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Post by joycedavenport on Aug 24, 2006 14:37:18 GMT
What are your favourite sayings, quotes, excerpts from literature?
The ones that inspire you?
The ones that make you laugh?
The ones that make you cry?
The ones that make you........?
Share them here.
I'll start with one of my favourite bits from the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy- where the (sort of) hero Arthur Dent goes in search of wisdom and meets a wise guru. He asks for his very own prayer. He gets this:
'Lord please protect me from knowing things I don't need to know.
Lord please protect me from even knowing there are things I don't know.
And Lord ...most of all please protect me from knowing I decided not to know the things I don't know.
The guru says:
It's your inner chant anyway- might as well get it out in the open.
...oh and don't forget the second prayer that goes with the first:
Lord please protect me from the consequences of the first prayer!
Amen!
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Post by jacknastygirl on Aug 24, 2006 19:29:48 GMT
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also talks about love. It says, "Avoid if at all possible."
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
"On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry to you."
"Zaphod:Oh Deep Thought! We have travelled long... and far. Have you calculated the ultimate question?
Deep Thought: [yawns] No. I've been watching the TV"
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Post by roco on Oct 21, 2006 12:45:38 GMT
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin
You just quoted the other Benjamin, that I hold in high esteme.
Those words should be posted on billboards all over the country![/color][/size] |
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Post by Penny Lane on Oct 21, 2006 14:16:42 GMT
Some favorite quotes from Robert F. Kennedy:
'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 warmhearted in 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".
"Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children, and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people. Therefore, the essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer - not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion or a particular race, but to all its people."
"The task of leadership, the first task of concerned people, is not to condemn or castigate or deplore; it is to search out the reason for disillusionment and alienation, the rationale of protest and dissent - perhaps, indeed, to learn from it. And we may find that we learn most of all from those political and social dissenters whose differences with us are most grave; for among the young, as among adults, the sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country."
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Post by roco on Oct 21, 2006 14:57:59 GMT
I truly believe this country took a wrong turn after the
assassination of Jack and Robert. Things would be much different if they were still alive![/color]
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Post by ATD on Oct 21, 2006 22:29:57 GMT
Well I can’t really comment on US politics, so I shall just have to resort to lowering the tone… ;D
Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok.
Man who fart in church sit in own pew.
Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day
Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone.
Woman who dance while wearing jock strap have make believe ballroom.
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Post by ATD on Oct 23, 2006 21:42:27 GMT
Oh ATD I can count on you to lower the tone of this high and mighty pursuit of truth and enlightenment! 
Having researched the situation, I believe a common quote maybe:
"Save the environment - Plant a Bush back in Texas" |
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Post by roco on Oct 23, 2006 22:22:10 GMT
Oh ATD I can count on you to lower the tone of this high and mighty pursuit of truth and enlightenment!
Having researched the situation, I believe a common quote maybe:
"Save the environment - Plant a Bush back in Texas"
Love your new signature.
Can I save it to drool over?
roco[/color][/size] |
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Post by ATD on Oct 23, 2006 22:42:27 GMT
Hey there 'Silver Tongued Oracle',
Love your new signature.
Can I save it to drool over?
roco [/color][/size] [/quote] By all means my friend, help yourself- direct link is:
i109.photobucket.com/albums/n57/afterthedarkness/Sig2.jpg
And Simon, if you'd like one with a flipside (or two) - you only have to say so! |
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Post by gandis on Oct 24, 2006 22:21:31 GMT
I'm hunting up some new quotes to put this thread back on track.....or at least try to?  ;D Ok here we go:.....maybe we can add this one with Mr. Franklin's? I've heard it put another way by somewhere? but this is still short and to the point "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~ George Washington |
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Post by ATD on Oct 24, 2006 22:34:29 GMT
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Post by gandis on Oct 24, 2006 22:38:28 GMT
Interesting that Churchill was voted out at the end of the war?....was it the economic situation?....he certainly could give a great speech. And he forsaw the German threat long before it was a popular view in England.
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Post by gandis on Oct 24, 2006 23:21:04 GMT
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Post by roco on Oct 25, 2006 1:46:15 GMT
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill
'The Last Lion' by William Manchester. Winston was an
amazing personality![/color][/size] |
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Post by roco on Oct 25, 2006 1:49:11 GMT
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt [/color][/size] |
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