What is your favorite quote? And why?

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Originally Posted by rachel

what different worlds each of our minds occupy.That two so different opinions came come from the same subject.

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Yes, indeed, and its so important its scary at times:
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ignorantia legis non excusat.
ignorance of the law is no excuse.
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Unknown author.

Presumed knowledge of the law is the principle in jurisprudence that one is bound by a law even if one does not know of it. It has also been defined as the "prohibition of ignorance of the law".

Jackyyyy, did anyone besides all those who adore you over there tell you you are dear and a genious and so precise and know yourself so well you scare me sometimes. I always feel like a student with a guilty secret (didn't finish my homework) around you on this site. You always make me want to try harder. kisses This one is for you Jackyyyy, I can almost hear you telling it to me:

Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use. Pliny the elder.(love that guy)

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right, thanks Scher.

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"Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien..."

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Arthur Rimbaud.

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"Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien..."

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Heh! If only we could manage the first part at times... The latter is not that much of a threat for most of us, anyway! :D

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Originally Posted by The Unnamable

A few from HL Mencken:

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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I think I adhere more strongly to Mencken's philosophy of the ignorant over Houseman's; he seems to provide some possibility other than pity. (That being work)

I appear to have transgressed the boundaries of correct categorisation elsewhere so I’ll have to post this one here instead:

“foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

Guildenstern; Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

One of my favorites...because it is so true.

I hope I am truly on the right thread today(wiping away beads of sweat from face)

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us " Leo Tolstoy

GBS >>>youth is wasted on the young

One of my favourite quotes comes from the novel 'The Leopard' by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. It has a great line in it that has always stayed with me.

It goes something like, “If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”.

This quote has a nice liminocentric logic to it.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world
Mother Theresa

Once I've been listening to some speech on the net and come across this.

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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found

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John Nash, 1994, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Acceptance Adress