-"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."
-"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-"Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. "It's a little lonely in the desert..." "It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake.
-The Little Prince (by Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
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quote:A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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quote:I once shot a man just to watch him die, then I got distracted and missed it. Oh my friends tried to describe it to me, but it just isn't the same.
Dave Foley, Kids in the Hall
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quote: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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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No... Me thinks we should introduce a new number between 5 and 6. More numbers, not fewer numbers.
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But then I wonder: When one recites the alphabet, would one pronounce it as "huuuu" or as "flurg"?
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as flurg, clearly. Even my kid's leap frog DVD tried to add a new letter, Bersker, its sound was "bliskum" which they discarded from the letter factory, i'm betting because not a lot of words have the "bliskum" sound.
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quote:Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: I use words that end in "bliskum" alllllll the time!
But do other people know what you mean when you use these words? That would be the pertinent question...
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