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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Any quotes you like?
Be it from a celebrity to a scientist, funny ones to ones that will make you think. Let's be hearing them.
I'm a sucker for a good Plato quote!
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Sometimes you have to wait and find your time, it's about coming to terms with the fact that there can be little gain without some loss and little redemption without forgiveness. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. "Terry Pratchett" |
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By *iffaWoman
over a year ago
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"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. "Terry Pratchett""
So many discworld to choose from!
All of the desiderata but I particularly like
You are a child of the universe, no less then the trees or the stars, you have a right to be here
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By (user no longer on site)
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If you expect the world to be fair to you because you are fair your fooling yourself,your fooling yourselve,that’s like expected the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him |
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow learn as if you were to live forever got to love ghandi.
Gandhi choose the words “die tomorrow” and “live forever” to allow people to pretend there is no tomorrow and that you should do what you always wanted in life and living forever is the opportunity to learn throughout the years you live. You will never run out of things to learn if you were to live forever. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I always like the quote attributed to Liam Clancy by a young Bob Dylan
"remember Bob, no fear, no envy, no meanness"
After 30 pints too apparently but it is a good set of guidelines to follow.
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""To alcohol. The cause of and solution to, all of lifes problems"
Homer J. Simpson"
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"The sooner kids learn to talk...
the sooner they learn to talk back to you"
Homer J. again  |
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By *adame BWoman
over a year ago
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"It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all it's tainted glory and still to love it"
"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars"
The great Oscar Wilde. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Half the people in this House Sir are idiots.
I object sir please withdraw that remark.
Very well sir I apologize, half the people in this House are not idiots.
Benjamin Franlin addressing Congress.
I know one thing and that is I know nothing!! |
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I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky
But why
Why
Why can't it be
Why can't it be mine
Sung with feeling - https://youtu.be/xu85_WHGd0w
Also:
She said 'I don't believe in any old Jesus
If there was a God, then why is my arse
The perfect height of kicking?'
https://youtu.be/ohrS4p0sFpU
And just to cheer anyone up, one of the best 25mins you'll ever spend, non-Fab wise anyway
https://youtu.be/n-0rmLDQxUE |
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"Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: (pause) These go to eleven.
Spinal Tap"
lol havnt seen that movie in years. Nigel god love him, though my favourite nigel quote from the movie was when he was playing the beautiful orchestral "mach" piece on the piano in "Dm the saddest of all the chords" when asked what the piece was called he replied "oh this? I call this lick my love pump." |
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thought my tutor was following me 
, as well as some Wilde fella 
make them laugh 
otherwise they'll kill you 