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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | For the edification of all, and continued homage to our OFC co-mentor, I offer the following:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
These are not intended as a character judgement, or derogatory in whole or part, simply items for consideration and reflection. I very much admire, and treasure, the ideas of others that challenge my limited understanding. |
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Location: SoCal | Don't forget the corollary to Murphy's Law (If something can go wrong, it will),
O'Brien's Law.... Murphy was an optimist. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Or the second part of Murphy's which is if there are two things that can happen the worse of the two will happen first. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | And the psychology laws that say if you are REALLY paranoid, everybody IS probably REALLY working against you.
If you are calm in the face of adversity, you don't realize the seriousness of the situation.
And the most frustrating law of civilization that can't be beaten ever, the other line ALWAYS is shorter.
Even Einstein couldn't solve these natural laws or propose a solution, who cares about the speed of light when you are stuck in the slow line, as usual. The only human to ever beat this law of the supermarket line was the first President Bush, he then went on to make some stupid remark about the scanner instead of just saying "Wow, this line is REALLY fast, I got to the checker in record time". Therefore giving us 8 years of Bill Clinton. (Bush's election line reverted to law and went slower than Clinton's, because of that gaffe.)
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | My particular favorite, from Albert, is:
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." |
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Albert & Alexander- Reprised
