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Category: profoundness

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most quoted re "profoundness": Jonathan North Washington (10), other (3), RZ (3), Christian Thalmann (2), Rianna (2)

other categories found with "profoundness": wisdom (6), stupidity (5), linguistics (5), gradschool (4), food (3)



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[link] heard: 28 January 2010
[edit] added: 28 January 2010

"It's not a real conflict; it's a scholarly conflict."

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[link] heard: 13 January 2009
[edit] added: 13 January 2009

(16:45:41) kesuari: there's a whole ton of different types of most linguistic things

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[link] heard: 27 March 2008
[edit] added: 26 March 2008

Thatcher: "The funniest quote of the night was:

Thatcher: ‘Do you want a valium?’

Jonathan: ‘What's that?’

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Jonathan: "I have enough quotes of myself under stupidity. Though all my friends seem to think that when I say something that should be under stupidity, I put it under wisdom or profoundness instead."

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[link] heard: 18 July 2007
[edit] added: 18 July 2007

(21:43) Tristan: you realise of course that what you're doing here is filing bugreports for linguistic theories, which are kind of like computer programs

(21:43) Tristan: so the "maintainers" are probably going to call you mad

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[link] heard: 11 April 2007
[edit] added: 11 April 2007

Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."

Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."

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[link] heard: 1 March 2007
[edit] added: 1 March 2007

Jonathan: "Kazakh isn't that hard—I don't know why all the materials that teach it are so bad."

Ardak: "I think it's because the Soviet system made things unnecessarily complicated."

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[link] heard: 28 October 2006
[edit] added: 28 October 2006

Jonathan: "That's what weekends are for: taking care of stuff that got out of hand during the week."

Rianna: "Yeah, like sobriety."

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[link] heard: 2 June 2006
[edit] added: 2 June 2006

Jonathan: "You know how the saying goes, three Jews in a room, four opinions."

Rianna: "Three Americans in a room, two opinions. I mean, I'd rather be stereotyped as having lots of opinions instead of…not thinking."

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[link] heard: 14 March 2005
[edit] added: 14 March 2005

(06:23:29) Jess: i like anthropology much more for the way it thinks, rather than what it thinks about

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[link] heard: 23 November 2004
[edit] added: 23 November 2004

"Don't confuse your inability to learn the operating system with problems with the operating system itself."

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[link] heard: 28 September 2004
[edit] added: 28 September 2004

Jonathan: "Well, emacs has its advantages..."

Aaron: "Yeah, like it's an operating system. I'd rather use emacs as my OS than Windows."

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[link] heard: 27 February 2004
[edit] added: 28 February 2004

"Yo ho ho and a bottle of peppermint schnapps."

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[link] heard: 16 December 2003
[edit] added: 17 December 2003

Jonathan: "That peppermint ice cream would probably be good with some of those mint hershey's kisses melted and dribbled on top."

Hannah: "Ugh.. ... Mmmm...."

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[link] heard: 7 July 2003
[edit] added: 7 July 2003

(22:54:31) [Vickie]: it always annoyed me that the american school system completely ignored studying english the way they study biology

(22:54:45) [Vickie]: dissect the hell out of it

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[link] heard: 4 June 2003
[edit] added: 4 June 2003

(15:26:28) Kathryn: heh, that's so true

(15:26:36) Kathryn: esp. when it's something i said

(15:26:48) Kathryn: like, everything i say is under stupidity or hormones or both

(15:27:02) [me]: that's going up too

(15:27:19) Kathryn: yeah, under stuipdity and hormones

(15:27:24) Kathryn: put it under profoundness!

(15:27:26) Kathryn: i dare you

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[link] heard: 4 June 2003
[edit] added: 4 June 2003

(15:21:01) Qatharsis: How come a quote is "profoundness" when it's by you, but "stupidity" otherwise?

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[link] heard: 6 May 2003
[edit] added: 6 May 2003

"How do you know what your thesis is about until you have it formulated? That's what's so bad about theses—they're paradoxes."

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[link] heard: 30 April 2003
[edit] added: 30 April 2003

"George Lucas was a starving artist. Now he's fat."

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[link] heard: 10 April 2003
[edit] added: 10 April 2003

"If I sing `We all live in a blue submarine', it's not another song."

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"Eye is in the beauty of the beholder."

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"Have you ever fought an idea, Picard? It has no weapon to destroy, no body to kill!"

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