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Ithenas

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I dunno what to say, i'm a sucker for quotes and small tidbits of advice (actual confusious sayings, murphy's law, etc etc). so i was just wondering what some of the things you guys have are.

Some of my favorite ones are:

Be the change you want to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi)

Fate is just an excuse for those who are unwilling to take control of their life. (random bazaar comment)

If only i had known, i would have been a locksmith (Albert Einstein)

Great ideas often meet fierce opposition from mediocre minds (Albert Einstein)

If A equals success, then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z. _ X is work. _ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut. (Albert Einstein)

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. (Albert Einstein)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former (Albert Einstein)

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor (Albert Einstein)

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. (Douglas Adams)

Imagination is more important than knowledge... (Albert Einstein)

I am not bound to please thee with my answers. (Shakespeare)

If there's someone you can live without, then do so. (Barenaked Ladies)

The truth is more important than the facts. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
 
The secret of life is to fall seven times, and rise up again eight.(The Alchemist)
 
The only person I know who to be is myself. - Myself concerning this game.
 
"If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now." -Marcus Aurelius (on the subject of Stoicism)

"In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind, is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our opinions and the decisions of our will." -Epictetus

"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone." -Epictetus
 
I actually keep a quotebook, which I can't seem to find right now. Just a small book I keep near me, to write down any witty quips or profound sayings I see/hear/read. Most of them are from my ex-friends (we've had a falling out), and just completely random and funny. Reminds me of the good times... A few I remember I'll put here ^_^:

"I'm having fantasies of a cigarette" -my friend Adam.

"I'm a firm believer in overkill." - Tsiife

*friend sneezed* "I'm not sure whether to say bless you or sorry you exploded." - ex friend Brad.

"You guys come here and eat everything, you're like fucking locusts!" -Me

*calls up Pizza Hut* "Do you have the number for.. Domino's?"

"Kill people? I'd like to kill people all the time, but I don't, and that makes me a good person" -Me

Just a few that I can remember, there's like 30 of them in here. Wish I could find the damn thing.
 
Two of my favorites:

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. - Creighton Abrams

In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
- Ayn Rand
 
If living means bowing down to the likes of you, I'd rather die on my feet with my head held high. (Samurai Champloo /also my bazaar quote.)

There is no god but man. (scientfic illumination.)

Keep your feet on the ground cause you never know when running is all that you'll have left. (Some sergeant in basic.)

Everything ends sometime, I'm just triing to delay it as much as possible. (can't remember who said that.)

I ain't gonna die for my country son, I'm gonna make that sonofabitch die for his. (Patton I think)
 
My favorite is:

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything" - Unknown
 
"Give me a Division, and I'll take that hill(looks at Gen. Lee) Give me a Brigade and I'll take that hill(Sees Lee look sollum(sp?)) Dammit, give me a COMPANY and I'll take that hill!" (I forget which general said this in "Gettysburg")

"We fightin' for our rats" "Yer what?" "Our rights" -Thomas Chamberlain and a random Confederate soldier.

"Size matters not" We all know that one
 
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet planes"

"Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

both by The League Against Tedium
 
Anger is fleeting, but regret is eternal.

My word's but a whisper, and your deafness a shout - Ian Anderson

Life's a long song, and the tune ends too soon for us all - Ian Anderson

He found out too late that inflammable means the same thing as flammable

Only corruption rubs off, virtue just rubs away - myself

The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife - from Star Trek DSN

Peace is good for business - DSN

War is good for business - DSN, same episode

Treat your customers like family... exploit them - DSN

Finally, this is one I made up that I'm going to put on my tombstone:
If you're close enough to read this, you're standing on my chest.
 
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I hold myself far from the ignoble strife of the masses.


Those are 2 of my favorite...my very favorite being in my sig.
 
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. - 1984 Best book ever.

"To say fuck you to a establishment, in the youthful natural instructual way. I'm not a puppet." - Taxman - The Anti-Hero (guy from a band)
 
Out of all the religous ideas floating around this world, I hope reincarnation is a fact. That way I get to come back and fuck teenagers again.
-George Carlin.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-Woody Allen

Anything is better than setting your head on fire.
-Mokk

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-Douglas Adams

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.
-Steven Wright

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
-Albert Einstein

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
-Confucius

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-Mark Twain

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
-Voltaire

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
-Will Rogers

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
 
The sum of the world's intelligence is finite. But boy is the population rising.
 
The right thing to do is not always the best thing to do.
 
"That makes me angrier than a legless and armless Ethiopian watching a donut roll down a hill..." - Larry the Cable Guy

"That's scarier than Janet Reno coming at ya with a box of rubbers in a neglige(sp?)....." - Larry the Cable Guy

"What ever happened to good lookin airline attendants? Last flight I was on, I got the Oakridge Boys with tittes" - Larry CG (again :P)
 
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