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"Small minds discuss people

Average minds discuss events

Great minds discuss ideas"

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • 12.12.2012 2:21 PM PDT
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I disagree.

  • 12.12.2012 2:22 PM PDT
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I guess I'm an average mind

  • 12.12.2012 2:22 PM PDT

I'm your biggest fan!


Posted by: Dead FallingCP
"Small minds discuss people

Average minds discuss events

Great minds discuss ideas"

I forgot the writer and not really sure if the order is correct, but that is the quote in a nutshell.

I like it, but I get the feeling that every single person who reads it would think "Yeah, I discuss ideas. I'm a great mind!" then assume everyone else is either average or "small."

  • 12.12.2012 2:23 PM PDT

Nahman Jayden, Eff bee eye. I herd that you're the origammy killah...

So i'm all of them combined?
*head explodes*

  • 12.12.2012 2:23 PM PDT

Rustled Jimmies

I disagree, simple minds can discuss ideas as well

  • 12.12.2012 2:23 PM PDT

For Carnage Apply Within BEST GROUP EVAR!!!

Yes

  • 12.12.2012 2:23 PM PDT

The Wonderful LeSieg!

If anyone's taken an intro to International Relations course and is familiar with the three perspectives then this quote is entertaining.

And OP, 'twas Eleanor Roosevelt.

  • 12.12.2012 2:23 PM PDT

Eleanor Roosevelt said it.

There are many published incidents of this as an anonymous proverb since at least 1948, and as a statement of Eleanor Roosevelt since at least 1992, but without any citation of an original source. It is also often attributed to Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, but though Rickover quoted this, he did not claim to be the author of it; in "The World of the Uneducated" in The Saturday Evening Post (28 November 1959), he prefaces it with "As the unknown sage puts it..."

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  • 12.12.2012 2:23 PM PDT

Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

There are stupid people that discuss ideas, for example Gavin on the RoosterTeeth podcast.

I wish they had kept the name DrunkTank though.

  • 12.12.2012 2:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: VitalHalofreak
So i'm all of them combined?
*head explodes*

  • 12.12.2012 2:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: VitalHalofreak
So i'm all of them combined?
*head explodes*


No, what the quote may mean is that your mind is great, average, or small based on how often you discuss an idea, person, or event.

  • 12.12.2012 2:26 PM PDT

I am assuming direct control.

"The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill, then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you."

A quote to live by.

  • 12.12.2012 2:27 PM PDT

Posted by: militaryguns (Hunler116)
Shut the hell up, Halo is my world


Posted by: Mastergee
I disagree.


Obviously. I'm very intelligent and talk mostly about boobs.

  • 12.12.2012 2:28 PM PDT