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Bighuey wrote:That couldnt be more true. Reading is about what you enjoy, not what other people think you should read. If you like to read garbage, thats your business. Nobody should be telling you you cant read garbage. If you like to read class and culture, thats all right too. It all depends what a person likes, people have different tastes. If everyone was the same, wouldnt it be a dull and uninteresting world?
A-men, brother. I think a lot of the judgment in the world comes from people who are scared of doing something different so they mock what they dont understand. Whatever floats your boat, thats my motto.
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StephenKingman wrote:
Bighuey wrote:That couldnt be more true. Reading is about what you enjoy, not what other people think you should read. If you like to read garbage, thats your business. Nobody should be telling you you cant read garbage. If you like to read class and culture, thats all right too. It all depends what a person likes, people have different tastes. If everyone was the same, wouldnt it be a dull and uninteresting world?
A-men, brother. I think a lot of the judgment in the world comes from people who are scared of doing something different so they mock what they dont understand. Whatever floats your boat, thats my motto.
Yes, so many people go with the flow, so to speak, and do what everyone else does whether they really want to or not. Just so they can be with the rest of the sheep. Most people think Im weird because I like off-beat books and off-beat movies and some of the things I have done have been what a lot of people might consider eccentric but I dont care, I like my life and Im not bothering anyone else.
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"Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities" - Elizabeth Bowen.
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"Jazz washes the dust away."-Art Blakey
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"every one saying their own own,but i am be silent .who found pain in others worry ,how they can say there own ."
akhlil mathur (philospher from india )
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“Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”

“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”

-Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
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Money makes you wealthy but only friends can make you rich.

Unknown
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If they had meant for you to hang onto money they would have put handles on it. Unknown.
"I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I dont know what to feed it." Ramblings of a retired senile mind.
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Keeping on the subject of money....

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” Johnny Cash

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"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."Author Unknown
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
Morphing into a misanthrope by existence in the human(?) race.....
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perusaphone wrote:Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
So funny yet so true :D
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My favorite quote:

Time & Tide waits for none
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Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.
George RR Martin.
A Clash of Kings.

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Think of your boss/ bosses and smile go on :-)
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This one seems appropriate, for a Spring-like February day.

"Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together, by paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, and filling the air with the smoke of naphtha and coal, still spring was spring, even in the town."
- Leo Tolstoy
"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
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yea...I love this quote too
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