romeotuma wrote: 

 romeotuma wrote: 
This surprises me not at all.

Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.

What would Judas do? 

I live by this one:  

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

                                Theodore Roosevelt

 Welly wrote: 
The most effective motivational quote of all!

Move your ass or I'll move it for you.



No?

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell."  —Joan Crawford

"I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."   —Barack Obama, forty-one-year-old Illinois state legislator, to a few hundred Chicago protesters, on October 2, 2002

 phineas wrote:
 
No, he didn't. He managed to produce an admirable life's work anyway, and there are a hell of a lot of people who follow these admonitions to the letter and never do anything memorable, or even worthwhile. So it goes.

I guess if I had to distill some lesson from this it would be "Do more good than harm." If you want to live the life of a slovenly libertine, accomplish as much positive as Franklin did to offset it.

 smokinsean wrote: 

And, frankly, who cares?

anon

 Lazy8 wrote: 
You mean he didn't live by these tenets? He'd hardly be the first, or last, and it doesn't change the value of many/most of the points.

"Well, you know, like, I don't really give a fuck what the general public think."

- Sid Vicious

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."  —Leo Tolstoy

 phineas wrote: 
To sum it up: "Do as I say, not as I do."

 phineas wrote: 
are these two mutually exclusive then?

• TEMPERANCE: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
• SILENCE: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
• ORDER: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
• RESOLUTION: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
• FRUGALITY: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
• INDUSTRY: Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
• SINCERITY: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
• JUSTICE: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
• MODERATION: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
• CLEANLINESS: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
• TRANQUILLITY: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
• CHASTITY: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
• HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Ben Franklin

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Abraham Lincoln

 romeotuma wrote: 
I'm pretty sure if one says 'neocons' in 75% of one's sentences, one fails. I'm pretty sure.