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Thread: What is your favorite quote? And why?

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    We are all mediators, translators. ~ Jacques Derrida

    Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. ~ Jacques Derrida

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    People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring . -haruki murakami

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    America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter

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    In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' ~ Jimmy Carter

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    Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. ~ Barack Obama

    Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ~ Barack Obama

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    A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ~ Mark Twain

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    If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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    Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ~ R. D. Laing

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    Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R. D. Laing

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    I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. ~ Serge Lang

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    Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ~ Nicola Abbagnano

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    Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm

    Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ~ Erich Fromm

    One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ~ Erich Fromm

    Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. ~ Erich Fromm

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    Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Khalil Gibran

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    Quote Originally Posted by cafolini View Post
    Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ~ R. D. Laing
    I love this! Hahaha. So true. Thanks for sharing this quote. I want to go read some R. D. Laing now.

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    Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ~ Khalil Gibran

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