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• Some Inspiring Quotes & Related Links
  • Links To Some Uplifting Short Stories and Verse
  • Quotes from Movies, TV programs, Websites, etc
  • Some Uplifting Quotes, etc
  • Some Quotes from the Quiz page of my local newspaper
  • A Quote Attributed to Voltaire plus some Variations
  • More Quotes - I
• DOW Theory Letters
• "Acronyms" in everyday use, but we don't recognise them
• An Example of what a 'Comfort Zone' is
• Quotes from Theories in Physics
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Some Inspiring Quotes & Related Links

Links To Some Uplifting Short Stories, Verse & Extracts

1. No Dream?
2. Peter Drucker (Management Guru)
3. Try Something Different
4. Some People Are Funny
5. CH21 - The Guardians Of Horus - extracted from "Dr Who and The Pyramids of Mars" (for the logicians amongst you)
6. Quotes accessible from my emails
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Quotes from Movies, TV programs, Websites, etc

• Movie - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
  • "It does not do to dwell on dreams and not to live"
    - Prof. Dumbledore to Harry ("The Mirror of Erised")
    The inscription on the frame reads "erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi" — which, when reversed and correctly spaced,
    reads "I show not your face but your heart's desire"

• Movie - "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)"
  • "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try"
    - Yoda to Luke

• National Press Club Telstra Address
  Canberra AUSTRALIA 2002
  Guest Speaker: Dr Tony Attwood - A World Expert on Asperger's Syndrome
  • "Universities are the sheltered workshops for the socially challenged"
  • "Universities are the Cathedrals for the pursuit of Knowledge"
  • "If the world had been left to you socialites, we would all still be living in caves talking to each other"

• "Doctor Who" TV Series (original and new) - just because a program is in the category "fiction" or "science fiction" doesn't mean that there aren't any quotes in it that are not applicable to the "real" world
  • TV - Tom Baker as the good Doctor in "Doctor Who: The Face of Evil"
    • Written by: Chris Boucher
      Script Editor: Robert Holmes
    • "You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
    • This quote could be modified to apply to "Biblical Archaeologists" who are out to "make the evidence fit with the Bible rather than the Bible fit with the evidence".
  • TV - Tom Baker as the good Doctor in "Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden" - Part of exchange between Tryst & Della (An interesting exchange from the conservation viewpoint, as well as in the debate on the use of animals in medical research, etc). In the storyline, Vrax is a highly addictive drug derived from the carcasses of a specific animal (known as a Mandrell) found on the planet Eden.
    • Written by: Bob Baker
      Script Editor: Douglas Adams
    • Tryst: No it started as just a little thing. Just to help me over a slight financial difficulty. The cost of the expedition, that was bankrupting me.
      Della: But Vrax is destroying people by the millions.
      Tryst: I had to continue my research. Without me many of those creatures would have become extinct.
      Della: I think a few million people becoming extinct is rather more serious.
      Tryst: Ah, but they had a choice. It was their own fault if they became addicted.
  • TV - Tom Baker as the good Doctor in "Doctor Who: The Sunmakers" - Part of exchange between The Doctor & The Collector (the Usurian Ruler, or Senior Company official, on the planet Pluto)
    • Written by: Robert Holmes
      Script Editors: Robert Holmes and Anthony Read (both uncredited)
    • Ref: Google - "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Makers"; and, novelisation by Terrance Dicks
    • Quote from: "http://www.chakoteya.net/doctorwho/15-4.htm"
    • Dr Who: You bloodsucking Usurian leeches won’t be content till you own the entire galaxy, will you? Commercial imperialism is just as bad as military conquest.
      Collector: We have tried war on occasion – but the use of purely economic power is far more effective.
      Dr Who: You infinite nothing. Don’t you hear that? The revolution is coming closer. What’s the Company’s policy about that?
  • TV - Peter Davison (with Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Richard Hurndall, and William Hartnell) as the good Doctor in "Doctor Who: The Five Doctors"
    • Written by: Terrance Dicks
      Script Editor: Eric Saward
    • "To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose." [Very apt, I think, with respect to the US Presidential election in 2000 and the current (ie 2008) US Democratic Primaries where you can win the popular vote and still lose your Party's nomination or the actual Presidential Election, both by virtue of delegates received to either the Party's National Convention or the Presidential Electoral College when compared to the "popular" vote]

• General Quotes
  • "You get who you vote for. When folks stay home and don't vote this is what happens" --- Anon
  • "In a democracy, you get who you vote for. So if the people elect an airhead to the presidency, what does it say about their intelligence and perceptions of what makes a good leader?" --- From "What’s wrong with the system?" at "http://www.gocool.org/?p=210"
  • The following is an anonymous quote on a plague and tree planted on a Canine Association's Show Grounds in memory of one of their former and well-loved members:     "To live in the hearts of those we love is not to die"
  • "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" --- Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugral Address, 04 March 1933
  • United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
    News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers
    February 12, 2002 11:30 AM EST
    • There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know.

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Some Uplifting Quotes, etc

1. If you're excited, please notify your face!
2. If your fear is big enough, any excuse will do.
3. The secret to my future is written in my daily routine.
4. The secret of my success is in my daily agenda.
5. Its not what you are that holds you back, but what you think your not.
6. False hope is better than no hope.
7. The enemy of great is good.
8. Don't focus on the roots, focus on the fruit.
9. You have right now exactly what you want.
10. You can make money or excuses but not both.
11. Would you rather make dust or eat dust?
12. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?
13. "You are the same today as you'll be in five years except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read!"
    --- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
14. Would you rather be a King in a small Kingdom, or a Prince in a large Kingdom?
15. Logic is not contagious.
16. The bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to turn.
17. You've got to do something different for something different to happen.
18. Give a lawyer Viagara and he grows taller.
19. Insanity: Doing the same thing every day and expecting a different result.
20. A dream is an undeveloped photograph of a future reality
21. "My fear of failure motivates me to succeed - and I always feel as if I'm failing" --- Greg Norman
22. "A lawyer is a man who prevents someone else from getting your money" --- Lawrence J Peters
23. The only people without problems are dead & buried.
24. Mediocrity: Best of the worst and worst of the best.
25. Happiness is having a dream. Success is making it come true.
26. Quotes from Peter Ferdinand Drucker ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker#Quotes")
    • "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
    • "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
    • “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
    • “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
    • "A leader, any leader, must act for the benefit of others and not for oneself,"
    • See the above Wikipedia website for more quotes from Peter Drucker
27. "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last." --- Sir Winston Churchill
28. "I hate losing more than I love winning." --- Annonymous
    [If anyone can identify the person to whom this quote can be attributed I would be very grateful. Thanks.]
29. "Be fearful when others are brave and be brave when others are fearful" --- Warren Buffet
30. "Be afraid when others are greedy and greedy when others are afraid" --- Peter Switzer, Switzer Media
31. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door" --- Milton Berle
32. "The only time I typically get a standing ovation is when there are no chairs"
    --- Mitt Romney, unsuccessful 2012 US Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party
33. "He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."
    --- Samuel Butler (1612-1680), in Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547
34. "A vision without resources and, indeed, competent execution is nothing more than a hallucination"
    --- Malcolm Turnbull, ABC TV's "Q and A" program, Mon 2012-11-19. This episode was titled "Elephants on Parade"
    --- At time of adding this entry, Malcolm was a Federal Member in the Australian Parliament,
          being the Member for the Sydney based electorate of Wentworth, NSW

Some Quotes from the Quiz page of my local newspaper

My local, free, newspaper is the "Queanbeyan Chronicle" which includes a quiz page ("Chronicle PUZZLES") in every edition. The quotes below are from the puzzle "Drop Downs". The puzzles are sourced from Australian Word Games.

1. "Commonsense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen" --- Albert Einstein
2. "Those who tell you it's tough at the top have never been at the bottom" --- Joe Harvey
3. "The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them" --- David Gerrold
4. "If you think before you speak, the other fellow gets in his joke first" --- Ed Howe
5. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" --- aka "Parkinson's law", Northcote Parkinson
6. "There are people who have money and there are people who are rich" --- Coco Chanel
7. "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else" --- J M Barrie
8. "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" --- George Orwell
9. "Always borrow from a pessimist. He never expects to get it back" --- Anon
10. "Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink the thirstier we become" --- Arthur Schopenhauer
11. "A diplomat is a man who remembers a woman's birthday but never her age" --- Robert Frost

DOW Theory Letters

• 12 Points for the Perfect or Ideal Business
• Other "Versions" of The "Ideal" or "Perfect" Business can be found at:
  • The Ideal Business (Rick Billings)
  • The Ideal Business according to Paine Webber
  • The Perfect Business (Dow Theory Letters)
  • The Ideal Business (As Identified by the managers and employees of Paine Webber)
  • Others may be found by Googling "The Ideal Business"

"Acronyms" in everyday use, but we don't recognise them

• JOB - "Just Off Broke"
• LUCK - "Labouring Under Correct Knowledge"
• TEAM - "Together Each Achieves More"
  ["There is no 'I' (for the 'perpendicular pronoun') in TEAM", but there is an "M" and an "E" - ie "ME" - I prefer the former to the latter. Also, there is no Island in "TEAM".]
• ACT - "Action Conquers Terror" or "Actions Conquer Terror"
• BUT - "Behind the Underlying Truth"
• FEAR - "False Evidence Appearing Real"
• GUTS - "Genuine Urge To Succeed"
• HOPE - "Hold On; Pray Expectantly"
• WOFTAM - "Waste of Flaming Time and Money" (Source: A collector on the ABC's "Collectors" TV program on Fri, 26 June 2009)
• DINKS - "Dual Income No Kids"
• DIMWITS - "Dual Income Mortgage We're in Trouble"
• NETTELS - "Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life"
• KIPPERS - "Kids In Parents Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings"
• WAGS - Wives And GirlfriendS
• GOLF - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
• NINA - No Income, No Assets (click here for Wikipedia Page)
• NINJA - No Income, No Job or Assets (click here for Wikipedia Page)
• LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• MASER - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• TASER - Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle (original acronym of) - click here for Wikipedia Page and select "Etymology" from the menu
• TIA - Internet "slang" for "Thanks In Advance"
• SKI - Spending Kids Inheritance
• SKIN -Spending Kids Inheritance Now
• NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard
• PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer
• CDML - Computers Dominate My Life
• Thunderbirds ("Supermarionation" TV series, mid-1960's)
  • F-A-B - originally "message received and understood" but later "Fully Advised and Briefed" (from "P-W-O-R" for "Proceeding With Orders Received" from the Stingray series)
• MAMIL(S) - Middle aged man in Lycra (Middle aged men in Lycra): "Refers too middle-aged cyclists, usually travel in packs." [Ref: Urban Dictionary: Mamil]
• SITCOM [1] - Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage
• SITCOM [2] - Single Income, Two Children, Outrageous Mortgage
• SITCOM [3] - Single Income Two Children Obsolete Marriage :-)

If you can't find the acronym or abbreviation that you are looking for above then try the website " Acronyms and Abbreviations"

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An Example of what a 'Comfort Zone' is

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A Quote Attributed to Voltaire plus some Variations

• The "Original" quote, as attributed to Voltaire:
  • "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
• Some Variations thereof:
  • "I disagree with what you have to say but will fight to the death to protect your right to say it."
  • "I disagree with what you say, but will defend and protect your right to say it."
• Other variations but relating to Abortion, "Voluntary" Euthanasia, Gay Marriage, etc (Personal Adaptation)
  • I have my own personal views on these issues but do not believe that I have the right to prevent others from having and practicing their own personal "beliefs", so long as these doesn't harm me or other members of the general public.
  • Personally, and for the reasons already stated, I would vote in favour of any proposal to legalise any of the above that aren't already legal and against any proposal to criminalise or recriminalise any of them.

Quotes from Theories in Physics

• Schrödinger's cat
  • "A cat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead."
  • Source: "Schrödinger's cat" - Wikipedia
• Heisenberg uncertainty principle
  • As I was taught and understand it, the "Heisenberg uncertainty principle" basically says that: "The act of taking a measurement affects the measurement obtained". Example: Putting a thermometer into a glass of water to get the water's temperature changes the temperature actually read as the temperature of the thermometer is altering the temperature of the water.
  • Source: "Heisenberg uncertainty principle" - Wikipedia

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