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datalink7

Lifer
Jan 23, 2001
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"Never knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run! Death hates that."

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it" -- Richard Feynman

"Don't try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, remember that their is no spoon. Then you will see that it is not the spoon that is bending, only yourself." -The Matrix

"I watched the ripples change in size but never leave the stream...so the days float through my eye but still the days seem the same."
-David Bowie, Changes

"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans."
-John Lennon, Beautiful Boy.

"What is real? If real is what we can see, touch, taste, and smell then 'real' is merely electronic impulses interpreted by our brain."
-The Matrix

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step." -Chinese Proverb

"If you love something, set if free. If it doesn't return, hunt it down and kill it." -unknown

"If you don't even give a thought to the wackos on the streets that go around saying they are god, why on earth would you believe some guy who went around saying it two thousand years ago?" -Unknown

"Happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get." -Unknown

"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." -Anonymous

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
-Anonymous

"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." -Roman Proverb

"Death: to stop sinning suddenly." -Anonymous

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin

"A wise man knows that he knows nothing" -Unknown

-"All truth is simple" Is that not doubly a lie? - Nietzsche

-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

-Ah, Women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. - Nietzsche

-"In individuals stupidity is rare, but in large groups it is rule" - Nietzsche


##Habitation Dome
#FAC25
^ I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld.
^ When I die, they will put my body in a box and
^ dispose of it in the cold ground.
^ And in all the million ages to come, I will never
^ breathe or laugh or twitch again.
^ So won't you run and play with me here among the
^ teeming mass of humanity?
^ The universe has spared us this moment.
^
^ -- Anonymous, Datalinks

"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
 

AreaCode707

Lifer
Sep 21, 2001
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"I think you think more than you know." - me

"If crime showed in a man's face, there wouldn't be any mirrors" - Aldo Ray: We're No Angels

"But what about the women, Grim Reaper? Did you not reap them with your grim reaping equipment?" "I tried that, but they leapt over the side, for they have the knowledge of hop-scotch." - Eddie Izzard

"I know half of you half as well as I should like and I like half of you half as well as you deserve." - Bilbo Baggins J.R.R. Tolkien Fellowship of the Ring

"I am a very light sleeper since I have traveled in the Heavens." Ransom C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
 

Kilban

Banned
May 5, 2002
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"No matter how smart you think you are, there is always someone 10 times smarter"

-Someone on this forum
 

her209

No Lifer
Oct 11, 2000
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Off the top of my head:

"I don't know with what weapons WWIII will be fought with, but WWIV will be with sticks and stones" or something like that along those lines. - Albert Einstein

"In heaven, there is only one religion" - Ganhdi
 

her209

No Lifer
Oct 11, 2000
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Two more from some friends o' mine:

"Every other truck I see is a truck!"

"I'm drinking lemonade, only its orange juice." (she was drinking hi-c at the time)
 

ThePresence

Elite Member
Nov 19, 2001
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Robert Frost was standing on a NYC balcony admiring the sunset with an after dinner cocktail. A friend wanders over and asks him "Hey Robert, waddaya say about that sunset"? To which he replied "I'm sorry. I dont discuss business after dinner".
 

lawaris

Banned
Jun 26, 2001
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Originally posted by: ThePresence
Robert Frost was standing on a NYC balcony admiring the sunset with an after dinner cocktail. A friend wanders over and asks him "Hey Robert, waddaya say about that sunset"? To which he replied "I'm sorry. I dont discuss business after dinner".


ha ha
 

TheOmegaCode

Platinum Member
Aug 7, 2001
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The one in my sig ALWAYS makes me laugh...

Something that is suprisingly moving, to me, is this little quote by Golda Meir, "I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you forforcing me to kill your sons.?

"Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism." Isaac Asimov