Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#1
Sitting in a waiting room today I picked up a copy of the RSPB magazine, on the first page I opened was a nice picture of an Oyster Catcher sitting on a log and above that the words.....
Natures Voice.
Our Lives Begin To End The Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter.
Martin Luther King.
I suppose you could match that to most of the threads on this forum if you think about it.
What do you think?
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#2
`The pen is mightier than the sword` as the saying goes, but the pen can easily be manipulated for someone`s own end`s.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
That phrase really should be updated. "The e-mail is mightier than the sword" would be more appropriate these days. How often does one literally put pen to paper and physically hand-write a letter any more?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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#4
I write letters almost every day, Phil. Sadly, thoough, they're nearly always typed, even personal ones. The last hand written missive was a letter to a friend in Japan in January.
True friends stab you in the front.
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#5
The latest RSPB magazine-believe it or not I am a member- has a great article on the guy who set up the Dungeness project.Watty
#6
Our Lives Begin To End The Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter.
Martin Luther King.
Absolutely.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
what is the chaps name paul?
is he the one that writes in the express?
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#8
Our lives begin to end the day we`re born. Things that matter are down to the individual, as is shown by the diversity on this forum.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#9
good one colin, only about 80 full members and all having differing views and priorities.
imagine if say 10 per cent of the population of dover became members and posted, it would be like a rerun of the english civil war.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#10
Your`s too Howard, and I would probably agree with the civil war bit.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#11
Our Lives Begin To End The Day We Become Silent About Things That Matter.
Martin Luther King.
Absolutely agree.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#12
Still down to the individual though Jeane. A preserved locomotive, ship, car or plane, matter`s to me. To someone else, it`s scrap metal. Same applies in the human world. Good man Martin Luther King with his fight for right`s, but would the words mean the same if he wasn`t assasinated?
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#13
Briefly: yes!!! I have another phrase that appeals to me, told me by a mate years ago: everything matters but nothing matters frightfully. Sums it up for me.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#14
One of my all time favourite`s from Oscar Wilde on fox hunting which I`m sure you all know, and which equally applies to all animals. `The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable`.
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#15
Howard can't remember the name ,I've passed the magazine on. This was in effect an obituary.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#16
thanks paul, cannot be the person i was thinking of.
