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Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you "knew" that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll "know" tomorrow. ~ Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones), Men in Black

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A1 has to take shit from A3. - Futur SenorExec VP

A prejudiced mind is also devil's workshop. ~ AnjuZ

A one without the other is a one without it all. ~ Ollie Siller Rendon
A great deal of human grief is caused by our demanding perfection from everybody but ourselves. ~ Jim Todd

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 124

A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor - it is a fixed characteristic of human nature. ~ George Orwell

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true—as much as can be known—but does not resist evils, knows nothing. Emanuel Swedenborg Apocalypse Explained 1180

A rumor without a leg to stand on will find some other way to get around. ~ John Tudor

A woman's body is a dark and monsterous mystery;
between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls,
two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

According to picture books, Heaven is apparently a partly-cloudy place. ~ Jenny Lewis, actress and singer in Rilo Kiley

Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brandt. Contributed by: Ahmad Shuja.

Ah-ah, I know what you're thinking punk. You're thinking did he fire six shots or only 5. And to tell you the truth I've forgotten myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum— the most powerful hand gun in the world and will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question—Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk! (Scorpio laughs, gets blown away, and splashes into the lake) (Clint Eastwood)

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg Heaven and Hell 399

All life constitutes an intelligence that holds memory beyond experience. Memory is not isolated within individuals. It is an accumulation of generations of memories that continues to evolve. You can say that memory and evolution go hand in hand. But most life-forms do not understand the true nature of memories... ...which explains why most memories never cross paths and are left..."untangled." ~ Garland; Final Fantasy IX

All power corrupts, absolute power is even more fun! ~ BOFH

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning Life 1

All things lead, eventually, to the point where ones become zeros and zeros become ones. ~ Debbie Spackman

Always look both ways when crossing the road to ruin. ~ Anonymous

"Among democratic nations, each generation is a new people." - Alex de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

An idea is something you have, a ideology is something that has you. ~ Morris Berman

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ~ Konrad Adenauer

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I will either find a way or make one) ~ Hannibal

Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. ~ E.B. White

As we journey this earth, a day comes in our life that we have to give, pick, act, say, do, or select between what is right, dignifying, and correct and that which is wrong, debasing and ignoble. Remember, let us do that which is right.~ Nuru BK

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(Baseball)- You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds. ~ Bill Lee

(Baseball)- I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. ~ Bill Lee

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. ~ Philo of Alexandria

Be like a postage stamp -- stick to one thing until you get there. ~ Josh Billings

"Before all else fails... read your Bible and find out that all else fails." ~Mark Sanger, while discussing the human problem of addictions.

Beware of loose-ends ... they may one day hang you. ~ George Naoumis, author

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk—real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious. ~ Jack Kerouac, On The Road

"Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories." ~ Lord Dunsany

Brief experience of international politics confirms in me a preference for driving a garbage truck. ~ Joseph Stilwell

By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Chess is mental torture. ~ Garry Kasparov

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited. John Cleese

Conscience is a new will and understanding implanted in us by God. So it is that God is present with us to the degree that we love goodness and truth. ~ Arcana Coelestia 4299 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Courage is not an absence of fear; it is action in the face of fear. ~ Anonymous

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~ Ambrose Redmoon

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ~ Brendan Behan

Cum Bonis Ambula. Caton

Children are often forced to volunteer.~ Mithila C.

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Dealing with the public is not an easy thing to do; but, if it wasn't for people like us, the public would have to deal with themselves. ~ George Harvey [speaking on Customer Service]

Death is lighter than a feather, duty is heavier than a mountain. ~ Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time

Determination is revealed at the margin ~ Evan Schlessinger

Do it with your other hand it feels like somebody else ~ Mark Byrne

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent. ~ Bruno Jasienski

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not make fun of someone until you walk a mile in their shoes... That way you are a mile away and have their shoes. ~ Unknown

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. ~Blaise Pascal

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. ~ Warren Miller

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. ~ Philip K. Dick

Dysynergy is defined as the whole is less than the sum of the parts. ~ Phil O. Cetes

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Everything is impossible... until someone does it! ~ Kevin Krools (From: Exhibition "identity - my other half", Teatru 74, Tg. Mures, Romania)

Endeavor to persevere. ~ Chief Joseph of Nez Perce Tribe ~ Chief Dan George in "Outlaw Jose Wales" ~ Abe Lincoln ~ wordZ

Europe: "Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?" - Sir Humphrey
"That's all ancient history, surely." - Jim Hacker
"Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing (the EEC) up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times." - Sir Humphrey

~ Yes Minister

Every good and true thing inspired by the angels is of the Lord, thus the Lord is continually speaking with us. ~ Arcana Coelestia 904 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility. ~ Bertrand Russell

Every solitary hour that is truly such contains a challenge. That is why there is so little real solitude. Although we pretend to long for it, we avoid it and start up a noise within ourselves. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar (Swiss theologian)

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. ~ Nolan Bushnell

Everyone's God is that which he or she loves above all things. ~ Apocalypse Explained 935 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Everyone is weird to someone. ~ Devin T. Sixt

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. ~ Thomas Edison

Evil has an appetite for falsity and eagerly seizes upon it as if it were truth. ~ Arcana Coelestia 10648 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Every Problem has a solution often found within. ~ Thomas Mushet

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored ~ Aldous Huxley

Free your mind...and your bottom will follow.

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious. ~ Leo Burnett, advertiser

Freedom without controls, just like jungle without rules, all are mess . ~ Oudi

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Gentlemen, I'm sure we must all hang together, or we will all hang separately. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Going from no abilities to some abilities caused a division by zero error when I tried to calculate the percent improvement. ~ anonymous bioinformatician

Give the laziest man the hardest job, he'll find the easiest way of getting it done - Anton Martin Sorenson

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. ~ Doug Casey, investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing"

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Hate, like an acid, corrodes the vessel that contains it. - H?ctor P. Cab?n-Zeda
"Hey, what's up with the Weasel? She's locked herself in the bathroom singing, 'On the first day of Christmas, I murdered Santa Claus.'"-Eric Matthews
He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while; or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough. ~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods

He who still sees the stars as up does not perceive with the eye of truth. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation ~ John Smith

Honour is a sacrifice no man ought to make. ~ Benedict Arnold

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, It is thinking of yourself less. ~ C.S. Lewis

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. ~ William Law

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if i have seen farther than others it is because i have stood on the shoulders of giants -Sir Isaac Newton
I admit defeat. - Meteo Crusher
I've a lot of work , so I'm too busy .. but as much as I can play , I can be considered a human ~ GhKM
In the future, your anonimity will be your wealth. -Rob Price, 1995
If you can't convince, confuse. If you can't confuse, currupt this is what most business house follow today - Valerian Mendon?a
“If it's not love then it's The Bomb that will bring us together”- Morrissey
Innovation lies in breaking the Traditions. ~ Roofi Shaikh - 2004

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. Milton Friedman

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? ~ Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice

I always thought Carol preferred variety to continuity. ~ David King, on hearing about somebody's marriage.

I am greatness personified- Alex Woolley

I am in considerable sympathy with conservatives. I am often lazy, myself. ~ Charles Fort

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when I feel it not.
I believe in God even when He is silent. ~ Found written on a cellar wall in Cologne (K?ln) after World War II

I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred. ~ Mr. Rogers

I bet that Van Gogh guy cut off his ear by accident and made up that "lost love" story so he wouldn't look stupid. ~ Andy Pierson

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. ~ Henry David Thoreau

In order to know virtue we must acquaint ourselves with vice ~ Marquis de Sade

If you have two loaves sell one and buy a lily ~ don't know

If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we would know the mind of God. ~ Stephen William Hawking

I don't think we're in Toto anymore Kansas ~ Phil O. Cetes

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains~ Anne Frank

I dream, therefore I become ~ Cheryl Renée Grossman

If history is to be changed, let it change! If the world is to be destroyed, so be it! If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh! ~ Magus, Chrono Trigger

If we stop thinking of the poor as victims, or as a burden, and start recognising them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up. - C K Prahalad

If you want to get really depressed about the quality of our presidential hopefuls, think of it this way: What if you were wrongly accused of murder and any of these men showed up as your court-appointed attorney? Hello, lethal injection. ~ P.J. O'Rourke

I had a stick of Carefree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. ~ Mitch Hedberg

I had to shake the spot cause the game got crowded/I'm devoted and quote it, I'm rowdy and bout it/A No Limit Soldier, and happy to shout it ~ Snoop Dogg, 'Get Bout It and Rowdy'

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash. ~ Sigmund Freud

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius. ~ Charles Fort

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant. ~ unKnown wordZ

I live by long distance. ~ Glenn Gould

I overcompensated too much. ~ Steven L. Bird, after failing to pick up a spare while candlepin bowling.

In the eighties, I was always in bed by eight... and home by eleven, Oh! ~Quagmire

In the highbrow world you "get on", if you "get on" at all, not so much by your literary ability as by being the life and soul of cocktail parties and kissing the bums of verminous little lions. ~ George Orwell

I said 'I don't believe in revenge; in good or bad, or right or wrong.' Then you said, 'Well, what about the man that I saw handcuffed in the emergency room; bleeding, after beating his kid? ...and she threw a shoe at his head? I think what he did was wrong. I would've had a hard time feeling compassion for him, but I had to watch my tongue for fear of having him feel judged.' ~ Alanis Morissette

I said to the almond tree: 'Speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

I think humans may have evolved from apes, because the simians openly imitate human behavior, as if conscious of a higher state, while the humans who act like apes are likely to deny it when criticized. ~ Charles Fort

It's neither theory nor experience, it's curiosity and patience, hard work and determination which makes something Airborne. ~ AKS and GKG

I think that people who are going to commit crimes should not have guns. ~ George W. Bush

I want to walk through life, not be dragged through it. ~ Alanis Morissette

I will say 'Good-Bye', but the mankind will never say 'Good-Bye' to my masterpieces. ~ Abdullah Al-Nayeem

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress. ~ Jane Siberry

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist. ~ Dean Hannotte

If I had my whole life to do over again, I wouldn't have time. ~ Roger Miller

If knowledge is power, and power corrupts... how will mankind ever survive? ~ The Outer Limits

If laziness is a sin, then we're all pretty screwed. ~ Alex Woolley

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~ James Madison

If our souls were as flies enmeshed in webs of flesh, what then would be the spiders that prey upon us ~ Phil O. Cetes

If we choose to reject goodness, we condemn ourselves. ~ Arcana Coelestia 2335 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. ~ John D. Ehrlichman

If you want to make an enemy of a man, tell him that his ills are incurable. ~ George Orwell

If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got.

If you can't even love yourself, how can you expect yourself to love others or others to love you? ~ Cycerse Toh

If you don't know how to make someone happy, just don't make them sad. ~ Tony An

If you don't live life on the edge, then you're taking up too much room. ~ Anonymous

If you were a mountain of violent indifference, what ocean of malignant resignation could embrace you? ~ Phil O. Cetes

If you wish to be eternally happy, know and believe that you will live after death. Always remember this, for it is the truth. ~ Arcana Coelestia 8939 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Illegal acts without precedent are without jurisdiction; legal threats without substance are without hope. ~ Eric L. Woodlief

In a person, prayer is truth, and a person is continually at prayer when living according to truth. ~ Apocalypse Explained 493 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

In christ one died for the sins of all. In the Antichrist all die for the sins of one. ~ Phil O. Cetes

In its essence, true love in marriage is nothing else than the willing of two to be one, that is, their desire that the two lives shall become one life. ~ Conjugial Love 215 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

In relationships, as in clothes, we search for a tailor made suit off the rack. ~ George Naoumis, author

In the absensce of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. ~ Elijah Wood, actor

Intercalate obligatory platitudinous plagiarism here. ~ Ted Wolff

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.

Resign yourself to be the fool you are. ~T. S. Eliot The Cocktail Party

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

It is a law of order that so far as you approach and draw near to God, doing so entirely as if of your own accord, so far does God approach and draw near to you, and conjoin Himself to you in your inmost being. ~ True Christian Religion 89 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

It is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ~ Terry Pratchett

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level. ~ George Orwell
It is no mark of intelligence to be able to prove whatever one pleases. But to be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false—this is the mark and character of intelligence.~ True Christian Religion 334 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely. ~ Saint Ambrose

It is not so difficult to live the life that leads to heaven as is believed. ~ Heaven and Hell 528 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them. ~ Niccol? Machiavelli

It takes a minute to find something special in a person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them. But it takes an entire life to forget them. ~Beka Valentine Andromeda

It's ridiculous that we still have a hole in the ozone layer. We have men, we have rockets, we have Saran Wrap - FIX IT! And don't come back until you do. ~ Lewis Black

It's 2003. Why can't I teleport? ~ Lewis Black

It's the details that get you every time. ~ John Price

It's too bad stupidity isn't painful. Then maybe some of these people would go get some help. ~ Anton Z. LaVey

I would like to be someone who would like to be me. ~ Jan Einar Nordgreen

If there were no problems we wouldn't feel that we live(we are alive) but nither the satisfaction of solutioning the problems. - Kevin Krools (translated by alex)

If you want your dreams to come true, get out of bed. ~Doug Elledge

Bold textIn life, God doesn't give you the people you want; instead, He gives you the people you need. To teach you, to hurt you, to love you, and to make you exactly the way you should be.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." ~Albert Einstein

I can resist anything but temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde

It takes a hell of a big dog to weigh a ton. ~Theodore J. Skemp

If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise." ~ The Complete Ivory~ Doris Egan

In the end there is one lesson all must learn for themself. Luck, that like most treasured commodities in ones life, has limits. People can beg their luck, or borrow their luck, or press their luck, or strech their luck, but in the end it will only go so far, and no futher. There is only on thing in life which has no limits: Love. ~ Luck be a Lady~ Betina Krahn

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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Knowledge is the heritage of mankind." ~ Jose Rizal

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And in acting alone, accept everything alone. ~ Ferdinand Marcos

Learn, earning will follow; accept responsibility, designation will follow. ~ Valerian Mendon?a

Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli ~ The Godfather

Let Bygone Be Bygone ~ Anonymous

Let them hate me so long as they fear me. ~ Caligula

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust

Life Is a sexually transmited disease with a one hundred percent mortality rate. ~ Greiveldinger Family Motto

Life is a scream in the face of a bright madness, then! Life is a silly sound like a death-rattle from an insane clown dying in the night, then! ~ Richard Shaver

Life is butter, melon, cauliflower. ~ Anonymous

Life is like a garden; sometimes it's in bloom, but in the end it withers. ~ George Naoumis, author

Life is like geometry; we view it from our own angle. ~ George Naoumis, author

Life is not measured by the breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away. ~ Anonymous

Life is the process of taking a perfect human body and turning it into scar tissue. ~Bill Roth

Life is too serious to be serious, so laugh and enjoy. ~ Mike Masitis

Life takes us were we need to go, leads us in our own blindness ~ Kevin Schuler from the book Life at These Speed

Life-wysiwyg ~ RayK

Little things console us because little things afflict us. ~ Blaise Pascal

Listen to your own advice.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

Logic is what binds us to this world and is that which will carry us to the next. ~ Brian

Lord, what fools these mortals be! ~ Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love and wisdom, without action, are only imaginary concepts. They become real when they are used. ~ Apocalypse Revealed 875 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Love has power only through wisdom.~ True Christian Religion 748 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Love is Friendship ~ Anon

Love, like murder, should have no witnesses. ~ Steven Brust

Life is the best Die ~ Gunasingh Chidambaram

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Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

Mankind shall not be free until the last king is strangled in the entrails of the last priest. ~ Denis Diderot, Dithyrambe Sur La F?te Des Rois

Many parents have often inadvertently instilled subconscious guilt feelings in their siblings if they do not abide by the parent’s religious convictions. Open dialogue between religions is thereby stifled. This needs to be corrected. ~ Kurt Kawohl

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. ~ George S. Patton, Jr.

Machines, like humans, can always be stopped with force. ~ Jordan L. Akins

Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid. ~ Johnny Depp as Capt. Jack Sparrow

Mediocrity is not in fashion, excellence is the order of the day. Thomas S. Monson

Memory: “The difference between false memories and true onesis the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.” Salvador Dal?

Murder always has a reason. But it is existence that cannot be justified. ~ Albert Camus

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. ~ Barbara Jordan ~ Opening address to the Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of then President Richard Nixon

My friend said to me, "You know what I like? Mashed potatoes." I was like, "Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause." ~ the late Mitch Hedberg, the Van Gogh of comedians

My grandmother always used to say, 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.' But you can't make lemonade out of a dead dog, no matter how hard you try. ~ Wisdom from "Medusa" in the Madonna parody "Medusa: Dare to be Truthful".

Maturity is no longer seeing every passing temptation as a missed opportunity. ~ Samuel R. Kaplan

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Never look back— something might be gaining on you! ~ "Satchel" Paige

No angels or spirits were created as such, but were born as people first— born to become spiritual and to live forever. ~ Divine Providence 220 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other. ~ Bertrand Russell

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Nobody goes there anymore, because it's too crowded. ~ Yogi Berra

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ~ Oscar Wilde

Nothing is certain but death and taxes. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is permitted unless some good may come of it. ~ Arcana Coelestia 6489 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Nothing sincere is ever trite. ~ J.Kim, opiner

Never Bite off less than you can chew. ~ [Freddy Adu]

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"One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings." ~ Colin Wilson

One day , we will stop going around the tray ~ GhKM
Oh Yeah! Well history's gonna change ~ Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, Back to The Future

"Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it." ~ Subhash Kak

One angel can dispel multitudes of evil spirits, because evil spirits cannot endure the sphere of mutual love. ~ Arcana Coelestia 1398 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile" ~ Albert Einstein

Only I have the brains to rule Lylat! - Andross, Star Fox 64

Only in the dictionary does retirement come before work. ~ George Naoumis, author

Only small minds are impressed by big numbers. ~ Unknown

"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure." ~Marriane Williamson

Our lives are made up of a series of losses and our grace is measured bu how we face these losses and how we replace what is lost ~ "Goin' Fishin'" by Chris Crutcher

Our passage from one world into the other is like a journey from one place to another, and we take with us all things that we have in ourselves as human beings. ~ Heaven and Hell 461 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

"Own nothing, control everything." ~ John D Rockefellar

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Native American Proverb

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Pain is a Illusion from the Senses, Hate is a Illusion of the Mind, Love a Illusion of the Feelings. ~Bob

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ~Anne Frank

Pessimism is optimism mixed with factual reality. ~ Robert Shaver

People will come and people will go, but processes stay for ever (In Business). ~ Rajeev Kasat

Politicians are interested in people. This is not always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. ~ P. J. O'Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Poverty is the banana peel on the door step of romance. ~ P.G. Wodehouse in The Butler Did It

Practice makes perfect. Nobody's perfect. So why do we bother to practice? ~ My poor friend

Pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend. ~ J. William Fulbright

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ~ Ezra Pound, author

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Ramblings are often mistaken for philosophy. ~ Alex Woolley
Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken. ~ Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian In the World

Reading gives us a place to go when we have to stay where we are. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever. ~ New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 163 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Repentance of the mouth and not of life, is not repentance. ~ Arcana Coelestia 8393 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Right and wrong are not what seperate us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that seperate us. Both sides blame one another. There's no good or bad side, just two sides holding different views. ~ Squall in Final Fantasy VIII

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it. ~ George Orwell

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Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks. ~ Joel (Jim Carrey) [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]

Schools turn beautiful children into ugly adults. Steve Hein http://eqi.org

Some people are signposts while others are destinations-David Insana

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ~ Richard Feynman

See, I write jokes for a living, man. I sit in my hotel at night and think of something that's funny and then I go get a pen and write 'em down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny. ~ Mitch Hedberg

Selfish love must be completely crushed. ~ Spiritual Experiences 4754 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Show me the way to Ambaraluwa! ~ Rodney Hughes, author

Shyness is nice, and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life You'd like to. ~ Morrissey

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Simplify, simplify. ~ Thoreau

Since love for the Lord does not come from us, but from the Lord himself, our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength— which are recipients— must be the Lord's. Therefore our submission to him must be total. ~ Arcana Coelestia 6138 ~Emanuel Swedenborg

Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety? ~ Artist: Tool. Song: Stinkfist. Album: Aenima.

Sometimes it is a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is altering the conditions of war. Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him. ~ George Orwell

Sometimes you need a complex thinker to create a simple solution. Michael Porter, biologist

Sooner or later you have to make a decision as to whether you want to be a fallen angel or a rising ape. Terry Pratchett

Speak when spoken to, but listen if you want to be heard. ~ Alex Woolley

Speech is a gift; like flowers it must be arranged prior to delivery. ~ George Naoumis, author

Spiritual power is to desire the well-being of another and to desire to give to another as far as possible what is within us. ~ Apocalypse Explained 79 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Spiritual things are more real than worldly things. ~ Apocalypse Explained 1218 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Stand-up comedy is one thing you can screw up and no one will laugh at you. ~ Anonymous

"The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live." - William McDonough, architect

Subsidy is for art...for culture. It is not to be given to what the people want, it is for what the people don't want but ought to have. - Sir Humphrey ~Yes Minister

Superman's not brave, he's indestructable. You can't be brave when your indestructable. Guys who are different, guys who can be crushed, and know it, but go out anyway, they're the brave ones. ~ Alexander

Success belongs to him who holds out longest. ~ Ferdinand Foch

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. ~ Joseph Stalin

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The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men. ~ A. J Durai in Vagrant Story

The force is strong with this one ~Darth Vader

The early bird may catch the worm, but let's not lose sight of the whole picture: The early worm gets eaten. ~ Brad Laney

There is nothing like failure, there exists only success and opportunites to learn so that you can succeed in the future ~ Rajeev Kasat

There are no strengths and weaknesses, but only qualities which prove to be strengths when profitably adapted to the situation and weakness if otherwise ~ Rajeev Kasat

This love, earthly love, is a truce between metamorphs, a temporary agreement not to shape-shift while kissing or holding hands. Love is a beach towel spread over shifting sands. Love is intimate democracy, a compact that insists on renewals, and you can be voted out overnight, however big your majority. It’s fragile, precarious, and it’s all we can get without selling our souls to one party or the other. It’s what we have while remaining free... All treaties can be broken, all promises end up as lies. Sign nothing, make no promises. Make a provisional reconciliation, a fragile peace. If you’re lucky it might last five days; or fifty years. ~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

That which is difficult we do everyday, it is the impossible which takes a little time ~ Chris Bulone

The art of living consists in some degree in knowing how to be cheated. ~ Governeur Morris

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ~ Antonio Gramsci

The clothes do not make the man, but they sure can misrepresent him. ~ George Naoumis, author

The currency of madness is printed in blood. ~ Phil O. Cetes

The difference between a patriot and a traitor is success. ~ Anonymous

The difference between an academic and an intellectual is an academic is confined by what he knows while the intellectual constantly re-evaluates what he knows to expand the limits of his knowledge. ~ Michael Porter, biologist

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but who spends all their life in a cradle? ~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. ~ William Shakespeare, in Henry VI part 2, act IV, scene ii

The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. ~ Emir Kusturica

"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other." ~ Sir Francis Bacon

The idiot is relentless, the idiot never rests, always on the prowl. I mean, you're just walking down the street, minding your own business, when you turn a corner and bam! An idiot right in your face. ~ Jorge F. Guiti?n

The living are just the dead on holiday ~ Someone please fill in the correct name, entered by Mark Byrne

The Lord's church is spread over the whole globe, and therefore is universal. All are in it who live a good life according to their own religious belief. ~ True Christian Religion 39 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

The mannerly principle of not deliberately provoking others, which is the foundation of civilized living, supplies a sense of etiquette about what is permissible where. If you attend orgies, you cannot complain of indecency; if you stumble upon the same activities in the grocery store aisles, you should. The vulgar have their venues, and should not expect to be allowed to set the tone everywhere. ~ Miss Manners (AKA Judith Martin)

The more nearly you become one with the Lord, the more distinctly you appear to yourself to be your own master, and yet the more clearly you recognize that you belong to the Lord. ~ Divine Providence 42 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

The more we love what is good and what is true, the more angels love to be with us. ~ Arcana Coelestia 1740 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. ~ John D. MacDonald

The only thing that seperates Homo Sapiens from the rest of the biota is our infinite capacity for self-deception. ~ Mark Byrne

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ~ Joseph Stalin

The Qur'an cannot be translated. ... The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an—and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so... ~ Marmaduke Pickthall, 1930

… there is an appreciable difference between doing dirty work and merely profiting by it. Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. ~ George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
The ship of state, Bernard, is the only ship that leaks from the top. ~ Sir Humphrey Yes, Minister
The sound of a person's voice and speech is heard as a simple sound, yet the angels on hearing it perceive in it all the feelings that make up the person's love; they also know which feelings these are, and what their quality is. The fact that these things lie hidden within the sound we can even to some extent grasp from the sound of someone talking—for instance, whether it has in it a ring of contempt, or mockery, or hatred; or whether it has a ring of kindness, good will, cheerfulness, or other feelings. ~ True Christian Religion 365 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

The trouble with burying your head in the sand is that you get sand in your ears ~ [ Terri, Sooke BC, Canada, 2004 ]

The truth is that men are tired of liberty. ~ Benito Mussolini

The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth. In starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory. ~ Adolf Hitler

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. ~ Benjamin Jowett

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

There is a creator behind every creation . ~ Aiven Andrians

(Translation : There is a God )

"There is no one who does not carry scars on their heart. If there were someone in the world like that, he would be a shallow soul" ~ Hiei, from Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at sometime, on some point, that devil masters each of us; he who has never failed has never been tempted; but the man who does in the end conquer, who does painfully retrace the steps of his slipping, why he shows that he has been tried in the fire and not found wanting. It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing, anywhere, to be afraid of. ~ From The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. ~ Jesus Christ

There is nothing so interesting on stage than a man trying to get a knot out of his shoelaces. ~ Bertolt Brecht

They can call me crazy if I fail
All the chance that I need
Is one in a million
And they can call me brilliant
If I succeed. ~ Ani DiFranco

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining. ~ Jack Kerouac, On The Road

"Think outside the box, what box?" ~ Mark Sanger in response to people's inability to create totally new concepts that are not attached to any old ideas. If you are to come up with a new idea, you cannot even use the "box" as a point of reference, so what box are you talking about? - Mark Sanger

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral; they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted. ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Thought from the eye closes the understanding, but thought from the understanding opens the eye. ~ Divine Love and Wisdom 46 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Three men may keep a secret---provided two of them are dead. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that. Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time is a filament in the lightbulb of eternity. ~ Phil O. Cetes

Time is not a commodity that can be stored for future use. It must be invested hour by hour. ~Thomas Edison

To be is to be the value of a quantified variable. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine

To be perfect is to be ultimately flawed. ~ Luis Gomez ~ AKA ProteusZX

Today's government - a Leviathan with attention deficit disorder. ~ George Will

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. ~ Bertrand Russell

To shun evil is to do good. ~ Apocalypse Explained 803 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

To the extent that we detest evil, goodness enters from heaven.
To the extent that we detest promiscuity, what is chaste enters.
To the extent that we detest fraud and unlawful gains, sincerity and justice enter.
To the extent that we detest hatred and revenge, loving kindness enters.
To the extent that we detest lies and blasphemies, truth enters.
And to the extent that we detest arrogance, humility before God and love of others enter. ~ Apocalypse Explained 803 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. ~ Veronica, Veronica Mars, Season 1, Episode 3 (Meet John Smith)

Truth does not shine from itself, because there is nothing flaming in it alone. But truth shines from goodness, for goodness is like a flame, which gives light. ~ Arcana Coelestia 4742 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Trust is the most fragile commodity, once broken it can 'never' be held again even when one desires it the most in others. ~ Thomas Mushet

The arrogance of consciousness which for example rejects dreams so lightly, belongs quite generally, to the strongest protective apparatus which guards us against the breaking through of the unconscious complexes, and as a result it is hard to convince people of the reality of the unconscious, and to teach them anew what their conscious knowledge contradicts. Sigmund Freud

There is no teacher who can teach anything new, he can just help us to remember the things you always knew. - Michael Cretu (spoken by Louisa Stanley in the Enigma song, "Odyssey of the Mind")

The capacity for genocide is not limited to acknowledged historical monsters. - Frederic Jueneman (1992)

The massive inertial wheel of history, once started on its way, inexorably retravels the roads of yesteryear, and having unmindfully crushed its movers, rolls on. - Frederic Jueneman (1978)

The room contains a few dozen living human bodies, each one a big sack of guts and fluids so highly compressed that it will squirt for a few yards when pierced. Each one is built around an armature of 206 bones connected to each other by notoriously fault-prone joints that are given to obnoxious creaking, grinding, and popping noises when they are in other than pristine condition. This structure is draped with throbbing steak, inflated with clenching air sacks, and pierced by a Gordian sewer filled with burbling acid and compressed gas and asquirt with vile enzymes and solvents produced by the many dark, gamy nuggets of genetically programmed meat strung along its length. Slugs of dissolving food are forced down this sloppy labyrinth by serialized convulsions, decaying into gas, liquid, and solid matter which must all be regularly vented to the outside world lest the owner go toxic and drop dead. Spherical, gel-packed cameras swivel in mucus-greased ball joints. Infinite phalanxes of cilia beat back invading particles, en**capsulate them in goo for later disposal. In each body a centrally located muscle flails away at an eternal, circulating torrent of pressurized gravy. And yet, despite all of this, not one of these bodies makes a single sound at any time during the ….speech. It is a marvel that can only be explained by the power of brain over body, and, in turn, by the power of cultural conditioning over the brain. CRYPTONOMICON, Neal Stephenson

There are those moments, moments that aren't visible to other people, when a person whom you at all times admire suddenly seems ten times more beautiful than they were before." ~The Complete Ivory~ Doris Egan

The war between Earth and Mars is not any different than the war of men against ants.- Jules Verne

The moon is indeed, not made of cheese ~ Vincent

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I know that technically these are in the wrong section but the letter V looked kind of lonely al by itself and is justified by the great Winston Churchill Quote (3rd one down)(V for victory you see)

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. Anonymous….

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Yes my dear, and you are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober" -Winston Curchhill after being told off for being drunk.

Vision!

"As daylight comes make your vision of the future brighter than your view of the past"

- Mark Windell (sometime in Africa)

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Wakefulness is the way to life; the fool sleeps as if he were already dead. - Lian Hearn in Heaven's net is wide

We (The USA) have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction. - George Keenan

We have believed and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. - Mahatma Gandhi

We dance around in a circle and suppose, but the Truth sits in the middle and knows. ~ Robert Frost

We are a nation of voyeurs living in a world of envy. - Larry Dobie

We are all blind on the road to Utopia. ~ Gary Errera

We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive. ~ George Orwell

We are not born for the sake of ourselves, but for the sake of others. ~ True Christian Religion 406 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. ~ Abigail Adams

We cannot have humility when we love only ourselves. Selfish love is hard, but love of the Divine is soft. ~ Spiritual Experiences 4754 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

We look before and after,

And pine for what is not;

Our sincerest laughter

With some pain is fraught;

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

We shall never surrender. ~ Winston Churchill

What are the needs of the world? What can I do that won't be done if I don't do it? ~ Bill Clinton

What goes around comes around. ~ Anonymous

What torments of grief we’ve endured from evils that never occurred. ~ A recovering alcoholic

What you think is a walk in the park usually turns out to be a jog in the dark. ~ James F. White

When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were dams. Imponderably massive, constructed with exquisite care, our dams will outlast anything else we have built - skyscrapers, cathedrals, bridges, even nuclear power plants. ~ Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert

When all else fails read the directions

When fear is removed, hope is present. ~ Arcana Coelestia 2694 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

When great people meet, they discuss ideas, when good people meet they discuss events, when ordinary people meet they discuss people ~ Anonymous

When life presents us with difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~ Peter Marshall

Q: When should you begin training a child?

A: Begin with his grandparents. ~ Unknown

When the rich make war it's the poor that die. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

When we are living in kindness and faith, we regret our faults every day. We think about our bad traits, admit them, avoid acting on them, and ask the Lord for help. ~ New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 163 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

When you have a humble heart, you will know that wisdom is perceiving that the things in which you are wise are scarcely anything compared with the things in which you are not wise. ~ Apocalypse Explained 828 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Who can fathom the feminine mind? ~ Anonymous

"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. - Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Drumhead)

World would have been better if we didn’t invent Procrastination! ~Roofi Shaikh

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." ~ Winston Churchill

"Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die." ~ Tupac Shakur

"We must consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another generation." - Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Eppes, June 24, 1813.

"when in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. - So what the heak...LEAP!"

~ Cynthia Heimel

Why you care about small things? World very simple place. World only have two things: Things you can eat and things you no can eat. ~ Quina Quen; Final Fantasy IX

"Where ever you go there you are"

~Mr. T

X

X marks the spot.

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You can only watch someone go away so many times. ~ Peter Beagle, The Folk of the Air

You can't change who you are, you can only hide. - Kevin Krools

You can't fight ideas with bullets! ~ Leo Gold, Deus Ex.

You can't polish a turd!! ~ Ashley Deuble

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. ~ Edward Flaherty

You have achieved wisdom when you no longer have any concern about understanding what is true and good, but are willing and living it. ~ Arcana Coelestia 10225 ~ Emanuel Swedenborg

You can't change who you are, only what you become ~ Scotish Philosopher

You don't need a reason to help people. ~ Zidane Tribal; Final Fantasy IX

You must always have to find something in life to sing about

You have in mind illusions that would burst of their own tensions — like a bubble — with but a single probing by the finger of a question. - Frederic Jueneman (1952)

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Zebras are the referees of the animal kingdom. ~ Alex Robertson