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History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 5:25:10 PM   
LookieNoNookie


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Status: offline 		I'll start off with a few:

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light". (Plato).

"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh". (Nietzsche).

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own". (Disraeli).
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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 5:35:52 PM   
Shininglight23


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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -Abraham Lincoln

"Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement." -Napoleon Hill

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not." - H. L. Mencken


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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 5:41:46 PM   
LookieNoNookie


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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 5:43:21 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie

"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh". (Nietzsche).



Erry'day I'm shufflin'? :O

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 6:39:45 PM   
Shininglight23


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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 6:52:22 PM   
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To go on in that vein just a bit, the REAL tragedy is that fools suppose certainty, even absent thought, to be strength while they believe an unsettled opinion even in company with deep thought to be weakness. This is the root of the vine that strangles democracy. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. Never forget that, when a truth is obscure, it is always the few or the one who uncovers it. It is never the mass of man that uncovers a new idea.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 6:59:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Short version: "Certainty is ignorance."

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 7:29:01 PM   
ARIES83


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It's from a character, from the TV series Roswell
who was apparently quoting the teachings of
Buddha. I think it may be made up, but I liked
it.

"Some of us are given stones and some of us are
given jewels, but the most fulfilled of us, are
given stones and turn them into jewels."

-ARIES

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/4/2012 7:34:39 PM   
FrostedFlake


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There are those who have said, "Certainty is ignorance". There are also those who have said, "Anything less than certainty is ignorance". I didn't say either, yet, without compunction, you alter my words to suit yourself. And I am supposing you expect me to appreciate it.

If you want to say something, speak for yourself. If you disagree with my comment, say THAT. You might be right. But erasing my words and painting your own on top can get you poked.

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 3:03:18 AM   
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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 4:15:01 AM   
DeviantlyD


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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~ Lao-tzu

All hope abandon, ye who enter here! ~ Dante Alighieri

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Not historical, but I couldn't resist.

I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~ Calvin and Hobbes

Edited to add:

Now I'm going through more quotes I've saved on my hard drive...

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not be false to any man. ~ William Shakespeare

I don't know who James Wyant is and oddly enough I can't find this quote online, but I have it as a quote in my folder.

Remember a time when your heart was thrilled and your spirit soared, causing your knees to shake and tremble. Live in that moment. Everyday, every moment of your life, remember that ecstasy of your soul, and live there. In that euphoria... ~ James Wyant



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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 4:40:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” ~ Seneca


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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 6:13:16 AM   
LookieNoNookie


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ORIGINAL: MariaB

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” ~ Seneca




Dat be a good one!

(Sumpin tells me Kennedy ripped that one off and tweaked it a bit for his "moon shot" speech).

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 8:26:07 AM   
Muttling


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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 8:32:36 AM   
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"What the fuck was that????" - Mayor of Hiroshima



DUDE!!!!

That was nasty. Besides, it's not even the correct quote. The actual quote is: "Meh. It's just one plane... nothing to worry about."

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 8:34:53 AM   
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"They don't tell, they don't swell and they're grateful as hell" Ben Franklin in praise of mature lovers.

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 8:38:40 AM   
Marc2b


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Status: offline 		I love good quotes and I have a long collection of them. Here is just a few of my favorites:



“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

- Thomas Jefferson




“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”

- Paul Valery




Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an un-muzzled dog.

- Thomas Huxley




"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

- Eric Hoffer




“Modern Art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”

- John Ciardi



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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 8:45:04 AM   
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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 9:21:26 AM   
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Oscar Wilde

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde,

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RE: History's Greatest Quotes - 7/5/2012 10:33:23 AM   
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