Great Quotes

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To start off, my favorite Mark Twain quote:He said this when asked by a reporter, due to his atheistic leanings, whether he would prefer heaven or hell. "Heaven for the climate; hell for the company."

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God damnit

oh that's not how that quote is supposed to be used? oops

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my favorite twain quote: the coldest winter i ever had was the the summer i spent in san fransisco.25 from bill ivey's blog:25. If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.-- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)24. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)23. Music is the pleasure that the human soul encoutners from counting without knowing that it is counting.-- Leibniz22. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)21. When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.-- Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536)20. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.-- Epictetus (c.55-c.135)19. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)18. As I would not be a slave, so I will not be a master.-- Abraham Lincoln17. No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.-- John Donne (1572-1631), Meditation XVII16. If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.-- Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)15. My Country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)14. This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.-- Shakespeare.13. The gods are amused when the busy river condemns the idle clouds-- Rabindranath Tagore12. Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.-- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)11. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.-- William Pitt (1759-1806)10. Pain shared is lessened, joy shared, increased-- Spider Robinson9. The good old days. I was there. Where was they?-- Moms Mabley 1894-19758. All models are wrong but some are useful.-- George Box7. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."-- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)6. That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.-- Hillel5. If I am not for myself, who is for me?If I am for myself alone, what am I?If not now, when?-- Hillel4. Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither-- Benjamin Franklin3. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let each man march to his own rhythm, however measured, or far away-- H. D. Thoreau2. There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by an ugly gang of facts.-- Benjamin Franklin1. Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried abut our own souls, and other people's bellies.-- Rabbi Israel Salanter 1810-1883

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"The Underground just don't stop for hoes." -Tupac

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Great quotes, Navy.

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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Freeeeze, Motherbitches!

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A great book of compilations of quotes isThe International Thesaurus of Quotations. It's got about 16000 quotes seperated into 1000 categories with indexes by category, key word, and author/spambut seriously it's a good book.

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"He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down." -- Catch-22See also: most sentences from that book.[Edit] Here's the full paragraph (I wasn't typing that whole thing out):"Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lieabout his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abidingrugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creepingsocialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turnedhim down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any.The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow.The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spentevery penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did notproduce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa.On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprangout of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores wouldnot be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than anyother man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for hehad made much money and was therefore wise. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap," he counseledone and all, and everyone said, "Amen. "

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9. The good old days. I was there. Where was they?-- Moms Mabley 1894-1975

I don't know why, but this one strikes me really funny. I think you have to hear her say it, though.

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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming "WOW, WHAT A RIDE."not sure who wrote it but i like it.

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“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.” - Vince LombardiAny fool can criticize, condemn & complain.. and most fools do. - Dale CarnegieEach nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. - Dale Carnegie

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“The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of everything at the same time--the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"-Jack Kerouac

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Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. - Woody Allen

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"Mostly Harmless."Ford Prefect

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"We ride together, we die together. Bad boys for life!"-Bad Boys 2And almost any quote from Brian's Song is inspirational

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"We ride together, we die together. Bad boys for life!"-Bad Boys 2And almost any quote from Brian's Song is inspirational

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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."--Lewis Carroll"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."--Abraham Lincoln"Buy the ticket. Take the ride." --Hunter S. Thompson

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"...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.""And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."-Anais Nin

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"Everyone wishes a measure of mystery in their life that they have done nothing in particular to deserve.""He lived as a victim, albeit prosperous, of those dreams he built at nineteen when all of us reach our zenith of idealistic nonsense. Nineteen is the age of the perfect foot soldier who will die without a murmur, his heart aflame with patriotism. Nineteen is the age at which the brain of a nascent poet in his rented room soars the highest, suffering gladly the assault of what he thinks is the god in him. Nineteen is the last year that a young woman will marry purely for love. And so on."-Jim Harrison"My friend Mel McGinnis was talking. Mel McGinnis is a cardiologist, and sometimes that gives him the right."-Raymond Carver "The average citizen likes to compare the dreamer to a madman. The average citizen is right in feeling that he would immediately go mad if, like the artist, the man of religion, the philosopher, he allowed himself to become acquainted with the abyss within him. We may call the abyss the soul or the unconscious or whatever; out of it comes every impulse of our lives. The average citizen has set a watchman between himself and his soul, a consciousness, a morality, a security police, and he recognizes nothing that comes directly from that abyss of the soul before it has been given that watchman's stamp of approval. The artist's constant distrust, however, is not directed against the region of the soul but precisely against that border watchman's authority; the artist secretly comes and goes between this side and that, between the conscious and the unconscious, as though at home in both houses. "While he tarries on this side, on the familiar daylight side where the citizen lives, the poverty of all languages presses heavily upon him, and to be a poet seems a thorny life. But once he is over there, in the land of the soul, then, magically, word after word floats toward him from every wind, stars sing out, and the mountains smile, and the world is perfect, and it is the language of God in which no word and no letter is lacking, where everything can be said, where everything chimes, where everything is resolved."-Herman Hesse, on Language, from My Beliefs

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.-Robert A. Heinlein

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The price of greatness is responsibility Winston Churchill

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"Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, and refrain from using it, as necessity requires." - Machiavelli

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"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care""Assumption is the mother of all **** ups""Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't stand a chance" Pat Reilly"You can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong" Abe Lincoln"You can not help the poor by destroying the rich" Abe Lincoln"You can not help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves" Abe Lincoln"You can not help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer" Abe Lincoln

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Quotes from Marilyn vos SavantQuestion: "What is the essence of our America?"Answer: "The essence of our America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' " "A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does." "If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart." Question: "What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?"Answer: "Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses."