Toaster126

Were you trying to remember this one?

"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)

maleficent

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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Ace_O_Spades

Lex iniusta non est lex

An unjust law is no law at all

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Feh.

Toaster126

"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)

snowy

This is the quotation I ended up selecting for my door. I think it's a really apt quote for kids in recovery to see.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Toaster126

Yay! Glad this thread helped you.

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)

Toaster126

"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)

Biffaloo420

God gave you two ears and only one mouth....Use them respectively!

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Is there really such a thing as peace and happiness?

Toaster126

"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)

la petite moi

Please see my signature.

Gatorade Frost

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

Antikarma

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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"Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know each bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are."

howdydave

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

Tophat665

I believe it was "Vinager" Joe Stillwell who put that in the faux Latin "Illegitimati non carbovndvm". One for the ages.

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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.

Toaster126

"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)

Ample

"If they want you to print it, it's propaganda. If they don't want you to print it, it's news"- Lord Beaverbrook

jimk

"It is futile to try and make my insides feel how your outside looks."

-a drunk

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raw power is a guaranteed o.d.

raw power is a laughin' at you & me

-iggy

Supple Cow

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)

Tophat665

Never pet a burning dog

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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.

Evileyez

"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

noodle

"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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AVoiceOfReason

"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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AVOR

A Voice Of Reason, not necessarily the ONLY one.

CaliLivChick

That describes my life over these last six months perfectly. When she realizes what she's lost, and comes crawling back, I'm deliberating answering the phone. Love her (and her boys) with all my heart, but after six years of friendship, and moving across the country to help/spend time with her and her sons, to be cast aside for a man just sucks.

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.

Jimellow

"What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife"
- "Saturday" by Ian McEwan

"I think I see a hater right there!" *BANG!*
- Ludacris in Hustle and Flow

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Desperation is no excuse for lowering one's standards.

Toaster126

"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)

Sgoilear

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

dualman7

I appreciate you posting those, Sgoilear.

analog

That's Thomas Paine, from Rights of Man

SirLance

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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DEMOCRACY is where your vote counts, FEUDALISM is where your count votes.

CaliLivChick

"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.

Anexkahn

"When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading."

aKula

"you can prove anything by putting it in quotation marks and adding a famous name on the end" - Albert Einstein

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"I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble." -Klaus Kinski as Don Lope de Aguirre

analog

I swear i'm not going through and fact-checking people's quotes, but some quotes I know are not from the people i'm seeing credited.

"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

Augustus

"The beatings will continue till Morale improves!"

james t kirk

"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.

1010011010

"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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Gatorade Frost

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