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by EL1 2 on December 15th, 2006

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What are your top three favorite quotes?

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  • by Penny The Wise on April 10th, 2007

    Penny The Wise

    "Those who dance are considered crazy by those who can't hear the music." ~George Carlin.

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  • by Bluerose on March 11th, 2007

    Bluerose

    Favourite Quote ~

    "Who are you?" Crooned the caterpillar.
    Alice replied shyly, "I-I hardly know, sir, Just at present. I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then"

    From - Alice In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll

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  • by Jennifer on November 19th, 2008

    Jennifer

    "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." - E. Tolle

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  • by SusieQ on March 11th, 2007

    SusieQ

    Remember me with joy and laughter. If you remember with me with tears than don't remember me at all.

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  • by jennyb on March 6th, 2007

    jennyb

    "You risk more by risking nothing at all"

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  • by Brew Guy wishes he was icefishing... on March 6th, 2007

    Brew Guy wishes he was icefishing...

    "Alcohol is proof that God wants us to be happy."

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  • by EL1 2 on February 21st, 2007

    EL1 2

    Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order. My favorite really depends on my mood.

    Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright

    If you are going through Hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

    A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorums. - Paul Erdos

    Copy from one, it’s plagairism; copy from two, it’s research. - Wilson Mizner

    Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie

    We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. - General MacArthur

    Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

    To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice. - Lord Acton

    You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz


    ----
    By the way, please use the proper "your" in the future.

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  • by Tamilze on February 20th, 2007

    Tamilze

    Here's one that still rings true today:

    "It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." --Herman Wilhelm Goring,
    The Nuremburg Trials

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  • by swabby429 on February 19th, 2007

    swabby429

    Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

    --Mark Twain

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  • by suKwaR on November 19th, 2008

    suKwaR

    Don't Shit where you eat.

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  • by Perryman on April 20th, 2007

    Perryman

    "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

    -- Thomas Jefferson

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  • by nevets - badgicide on April 20th, 2007

    nevets - badgicide

    "Have you flagged it as a duplicate yet?" ;-)

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  • by Barcaluv on March 12th, 2007

    Barcaluv

    Impossible question. I'm feeling kinda playful today so I'll go with one from my favorite comedian:

    "My socks DO match. They're the same thickness". -- Steven Wright

    Many more here:
    http://www.weather.net/zarg/ZarPages/stevenWright.html

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  • by Bluerose on March 12th, 2007

    Bluerose

    "I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Goethe

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  • by jin jang on March 6th, 2007

    jin jang

    Man is the master of thought,the molder of character,and the maker and shaper of condition,environment,and destiny .

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  • by Gonzo on March 6th, 2007

    Gonzo

    "Buy the ticket, take the ride".

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  • by anonymous on February 20th, 2007

    anonymous

    "successful people have learned to do the thing that needs to be done whether they like it or not"...unknown

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  • by jin jang on February 20th, 2007

    jin jang

    Imagination is everything, it is a preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein.

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  • by timetogetserious on December 15th, 2006

    timetogetserious

    1/ Let sleeping dogs lie
    2/ Take time to smell the roses
    3/ Live a little

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  • by Perryman on December 15th, 2006

    Perryman

    "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." -- Thomas Jefferson

    He gives double who gives unasked. - Arabian proverb.

    Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

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  • by fanbase on November 19th, 2008

    fanbase

    "The heart was made to be broken." Oscar Wilde

    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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  • by trouble... staying calm on November 19th, 2008

    trouble... staying calm

    Wow! I have several "favorites" on many subjects.

    I'll just go with "Don't worry. Be happy". Bobby McFerrin.

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  • by Baccduckus is a Carbonproduct on November 19th, 2008

    Baccduckus is a Carbonproduct

    Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson

    Speak softly and carry a big stick. -- Theodore Roosevelt

    Thank God for sin, without it life would be hell. -- Bacchus (me)

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  • by JAMMco... its complicated... on April 20th, 2007

    JAMMco... its complicated...

    I've heard this question before... so I'll answer as before...

    "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" Obi-Wan Kenobi

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  • by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on April 20th, 2007

    Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today

    Look before you leap.
    Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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  • by Norman_Outside the lines on April 20th, 2007

    Norman_Outside the lines

    sex at 80 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
    Actually its
    "" I have been and always shall be, your friend"

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  • by tibear on April 20th, 2007

    tibear

    Me thinks the woman doth protest too much!

    My alltime favourite Shakespeare quote. Of course, my wife hates it!!! :)

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  • by jin jang on April 10th, 2007

    jin jang

    Imagination is everything,it is a preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein.

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  • by JAMMco... its complicated... on March 13th, 2007

    JAMMco... its complicated...

    "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi

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  • by 1Simmy on March 13th, 2007

    1Simmy

    Martin Luther King - 'I have a dream.'

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  • by Stronghart on March 13th, 2007

    Stronghart

    Nelson Rockefeller, after being causght with a woman not his wife:

    "Never complain, never explain."

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  • by centrator on March 12th, 2007

    centrator

    In a pissing contest everyone gets wet

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  • by unknown on March 12th, 2007

    unknown

    Here is one I like: "No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor." Andrew Carnegie

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  • by Gonzo on March 12th, 2007

    Gonzo

    "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever". - Walt Disney

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  • by DavidHume on March 12th, 2007

    DavidHume

    Speech from Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator'

    I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
    We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

    The way of life can be free and beautiful.
    But we have lost the way.

    Greed has poisoned men's souls -
    has barricaded the world with hate;
    has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

    We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:
    machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
    Our knowledge has made us cynical,
    our cleverness hard and unkind.
    We think too much and feel too little:
    More than machinery we need humanity;
    More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.

    Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.


    The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

    The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people , will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . .

    Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

    Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

    In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written
    "the kingdom of God is within man "
    - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.

    You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

    Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

    . . .
    Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

    The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.

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  • by gtravels loves her life penguin on March 11th, 2007

    gtravels loves her life penguin

    "Me thinks thou doest protest too much!"


    (Okay, ABers, embarrassed to ask, but was this from Shakespeare?)

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  • by buzz123456 on March 6th, 2007

    buzz123456

    "Beware the fury of a patient man" John Dryden

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  • by Starmaster on March 6th, 2007

    Starmaster

    "Lo mejor que hizo Dios es un dia despues del otro" It translates as "The best thing God created was one day after the other". It applies to bad days, no matter how bad they are, there is hope of a better day, next day, or some day in the future....

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  • by Kamilah on March 6th, 2007

    Kamilah

    "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so all are easier to fool."

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  • by mcclisteraf on March 6th, 2007

    mcclisteraf

    It is better to be pissed off, than to be pissed on.

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  • by Answerbag Stuff on February 21st, 2007

    Answerbag Stuff

    It is when we forget ourselves that we do things that are most likely to be remembered.

    Years wrinkle the skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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  • by galaxy on February 21st, 2007

    galaxy

    In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
    Robert Frost

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  • by Darryl61 on February 21st, 2007

    Darryl61

    Check out http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/112342

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on February 19th, 2007

    singwell-is off researching a lot

    It is said that marriages are made in heaven...but so are thunder and lightning. Clint Eastwood. :-)

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  • by justme32 loves the weekends on December 16th, 2006

    justme32 loves the weekends

    I have only one. What does not destroy me only strengthens me.

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  • by germaster on December 15th, 2006

    germaster

    "A bad man lives to eat and drink while a good man eats and drinks to live." Socrates X3

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  • by Mrs.Dufresne on December 15th, 2006

    Mrs.Dufresne

    "What spirit is so empty and blind that it can not recognize the fact that skin is more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
    ~Anonymous

    "When you come to the end of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: there will be solid ground beneath you or you will be taught how to fly.."
    ~Anonymous

    "Sometimes I think that we love someone so much that we're numb to it, because if we really felt how much we loved that person, it would kill us".
    ~Brittany Murphy as Fay Forrester from "Riding In Cars With Boys"

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  • by RFlagg on December 15th, 2006

    RFlagg

    "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information." - Oscar Wilde

    "The thought of sucide is a great consolation; by means of it one gets through many a bad night." - Friedrich Nietzsche

    "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." - Thomas Szasz

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  • by travis bickle on December 15th, 2006

    travis bickle

    "Is there no way out of the mind? "- Sylvia Plath

    "All I can do is be me, whoever that is."- Bob Dylan

    "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."-
    Hunter S. Thompson

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  • by Crossing the Abyss on November 19th, 2008

    Crossing the Abyss

    I have too many to mention, but I find Albert Einstein has some of my favorite most inspiring quotes I've heard.

    "Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
    ~Albert Einstein~

    and

    "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
    ~ Albert Einstein "

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