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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: thefloweroflife on February 21, 2013, 05:53 am
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Help yourself to getting to 50 posts by posting your favorite quotes. I will post 50 myself here in this thread.
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“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” -Buddha
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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
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“To understand everything is to forgive everything”
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“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
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“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
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“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others”
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“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”
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"I'm Rick James, bitch!"
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War is just one more big government program. – Joseph Sobran
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein
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only women get cold
requiem
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Newman!
-Jerry Seinfeld
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[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. – Edward Gibbon
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Newman!
-Jerry Seinfeld
haha i'm glad i won't be the only one with non-profound quotes :)
"dude, are you flexing?" - adam
"no." - ders
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. – Ludwig von Mises (1920)
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Truth and news are not the same thing. – Katharine Graham, owner of The Washington Post
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer. – Henry Kissinger
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The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it. – James A. Donald
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. – Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist
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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. – Congressman Ron Paul, 1987
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. – Thomas Jefferson
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The pattern is as old as human life. The new rulers use more and more force, more police, more soldiers, trying to enforce more efficient control, trying to make the planned economy work by piling regulations on regulations, decree on decree. The people are hungry and hungrier. And how does a man on this earth get butter? Doesn't the government give butter? But government does not produce food from the earth; Government is guns. It is one common distinction of all civilized peoples, that they give their guns to the Government. Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use. – Rose Wilder Lane
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"drug test? what kind of drugs are we testing?" - blake
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Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments … Is not the harm a man can inflict on his mind and soul even more disastrous than any bodily evils.? Why not prevent him from reading bad books and bad plays, from looking at bad paintings and statues and from hearing bad music? The mischief done by bad ideologies, surely, is much more pernicious both for the individual and for the whole society, than that done by narcotic drugs. – Von Mises, Human Action
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I came into this world against my will, and I will leave this world against my will
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. – Lee Iacocca
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I came into this world against my will, and I will leave this world against my will
Good one. Deep, tragic and true.
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"i'm swelling with patriotic mucus!" - dr. zoidberg
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. – Henry Ford
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. – Ludwig von Mises
There are two kinds of people – those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi
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"is it weird if i talk about his crazy turtle penis?" - philip j. fry
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx
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"what is that, drugs?" - bender
"nah, but it's a lot like drugs." - paco
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. – Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. – Johann von Schiller
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"back when i was full of piss and vinegar and my bed wasn't..." - professor farnsworth
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money. – Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
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It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law … that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. – H. L. Mencken
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"you look beautiful. coincidentally, my favorite artist is picasso." - professor farnsworth
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Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds. – Milton Friedman
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Question with boldness even the existence of a god, because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Have you tried turning off the tv, sitting down with your kids, and beating them?
- Bender
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when it is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. – E. M. Forster (1879-1970), Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1846), U.S. President, Letter to Abigail Adams, 22 February 1787
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A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. – Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 1933
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves. – D. H. Lawrence (1885-1938), 1915
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- G. K. Chesterton
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Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up
- Evelyn Hendrickson
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
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"I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 things that do not work." Thomas Edison 1847-1931
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"Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein , (1879-1955)
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He who smelt it dealt it.
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i smoke a blunt to take the pain out & if i wasn't high i'd prob'ly try & blow my brains out.
Joints & Herbs - WLB - http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/user/ecc37e0155
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If it aint broke dont fix it
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"'if you are racist, i will attack you with the north.' - abraham lincoln" - michael scott
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"i am faster than 80% of all snakes." - dwight schrute
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im going to the toilet to wrestle a brown snake.
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"i'm not superstitious... i'm just a little stitious." - michael scott
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"i'm not superstitious... i'm just a little stitious." - michael scott
crappy, post another
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"crappy, post another" - frankfurta68
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"crappy, post another" - frankfurta68
post crap, another.
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Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.
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Chuck Norris has a grizzly bear carpet in his room. The bear isn't dead it is just afriad to move.
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Some magicans can walk on water, Chuck Norris can swim through land.
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"i'm running out of quotes." - blisterex
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Chuck Norris doesn't lick postage stamps, he stares at them until they wet themselves.
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Chuck norris is gay as fuck
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Thus spake the master programmer:
"Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless.''
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White
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“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
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“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
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“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
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"Whosoever chooses to follow guidance, follows it for his own good; whosoever goes astray, goes astray to his own loss."
(al-Isra’ 17: 15)
Thought I'd get religious on your asses. ::) :P
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“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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And now for a not so religious one:
“Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?”
Unknown
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“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich Fromm
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“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Theodore Kaczynski
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there`s a war going on and the people on drugs are winning it. :P
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“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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there`s a war going on and the people on drugs are winning it. :P
LOL
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. - Goethe
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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
The_Craven
Joseph Goebbels quotes
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“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve”
Erich Fromm quotes
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"When you look at a girl, something crosses from her to you. And in this story, that something is an insect." ---- David Lynch
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
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"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me"
- Mr Thompson