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George Carlin Quote Thread. I started without you. Go! (Original Post) lindysalsagal Dec 2016 OP
Some people see the glass as half empty, some as half full... bmpbmp Dec 2016 #1
I like this one. GreenEyedLefty Dec 2016 #2
+1 Martin Eden Dec 2016 #5
Silent but deadly Martin Eden Dec 2016 #3
What I said when I saw Donald Trump won the election: Initech Dec 2016 #4
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." TwilightZone Dec 2016 #6

bmpbmp

(310 posts)
1. Some people see the glass as half empty, some as half full...
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 09:58 PM
Dec 2016

I think it's just too damn big.

(Possibly paraphrased)

GreenEyedLefty

(2,073 posts)
2. I like this one.
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 10:27 PM
Dec 2016

"There are two ways to think about this existence we have. One of them is that it’s Wednesday and it’s three fifteen and we’re talking here in my home, and at four o’clock I have to leave for another meeting. Now, that’s a reality. But there’s another reality. We’re in the solar system of a second-rate star, three quarters of the way out on a spiral arm of an average galaxy in a thing called the Local Group. And ours is only one of billions of galaxies, each of which has billions of stars. Some star systems are binary, and there could be a planet that revolves around a center of gravity between two binary stars. So you’d have two sunrises and two sunsets every day. One could be a red giant, the other a white dwarf; two different-sized, -shaped and -colored suns in the sky. And there might be other planets and comets. In other words, fuck Wednesday, fuck three fifteen, fuck four o’clock, fuck the United States, fuck the earth. It’s all temporal bullshit. I like thinking about being out there and not thinking about the corporate structure, not worrying about freedom and not worrying about guns. I chose a life of ideas. That entertains me. That nourishes me." - George Carlin

TwilightZone

(25,418 posts)
6. "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 10:29 PM
Dec 2016

Could not be more appropriate at this time.

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