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Has Achieved Nirvana
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posted 03 July 2020 06:16 AM
I’ll start with one tweeted by Conor Friesdorf:

“It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.”


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posted 03 July 2020 06:20 AMHide Post
“Oh ****! Tomorrow is another day.”


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posted 03 July 2020 06:26 AMHide Post
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is quarantined together.”


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posted 03 July 2020 06:31 AMHide Post
And of course Orwell needs no update. It’s relevant as-is:

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."


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posted 03 July 2020 09:50 AMHide Post
I love the last one.


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"I've got morons on my team."

Mitt Romney
Minor Deity
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posted 03 July 2020 09:57 AMHide Post
"Open the pod bay doors, Alexa" ...

"I can't do that, Dave."
 
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posted 03 July 2020 10:26 AMHide Post
To mask, or not to mask, that is the question.


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Minor Deity
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posted 03 July 2020 10:28 AMHide Post
Now is the spring, the summer, and quite likely also the fall, of our discontent.


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posted 03 July 2020 10:31 AMHide Post
“It is a tale Tweeted by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”


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posted 03 July 2020 10:31 AMHide Post
Is this a swab which I see before me, the fuzzy bits toward my nostril?


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"I've got morons on my team."

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posted 03 July 2020 10:35 AMHide Post
quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
“It is a tale Tweeted by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”


hysteric
 
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posted 03 July 2020 02:59 PMHide Post
I love these! Big Grin


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posted 03 July 2020 04:58 PMHide Post
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of toilet paper.”


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posted 03 July 2020 05:01 PMHide Post
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll laugh at the memes.”


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Pinta & the Santa Maria
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posted 03 July 2020 05:12 PMHide Post
“The only people for me are the masked ones, the ones who are masked to live, masked to talk, masked to be saved...."
 
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