Blessed are the cheese makers...

Blessed is cheese!

"When the gods want to destroy a man they start answering his prayers."
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"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

Wayne Gretzky

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover. - Mark Twain

Desire is the start of all agitation.

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.- Theodore Roosevelt

You can get understanding without being able to put it into words.

An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind
-Mohandas Ghandi

An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind
-Mohandas Ghandi (spelling?!)

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you even tried.
-Unknown

This is a great thread. Lets keep it alive.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement

If something is worth doing, its worth doing well.

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'Confidence' is that feeling you have, immediately before fully understanding the situation...

facts are stupid things
-ronal reagen

In a world full of computers, we write with pencils.

I think I read this in an earlier post but it wasn't quoted quite right, or at least not the way I ALWAYS heard it growing up.



It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, then to open it and remove all doubt.
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Here's another childhood platitude,

If wishes were horses, beggars could ride.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marchal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieur de Guerre



http://www.yesterdaystomorrows.org/about.html from a site called Yesterday's Tomorrows... the history of what we thought the future would look like....

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. - Greek Proverb

by phreak_of_nature - 5/13/2003 3:54:25 PM
I think I read this in an earlier post but it wasn't quoted quite right, or at least not the way I ALWAYS heard it growing up.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, then to open it and remove all doubt.


Einstine (spelling) I think

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45 they are caves in which we hide. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed bythe things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Sothrow off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.Discover. - Mark Twain

ol' Mark obviously hasn't been where i've been and done what i've done.
he'd have had a much greater respect for self-restraint and discretion, and he'd be much less in awe of "adventure".