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kentuck

(111,079 posts) Fri Dec 30, 2011, 11:35 PM Dec 2011

A quote to ponder:

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
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It has been attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, Admiral Rickover, and others...

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A quote to ponder: (Original Post) kentuck Dec 2011 OP

But people are fascinating! Imagine a world without people. Just think of it. Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #1

great, average, small, minds.... unkachuck Dec 2011 #2

I think it is apt. tabatha Dec 2011 #3

I agree completely. silverweb Dec 2011 #5

Here is something to ponder about your quote: tabatha Dec 2011 #4

But the quote itself is about people, so the person quoted is small minded ZombieHorde Dec 2011 #6

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)

1. But people are fascinating! Imagine a world without people. Just think of it.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 11:45 PM

Dec 2011

I don't know if you watch The Twilight Zone. There's an episode in which this guy who likes books more than people, but he works and hasn't enough time to read. People are always bothering him.

So one day he hides in the bank vault (he's a bank teller) and the H Bomb hits. So he walks outside and everybody is dead. He gets sad, then he realizes the world is his: he'll have enough food for his whole life, and he'll have the libraries of books to read all his life. It's his dream come true! He's giddy with happiness!

He goes to the library to get books, when suddenly, as he bends over to pick up a book, his thick reading glasses fall off his face and shatter.

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)

2. great, average, small, minds....

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 11:58 PM

Dec 2011

....is an elitist value judgment designed to provoke a reaction from us while having us accept and maintain their elitist status....

....neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Admiral Rickover had rose fragrance shit.

tabatha

(18,795 posts)

3. I think it is apt.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 12:18 AM

Dec 2011

I really find gossip awful.

Thom Hartmann does not allow people to phone in and talk about a recent guest, because he would like the guest to be able to defend himself. People get so much shit wrong.

silverweb

(16,402 posts)

5. I agree completely.

Reply to tabatha (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 01:16 AM

Dec 2011

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I've always loathed gossip and gossipers. They drag otherwise good people down into petty nastiness.

tabatha

(18,795 posts)

4. Here is something to ponder about your quote:

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 12:40 AM

Dec 2011

Ed_Husain Ed Husain
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Perspective: 9,000 tweets per second about Beyonce's pregnancy. Top #Twitter phenomenon of 2011. Not Arab uprisings, or Bin Laden.
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ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)

6. But the quote itself is about people, so the person quoted is small minded

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 04:17 AM

Dec 2011

according to the logic of the post. Why should we listen to small minded people?

Ha!

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