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Re: [circle] quotes


From: Steven and Julie
Subject: Re: [circle] quotes
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 04:57:51 +1000

On Fri, 16 May 2003 17:10:27 +1000 (EST), 
"Charles R. Twardy" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ubi dubium ibi libertas.              -Latin proverb
>       (Where there is doubt, there is freedom.)

Sounded better before translation.  :)


> We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to
> be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say
> that only the educated are free.
>                               -Epictetus, _Discourses_

Deep.  Besides, the only truly free people I've met so far, aren't in this 
world anymore.


> ...only those who study but do not share a specific social
> understanding think of it as a system of rules.
>                               -H. Dreyfus, 1991

pffftht


> Just when scientists get really good at doing what they are doing,
> they die.
>                       -David Hull

And chuck in every verse of Alannis Morrisette's "Ironic" song.


> This is the world we live in and these are the hands we're given.
>                       -Phil Collins

Yeah yeah...


> The children thought they were playing a game. They didn't realize
> they were rewiring their brains.
>                       -Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan 1996

Damn it.  I knew I shouldn't have played pacman on that thing!


> Though nothing can bring back the hour
> Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
> We will grieve not, rather find
> Strength in what remains behind;
>       -William Wordsworth

zzzZZZzzzzzz


> Shoot me now!  Shoot me now!
>       -Daffy Duck

Ahhh..... Culture...  Substance...  Meaning...  Such an incredible grasp of the 
present sociopolitical climat in relation to the price of tea in China.


I like them.  :)


I wonder if it would be worth letting everyone provide a handful of their 
favorite quotes, and using the gossip system to spread them around a bit.  
Maybe let people pick three, for instance, and have them added (temporarially) 
to the clients list of avaliable quotes.

Maybe even an option to "adopt" a quote they like, so though it be tagged with 
the originators 'name' (as well as its credits in the usual fashion), it gets 
passed on as though it originated from them.  A similar limit would be a good 
idea...  (have circle remember the last couple quotes it displayed, so it can 
offer the "adopt-a-quote" option next time it's being used also).


Steven (aka Zaphod)




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