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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 10:14 PM
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Humanity has advanced . . . not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. - Tom Robbins

Never let you sense of morals get in the way of doing what is right. -Isaac Asimov

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. -Shana Alexander

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. -Robert Frost

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Those Who Hear Not The Music Think The Dancers Mad

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

Video Games don't affect kids. If Pac-Man had, we would all be running around in dark rooms munching pills listening to repetitive electronic music.(my fave)

Do not attribute any action to malice that can be explained by stupidity.

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton, Jr.

Isn’t it funny that animals with the hardest shells also have the weakest spines.

Light travels faster than sound, and some people look bright until they speak.

Blowing out another person’s flame will not make yours shine brighter.

Failure is not an option. It is a privilege reserved only for those who try.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -Andreé Gide

Unthinking respect for authority s the greatest enemy of truth. -Albert Einstein

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally, you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. - Elizabeth Taylor

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

An Irishman’s brand of Tact. . .to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that he looks forward to the trip.

For those situations where a fresh, living sacrifice is just not feasible, a mock-victim, sculpted from Spam will suffice.

A weed is a flower with a bad publicist - Ardriana Cahill

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
~Jean Kerr
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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 10:24 PM
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1. "You can lead a whore ta culture, but you can't make her think."
From the incomparable Dorothy Parker.

She was asked once to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence and that is what she came up with...ROFL
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 10:26 PM
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2. ROTFL
:spray: :rofl:
I LOVE it.
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caty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 10:32 PM
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3. Will Rogers:
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

One of my favorites.
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-20-05 10:32 PM
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4. Some more..
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

I haven't lost my mind, I have it backed up on a zip drive somewhere.

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
- Josef V. Stalin

"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other."
- Voltaire

"Trust everyone, but brand your cattle."
-Anonymous

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."
-H.L. Mencken

"No person is ever honored for what he received. One is honored for what he gives."
-Calvin Coolidge

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein

" You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them."
- Malcolm Forbes


" While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple."
-Anonymous

" Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
-Dennis Wholey

" A little knowledge properly applied is more important than a tremendous number of facts accumulated and not utilized."
-Anonymous

" He who knows all the answers, most likely misunderstood the questions."
-Anonymous

" He who finds no fault in himself, needs a second opinion."
-Anonymous

" When everyone thinks alike, then no one is thinking."
-Anonymous

" We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."
-Anonymous

"life is like being on a wheel. Sometimes you're at the top, sometimes you're at the bottom, but most of the time you're either on your way up or your way down."
-Anonymous

" It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not."
-Denis Waitley

"Your problem is never really your problem, your reaction to your problem is your problem ."
-Brian Kinsey

" Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it ."
-Anonymous

" A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning. "
-Anonymous

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
-Thomas Sowell


" These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
-Groucho Marx


" Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. "
-Mark Twain

"Responsibility is a unique concept; it can only reside and inhere in a single individual…Unless you can point your finger at the man responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible."
-Admiral Hyman Rickover

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."
- Joe Paterno, College football coach


"Don't make waves and you won't drown. You won't reach land either... "
-Anonymous

"You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. "
-Norton Juster

"Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. "
-Anonymous

"There's never enough time to do it right the first time but there's always enough time to go back and do it again. "
-Anonymous
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