Favrotie Quotes

datalink7

Lifer
Jan 23, 2001
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I have a word file with my collection (currently 24 pages long). Here is a page from it:


"First they arrested the Communists -- but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists -- and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me -- and there was no one left to do anything about it."
- Rev Martin Niemoller (Nazi Prison Survivor)

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
-Woody Allen

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson

"Without education, we are in a
horrible and deadly danger of taking
educated people seriously."
-- G.K. Chesterton

From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.
--Cat Stevens, Father and Son

"When you dont like your job you dont strike. You go in and do it really half assed. THATS THE AMERICAN WAY!"
-Homer-

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. "
- Steven Wright

-Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
- Nietzsche

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would
indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment
and hope of reward after death."
-Albert Einstein
 

Evadman

Administrator Emeritus<br>Elite Member
Feb 18, 2001
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It's that dawning moment of comprehension that I live for.
-- Calvin

There are two basic laws of customer service:
1-Customers are always right.
2-They must be punished for their arrogance.

COME ON GUYS, STOP EVADING ME!!!
--BingBongWongFooey

This is your captain speaking. Would whoever is ping flooding the cockpit please stop? I?m trying to telnet to the altimeter and the packets are being dropped. I?m not sure, but I think we are about to hit Mount Rushmore.

 

jwells777

Senior member
Feb 18, 2001
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Chance favors the prepared mind.

The masses find religion to be true, the educated find religion to be false, and the leaders find religion to be useful
 

datalink7

Lifer
Jan 23, 2001
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some more:

"I close my eyes... only for a moment and the moments gone. All my dreams... pass before my eyes; a curiosity. Dust in the wind. All we are is dust in the wind"
-Kansas, Dust in the wind.

"He who laughs, lasts" -unknown

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."
-- George Carlin

"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."
-- Anonymous

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
-Chinese Proverb

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-Winston Churchill
 

bandXtrb

Banned
May 27, 2001
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ~ Hector Louis Berlioz

"[Praying] is one advantage believers have over us. When there is nothing else anyone can do, they can pray. In so doing, they can convince themselves that they're doing something useful." -- doughost, atheism.about.com

"You have power lines with 20,000 volts running through them suspended over your house, you have 15 radio stations broadcasting with a combined total of 1.5 megawatts within 10 miles of your house, your car emits carbon monoxide, and you eat fast 'food' and you're wondering if being near a PC is dangerous?" -- notfred

"There will always be idiots who enjoy all of the fruits America has to offer, while they hold America in contempt. They are called parasites." --tscenter
 

b0mbrman

Lifer
Jun 1, 2001
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"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." --William Shakespeare's, King Henry V, Act IV, Scene III

"A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. " --Niccolai Machiavelli's The Prince - Chapter 18

"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie." --Simonides - Epitath on the monument marking the Battle of Thermopylae

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten." --Calvin Coolidge 1920
 

Orsorum

Lifer
Dec 26, 2001
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato

Keeps me humble, and sympathetic towards those I normally wouldn't have patience for.

<-- pensive.
 

b0mbrman

Lifer
Jun 1, 2001
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<< I have a word file with my collection (currently 24 pages long). Here is a page from it: >>


Hey, would you mind if I got a copy? :)