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"The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates

 

"To know nothing of the events that occured before you were born is to remain ever a child." -Cicero

 

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." -Anatolle France

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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

 

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." ~Joseph Campbell

 

"You are never too old to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot

 

"Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." ~Goethe

 

 

 

 

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All from Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

 

"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." - Richard Bach

 

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, a wise man calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach

 

"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach

 

"An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must work for it, however." - Richard Bach

 

 

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"He thinks his shit don't stink, but his farts give him away." - my stepfather
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"Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife"

 

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill
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QUOTE (steelcaressed @ Jul 3 2008, 08:06 PM)
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

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"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion." - Albert Einstein
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QUOTE (OriginalFan @ Jul 3 2008, 10:24 PM)
QUOTE (steelcaressed @ Jul 3 2008, 08:06 PM)
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."  - John Stuart Mill

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QUOTE (DiscipleofLerxst @ Jul 4 2008, 12:39 PM)
Famous last words...

"HEY...... WATCH THIS!"

Yes, I've heard this as "what are the famous last words of a redneck"

 

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"Wisdom is the province of the agent but the heart of a child is pure" - Peter Sellers from The Party. rose.gif
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"Wars are inevitable. The best a man can do is prepare himself." -General George S. Patton.

 

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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do."
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A couple from Thoreau:

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

 

 

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken

 

 

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Mark Twain

 

 

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Let me add one more that came from my 4 year-old daughter. It was said to her older brother,

 

"Joseph, the world doesn't evolve around you."

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