What are some of the most inspirational or meaningful quotes to you guys? I'm hoping this will be an interesting topic.
Most inspirational quotes?
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"In order to converse with an equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God."
"F**K it dude, lets go bowling"
On a serious note....
?People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.?
"F**K it dude, lets go bowling"
On a serious note....
?People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.?
That would be from my father, giving me advice about women: Get em young, treat em rough, and tell em nothing.
I know I was born and I know that I will die, the in between is mine. I am Mine - An Ed Vedder lyric
mugs
Lifer
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There's a quote from Patton that I read in Maxim that was really good, but I can't remember what it was. I'm pretty sure it's not the one about making the other poor bastard die for his country. It was in the movie I think... I own it on DVD, I suppose I could just watch it to find out...
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Jeff7
Lifer
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"....when you're cold and long dead."
Some quotes I like:
"All conflicts have their roots in either selfishness or lack of communication."
- found it somewhere online
"What you do is not significant. But it is important that you do it."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"We are the universe trying to understand itself."
- Carl Sagan
pontifex
Lifer
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"My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecilic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul."
"I?m not highly intellectual, but I realize that I have so much more brains than the average fool that if I fail, I ought to be shot. Let these swine stare and snigger. Curse their empty skulls; I?ll be a national figure with more money than they ever saw, when they?re creeping about their dull narrow ways, half forgotten by their own generation in their own township. To Hell with them."
"I?m not highly intellectual, but I realize that I have so much more brains than the average fool that if I fail, I ought to be shot. Let these swine stare and snigger. Curse their empty skulls; I?ll be a national figure with more money than they ever saw, when they?re creeping about their dull narrow ways, half forgotten by their own generation in their own township. To Hell with them."
"I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
- Professor Bernardo de la Paz in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- Professor Bernardo de la Paz in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Mo0o
Lifer
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Not sure if they're insipiration or not but I really like these quotes, gets me thinking:
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
-Arthur Koestler
Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.
-David Kelley
Terms like sanctity remind me of animal rights. Who gave a dog a right? This word right gets very dangerous. We have women's rights, children's rights; it goes on forever. And there's the right of a salamander and a frog's rights. it's carried to the absurd.
I'd like to give up saying rights or sanctity. Instead, say that humans have needs, and we should try, as a social species, to respond to human needs--like food or education or health--and that's the way we should work.
-James Watson
Sanity is not statistical
-George Orwell 1984
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next
-Ralph Waldon Emerson
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
-Arthur Koestler
Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.
-David Kelley
Terms like sanctity remind me of animal rights. Who gave a dog a right? This word right gets very dangerous. We have women's rights, children's rights; it goes on forever. And there's the right of a salamander and a frog's rights. it's carried to the absurd.
I'd like to give up saying rights or sanctity. Instead, say that humans have needs, and we should try, as a social species, to respond to human needs--like food or education or health--and that's the way we should work.
-James Watson
Sanity is not statistical
-George Orwell 1984
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next
-Ralph Waldon Emerson
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