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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:23:44 GMT -5
Some of the quotes in this thread are by evil men and women who said good things, but believed not a single word of it. Sometimes it was a blind hog finding an acorn, sometimes it was a speech writer who wrote the words and a hypocrite delivered them. Sometimes it was just pure, calculated evil.
Many of the quotes in this thread are by good men and women and some are by people who were neutrals in the fullest sense of the word.
And some of these quotes are just nonsense, the real question is do you know which is which? So "Go ahead, make my day" Harry Callahan
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation." - Albert Szent-Gyorgi [1893-1986]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:23:59 GMT -5
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young." - William Feather [1889-1981]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:24:25 GMT -5
"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war." - Georges Clemenceau [1841-1929]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:24:37 GMT -5
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir [1898-1978]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:24:52 GMT -5
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." - Carol Burnett [1933-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:25:23 GMT -5
"Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience." - Brad Feld [1965-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:25:41 GMT -5
"Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do." - Nancy Gibbs [1960-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:25:59 GMT -5
"We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms." - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo [1947-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:26:13 GMT -5
"I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning." - Neri Oxman [1976-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:26:25 GMT -5
"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy." - Samuel Goldwyn [1882-1974]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:26:37 GMT -5
"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science." - Martin H. Fischer [1879-1962]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:26:47 GMT -5
"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." - Sai Baba [1838-1918]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:26:59 GMT -5
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." - Franklin D. Roosevelt [1882-1945]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:27:12 GMT -5
"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan [1751-1816]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:27:42 GMT -5
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding." - Sir Isaac Newton [1642-1727]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:45:53 GMT -5
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." - Vince Lombardi [1913-1970]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:47:48 GMT -5
"We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense." - Barack Obama [1961-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:48:19 GMT -5
"I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results." - Tipper Gore [1948-present]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:48:33 GMT -5
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." - Saint Augustine [354-430]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:48:56 GMT -5
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli [1804-1881]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:49:12 GMT -5
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee [1940-1973]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:49:25 GMT -5
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." - Steve Jobs [1955-2011]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:49:36 GMT -5
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison [1751-1836]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:49:47 GMT -5
"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder." - H.G. Wells [1866-1946]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:49:59 GMT -5
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." - Immanuel Kant [1724-1804]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:50:17 GMT -5
"Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all." - Jules Verne [1828-1905]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:50:36 GMT -5
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." - Richard M. Nixon [1913-1994]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:50:52 GMT -5
"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible." - Mao Zedong [1893-1976]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:55:10 GMT -5
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." - Paul Engle [1908-1991]
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Post by dilvish on Feb 17, 2024 20:55:40 GMT -5
"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!" - Fyodor Dostoevsky [1821-1881]
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