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Adapt, improvise and overcome.

The American Marines. Probably quoted from somewhere else. Still true today, as it was then.
 
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

Plato
 
greencol said:
My grandfather was a crofter.
My father was brought up on the croft, moved into PD just before I came along.
My mother was from a village in the other direction.
With both being teuchters, they used many words not heard in town.
When I worked in those villages I had the ability to drop into the lingo.
It was interesting to say the least.
Handy being bi lingual!!!
A starter( reminder?)just for you.
I didn't start work in the morning, I got yokit.
And knocking off time was lowsed.
Getting ready for something is 'riggit'.
So many more.
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My father was a humble toolmaker. From man of the people!
 
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates
 
"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity."

"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself."

Both Christopher Hitchens
 
gun ainm said:
"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity."

"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself."

Both Christopher Hitchens
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A very perceptive chap. States what seems obvious to some but oblivious to others. He cracks up my son with his quips.
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Montesquieu
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Could apply to folk trying to compete with others life's that are doctored on social media. Nobody is ever as happy as they seem.
 
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

C.S. Lewis
 
Sancho Panza said:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

C.S. Lewis
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That's one of the epigraphs of my PhD thesis:

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“They couldn’t understand that the left and right were never a threat anyway; that the worst thing is a sanitized society ruled by the middle class. The working class and the real upper class have a lot in common. They know where they’re from, they like a drink, have a sense of humour. It’s the middle you need to look out for.”

Mark E. Smith, Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
 
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive, It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

CS Lewis
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive, It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

CS Lewis
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Yer pal Sancho beat you to it... see above #265 🔝
 
Damn blast and bollocks. Twas the 75th birthday of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe the other day there.

Anyway I'm still watching the wee yin so I'm allowed to quote someone else's quote. So there. 😤
 
"The fall of the Berlin Wall made for nice pictures. But it all began in the shipyards."

Lech Walesa, after whom no streets in the UK are named. Like wake up, goombahs
 
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."

Ecclesiastes 1:9
 
"This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."

Charles James Napier, before all cultures were equally valid
 
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus
 
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