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Old 01-29-2006, 03:40 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by albania
the one in my sig is by Skanderbeg(I doubt that people know who he is)

This one?
"Skanderbeg fought in many battles and most of them ended with victory."

* Battle of Ujebardha
* Battle of Torviolli
* Battle of Drin
* Siege of Berat
* The first siege of Kruja
* The second siege of Kruja
* The third siege of Kruja
* The fourth siege of Kruja
* The fall of Kruja
* Siege of Shkodra
busy man for someone who died age 63
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Old 01-30-2006, 05:15 AM   #42 (permalink)
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That's the one, ironically he died of natural causes, and albania is now mostly muslim. As a teenager he was handed over to the ottomans to ensure that the local rules remained loyal. He became a general in the ottoman army where he got the name iskender bey(Lord Alexander), he defected back to his home land after a battle in Hungary turned catholic and fought the ottomans for the rest of his life, defeating two sultans in battle.
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Old 01-30-2006, 10:06 AM   #43 (permalink)
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Here is another good one I found recently.

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
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Old 01-30-2006, 05:49 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by willravel
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
This is much like one of my favorite. I read it as a statement made by Sherelock Holmes in one of Sir Arther Conan Doyle's mysteries. The wording was just slightly different "When you have eliminated the possible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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Old 01-30-2006, 08:31 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Old 01-30-2006, 08:44 PM   #46 (permalink)
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"What life boils down to is trying to do 1 thing right in this world. You spend your life trying hard not to fuck that one thing up, no matter how hard you want to..... and in the end, the day you die, your kids are there fucking it up."

Life is like a naked woman, we focus on the tits, ass and pussy because they give us pleasure but we totally ignore the mind until the she says, "I'm just a lay to you, I'm leaving." Then we have no pleasure or a conscience to keep us from getting ourselves into trouble.

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Old 01-30-2006, 08:45 PM   #47 (permalink)
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"It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

"Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport."
- Anonymous (boy if this one isn't the story of my life)

"gravity is an unforgiving motherfucker........"

"No matter how far a jackass travels, it will never come back a horse."

and the last one was reinforced this holiday season:

"Remember that your best option with in-laws is to marry an orphan..."
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Old 01-30-2006, 09:26 PM   #48 (permalink)
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"If sex is a pain in the ass, you're doing it wrong"

I'm not sure where that came from, I just remember it from a friend's profile a few years ago
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Old 02-01-2006, 06:28 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Oh man, I love to collect quotes from movies, authors, and intelectuals. Unfortunately I never kept track of who quoted a lot of these words:

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
It's not personal, It's strictly business.
What happens when a man goes through his own portal?
After reading this we are all dumber because of it. I will receive no points and may God have mercy on our soul.
I can pretty much park a garbage truck in a closet if I have to.
Mantovani? They feed Mantovani to insomniacs who don't respond to strong drugs!
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed! Violence inherent in the system! Violence inherent in the system!
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving.
Sparkling Muscatel. One of the finest wines of Idaho.
Look at 'em, ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em.
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
If you're talking like a bitch, I'm gonna slap you like a bitch!
Esmerelda: What is your name? Butch: Butch. Esmerelda: What does it mean? Butch: I'm American, honey, our names don't mean shit.
Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to become comfortable?
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
*After losing a hockey ball from the roof* Dante: Are there any balls down there? Jay: About the biggest pair you ever seen, dingleberry!
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Whether you can hear it or not The Universe is laughing behind your back.
I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
I would love to stay here and talk with you... but I'm not going to.
Dip dip dive so-socialize, Open up your ears and clean out your eyes, if you learn to love you're in for a surprise, It could be nice to be alive.
Thanks, now we are all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view, really.
The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
I have plenty of talent and vision - I just don't care.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
What am I?? Flypaper for freaks?!
If I had wanted your website to make noise I would have licked my finger and rubbed it across the monitor.
I'm not being rude, you're just insignificant.
We are civilized human beings, not wild beasts. We are what we choose to be.
I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
I will cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
Too much trippin' and my soul's worn thin.
It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
How about never? Is never good for you?
Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users. Please do not adjust your browser.
No, my powers can only be used for good.
I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
Read my lips, no new Texans.
You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication.
Capitalism isn't failing; our government has just herded us into a corporatist economy.
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network.
I'll try to be nicer if you'll try being smarter.
I'm out of my mind, feel free to leave a message...
I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
NASCAR = go fast, turn left.
Who me? I just wander from room to room.
My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
It is one thing to show a man he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
It might look like I'm doing nothing, but on the cellular level I'm quite busy.
At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.
Tookie, Tookie!
You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
Government is the only business uniquely authorized the use of deadly force to sell it's product.
Someday, you'll look back on this, laugh nervously and then change the subject.
Stupidity, like hydrogen, is one of the basic building blocks of the Universe.
Its not pretty being easy - but it's a job someone dirty has to do.
"I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time it is uttered by me or concieved in my mind.
Now there goes someone who's about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice.
If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists at all.
It's all fun and games, until someone loses an eye.
I would never belong to a group that would accept someone like me as a member.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Sorry, I wasn't paying attention to you, I was too busy looking at my own words.
an eye for an eye, and the whole world goes blind. - Ghandi
Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers - and this is the basis of all human morality.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
He's dead, Jim!
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody!
How right I am, How wrong they are.
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal Or acts to improve the lot of others Or strikes out against injustice He sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
This is the business we chose.
Everybody just stay calm. The situation is under control.
I think The Matrix is so popular because it shows hackers with possibilities only dreamed of by most geeks... the possibility of getting laid.
Warning! Assholes are closer than they appear!
Communism is brainless; capitalism is heartless.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning... Smells like victory.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
When I was here, all I could think of was being there. When I was there, all I could think of was getting back.
Anything is possible given time and money.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
A reasonable man tries to adapt to the world around him. An unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all change is dependant upon the actions of unreasonable men.
The court ruled it legal to fuck the voters by running out the clock, and demonstrated how to do it.
Relax, my old man is a TV repairman, he's got an ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Some people see things as they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
I believe in America. America has made my fortune.
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Old 02-04-2006, 09:56 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Old 02-05-2006, 05:25 AM   #51 (permalink)
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Here are a few of my favs...

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." (R.D. Laing)

"The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power." (Abraham Lincoln)

"So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work." (Peter Drucker)

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world." (the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali)

lessons are repeated until they are learned

And Norman Swartzkopf (spelling) said something like this when asked during the Gulf War if he thought he was playing God by judging. He said "Our job isn't to judge; that's God's job. Our job is just to arrange the meeting."
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Old 03-11-2006, 06:08 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Here are a few from author Douglas Adams:

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." (Douglas Adams)

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others." (Douglas Adams)

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'" (Douglas Adams)
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Old 03-11-2006, 08:04 PM   #53 (permalink)
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all things must pass

onward and onward
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Old 03-11-2006, 08:21 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Though I don't desire to live it, I love this one by Anais Nin:

“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”

I also like this one, a lot:

"I was born that way. I have had these feelings, these longings, all of my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped. I do not need to be cured. What I need, and what all of those who are like me need, is your understanding and your compassion. We have not injured you in any way, and yet we are scorned and attacked. And all because we are different. What we do is no different from what you do. We talk and laugh, we complain about work, and we wonder about growing old. We talk about our families and we worry about the future and we cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All of the loving things that you do with each other, that is what we do and for that we are called misfits, and deviants, and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?"




"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend. "

Red, The Shawshank Redemption

"Human language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to when all the while we want to move the stars to pity"

Gustave Flaubert



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Old 03-12-2006, 01:49 PM   #55 (permalink)
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“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. “
- Patrick Henry

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling."
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Old 03-12-2006, 02:10 PM   #56 (permalink)
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The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

-Herbert Spencer


Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

-Albert Einstein
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Old 03-13-2006, 02:14 AM   #57 (permalink)
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Cause it's easier: Einstein Quotes
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Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602

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Old 03-13-2006, 10:28 AM   #58 (permalink)
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Searched, didn't find this one.

P.T. Barnum, of circus fame, said "There is a sucker born every minute".

It reminds me to try to be one of the other folks born during my minute.
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Old 03-13-2006, 11:10 AM   #59 (permalink)
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"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

"It's a trap!" - Admiral Akbar.
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Old 03-13-2006, 01:22 PM   #60 (permalink)
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Find something you love and do it till it kills you
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Old 03-13-2006, 01:23 PM   #61 (permalink)
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"If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear."
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Old 03-15-2006, 07:11 PM   #62 (permalink)
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Old 03-23-2006, 09:34 AM   #63 (permalink)
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"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often." (Mae West)
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"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)
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Old 03-23-2006, 10:13 AM   #64 (permalink)
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I have a very long list of these collected as well, but I'll just share the two that are on my mind lately:

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."

~Christopher Morley
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Old 03-23-2006, 10:29 AM   #65 (permalink)
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"Hurled into hell, he was unbeaten. A third of God's angels he had led with him, and straightway he incited man to rebel against God, and gained for himself and hell the major portion of all the generations of man. Why was he beaten out of heaven? Because he was less brave than God? less proud? less aspiring? No! A thousand times no! God was more powerful, as he said, Whom thunder hath made greater. But Lucifer was a free spirit. To serve was to suffocate. He preferred suffering in freedom to all the happiness of a comfortable servility. He did not care to serve God. He cared to serve nothing. He was no figurehead. He stood on his own legs. He was an individual."

-Jack London
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Old 03-23-2006, 02:12 PM   #66 (permalink)
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Here's a couple I really like:

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." - E. Joseph Cossman

"Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you." - Maori proverb

"If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record." - Unknown
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Old 03-24-2006, 03:15 AM   #67 (permalink)
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"To the non-believer, no proof is possible. To the believer, no proof in necessary."

Might have been the other way around. Can't be bothered finding the actual quote. Sleep now.
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Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
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Old 03-24-2006, 03:53 AM   #68 (permalink)
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Old 03-24-2006, 06:32 AM   #69 (permalink)
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill Watterson

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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Old 03-24-2006, 11:24 AM   #70 (permalink)
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Murpheys Law proves if it can go wrong it will go wrong and at the worst possible time. Murphey rocks.
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Old 03-24-2006, 11:48 AM   #71 (permalink)
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My favorite quote from a very successful (Forbes 500) billionaire businessman that I know:

A spouting whale gets harpooned
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Old 03-24-2006, 02:28 PM   #72 (permalink)
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So for those of you who don't know, I work at a drug/alcohol treatment center for adolescents. I have an office there, and there is a space on my office door for a 5"x5" piece of paper. Most of the counselors and others in the office have messages, quotes, or drawings in their spaces. I'm looking for a quote I can incorporate into some artwork--and my requirements for this quote are that it be motivational, uplifting, inspiring, and most importantly, appropriate. If any of you have suggestions, I would really appreciate it--and you can either post them here or PM me your ideas.
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Old 03-24-2006, 02:54 PM   #73 (permalink)
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So for those of you who don't know, I work at a drug/alcohol treatment center for adolescents. I have an office there, and there is a space on my office door for a 5"x5" piece of paper. Most of the counselors and others in the office have messages, quotes, or drawings in their spaces. I'm looking for a quote I can incorporate into some artwork--and my requirements for this quote are that it be motivational, uplifting, inspiring, and most importantly, appropriate. If any of you have suggestions, I would really appreciate it--and you can either post them here or PM me your ideas.
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Old 03-24-2006, 05:39 PM   #74 (permalink)
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I can imagine Newton sitting down and working out his laws of motion and figuring out the way the universe works and with him, a cat wandering around. The reason we had no idea how cats worked was because, since Newton, we had proceeded by the very simple principle that essentially, to see how things worked, we took them apart. If you try to take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have in your hands is a nonworking cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding that we just think of it as a different class of subject, a different class of matter; "life," something that had a mysterious essence about it, was God-given-and that's the only explanation we had. The bombshell comes in 1859 when Darwin publishes the Origin of Species. It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the universe and we're not made of anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.
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Old 03-24-2006, 06:25 PM   #75 (permalink)
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Old 03-25-2006, 02:04 AM   #76 (permalink)
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onesnowyowl: A lot of the sigs here are quite good. Not mine though, it's just amusing.
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Old 03-25-2006, 11:29 AM   #77 (permalink)
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Old 03-27-2006, 03:49 AM   #78 (permalink)
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I found this one only today.

Made me laugh.....

Here's a story about the boys at the altar
Some of them came between me and my halter
But I don't think the good lord would mind
I was callin' his name the whole time!

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Old 03-27-2006, 04:28 AM   #79 (permalink)
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Old 03-27-2006, 06:16 AM   #80 (permalink)
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