03-27-2006, 09:49 AM | #81 (permalink) | |
Extreme moderation
Location: Kansas City, yo.
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"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." (John Kenneth Galbraith)
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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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03-30-2006, 10:13 AM | #82 (permalink) |
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Location: Chicago
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It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich (this one came to me this morning, at about 3:00am... Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard
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Free your heart from hatred. Free your mind from worries. Live simply. Give more. Expect less.
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03-30-2006, 03:00 PM | #84 (permalink) |
Extreme moderation
Location: Kansas City, yo.
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"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." (Anais Nin)
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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) |
03-31-2006, 11:11 AM | #85 (permalink) | |
Kick Ass Kunoichi
Location: Oregon
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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03-31-2006, 03:45 PM | #86 (permalink) | |
Extreme moderation
Location: Kansas City, yo.
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And, to stay on topic... "Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." (Robert Frost)
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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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04-09-2006, 02:36 PM | #87 (permalink) |
Extreme moderation
Location: Kansas City, yo.
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"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." (Japanese Proverb)
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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) |
04-12-2006, 09:17 PM | #89 (permalink) |
Extreme moderation
Location: Kansas City, yo.
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." (W. H. Auden)
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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) |
04-12-2006, 10:22 PM | #91 (permalink) |
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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin Not very deep, but it cracks me up.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well." Emo Philips |
04-12-2006, 10:56 PM | #92 (permalink) |
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Location: Yellowknife, NWT
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I'm going to go with the obvious, and say check my sig There have been a LOT of inspiring and amusing quotes here though, keep em coming!
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leaving your room, of which you know each bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are." |
04-17-2006, 11:16 AM | #93 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Rochester, New York
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If it ain't broke -- don't fix it!
In my sig: "Don't let the bastards grind you down" "I am what I am and that's all that I am" (Popeye was a great yogi!)
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Dave ©¿©¬ "Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus" "Ego sum quis ego sum quod ut est quicumque ego sum" - Popeye Last edited by howdydave; 04-17-2006 at 11:34 AM.. |
04-17-2006, 02:09 PM | #94 (permalink) | |
Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. |
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05-03-2006, 07:02 AM | #95 (permalink) |
Extreme moderation
Location: Kansas City, yo.
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"When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them." (Don Cherry)
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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) |
05-13-2006, 10:30 PM | #98 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Just found this one and absolutely love it:
"Translation is the art of erasing oneself in order to speak in another's voice." David Cole
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) |
05-14-2006, 07:53 AM | #100 (permalink) |
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"Pessimist is a word used by optimist to describe someone who sees the world for what it really is!!"
"Wisest is he who knows what he does not kno" see my sig!!!!! Tupac
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There's gonna be some things you gonna see that will make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and all the pain you gotta keep your sense of humour. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit
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05-14-2006, 06:38 PM | #101 (permalink) | |
Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
~~Mark Twain
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Here's how life works: you either get to ask for an apology or you get to shoot people. Not both. House Quote:
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
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05-14-2006, 06:55 PM | #102 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: Greenwood, Arkansas
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"When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy" C. S. Lewis, THE PROBLEM OF PAIN
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05-14-2006, 07:56 PM | #103 (permalink) | |
In Transition
Location: Sanford, FL (between Daytona and Orlando)
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Okay, /switches out of "woe is me" mode/ my two favorite quotes (aside from my sig) that I can come up with off top of my head... "Fuck you, you fucking Fuck," and "How you doin'?" (Joey)... not feeling very deep at the moment. =/
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Don't trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die. Oh wait, that's me... nevermind... you can trust me. |
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05-17-2006, 05:56 AM | #105 (permalink) |
Extreme moderation
Location: Kansas City, yo.
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"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." (Albert Einstein)
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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) |
05-17-2006, 07:52 AM | #106 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: Colorado
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One that I saw the other day that became a favorite.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw And another Shaw quote: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." -George Bernard Shaw |
05-17-2006, 01:01 PM | #109 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: In the middle of the desert.
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Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
--1 Corinthians 8:1 Correction does much, but encouragement does more. -- Goethe The intelligent man follows only the lost cause, knowing all others to be merely effects. --e. e. cummings There are two kinds of people: those who say to God: Thy will be done, and those to whom God says: All right, then, have it your way. -- C. S. Lewis Man plans, God laughs. --Old Yiddish Proverb Make your enemies by choice, not by consequence. --Old Russian Proverb If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it’s still a foolish thing. --Bertrand Russell There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. --Admiral William Halsey None stand so tall as those willing to stand corrected. --William Safire EDUCATION, n. -- That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. -- Ambrose Bierce Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away. And you've got his shoes. -- Groucho Marx We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) --Anon. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. --Ancient Chinese Proverb Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. --Elbert Hubbard
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05-17-2006, 03:33 PM | #110 (permalink) |
In Transition
Location: Sanford, FL (between Daytona and Orlando)
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"If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy" - magnet on my step-mom's refridgerator
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Don't trust anything that can bleed for a week and not die. Oh wait, that's me... nevermind... you can trust me. |
05-21-2006, 12:30 AM | #113 (permalink) | |
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"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." This is actually a quote from Anatole France, pen name of author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. While I DO find a few hits for Bertrand Russell's version, I find a ton of results for Anatole France. Anatole France was 28 years older than Bertran Russell, so In all likelihood it could technically have been either one of them, unless we found something definitive, not just a quotes page from a quotes website. lol |
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05-21-2006, 09:38 AM | #115 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: Toronto
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"Diplomacy is the art of letting the other guy have it your way" - Lester B. Pearson
"He's not a moron, he's my friend" - Jean Chretien refering to George W. Bush and the scandal created by Chretien's press aid muttering "moron" when Bush was giving a speech. |
05-21-2006, 10:19 AM | #116 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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"All I say here is by way of discourse, and nothing in the way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed." - Montaigne
"The erosion of Civil Liberty is a threat to National Security." - ? And my .sig.
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05-21-2006, 01:18 PM | #117 (permalink) |
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Gonna have to go with my signature.
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky" It just makes me feel good to be cynical every time I read it.
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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well." Emo Philips |
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