Famous Quotes ~ Words of Wisdom
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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any famous quotes, words of
any famous quotes, or words of wisdom, cross your path, today?
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“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
— Nelson Mandela
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Enjoy Every Sandwich
"Enjoy Every Sandwich"
- Warren Zevon
"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously"
- Hunter S. Thompson
"2016 can go fuck a bag of chainsaws"
-a dear friend
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“A crazy country, choking air
“A crazy country, choking air, polluted hearts, treachery. Treachery and treason.”
― Naguib Mahfouz
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Those who own the country
Those who own the country ought to govern it. John Jay
Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. James Madison
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"Courage is doing what you're
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." Eddie Rickenbacker
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
— Albert Camus
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I complained about the holes
I complained about the holes in my sneakers, until i met a man with no feet
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Never criticize a man until
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes.
That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.
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"A-Wop-Bop-a-Loo-Bop-a-Lop
"A-Wop-Bop-a-Loo-Bop-a-Lop-Bam-Boom"
-Little Richard
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"you can tune a guitar
"you can tune a guitar
but you cant tuna fish."
haz can.
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“I may be drunk, Miss, but
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
-Winston Churchill
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“No man is exempt from saying
“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
― Michel de Montaigne
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"Never make eye contact with
"Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana."
- Anonymous
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“Both skepticism and wonder
“Both skepticism and wonder are skills that need honing and practice. Their harmonious marriage within the mind of every schoolchild ought to be a principal goal of public education. I’d love to see such a domestic felicity portrayed in the media, television especially: a community of people really working the mix — full of wonder, generously open to every notion, dismissing nothing except for good reason, but at the same time, and as second nature, demanding stringent standards of evidence — and these standards applied with at least as much rigor to what they hold dear as to what they are tempted to reject with impunity.”
— Carl Sagan
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"Fuck em up Bucky!" - me
"Fuck em up Bucky!" - me
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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"So much better if parents remember they don't own their children, merely borrow them from the universe for a few years."
— Alain de Botton
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"Violence begets violence."
"Violence begets violence."
John Lennon
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the music was...thud like
the music was...thud like
-captain beefheart
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"Anything over a mouthful is
"Anything over a mouthful is wasted"
FZ
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It's not what you look at
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Henry David Thoreau
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau
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Before you diagnose yourself
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
- Notorious d.e.b.
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" Those motherfuckers will
" Those motherfuckers will never make it"
(My dad, as we were watching the Rolling Stones on TV in 1965).
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Never ever use your balled up
Never ever use your balled up fist as a ball peen hammer.
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My Civics teacher in high
My Civics teacher in high school would often write on the chalkboard, then stand behind a podium as he taught. Many times he would step out from behind the podium with chalk fingerprints all over his crotch. <<<<
A random quote from another message board.
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All from John Wooden:
All from John Wooden:
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
"Be prepared and be honest."
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
"Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character."
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."
"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights."
All from John Wooden:
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
Another I really like, this one from Bill Graham:
"Don't give people what they want, give 'em what they SHOULD want."
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Every love is it's own
Every love is it's own mystery.
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“What you’re supposed to do
“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
― Maya Angelou
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"If you don't know where you
"If you don't know where you are going; any road will take you there".
George Harrison
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“Governments can err,
“Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that ~Divine Justice~ weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on a different scale. Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity, than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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more Winston Churchill:
more Winston Churchill:
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
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Good sausage isnt cheap and
Good sausage isn't cheap and cheap sausage isn't good
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As soon as you realize your
As soon as you realize your fantasies is my reality, we will all get along.
Me
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Time is a a stripper, doing
Time is a a stripper, doing it just for you.
~ Robert Hunter
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Fat, drunk and stupid is no
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
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smoke pot instead
smoke pot instead
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Give me liberty or give me
Give me liberty or give me meth.
~Frank Gallagher
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Fat, drunk and stupid is no
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.<<<
Unless you're fat drunk and stupid.
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If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors, there must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart.
— Lao-Tse, 6th Century BC
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Merry Christmas to all and to
Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!
-Santa Claus
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If you want something for
If you want something for nothing, jerk off.
Bob Weir
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Fuck it!
Fuck it!
-Most everyone
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“Every sentence I utter must
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.
[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”
― Niels Bohr
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" A wise man builds a
" A wise man builds a fortress from the stones his enemies throw at him " it was offered second hand from my teacher Mooji.
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some great stuff in here.
some great stuff in here.
here's one I like.
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
----Thomas Jefferson
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Dope will get you through
"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."
Freewheelin' Franklin
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Remember no man is a failure
Remember no man is a failure who has friends.
Thanks for the wings!
Love
Clarence
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We're not yet half way to
We're not yet half-way to Nietzsche.
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Lucky I'm sane after all I've
Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through,
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Life's been good to me so far.
-Joe Walsh
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"fly low and avoid the radar"
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Your joy is your sorrow
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
On Joy and Sorrow from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
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Hey Smiley...
Hey Smiley...
I have that Jefferson quote on our refrigerator for my daughter. I've really tried to install in her the idea that a lot of life is luck but that you have to be prepared to take advantage of that luck when it arrives.
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The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran , i believe Bromberg's copy has the entire book underlined...........he reads it in his leopard skidded bark-o-lounger! while wrapped in a pink and white polka dot Cannon towel.
did you ever wake up,......With bull frogs on your mind?
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Do me a favor. Just kick my
Do me a favor. Just kick my ass, okay? Kick this ass for a man, that's all. Kick my ass. Enjoy. Come on. I'm not asking, I'm telling with this. Kick my ass ...
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"Injustice anywhere is a
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Rev Martin Luthur King, Jr.
this quote is often on my mind these days.
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Nothing famous or insightful,
Nothing famous or insightful, but helpful in getting an air freshener before getting pulled over in Texas. Carlos is 68 and from Venezuela.
You car smell like ganja, joe.
- Carlos Z.
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The answer is never the
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Ken Kesey
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Texes, eh.
Texes, eh.
Carlos Z, is wise.
How you,Joe?
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Good, jaz!!!
Good, jaz!!!
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"I reject your reality and
"I reject your reality and substitute my own".
Dr. Who
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"Give a man a fish and he
George Carlin
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If all the women were across
If all the women were across the sea, what a great swimmer you would be.
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The secret to happiness is
The secret to happiness is freedom
And the secret to freedom is courage
Thucydides