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Offline peatoluser

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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2012, 10:19:59 PM »
As another part makes it's journey from workbench to scrap bin, I always try to console myself with
" oh well, the person who never made a mistake never made anything"
which probably makes me one of  the most productive people in history!

although sometimes if it's the same bloody part I think Kipling's
"once more the fools bandaged hand goes unerringly to the flames" might be more appropriate.

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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2012, 08:57:49 AM »
The older I get, the better I was.
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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2012, 09:26:21 PM »
?We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.?  Mother Theresa of Calcutta

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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2012, 10:37:25 PM »
I may have my faults, but being wrong isn't one of them.

                                                                                      Andy Capp

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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2012, 02:19:27 AM »
I may be a square, but I've been a round.
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The older I get, the better I was.
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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2012, 02:35:17 AM »
Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2012, 08:24:20 AM »
Commonsense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein
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Re: famous quotes
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2012, 04:42:01 PM »
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman

No statue has ever been put up to a critic. - Jean Sibelius



The following are all due to Albert Einstein...

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Two things are infinite:  the universe and human stupidity; and
I'm not sure about the the universe.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.

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