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TGIF: April Fool’s Day Anti-Wisdom Quotes

Thank Goodness It’s Friday : April Fool’s Day Anti-Wisdom Quotes “You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.” — Talmud “The fool wonders; the wise man asks.” — Benjamin Disraeli “A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.” — George Bernard Shaw “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard P. Feynman “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Baltasar Gracian “The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.” — Epicurus “A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.” – Louis L’Amour “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.” – Benjamin Franklin “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” — Henry David Thoreau “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” – George W. Bush “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” ― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) “A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.” — Miguel de Unamuno “If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.” – Carl Jung “A fool flatters himself, a wise […]

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Pensacolians flock to Harley Davidson for spooky-themed discount tattoos on Friday the 13th

by Annie Blanks, Pensacola News Journal at https://www.pnj.com Sounds of buzzing needles replaced the roar of motorcycle engines Friday afternoon at Harley Davidson Pensacola, with dozens of people heading to the store to get special spooky-themed tattoos at a discount rate for Friday the 13th. It’s an unofficial tradition for tattoo studios to do specials on Friday the 13th, said Matt Herl, one of three tattoo artists who took up the back room of the Harley dealership on Friday. Herl and his fellow artists ran a “flash tattoo” sale where people could come in and pick from a pre-designed set of ink for $31, $50, or $100, “It was always a traditional thing to do back when tattoos used to be a macabre thing, more underground,” he said. “And so now we do it to try to appeal to the dark side of people, and make it cheap. Back then they would do it for $13.” Some of the pre-made designs people could choose from Friday included gravestones, potion bottles, ghosts, skeletons, spiders, broken hearts and bloody axes. Stella Garrett, an emergency room registration technician, opted to get two $31 tattoos on her arm — a voodoo doll, and a bust of Edgar Allan Poe. They joined a collection of two other Friday the 13th tattoos she had inked in previous years. “I planned this, I had to crave my need for a tattoo without breaking the bank,” Garrett said. “I guess I like that there’s just not that much thought to it, it’s always just grab and go.” Lorenzo Rodriguez and his girlfriend Brittany Rollo came in to get tattoos, but opted not to go for matching ink. Rodriguez was getting a potion bottle on his arm, while Rollo got a cloud with an eye in the middle and a lightning

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