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01 Jul 2010, 9:46 am

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"First they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
I believe it was Eleonor Roosevelt who said that, if i'm not mistaken


Gandhi, I believe.


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01 Jul 2010, 9:54 am

"Lift up your heart, all will come right, out of the depths of sorrow, and of sacrifice. Will be born again, the glory of mankind."
- Winston Churchill



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01 Jul 2010, 12:20 pm

"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi
"I choose to spend my heaven here, helping others" -Sister Therese? (Posted in a church on 23rd street, Manhattan)
"It's too much work to be a liar" -by my favorite person whose name I can't say :)



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01 Jul 2010, 4:29 pm

"To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit".

I could have sworn it was Sartre who said this, but it turns out it was Enoch Powell.



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05 Jul 2010, 12:00 am

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3, Polonius :

"See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."


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05 Jul 2010, 12:53 am

b9 wrote:
something that i got from my memory with no names attached:
man: if you were my wife, i would poison your coffee!!
woman: if you were my husband i would gladly drink it.

I like that one too.


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05 Jul 2010, 12:58 am

" on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
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05 Jul 2010, 1:12 am

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you,
but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

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05 Jul 2010, 1:16 am

It was Kovacs who said "mother" then, muffled under latex it was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
-Rorschach


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05 Jul 2010, 1:40 am

Quote:
"Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?"



Quote:
"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between s**t and syphilis in the dictionary."

— David Sedaris



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05 Jul 2010, 7:19 am

DarthMetaKnight wrote:
b9 wrote:
something that i got from my memory with no names attached:
man: if you were my wife, i would poison your coffee!!
woman: if you were my husband i would gladly drink it.

I like that one too.


That quip is usually attributed (with the gender roles reversed, obviously) to Winston Churchill.

See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Transwiki: ... _Churchill

Nancy Astor once told him [Churchill] "If I were your wife I'd poison your coffee," to which Churchill replied: "If I were your husband, madam, I would drink it."



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05 Jul 2010, 7:20 am

“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person?” - François de la Rochefoucauld



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05 Jul 2010, 7:24 am

person: you should get a hair cut!
me: i know!! ! can you point out the hair that you think i should get cut?
i can not decide.



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05 Jul 2010, 7:29 am

person: i see you are wearing 2 odd socks
me: no. i am wearing only one odd sock and i bet you can not tell which one it is.



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05 Jul 2010, 7:30 am

person: it is my my birthday today!!
me: you are a liar because i saw you yesterday.



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05 Aug 2010, 7:45 am

"Be Alert,
The World needs more Lerts"


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