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I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and I was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: they're crouching and hidden.
Steve Martin
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| OKJones | RE: Quotes |
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'I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.'
Stuart Pearce
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Why would I want to end every post the same way? |
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| Vuzman | RE: Quotes |
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"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
-Ezekiel 23:20
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When I kill her, I'll have her
Die white girls, die white girls |
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
- Roy Blount Jr.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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| Grizlas | RE: Quotes |
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"It has to start somewhere. It has to start some time. What better place then here? What better time then now?"
-Geurilla Radio by Rage Against the Machine
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You want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing? |
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Aliennizer | RE: Quotes |
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"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
- Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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- Not all those who wander are lost -- J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
- Frank Deford
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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"Fighting on the internet is like winning the Special Olympics. You might win, but you're still retarded."
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Vuzman | RE: Quotes |
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It's better, if somewhat more offensive, with an image:
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When I kill her, I'll have her
Die white girls, die white girls |
Edited by Vuzman on 04-06-2007 21:53 |
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| Jogvanth | RE: Quotes |
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder
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No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences.
No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions.
Not even death.
-R. Scott Bakker. 'The Prince of Nothing' |
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| Jogvanth | RE: Quotes |
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
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No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences.
No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions.
Not even death.
-R. Scott Bakker. 'The Prince of Nothing' |
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| Jogvanth | RE: Quotes |
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Demokrati merkir, at fleirtalið ræður. Sum tá tríggir úlvar og eitt lamb atkvøða um, hvat tey skulu hava til døgverða!
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No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences.
No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions.
Not even death.
-R. Scott Bakker. 'The Prince of Nothing' |
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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I like the full quotation best:
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin
Here is another more in depth look at that misattribution.
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Edited by Norlander on 06-06-2007 07:47 |
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| Vuzman | RE: Quotes |
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Actually the protection of minorities is a cornerstone in Democracy. Democracy without minority protection is actually called Mobocracy. I looked it up.
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When I kill her, I'll have her
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
- E. Joseph Crossman
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Spiff | RE: Quotes |
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Carpe-Diem-type phrase from the Odes of Horace, "Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus" (Now is the time to drink, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth).
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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This one fits for some people I know...
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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| Laluu | RE: Quotes |
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Eitt, ið mær altíð hevur dámt væl, eg haldi tað var í eini bók hjá Arthur Conan Doyle:
"Only mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself."
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
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| Norlander | RE: Quotes |
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A rather weird one:
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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