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Barbarossa

Barbarossa

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Quite self-explanitory. I'll start with-

Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!

(James Carville)

Dante

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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."

-Sigmund Freud.

I actually have a whole load of these (I collect them), but I'll just post the one up for now. More later.

Kiyouta

Kiyouta

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Some of my favourites:

"Remember to keep yourself alive. There is nothing more important than that."

   -- Afeni Shakur

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind."

   -- Dr. Seuss (Thanks Dante :) Great quote)

"Words unspoken are the only words I know are true."

   -- Jon Crosby

"If not me, who? And if not now, when?"

   -- Mikhail Gorbachev

"Don't sit there mumbling and talking trash. If you wanna have a ball you gotta go out and spend some cash, and let the good times roll."

   -- Louis Jordan

Barbarossa

Barbarossa

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"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." -Abe Lincoln.

thomas

thomas

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only you can prevent forest(/forum) fire ;-)- smokey the bear(/me)

When in rome, do as the visigoths - kinda made this one myself,  I like putting a personal touch to quotes, I'm sure someone else said it before me

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."

-Zaphod Beeblebrox, from The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you.

-gaius julius ceasar

Dante

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Ach. Kiyouta stole the one I was planning for the grand finale. *Mutter mutter* :P

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

-John Benfield.

"Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient."

-"Laine Hanson" (played by Joan Allen) The Contender

Caid Ivik

Caid Ivik

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one is important

Love your neighbour as yourself.

- Leviticus 19,18

well, we could find more...tough I always take such posts extremely seriously as some kind of reflection of my actual brain configuration ;D

The wisdom of wise man is to be aware of the way; a folly means to stray.

- Proverbs 14,8

Make sure your errors will die before yourself.

- Seneca

The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution.

- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.4321

Important is the way, not only a target.

- H.Vanikova

Je starker die Personlichkeit, desto verponter die Willkur.

- H.Hesse

The just have no will at all.

- J.Eckhard

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 7.0

What we cannot speak about we must act.

- L.Sabela

lowzeewee

lowzeewee

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Ho Chi Minh:

- "Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."

- "It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery"

- "If the Tiger does not stop fighting the Elephant, the Elephant will die of exhaustion." (referring to Vietnam War)

- "When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out."

- "Why don't the French civilise themselves before they come to civilise us?"

Mihail

Mihail

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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

-Isaac Asimov

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

Not really a quote to live by, more a quote that I find witty and vvery true sometime. :)

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

-Dean Acheson

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

-Confucius

Very true.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

-Don Herold

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

-Ambrose Bierce

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

-Walter Lippmann

Dante

Dante

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A few extras. Since my finale is no more and I feel that I should provide something else now.

"...just so long as you leave us alone in this life you can predict whatever you want for the next one."

-Deltaepsilon.

"Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man."

-Edward Young.

"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."

-Freda Adler.

"The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral."

-T. S. Eliot.

(This one is not necessarily to live by. I like it because doing the right thing for the wrong reason is more or less the story of my life)

"I shall die as I have lived. Completely surrounded by morons."

-Black Mage, Nuklear Power.

"Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life."

-Leo Buscaglia.

Acriku

Acriku

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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

-- R. Drabek

When in panic, fear and doubt,

Drink in barrels, eat, and shout.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.  There might be a law against it by that time.

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