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Post Number:#16  Postby Tip the Bottle » 28 Aug 2011, 22:22

"Everyone is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid"

~Albert Einstein



“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”

~Mahatma Gandhi
"When the give you things, ask yourself why.
When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should already have anyway, ask yourself why."
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Post Number:#17  Postby Simworm » 28 Aug 2011, 22:32

Tip the Bottle wrote:"Everyone is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid"

~Albert Einstein



“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”

~Mahatma Gandhi


Great quotes!
"Oh, tis love that makes the world go round" - Lewis Carroll
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Post Number:#18  Postby Fran » 29 Aug 2011, 04:42

'We need but little here below, nor need that little long' ... if only we could live by that.
Save the Earth ..... It's the only planet with chocolate!
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Post Number:#19  Postby Nitinslash » 29 Aug 2011, 06:08

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. :)
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Post Number:#20  Postby Ant » 29 Aug 2011, 08:31

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"
George Eliot.....Middlemarch.
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Great quote

Post Number:#21  Postby Philghostkeeper » 30 Aug 2011, 10:43

That is a great quote from Mahatma Gandhi.
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Post Number:#22  Postby TagBag » 02 Sep 2011, 01:15

To be or not to be? this is a question
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Post Number:#23  Postby Jacob » 02 Sep 2011, 01:20

Just something funny,

"Get off my ******* leg!" - IT, Stephen King.

(by the way, I didn't actually swear.)
"Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton." - Dean Koontz
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Post Number:#24  Postby Vogin » 02 Sep 2011, 03:42

Not sure if it's in any book, I saw it in the Zeitgeist movie:

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

That's my life motto.
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Post Number:#25  Postby Bighuey » 02 Sep 2011, 08:58

Heres one that has some truth to it. "Life is like a sewer, you only get out of it what you put into it."-Tom Lehrer
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Post Number:#26  Postby Cal Trask » 02 Sep 2011, 09:10

Are we allowed film quotes? A good quote that Dennis Hopper did in a late 80's film called 'Flashback':

"The nineties are going to make the eighties look like the fifties did to the sixties"

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
(Oscar Wilde)
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Post Number:#27  Postby Jacob » 02 Sep 2011, 18:55

"Stay golden, Ponyboy." - Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio) The Outsiders.
"Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton." - Dean Koontz
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#28  Postby DATo » 14 Jan 2012, 08:02

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; a man whose face is covered with dust, and sweat, and blood; who, if he wins, realizes the thrill of high achievement, and if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

- Ernest Hemingway
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”
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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#29  Postby pa3de8 » 14 Jan 2012, 11:20

"I am drunk and bloody and a strange man is holding a pillow over me. It's like summer camp all over again."


-Sandman Slim: A Novel by Richard Kadrey


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Re: What is your most favorite quote

Post Number:#30  Postby Ant » 14 Jan 2012, 13:20

How about ....
We are gonna need a bigger boat... :D
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