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What is your favorite quote?

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Lifer
Mine, dunno why:
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.
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-Unknown author

I like it because it is so true. No matter how much you think something isn't going to happen or be, there is always a little bit of hope in you to keep on keepin' on.

What are other good ones you like?
 

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
-Sidney J Harris-

"There are only two creatures of value on the face of Earth: those who have commitment, and those who require commitment from others."

"Riding bicycles is sort of like riding motorcycles. It's not "if" you will crash. It's more like, "when" you crash."

"...if i am cruising along on the road about 20 mph or so & some roadie on his bike zips by me real close while looking at me with a smirk.... race is on!!"

some newbie asking whether to wear glasses or helmet on bike ride, if it had to be only one: "the day will come when u crash and hit your head. if you survive, you'll be a helmet wearer from then on. guaranteed."

"Good drivers will select a safe and appropriate speed for the conditions. Bad drivers are not safe at any speed." ~ Phil Hill

"The most expensive bicycle is the one that sits unused in the garage"

"Hills build muscles. Headwinds build character." (in bicycling)

Five boxes preserve our freedom: soap, ballot, witness, jury; and, if all else fails, Ammo.

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan
 
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

 
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?" --Thomas Jefferson to William S. Smith, 1787. ME 6:372
 
Originally posted by: Quintox
Mine, dunno why:
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.
Click to expand...
-Unknown author

I like it because it is so true. No matter how much you think something isn't going to happen or be, there is always a little bit of hope in you to keep on keepin' on.

What are other good ones you like?
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Thats an awesome quote. Especially as it concerns my life on an almost daily basis. I see what happens every time I goto work when man starts to lose his hope. It ain't pretty.
 
Originally posted by: Rike
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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That one is really good!
 
Anything Mike Tyson:
"You cant touch me, you not man enough. Ill eat your ass alive, bitch. Dont anyone in here cant fuck with this. This is the ultimate man. Fuck you, you hoe. Come and say it to my face, ill fuck you ass in front of everybody. BITCH come on you bitch. You scared coward, you not man enough to fuck with me. You cant last two minutes in my world BITCH. Look at chu, scared now hoe. You scared like a little white pussy. You scared of the real man. Ill Fuck you till you love me Fagot!"

"All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too."

"I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating."

"I sacrafice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? Ive been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blowjob?''

 
"They are on our left, they are on our right, they are in front of us, and they are behind us - they can't get away from us this time"

Chesty Puller, Korean War
 
I have three.

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand." - Charles Schulz

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
Take all you can, give nothing back. - Heard it somewhere

Max Stirner - below

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right"

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
 
" I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it."

or

"Its always a good idea to carry around two sacks that way if someone asks for help with something you can say 'sorry, got these sacks'"
 
This is MADNESS!!!

*cue dramatic pause, stare at my queen who nods at me*

Madness?? THIS IS SPARTAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

*karate kick you into big black hole*
 

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

 
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