Insipirational famous+not so famous quotes [Archive]

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 07:03 AM

I thought that it might be fun to have a thread of quotes that have been inspirational to people through their lives. Please feel free to share any and all quotes that have inspired you or given you some insight.

"Opportunity is often missed because it is disguised in overalls and looks like hard work."
Albert Einstein.

"Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right."
Henry Ford.

"You are a part of the universe, no less than the stars and trees, and you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you or not, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should..."
Desiderata.

"The difficult things in life must once have been easy, the great things must once have been small. Do difficult things while they are easy, do great things while they are small. A thousand mile journey begins with one step."
Lao-tse ?

With LOVE.
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WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS, YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 07:37 AM

poodle

07-03-2007, 07:57 AM

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Einstein

And my personal fav:

"Hey Phil, If you're gonna spew, spew into this!" - Garth Algar, Waynes World ;)

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 08:05 AM

"Here lies a toppled god-
His fall was not a small one.
We but did build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

- Tleilaxu Epigram"

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

pollock

07-03-2007, 08:16 AM

You never know, Martha.

-My Father

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 08:31 AM

Why ask a man who is already lost to lead you? Why then are you suprised if he leads you nowhere?

Duncan Idaho
a thousand lives

Hunters of dune
Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson

limelady

07-03-2007, 08:39 AM

"The answer lies in the soil" - Ian sparrow

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 09:39 AM

"Hey, God! I hope you're there.
I want You to hear my prayer.
That graven image on my shelf:
Is it really You or just myself ?
Well, anyway, here it goes.
Please keep me on my toes.
Help me past my worst mistakes,
Doing that for both out sakes,
For an example of perfection,
To the Proctors in my section;
Like bread, for the leaven of it,
Or merely for the heaven of it.
For whatever reason may incline,
Please act for Yours and Mine.
-Agnostics Prayer.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
- Bene Gesserit Coda.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
- The Bashar Teg.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security.
- Bene Gesserit Coda."

All from Chapter House Dune, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 10:13 AM

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological
personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the
corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
condition to which they are quickly addicted.

-Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
chapter house Dune

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block,
betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

-Tleilaxu Theorem (unproven)
Dune messiah

A birth on this soil is the birth of a warrior.

—Swordmaster Istian Goss,
to his students

legends of Dune 3
the battle of corrin

first two to Frank herbert
the other to his Son and Kevin J Anderson

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 10:20 AM

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and throug me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear."

- Dune Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 10:22 AM

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 10:32 AM

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planetwide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

-Pardot Kynes, Treatise on the Environmental Recovery of Post-Holocaust Salusa Secundus
Dune House Atreides

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do
not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How?
traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

-The Apocrypha of Arrakis
Heretics of dune

Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.

-Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Dune

It's a Dune off :D:D:D

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 10:42 AM

"Truth suffers from too much analysis.
- Ancient Fremen Saying."

- Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 10:49 AM

Muad'Dib's teachings have become the playground of scholastics, of the
superstitious and the corrupt. He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy
with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe.
He said humankind is still evolving, in a process which will never end. He said
this evolution moves on changing principles which are known only to eternity.
How can corrupted reasoning play with such an essence?

-Words of the Mentat Duncan Idaho
Children of Dune

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 10:53 AM

No matter how exotic human civilisation becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.
- from The Tleilaxu Godbuk.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour of his life anf depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."
- Addenda to Orders in Council
The Emporer Paul Muad'Dib.

- Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 11:02 AM

CHALLENGE: "Have you seen The Preacher?"
RESPONSE: "I have seen a sandworm."
CHALLENGE: "What about that sandworm?"
RESPONSE: "It gives us the air we breathe."
CHALLENGE: "Then why do we destroy its land?"
RESPONSE: "Because Shai-Hulud [sandworm deified] orders it."

-Riddles of Arrakis by Harq al-Ada
Children of Dune
I wonder if sandworm=Tree :D

By the way if I haven't been mentioning it All these quotes have either been Frank Herbert originals or Brian Herbert & Kevin J anderson.

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 11:03 AM

Church and state, scientific reason and faith, the individual and his community, even progress and tradition - all of these can be reconciled in the teachings of Muad'Dib. He taught us that there exist no intransigent opposites except in the beliefs of men. Anyone can rip aside the veil of Time. You can discover the future in the past or in your own imagination. Doing this, you win back your conciousness in your inner being. You know then that the universe is a coherent whole and you are indivisible from it.
- The Preacher at Arrakeen
After Harq al-Ada.

- Children of Dune, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 11:14 AM

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Pardot Kynes, First Planetologist of Arrakis.

- Dune, Appendix I, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 11:16 AM

It is often easier for us to destroy each other than it is to resolve our differences. Such is the cosmic joke of human nature!

Mother Commander Murbella
chapterhouse meeting notes
Hunters of Dune
Brian Herbert & Kevin J anderson

Our aimless wandering is a metaphor for all human history. The partisipants in great events do not see their place in the overall design. Our failure to see the larger pattern, however, does not disprove that one exists.

Reverend Mother Sheeana
ithica logs
Hunters of Dune
Brian Herbert & Kevin J anderson

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 11:26 AM

Dune
Terminology of the Imperium

Jihad, Butlerian (see also great revolt) - the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and concious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

- Frank Herbert.

With Love.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 11:28 AM

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 11:33 AM

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the intersts of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual.

- Children of Dune, Frank Herbert.

With LOve.

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 11:36 AM

LOL what are we using at the moment:D:D

The Great Dune Trilogy, complete and unabridged.
First published in Great Britain in 1979 by Victor Gollancz Limited.

With LOVE.

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 11:47 AM

The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all seperations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.
- Commentaries from the C.E.T.
(Commission of Ecumenical Translators).

- Children of Dune, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

oneofmany

07-03-2007, 11:51 AM

I wonder what the guild had to say about politics?

If you could find the appropriate passages as im sick of typing:D:D:D

h1s_l0rdsh1p

07-03-2007, 12:10 PM

What is it with just about everybody quoting Dune? :confused:

So we have a new pair of names for you: The Takers are 'those who know good and evil' and the Leavers are 'those who live in the hands of the gods.

The story of Genesis must be undone. First, Cain must stop murdering Abel. This is essential if you're to survive. The Leavers are the endangered species most critical to the world- not because they're humans but because they alone can show the destroyers of the world that there is more than one right way to live. And then, of course, you must spit out the fruit of the forbidden tree. You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact, in which they are the lords of the world, they will act as the lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now

All from the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. :)

i am all i am

07-03-2007, 12:38 PM

That which submits rules.
- Bene Gesserit Axiom.

- Dune, Frank Herbert.

With LOVE.

oneofmany

08-03-2007, 03:55 AM

By 1990 no Australian child will be living in poverty!

Bob Hawke
former Prime Minister of Australia

It's the recession that we had to have!

Paul Keating
former Prime Minister of Australia
speaking as Treasurer at the time

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say "God Save the Queen", because nothing will save the Governor-General.

Gough Whitlam
former sacked Prime Minister of Australia

As you can see people, we got a real load of lying arseholes for polititians in Australia, which we don't deserve and when you look like getting a Prime Minister with balls, the Queen sacks him, and we take it all on the chin :confused:

tru3

08-03-2007, 04:45 AM

"maud d'ib!" :rolleyes:

fremen to Paul, the movie "dune" directed by David Lynch...

i am all i am

08-03-2007, 05:08 AM

"maud d'ib!" :rolleyes:

fremen to Paul, the movie "dune" directed by David Lynch...

G'day Tru3,

The movie does not do the book justice. Too many things missing, changed etc.

With LOVE.

tru3

08-03-2007, 06:36 AM

G'day Tru3,

The movie does not do the book justice. Too many things missing, changed etc.

With LOVE.

i know, i know-- it was the worst line in the movie! lol :D

i am all i am

08-03-2007, 06:46 AM

"How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of christ has been for us and our predecessors."
- Pope Leo X.

With LOVE.
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WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS, YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.

oneofmany

08-03-2007, 07:12 AM

"maud d'ib!" :rolleyes:

fremen to Paul, the movie "dune" directed by David Lynch...

LOL how about "tell me of your homeworld Usul" :D:D:D

Chani To Paul in the movie "dune" directed by David Lynch

pollock

08-03-2007, 08:00 AM

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
-unknown

narcolepticwatchman

08-03-2007, 08:15 PM

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

tru3

08-03-2007, 08:17 PM

"never eat anything bigger than your head." -b. kliban

terry wogan

08-03-2007, 09:51 PM

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!" - Quote from one of the jumpers from WTC1.

tru3

08-03-2007, 10:54 PM

That's horrible! Go fuck yourself!

"pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." - wizard of oz :rolleyes:

filip

08-03-2007, 11:09 PM

“Our fellow men are black magicians. And whoever is with them is a black magician on the spot. Think for a moment. Can you deviate from the path that your fellow men have lined up for you? And if you remain with them, your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. The warrior, on the other hand, is free from all that. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible to pay. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing your freedom.”

-Carlos Castaneda, Tales of Power

“Care about people’s approval, and you will be their prisoner.”

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (Ch. 9)

“Once you have mastered judgement, you have mastered the totality of this plane and can leave whenever you desire.”

-Ramtha, The White Book (p. 260)

i am all i am

09-03-2007, 09:25 AM

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the love and courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace life like a lover.
- Morris West

With LOVE.
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WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS, YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.

pollock

09-03-2007, 11:34 AM

“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”

-Douglas Adams

pollock

09-03-2007, 11:35 AM

“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”

-Douglas Adams

pollock

09-03-2007, 11:55 AM

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

-Douglas Adams

pollock

09-03-2007, 12:00 PM

“It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.”

-Douglas Adams

(Ok I'll stop with the Douglas Adams quotes already:D , It's just the more I learn about things the more his quotes make sence. Btw is it just me that thought he was very young to die from heartproblems?)

sevenworlds

09-03-2007, 01:48 PM

"Man is a universe within himself." - Bob Marley

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - John Lennon

"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung

"Do what I want, be honest with myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on." - John Lydon

tru3

09-03-2007, 01:56 PM

do, or do not. there is no try. - yoda

to be or not to be- shakespeare

do be do be do be do- sinatra

filip

09-03-2007, 11:42 PM

"Here lies a toppled god-
His fall was not a small one.
We but did build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

- Tleilaxu Epigram"

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert.

do, or do not. there is no try. - yoda

to be or not to be- shakespeare

do be do be do be do- sinatra

Beautiful! :o

i am all i am

11-03-2007, 04:38 PM

THERE ARE THREE SIDES TO ANY DEBATE,
YOURS, MINE AND THE CORRECT ONE MATE.

- The not-so-famous me.

dondaz

12-03-2007, 02:21 AM

To know and yet not to do, is in fact not to know! - Wang Yang Ming

The way of overcoming obsticles lies in turning inward and raising ones own being to a higher level. - I Ching

Success is acheiving what one sets out to accomplish. - Quentin Crisp

i am all i am

12-03-2007, 04:55 AM

All suffering of mankind is produced by attachment to a previous condition of existence.
- Buddhist saying.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
- Can't remember who ????

With LOVE.
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WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS, YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.

shadow cat

13-03-2007, 05:00 AM

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who couldn't hear the music. Angela Monet

Whoever sets himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein

Truth will first be ridiculed, then violently opposed and finally accepted as self evident. A. Shopenhauer

graflok

13-03-2007, 05:08 AM

"You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you. There'll never be another me... And there'll never be another show like this!"

- Mickey Rooney

i am all i am

13-03-2007, 07:51 AM

You have come as far as you have in your life knowing what you once knew. With a new knowing, how far will you now be able to go ?

You create an image, it is not who you truly are.

Wisdom is understanding what works.

Love is a gift, be for giving.

Where judgements have been,
perfection remains unseen.

One for all and all for one,
That's how miracles are begun.

- A few of my own (not so famous) personal quotes.

With LOVE.
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WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS, YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.

i am all i am

16-03-2007, 03:11 AM

Sooner or later you are going to realise Neo, there's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.

- Morpheus, The Matrix.

With LOVE.
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WHEN PAIRED OPPOSITES DEFINE YOUR BELIEFS, YOUR BELIEFS WILL IMPRISON YOU.

melbo

16-03-2007, 09:15 AM

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)

"You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage."

-- (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)

"Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave," said Vorbis. "So I understand," said the Tyrant. "I imagine that fish have no word for water."

-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

-- (Terry Pratchett, The Truth)

The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Eric)

shadow cat

16-03-2007, 09:58 AM

You're only given a little spark of madness, you musn't lose it.
Robin Williams

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
Mel Dozer

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spencer
:)

garth

16-03-2007, 12:07 PM

be careful what you wish, you just may get it - Metallica, Enter Sandman

Its life Jim, but not as we know it - Spock, Star Trek

Make it so - John Luke Piccard, Star Trek

h1s_l0rdsh1p

16-03-2007, 12:09 PM

Don't take life too seriously. You're not getting out alive. -Unknown

pollock

16-03-2007, 12:28 PM

The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.

-- (Terry Pratchett, Eric)

That one is great, and this one:

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

--Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

pollock

17-03-2007, 03:17 PM

Small Things and Great

He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.

Piet Hein
-----------------

The Road to Wisdom

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain
And simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again,
but less
and less
and less.

Piet Hein
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Timing Toast

There's an art of knowing when.
Never try to guess.
Toast until it smokes and then
twenty seconds less.

Piet Hein
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Time

Does time exist?
I gravely doubt it.
But gosh, what should we do
without it?

Piet Hein

i am all i am

27-03-2007, 12:19 AM

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

With LOVE.

i am all i am

27-03-2007, 12:27 AM

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle

With LOVE.

i am all i am

27-03-2007, 12:33 AM

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
Robin Williams

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Robin Williams

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

With LOVE.

i am all i am

07-05-2007, 05:56 AM

"If soul got me here, it can fucking well get me out of here," they said.

"Well then, you require to start listening to your soul," I replied.

- From A Conversation I Had.

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i_am

07-05-2007, 08:12 AM

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If you are wrong, then you don't have the right to argue.

If you are right, then you don't have the need.

i am all i am

07-05-2007, 08:33 AM

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
-Joseph Addison.

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Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
-Samuel Johnson.

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"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
-John Morley.

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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
-Michel de Montaigne.

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i am all i am

07-05-2007, 08:45 AM

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

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"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

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Anders Lindman

07-05-2007, 08:57 AM

Not an exact quote, but:

"There are lies, damn lies, statistics and CNN" :D

i_am

07-05-2007, 09:40 AM

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim

George Santayana

lottie

07-05-2007, 11:37 AM

Read this on a Rizla packet and its stayed with me and helped me through some insecure times in the last few years...ive never forgotten it...

'Only you can make you feel inferior'

(dont know who's quote it is though)

i am all i am

07-05-2007, 12:26 PM

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can figure out your worth but you"
-Pearl Bailey

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse"
-Florence Nightingale

"People often say that this or that person has not found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something that one creates."
-Thomas Szasz

"If today's students can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
-Jesse Jackson

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
-Phyllis Bottome

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i_am

07-05-2007, 12:56 PM

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Hey!!! That's my signature

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/8071/coolsmileygp1.gif

but then you knew that didn't you?

lottie

07-05-2007, 01:26 PM

Love this quote....

You've read of love. You've spoken of love. You've thought about love. You've felt love. Now become love.

By: Jonathan Parker
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Icke quotes; it had to be done!!...

‘As we treat animals, so we will treat people - the same lack of empathy and compassion is responsible for both' - David Icke
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David Icke's 'Golden Rule of Polarity' - 'What you fight, you become.'
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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'Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.'
Oscar Wilde
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'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.'
Oscar Wilde
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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'I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi
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'How can anyone say they are in love with a specific person- they are only in love with the anticipation of the emotions they are addicted to, because the same person could fall out of favour the next week by not complying.'
Ramtha- Master Teacher - Ramtha School of Enlightenment.

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i am all i am

04-06-2007, 05:03 PM

"The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts divert attention from the secret influences around the recorded events."

Bashar Miles Teg.

Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert.

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auron

04-06-2007, 05:52 PM

We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. - Bill Hicks.

auron

04-06-2007, 06:01 PM

The people on our planet are not standing in a line single file. Look closely. Everyone is really standing in a circle, holding hands. Whatever you give to the person standing next to you, it eventually comes back to you.

Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure!

Experience is what we get when we don't get what we want!

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

misscpb

04-06-2007, 06:17 PM

"All is not lost, its changed" - My Family

i am all i am

04-06-2007, 06:55 PM

Has not religion claimed a patent on creation for all of these millenia ?

The Tleilaxu Question,
from Muad'Dib Speaks.

Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

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ho1ogram

15-07-2007, 05:22 AM

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001584.html

rasnalgoul

15-07-2007, 06:21 AM

All in the same boat, rocking on the same rock- Bob Marley

so you think youve got a solution, but you got another illusion- Bob Marley

feel it in the one drop, feel it in the drum beat, as it beats within, playing the rythme, resisting against the system- Bob Marley

They made the world so hard, everyday, we got to keep on fighting, they made the world so hard, everyday, and people are dieing- Bob Marley

give us the teachings of his majesty, we no want no devil philosophy, we feel it in the one drop- Bob Marley

god damn i love bob marley

rasnalgoul

15-07-2007, 06:22 AM

oops forgot one more

emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds- Bobby Marley

rasnalgoul

15-07-2007, 06:28 AM

would you let the system make you kill your brother man? No Dread Noooo- Bob Marley

ho1ogram

16-07-2007, 08:13 AM

Let it Be - John Lennon

smoking oceanus

16-07-2007, 08:39 AM

Let it Be - John Lennon

I thought Paul McCartney wrote Let It Be - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia did he not ? :p

ho1ogram

16-07-2007, 09:19 AM

Oops! I don't have any Beatles music, I've just had that song line in my head today and it made sense for some things I was dwelling on... I just assumed it it was John... so, I wonder if the real Paul wrote it or the replacement Paul? :D http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3721

david ickes bike

16-07-2007, 11:46 AM

Any quote worth its salt contains the word f*ck/f*cking

"That's not a real f*cking gun." - John Lennon

"Where is all this f*cking water coming from?" - Edward Smith captain of the Titanic

"what the f*cking hell was that" - Mayor of hiroshima

"Who's gonna f*cking find out? - Richard Nixon

"Let the f*cking woman drive." - Michael Smith Commander of Space Shuttle Challenger

"There aint no f*cking mountings round here" - Jim Reeves

"I thought i could smell f*cking peterol" - Niki Lauda

"What f*cking map?" - Mark Thatcher

"Any f*cking idiot could understand that. - Albert Einstein

"It does so f*cking look like her! - Picasso

"How the f*ck did you work that out?" - Pythagoras

You want what on the f*cking ceiling?" - Michaelangelo

"F*ck a duck." - Walt Disney

"Why?- Because its f*cking there!" - Edmund Hilary

"I don't suppose its gonna f*cking rain?" - Joan of Arc

"Scattered f*cking showers my ass." - Noah

"I need this parade like I need a f*cking hole in my head." - John F. Kennedy