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Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat 2000 of something
-Mitch Hedbergmw13:
“I become very frustrated when people blame, or place responsibility on, the system. What’s the system? Is it the community’s selfless people who are already doing more than they’re able to do, with less funding than is needed to succeed? Or is it the people who are lamenting that the system isn’t doing enough?
R’ Shmuel Gluck of Areivim”
mw13 – +1.
I will add another quote from the same person:
“If you are going to feel guilty, get out of the business (of working with kids-at-risk)”
(R’ Gluck to Lilmod, who fortunately is not really in the business, since she’s not good at not feeling guilty)
“To put yourself up, do not put others down”
The Rebbe Rashab, 5th Lubavither Rebbe
“Junk is something you keep for years and need a week after throwing it away.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gredsky
This thread also shows on the main page as only having 4 pages.
I hope this isn’t going to be a forum-wide issue.Well, now it doesn’t.
“If the procedure prescribed herein does not cover a specific
operating requirement, initiative and common sense should suffice.”
-Conclusion of the first paragraph of Radiotelephone Procedure,
Training Aids Branch Center (TASO), Fort Knox, Kentucky (April 1974)The moment you press the button to start the microwave, you know it was a mistake. You hear a high pitched scream so deep that you could drown in it. The sound surrounds you, and so does the guilt. You are responsible for the destruction of millions of bacteria. Only then does it dawn on you that bacteria have neither lungs nor larynxes. The scream is your own.
-RebYidd23I would think it would benefit everyone who posted here to reread some of the posts that angered you so much and see, when removed, if it really said what you thought/accused it of saying. I believe there were more foaming mouths responding to things they assumed they read then what they actually read. And that prejudice we carry, I believe, is even sadder that the subject at hand. — Mod 29
There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
-a T-shirtIt’s amazing how much garbage – or rubbish – one can find by simply following one’s countrymen’s user profiles.
-feterleibel“No one can hate war more than the people who must fight it.”
-a video created by the 2nd Marine Forward Division (USA)
(I think they were stationed in Afghanistan at the time)#1 – The ranking of “gratitude” in a study on emotions that help create a sense of well-being, followed by “love of learning,” “honesty,” and “hope.”
-seen on the InternetLife is short. Eternity isn’t.
-sign on the corner of 3rd and Clifton in Lakewood
(it may have been changed by now)In The River, the Kettle and The Bird, Rav Aharon Feldman
quotes the Vilna Gaon as saying (commentary on Shir haShirim 5:2)
that there are 4 basic causes of love – we love someone who 1) gives us
physical pleasure, 2) assists us in accomplishing our goals, or 3) in whom
we recognize noble qualities of character. 4) We may also love someone
for no conscious reason other than that we sense that they love us.It is by no means sufficient that an officer should be capable. …
He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners,
punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. …
No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention,
even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely,
he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.
-John Paul Jones, September 14, 1775,
from a letter to the naval committee of
the North American insurrectionistsHungarian Proverb: If you have butter on your head, don’t go under the sun.
Klei Yokor – בשמים ממעל ועל הארץ מתחת when it comes to heavenly, spiritual things, look at people above you, and earthly, material things look at people below you.
Look both ways before crossing the street.
When we get older our screws become loose. – My father
“To put yourself up, do not put others down”, maybe it is implied in לא תעלה במעלות על מזבחי אשר לא תגלה ערותך עליו if you elevate yourself, don’t do it in a way that shows your shame. The Ohr Hachaim says on לא תשא את שם ה אלקיך לשוא, don’t use the name of Hashem to elevate yourself. Don’t make yourself more religious than you are to elevate yourself.
The Binoh Leitim interprets the passage in Pirkei Avos – Wild animal comes to the “world” on false swearing. The man swearing falsely turns himself into a wild animal.
Safety is a feeling that no bad things will happen. Security avoids things to happen
that you don’t want to. The police keep public safety, which stops crimes happen.
Safety hats protect the head from injury. Houses provide safety from the weather.
-full text of the Simple English Wikipedia article on “safety”The failures of lottery winners don’t mean that winning the lottery is bad.
It’s just that lottery winners are pre-selected to be bad with money.
Before they won, they wasted what little they had on lottery tickets.
-RebYidd23Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
When life hands you lemons, take them because.., Hey! free lemons
The citizenship status of [Yoshke] is of such debate because it has real implications
for how Christians on both sides of the aisle conduct policy moving forward.
– A recent Washington Post articleTo listen, be silent.
כל הפוסל במומו פוסל – gemora – whoever degrades the other, degrades him with his own faults.
שלך אי אתה רואה אבל אתה רואה של אחרים ושל גבוה – gemora Pesochim – you don’t see your own faults, but see the faults of others and especially the holy.
‘I like Pizza’- banjobob
Banjobob so true you like it with pepperoni or ham
Don’t cry because it’s over Smile because I happened. -Dr Seuss
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