.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

"2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on
3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody"
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

 

[Kyriakos]

Let it not be said that i am too filled with spleen to post a great quote by a german person:

"Proven in every period of its development, the western European culture has tried to rid itself of the Greeks. This work is imbued with deep disappointment, because whatever we create, seemingly original and worthy of admiration, loses color and life in comparison with the Greek mode, and comes to resemble a cheap copy, a caricature.
So again and again soaked in a rage erupts hatred against the Greeks, against this small and arrogant nation, who had the nerve to call barbaric whatever that had not been established in its territory ...
None of the recurrent enemies had the fortune to discover the hemlock, which could forever be rid of them. All poisons of envy, of hubris, hatred, have been insufficient to disturb the great beauty.
Thus, people continue to feel shame and fear of the Greeks. Of course, occasionally, someone appears to recognize intact truth, truth which teaches that the Greeks are the charioteers of any upcoming culture, and, almost always, as the chariots and horses of the upcoming cultures are of very low quality compared to the charioteer, he too eventually will not avoid driving his chariot into the abyss, which is for him beyond the Achilles 'Leap'.

 

[cardgame]

Seems a bit silly. Greece stopped being awesome after the Romans conquered her. Hasn't done squat since.

and we, the West, adopted the 'greek mode' as our own with no reservations.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Seems a bit silly. Greece stopped being awesome after the Romans conquered her. Hasn't done squat since.

That's actually kind of disappointing. Poland's been conquered a lot but even after that they've produced many great thinkers and scholars.

 

[Kyriakos]

^It's bad, yes, but then think of the entire english-speaking world past ww2. Never conquered, and still demoted to crap like the rest here

 

[madviking]

That's actually kind of disappointing. Poland's been conquered a lot but even after that they've produced many great thinkers and scholars.

debatable

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

A dozen Nobel laureates isn't anything to sneeze at. Greece needs to step it up in that regard.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Do you think they would give rewards post-mortem, 2000 years late?

 

[Arakhor]

Nobel awards can only be made to living candidates.

 

[madviking]

well they had that year that had "no suitable candidates" but what they really meant was "mohandas gandhi died and we feel really crummy for not giving him one"

 

[gay_Aleks]

A Nobel Award of Peace? Man, the ig Nobel Awards have more integrity and some of them are highly amusing.

 

[Kozmos]

Some of the early MRE main courses were not very palatable, earning them the nicknames "Mr. E" (mystery),[21] "Meals Rejected by Everyone",[22] "Meals, Rarely Edible",[23] "Meals Rejected by the Enemy", "Morsels, Regurgitated, Eviscerated", "Mentally ******** Edibles", "Meal Ready to Expel", "Meal, Ready to Excrete", "Materials Resembling Edibles", "Morale Reducing Elements", and even "Meals Rejected by Ethiopians" (in reference to the 1983-1985 famine in Ethiopia).[24] Some meals got their own nicknames. For example, the frankfurters, which came sealed in pouches of four, were referred to as "the four fingers of death".[22] Although quality has improved over the years, many of the nicknames have stuck. MREs were sometimes called "Three Lies for the Price of One": it's not a Meal, it's not Ready, and you can't Eat it.[25]

Their low dietary fiber content could cause constipation in some, so they were also known as "Meals Requiring Enemas","Meals Refusing to Exit",[26] "Meals Refusing to Excrete", or "Massive Rectal Expulsions".

Wiki entry on Meal, Ready-to-Eat.

 

[Tee Kay]

"Air pollution is no longer confined to isolated places. This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels."

- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1965

 

[bhsup]

"If the circumstances make it such that you can't <fornicate> a man in the <posterior>, then just peckerslap him. Better to let him know who's in charge than to let him think he's got the keys to the car."

- Lyndon Baines Johnson

 

[Tee Kay]

"<Fornicate> your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked good ...We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mr. Ambassador. If your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitution, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last long..."

All the way with LBJ