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02/07/2005 01:22:48 AM · #326 |
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-- Edmund Hillary
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02/07/2005 01:26:27 AM · #327 |
Originally posted by e301:
Originally posted by bear_music:
"All men dream, but not equally. Some men dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds, and wake in the day to find it vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they live their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T.E.Lawrence (of Arabia) |
This reminds me of the line that Kipling took as almost his motto - 'go quietly and carry a big stick' - in that many people think it is nasty, that Kipling was advocating violence, and that Lawrence feared such people. In fact, Lawrence did not fear 'dangerous' men, and Kipling was advocating only having the arguments to back up your beliefs, but not to find need to shout about them.
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Yes, the Kipling/Teddy Roosevelt quote (TR took it as his motto) is often misunderstood; the key is to be gracious but powerful. As for Lawrence, of COURSE he didn't fear "dangerous men"; he counted himself among them. He had little patience for dreamers who did not act. The quote's also a subtle dig at the common acceptance of "daydreaming" as a vain, useless pursuit.
Robt.
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02/09/2005 09:16:09 PM · #328 |
“Although we may never know with complete certainty the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the looser is perfectly clear. It is the nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.”
-US Supreme Court Judge John Paul Stevens; speaking about the 2000 presidential elections
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02/17/2005 08:45:52 PM · #329 |
The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if the personal security is threatened.
-Josef Stalin
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02/17/2005 08:55:07 PM · #330 |
"My experience in public life has taught me this: the greatest threat to freedom, and our founding fathers understood this, is government."
- 7 term Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer
Message edited by author 2005-02-17 21:03:35. |
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03/22/2006 10:53:40 PM · #331 |
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick |
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03/24/2006 04:53:02 PM · #332 |
"The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."
-Robert Benchley |
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03/24/2006 04:59:20 PM · #333 |
Originally posted by terje:
Homer Simpsons here:
"Trying is the first step towards failure." |
I have a beer koozie that says that!!
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03/24/2006 05:07:18 PM · #334 |
all men die
not all men live
WOW this thread is 21 months old
Message edited by author 2006-03-24 17:07:52. |
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03/25/2006 02:02:40 PM · #335 |
I have two favorite quotes:
1. If you do what you always do, you're going to get what you always get.
2. It's never to late to become what you where meant to be.
Message edited by author 2006-03-25 14:02:56. |
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03/25/2006 06:32:14 PM · #336 |
Sometimes the heart should follow the mind
Sometimes the heart should tell the mind to stay at home and stop interfering.
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Sometimes I like to run around in my underroos for no reason
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03/25/2006 06:40:19 PM · #337 |
| "Needs more cowbell" Christopher Walken from Saturday Night Live |
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09/08/2006 02:44:48 PM · #338 |
"All mini-series Photoshop the facts."
--ALESSANDRA STANLEY (in a NY Times review) |
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09/08/2006 03:08:47 PM · #339 |
QUOTE OF THE WEEK (from BBspot.com)
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
-John J. Plomp
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09/08/2006 04:32:18 PM · #340 |
this one is for the old people :)
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde 1854-1900
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09/08/2006 04:57:39 PM · #341 |
My personal favorite and way of life:
"Don't sweat the little shi*t, and everything is little sh*t"
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09/08/2006 04:58:40 PM · #342 |
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
-John McEnroe
Sign outside a Nature Reserve...
Take nothing but pictures!
Leave nothing but footprints!
Kill nothing but time!
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09/12/2006 12:56:05 PM · #343 |
"Don't be so humble, you're not that great."
-Golda Meir
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False Modesty: The last refuge of the incompetent. |
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09/12/2006 03:13:39 PM · #344 |
"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood"
ben stiller in "dodgeball"
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09/12/2006 03:20:05 PM · #345 |
"Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated"
~unknown~ |
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09/12/2006 04:18:14 PM · #346 |
"If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no head." Winston Churchill
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09/12/2006 04:51:27 PM · #347 |
Anchorman quote
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, you are acting like a baby.
Ron Burgundy: I'm not a baby, I am a man. I am an anchorman.
Veronica Corningstone: You are not a man. You are a big fat joke.
Ron Burgundy: I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.
Veronica Corningstone: I will have you know that I have more talent and more intelligence in my little finger than you do in your entire body, sir.
Ron Burgundy: You are a smelly pirate hooker.
Veronica Corningstone: You look like a blueberry.
Ron Burgundy: Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?
Veronica Corningstone: Well, you have bad hair.
Ron Burgundy: [insulted] What did you say?
Veronica Corningstone: I said... your hair... looks stupid.
Message edited by author 2006-09-12 16:51:53. |
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09/13/2006 04:50:35 PM · #348 |
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin
"Big Brother is watching you."
George Orwell
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
George Orwell
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
George Orwell
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
George Orwell
Message edited by author 2006-09-13 17:52:53. |
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09/17/2006 12:48:12 PM · #349 |
"Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave -- but there's no need to be in the passing lane."
-Robert Orben |
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09/17/2006 01:01:21 PM · #350 |
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
-Rick, Casablanca
"I take it the odds are against us and the situation is grim...sounds like fun!"
-James T. Kirk, Star Trek: Generations
"I always buy the brands with the pull tabs. You stare at the tab, think deep thoughts about progress, advertising, modern living, cultural advances, and then turn the can upside down and open it with an opener. It is a ceremonial kind of freedom."
-Travis McGee
"They say god made all men, but Sam Colt made them equal."
-Quigley Down Under
"Wherever you go...go boldly."
-Star Trek
And of course, my signature.
Message edited by author 2006-09-17 13:01:47.
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