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[Other] What is your favorite quote...

Mad Hatter

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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
 

Afkan

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My favorite quote changes all the time, but my current one is also from Winston Churchill:
DANG YOU I was just about to post that.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
-Good ole' Albert
 

speculative

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"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'kar
 

antireconciler

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"Modesty is the highest form of arrogance" - German proverb

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself" - Montaigne

"Those are liars or enervated people who boast of having nothing but pure fundamental principles and curse inclinations, from which alone true fundamental principles arise!" - Herder

:D
 
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"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
--Khalil Gibran
 

wren

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my all time favorite quote comes from a politician:

the greatest thing we have to fear is fear itself

other than that, I love quotations but can't remember them much (probly botched the above), though loved reading through all these quotes you've remembered!

six of one equals half a dozen of the other (mom used to say that, and i'm on a mom kick right now)
 

ElizaJane

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"...in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal."

—Anne Shirley
 

themightybob

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"you fool me once shame on...shame on you? you fool me twice you..you cant get fooled again." -G.W. Bush
 

PuddleRiver

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"Close your eyes, spread your arms, trust your cape."

Seriously, there's so many that I'll have to think about it.
 

Lotr246

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"Always passing, the stream of life, which in the stream of life we trace is dearer thaaan them all" -James Joyce, Ulysses

"Where is the life we have lost in living?" -T.S. Eliot
 

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"Life calls out the meaning of pure jubilance, if you'll only take the time to hear it."
- Me.
 

Curwhibble

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"Love is a temporary madness,
it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.
And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together
that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness,
it is not excitement,
it is not the promulgation of eternal passion.
That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,
and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,
and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches,
they find that they are one tree and not two."
— Louis de Bernières

Pretty much the only quote I truly adore, in all its variably bastardised forms.
 

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"Love is a temporary madness,
it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides.
And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together
that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness,
it is not excitement,
it is not the promulgation of eternal passion.
That is just being "in love" which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,
and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground,
and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from their branches,
they find that they are one tree and not two."
— Louis de Bernières

Pretty much the only quote I truly adore.

This is beautiful! Thanks for posting it :yes:
 

Lightyear

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"Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."

G.K.Chesterton


And of course:


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Plato
 

BRMC117

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You can not do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do.
-Anon.


Scared, Cold, in pain,
the dust hasn't settled yet.
Pinned in, crying,
my clothes are ripped, red, and wet.
Lights, noise, and confusion,
all part of the night.
I'm going to die alone,
give up the fight.
Red lights are flashing,
mixing with blue.
A face appears at my window,
the face is you.
You're gonna be all right
is the first thing you say.
A reassuring voice,
someone wants me to stay.
You could have been home with family,
they need you too.
You worked all day at the job,
your sleeping hours numbered two.
But you went down the hall,
hoping your family is OK.
Now you're here with me and Death,
with comforting words to say.
No time for yourself,
no thought for your safety.
Later you may think,
your decision was hasty.
Get the Jaws. Watch that gas;
Keep the people away.
Get his vitals, hose this down.
Some things I hear them say.
You stand in gas, look in my window,
show no fear.
I look back at you knowing,
your voice is the last I'll ever hear.
I fade away as you hold me,
while holding back your tears.
Thank you for being there,
You Brave Volunteers.
-Ralph Allen, Brave Volunteers
 

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Currently this is... But I know for certain it won't be my favorite my entire life or such:

”Anarchism stands for liberation of human mind and the dominion of religion, the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; the liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchy stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth, an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life according to individual desires, tastes and inclinations.”

- Emma Goldman
 
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