After 148 pages devoted to Quote Game #35, I believe it is time to retire this thread. Alice, the former FQ moderator began #35 June 1, 2006. In her honor, we will keep the same format going...... Special thanks to Zendam, August, and Flametree for contributing on a near daily basis!!

Game Rules
1) To reply, post a quote that contains the selected word.
2) Select the “Next word to use” from your quote.
3) Only one quote per reply post
4) Only one reply per day
5) Don't duplicate words or quotes

This edition begins with August’s next word: mystical

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche


Next word: shallow.

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.~Sir Walter Ralegh

Next word: murmur

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
~ Thomas Szasz



Next word: reliable

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?~Noel Coward

Next word: afterlife

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
~ Douglas Noel Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, 1982



Next word: contradiction

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself.
~H.L. Mencken

Next word; autobiography

I would like to warmly welcome Airedale as moderator
- and also take this opportunity to thank Alice for the wonderful job she did. She was a great help to a Quoteland newbie. Thank you, Alice, and all the best for the future.

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

A man’s memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.~Fawn M. Brodie

Next word: distortion

I concur. Welcome aboard Airedale!

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

Selling is communicating and communicating is a complex activity. It requires the exchange of information, ideas and feelings with minimal distortion. The meanings of the words and thoughts conveyed to and from your potential customers must be received exactly as conceived.
~ Dan Brent Burt


Next word: conveyed


Yes I agree, nice to have you with us.

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.~Edwin P. Whipple

Next word: irony

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
~ Winston Churchill

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.~William James

Next word: trivial

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.
~H Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain

Next word; coincidental

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which—miraculously, it seems—merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.
~ Arthur Koestler



Next word: neatest

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.~The Musgrave Ritual

Next word: untidy

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
~ Margery Allingham



Next word: shoddy

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Next word; exquisite

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas . . . If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you . . . On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.~Carl Sagan

Next word: skeptical

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
~Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms

Next word; gullible

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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
—Rudyard Kipling

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.~Thomas Sowell

Next word: gullible

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
~ Michael Moore



Next word: mislead

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers