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    just one of my favorite quotes, not the absolute:

    The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. - Eric Schmidt quotes

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    Our enemies are motivated and resourceful - and so are we.
    They never stop thinking about ways to harm our people - neither do we.

    George W. Bush.

    Nobody does it like George.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

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    Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

    Anonymous

    This is one quote which speaks for itself.
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delta40 View Post
    Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

    Anonymous

    This is one quote which speaks for itself.
    It's a pity that the author is anonymous, because it's an absolutely perfect description of the term.
    "L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.

    "Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.

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    "My own mind is my own church." Thomas Paine.

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    Never play leapfrog with a unicorn....!!
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    “Pale Blue Dot” was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, showing the earth against the backdrop of the Solar System. The photo also inspired Carl Sagan’s famous thoughts given at a commencement address on May 11, 1996

    "....you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. ...every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. ... Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

    Here is to hoping we are all being kind to our home to everyone living in it.

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    devils rush in, where angels dread to enter or something like that
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    a little knowledge is always dangerous

    all the world's a stage
    -shakepeare
    heard melodies are sweet, those unheard are sweeter

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    "No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist." - Borges

    God knows, I get that feeling often enough these days.
    "I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche

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    I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.

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    My writing shall heal not hurt - Emily (from Emily Climbs)
    I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

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    "All these things I say, I say them because I want you to know; I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." by Samuel Selvon in his short story 'My Girl and the City'.

    I love this quote, because too often we break relationships due to not explaining oneself clearly, or to perhaps miscommunication.

    What's so wrong in explaining what we truly feel and what we truly mean?
    "My warm hands have made the paper limp,
    So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"


    "All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon

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    God, I will not give up, but promise me that u will not give up too...
    Love.. ah love!!!
    kisses here plssssss ....[email protected]

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    Favourite quote, I can't begin to imagine. Quote I'm fond of? Many. I'll just quote the Moby
    Dick:

    "So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes
    at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or
    woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God."

    Hamlet: '...Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is
    nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes
    it so. To me it is a prison...'

    Hamlet: 'O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
    and count myself a king of infinite space, were it
    not that I have bad dreams.'

    'Be great in act, as you have been in thought' - Bastard from King John.

    "The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an
    inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness." - Joyce.

    "the eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable goal"- Aleister Crowley.

    "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends" - Yeats

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