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Old 2010-06-08, 12:11   #1
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Engage brain before engaging mouth.

As for me I guess (or at least hope) the jury is still out.

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Old 2010-06-08, 22:25   #2
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Old 2010-06-09, 06:52   #3
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The devil makes work for idle hands.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
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Old 2010-06-09, 07:21   #4
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Old 2010-06-09, 07:45   #5
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"At least, when I'm done masturbating, I've๏ปฟ got a little something to show for it." - /George Carlin on voting/
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Old 2010-06-09, 08:51   #6
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the wolf lose your hair, if not find the egg sought
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Old 2010-06-09, 12:50   #7
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He's crashed again.
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Old 2010-06-09, 15:13   #8
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Time wounds all heels.
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Old 2010-06-09, 16:37   #9
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He's crashed again.
... omnes illo tendunt ad gaudium, sed unde stabile magnumque consequantur ignorant ...
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Old 2010-06-09, 17:35   #10
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Old 2010-06-09, 18:34   #11
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the wolf lose your hair, if not find the egg sought
He's crashed again.
I think he meant this:
il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio (literally: the wolf can lose its fur but not its bad habits)
  1. leopard cannot change his spots
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... omnes illo tendunt ad gaudium, sed unde stabile magnumque consequantur ignorant ...
but he zinged back with this Seneca quote (I think):
http://www.archive.org/stream/adluci...1sene_djvu.txt
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Oinnes, inquam, illi tendunt ad gaudium, sed unde stabile magnumque consequantur, ignorant.
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All men of this stamp, I maintain, are pressing on in pursuit of joy, but they do not know where they may obtain a joy that is both great and enduring.
Starting with a bad mechanical translation, I suppose, from this seat in the peanut gallery I call it a draw.
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