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Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:50 pm**

What is the best quote ever?
All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar
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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren
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when love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll
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Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
Joseph Stalin
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I trust no one, not even myself.
Joseph Stalin
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
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"People shouldn't fear their government;
the government should fear its people."
Aristote
Please no flames

i only want to know quotes that you like

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:17 am**

ima keep ma head up like ma nose is bleedin-weezy

if you cant find something to live for you best find somethin to die for-Pac

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:19 am**

I'm not really a fan of famous quotes or people referring to them during conversation, but I can appreciate "Scienta est potentia", roughly translated to knowledge is power. For me it's about increasing your future potential by increasing your education level.

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:21 am**

woutR wrote:I'm not really a fan of famous quotes or people referring to them during conversation, but I can appreciate "Scienta est potentia", roughly translated to knowledge is power. For me it's about increasing your future potential by increasing your education level.

My college quote is "Scienta et Praxis" (or sumthing like that) what it means? o.0 lol

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:24 am**

AlexanderIII wrote:All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

This.

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:25 am**

Scienta et Praxis is a album not a quote LoL.

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:36 am**

Mirosuke wrote:
woutR wrote:I'm not really a fan of famous quotes or people referring to them during conversation, but I can appreciate "Scienta est potentia", roughly translated to knowledge is power. For me it's about increasing your future potential by increasing your education level.

My college quote is "Scienta et Praxis" (or sumthing like that) what it means? o.0 lol

I actually can't read Latin, but I guess "Knowledge and Practice"?
I guess it's about learning and then putting your knowledge to work.

http://www.answers.com/topic/praxis

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:28 am**

"If I controlled the internet, you could auction your broken heart on eBay." - Rives

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:18 am**

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte;

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great;

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar;

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren;

Awesome! Especially like first and the last one.

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:32 am**

They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time. ~From Anchorman

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Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:57 am**

I think, therefore I am-Descartes

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:02 am**

AlexanderIII wrote:Only idiots use google

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:26 am**

Some of my favorites.

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. " - C.S. Lewis

"Let them hate so long as they fear." - Lucius Accius

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.” - Henry Miller

"I think, therefore I am single." -Liz Winston

"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world." - Thoreau

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

"To achieve immortality, one must first live a life worth remembering." - Bruce Lee

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." - Eleanor Roosevelt

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." - Kurt Vonnegut

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicurus

"The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense." - Aldous Huxley

"Get your god to do something useful - get him to mathematically explain dark matter, or quantum entanglement. No doubt you will claim he can't because he is an arts graduate, and doesn't do math." - iain

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out." - Thomas Macaulay

"When you think you've created a fool proof device, you've forgotten how creative stupid people are." Forgot where this one is from.

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.” - Joseph Campbell

"Some people would rather die than think. In fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell

"4 Steps to sidestepping an argument (by Paraflux)
1) ignore points made by other person 2) reiterate ignorant claims 3) attack others' intelligence for not "understanding" a human so complex 4) run away, while trying to make others believe you are laughing (even though the truth is you hurt deep inside)"- Paraflux

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinion, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - Oscar Wilde

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” - Stephen Hawking

“You're not entitled to your own opinion. You're only entitled to your own informed opinion.” - Harlan Ellison

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." - Jean de la Bruyèr

"Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees." - Emiliano Zapata

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." - Stephen Hawking

"Experience by itself teaches nothing...Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning." - W. Edwards Deming

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

"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 Stewart

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Emerson

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

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." - Robert A. Heinlein

"The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves. " - Madeleine L'Engle

"This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic." - Terry Pratchett

"We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together." - Terence McKenna

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." - Marcus Aurelius

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:51 am**

"If you have no critics, you'll likely have no success." - Malcolm X

In spanish:
"Sin la mujer, la vida es pura prosa." - Rubén Darío

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:33 am**

Azilius wrote:
AlexanderIII wrote:Only idiots use google

lool

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:24 pm**

Da_Realest wrote:
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicurus

I like this one along with the Naploeon religion one!

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:29 pm**

Azilius wrote:
AlexanderIII wrote:Only idiots use google

Best quote ever

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:35 pm**

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."-Jack Nicholson

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:05 pm**

Religion is the opiate of the masses. Karl Marx

Life is nasty, brutish and short. Thomas Hobbes

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. Frank Herbert

and +1 to these two, two of my favorite authors:
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:13 pm**

I like the Marx quote.

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:20 pm**

“Every one of our parents does some considerable emotional damage and from what I’ve heard it just might be the best part of being a parent.”

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:47 pm**

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are right."-Henry Ford

"Don't resent growing old; many are denied the privilege."
-old Irish proverb

"Knowledge is power"

"If you don't have something in your life that is worth dying for, you really don't have anything that is worth living for."

"Desperate times call for desperate measures"

"Your body achieves what your mind believes"

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him." -Abraham Lincoln

"The point of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."-Gen. George S. Patton

"A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth."-Henry W. Beecher

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”-Charles R. Swindoll

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."-Bertrand Russell

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”-Henry David Thoreau

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:47 pm**

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so" - William Shakespeare

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:46 pm**

RuYi wrote:*coughs* I regret to inform you that the "philosopher" suddenly had to leave.
I fear he will not be back to enlighten us with his theories.

A favourite of mine.

Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:20 pm**

Mr.Ganji wrote:“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”-Charles R. Swindoll

I like that one a lot.

my Current favorite at the moment:
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. - Tyler Durden

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