Your favorite quote?

Dec 28, 2001
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Is there a quote that has inpired you? This has been done before . . . just post one of your favoritye quotes for everyone else to read (and kill time)!

My favorite would be:

Perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 

murphy55d

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Dec 26, 2000
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Inspired me? no. But I have always liked...

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity"
 

Rallispec

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Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
 

TheLonelyPhoenix

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"The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground."

I have it on a poster board in my apartment, I always feel a little better after reading it.
 

RaDragon

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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the Palm of your hand
and Eternity in an hour."
-- William Blake
 

WisMan

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"God's watching me do number two? Oh man, I'm a sinner. God's a pervert. "
-Chris Griffin
 

oogabooga

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"Humanity's capacity for good makes democracy possible, it's capacity for evil makes it neccesary"
Niebuhr
 

RaDragon

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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
 

Anubis

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"It Takes 43 Muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it Dosen't take Anu to just sit there with a dumb look on your face"
 

bleeb

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"..it's like a chess competition between my brain and my penis. The penis wins.."
 

toekramp

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"It is only in defeat that we become Christian."
- Hemingway line in Farewell to Arms
 

Anubis

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my fave 3 real quotes other that that silly one above are

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams

?Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize that half of them are stupider than that!"
--George Carlin

"Like the bull elephant: alone, watchful and diligent, above it all, satisfied, downbound to nothing at all in the world." - some zen saying or something
 

Garion

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"Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks."

Robert Heinlein, from Time Enough for Love

- G
 

amol

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"The best way to live forever is to not die"

- A friend of mine . . . I'll call him CJ