The Core

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Personally, I never believe anything I say.

Ergophobe.  Saved for use when I have had a glass to many. 

Ha ha! If this gets out, it will ruin my election campaign. My more common variation....

My grandmother used to always say "Everyone's crazy except you and me, and sometimes I'm not so sure about you."

When I got a little older, I started telling her "Gram, everyone's crazy except you and me and sometimes I'm not so sure about me."

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."

--Carl Sagan’s 1995 book: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common,” the Doctor said. “They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.” --Doctor Who episode “The Face of Evil Part 4.”

Hat tip:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/doctor-who-quote-about-alternative-facts-sounds-awfully-1791490382

"You can get 20 years of experience once, or you can get 1 year of experience 20 times, the choice is yours." --mechanic friend Jim Hupy

"The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in battle."

-- from one of my sons, source unknown.

That's from this author :

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26111.Richard_Marcinko

"The first rule of sustainability is profitability."

- Pamela Reisig
grnidone's Mom

"True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face."

Reminds me of a quote from my mom that I always loved:

"If your father's sisters want to talk about me, I wish they would have the decency to do it behind my back."

Ha Ha, good one.  That reminds me of one of my favourites from that series :

“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”

I had the whole of that story to tape, and lost it in the switch to digital somehow.