Favorite Quotes Thread
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
-Thomas Paine
"It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government"
-Thomas Paine
"I know not with which weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV, will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein
?Those who possess the potential to ease human suffering, and stand idly by as others endure unnecessary pain, are the least human of us all.?
-Me
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-Thomas Paine
"It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government"
-Thomas Paine
"I know not with which weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV, will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein
?Those who possess the potential to ease human suffering, and stand idly by as others endure unnecessary pain, are the least human of us all.?
-Me
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--Bill Gates, 1981
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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"It is wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy it your self, but to deprive your self of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you will always gain more." - Utopia, Sr. Thomas More
"Success is a menance, it fools smart people into thinking they can't loose." -- Bill Gates, Pirates of Sil.
-Crow T. Robot
"They [Microsoft] just make really third rate products."
-Steve Jobs
(Refering to the above) "And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way."
-Steve Jobs
"Can you replace Pat(spanish teacher) forever??-me, ?The last class asked that too. . ."-anonymus spanish sub
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"This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs." Hunter S Thompson
To have ambitions is my ambition....The Gang of Four
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." - Jean Kerr
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
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So sayeth the wise Alaundo.
Oh, you meant from real people?
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Jeff
"The god said: 'Eif'h, I have beaten you until you are no longer a woman. For you can no longer bear, nor any longer suckle. You have praised neither me nor the act well.' And so Eif'h bowed her hairy face and covered her poor, ropey genital, and was called no longer woman, but 'man, which means broken woman. And she was called no longer she, but he, as a mark of her pretention, ignorance, and shame.
Samuel Delany--Tales of Neveryon
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"Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ."
------(Heinrich Heine)
"As a great man once said . . .I also have to pee, but for quite different reasons"
--LANDOLFI
"The purpose of art is to make life more important than art"
--Robert Filiou ?the eternal network?
"Eat the instant you are hungry and you will never find out what your hunger is for"
---Buddhist saying
"The meaning of a poem can only be another poem."
\tHarold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence
Sanity is perhaps the ability to punctuate.
PARRY IDRIS
Rabbi Nahum of Stepinesht once said this of his brother, Rabbi David Moshe of Tchortkov:
"When my brother David Moshe opens the Book of Psalms and begins to recite the praises, God calls down to him: 'David Moshe my son, I am putting the whole world into your hands. Now do with it as you like.' Oh if He only gave me the world, I should know very well what to do with it! But David Moshe is so faithful a servant that when he gives the world back it is exactly as it was when he recieved it."
"a picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."
\t\t\t-- Wittgenstein Philosophical Invastigations
" . . . a fluid succession of presents, the developement of an entity of which our present is a phase only . . . a portrait is not an identificative paper but rather the curve of an emotion."
\t\t---James Joyce, Portrait...
"Posterity is a form of the spectator."
\t\t\t\t\t--Duchamp,
"Art is not the reflection of reality, it is the reality of that reflection."
\t\t---Jean-Luc Godard
"We have filled our hearts with fantasy
and our hearts grow brutal on the fare."
\t\t\t\t\t\t--W. B. Yeats
"Fiction is not there because language is distant from things; but language is thier distance, the light in which they are to be found and their innaccessability."
\t-M. Foucault, Distance, Aspect, Origine
and my current favorite:
"Those who maintain a vacuum, are more influenced by imagination than reason."
\t--Leibniz: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
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- Albert Einstein
[quote]Originally posted by shetline:
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"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." - Jean Kerr
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts</strong><hr></blockquote>
And also this:
He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly, love mercy
and walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)
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WINNER!
"be patient with all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue. the point is to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live your way some distant day into the answers." - Rainer Maria Rilke