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Dr. Who Quote

I purchased “The Saint” by Orbital on iTunes and also decided to buy “Dr. Who?” as well from their “Live at Glastonbury” (iTunes recreates the old record listening booth from “Webster Records” of my youth). The “Dr. Who?” song is their interpretation of the Dr. Who Theme, it opens with a great quote spoken by The Doctor from “The Dalek Invasion of Earth

“One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”

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Today’s Quote: More on Thinking

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

—————— William James (Are you thinking what I’m thinking?)

Today’s Quote: On Complaining

“I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.”

———- Joe Walsh (Speaking for all of us)

Today’s Quote: On Failure

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody”

——– Bill Cosby (Said perhaps after he started speaking out against cultural problems in the Black community)

Today’s Quote: On Deep Thinking

“The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.”

—————- Søren Kierkegaard (Later paraphrased by famous philosopher Curly Howard as “I keep trying to think, but nothing happens”)

Today’s Quote: On Dishes and Idealism

“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

——– P.J. O’Rourke (probably engaged in that favorite pasttime of oldsters, complaining about the kids of today).

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Today’s Aphorism: On Political Campaigns

“A political campaign starts when a politician stops working and goes about making speeches about all the work he intends to do.”

———– Unknown (probably becuase it’s so old – Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.)

Today’s Quote: On Plans

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

———— Ben Bayol (probably in response to his wife’s complaints about the typical male’s lack of planning)

Today’s Quote: On Comedy

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

—————– Carol Burnett (she must have had some hellacious tragedies based on how funny she was)

Bonus punchline:

I saw it in the window, and I just had to have it.

Today’s Quote: On Bigotry

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

—————- Ambrose Bierce (Boy, there sure are a lot of bigots out there!)