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We love them we hate them, but we continue to listen to them

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking

ADD yours... or someone else's

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~ Albert Einstein

Ok I will start off with one from the page

"I was always out of tune, or so I thought, I now realize I am simply on a different frequency" - Alyson Bradley

I like this one because it sums up my life. I always thought I was not trying hard enough, doing something wrong or had strange thoughts because I didn't fit in the world of NT's. Now I just relaize I'm just different from NT's and accept myself for being that way

I have a 17 page text file on my computer filled with nothing but quotes.

here are a few of my favorites

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
- Ellen DeGeneres

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
- T. S. Eliot

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Herbert Agar

There are no limits. There are plateaus, and you must not stay there; you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.
- Bruce Lee

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
- James Thurber

No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.
Will Turner, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower

No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
William Shakespeare

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters it's the person.
-Tenth Doctor

In youth we learn; in age we understand
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

sorry about the long post, quotes are a special interest

Just a few:

"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you'll also miss the stars."
-Rabindranath Tagore

"Forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!"
-Chuang Tzu

"Architects must embrace the decay of their buildings, at least mentally. They should forget about perfection,
the complete realization of their design, and understand that the only truly finished building is a heap of rubble."
-Balthasar Holz

"The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself."
-William Blake

"There ain't 'alf been some clever b*****ds."
-Ian Dury