Quotes, from famous people...otherwise, why quote?
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
~ Groucho Marx
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
~ Woody Allen
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
~ Groucho Marx
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
~ Woody Allen
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~ Bill Cosby
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If I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails
Corenthians 13 2:9 -Apostle Paul New American Translation.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
-Thor Heyerdahl
Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
-Adolf Hitler
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison
What a strange religion medicine makes. It's the only religion that is federally backed, and even amid scientific controversy, cannot be questioned openly without persecution or ridicule.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease
Uneducated people believe what they are told...Educated people question what they are told.
-Neville Chamberlain 1938
As for quotes, here's my quotes file, where I write down any quotes I'd like to keep for later usage:
Slashdot Fortune:
Emacs, n.: A slow-moving parody of a text editor.
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target.
Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through any of its streets.
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer.
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull inbetween. -- Alfred E. Neuman
Bill Gates:
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft"
"Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2."
"I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes. The reasons for updates are to present more new features."
"Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under it's own name [...] without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art."
Various:
"Hell will freeze over before Microsoft does a filesystem right." -Linus Torvalds
*The characters in the game might be garbaged depending on the kind of computer you use. -Vantage Master Online manual
NC State Law. If a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married.
PUBLIC SPLIT ON WHETHER BUSH IS A DIVIDER -CNN
Unix: The only OS you can fork a child through a pipe and kill it.
stack girl; if(girl.isEmpty()) cerr"\nGirl already devirginized"; else boy.push(girl.pop());
"But Linux IS user friendly. It just is really picky about who it's friends with."
When you play it backwards you hear the voice of Satan, but whats worse is when you play it foward you install Windows.
"And then there was the guy we now call Simon the Server Slayer who put 'cd $dir; rm -rf *' into the root crontab of a development server. result:
1. Wake up one morning to a totally wiped disk.
2. Scratch our heads and restore from backup, including the cron entry.
3. Rinse and repeat every day until someone finds the cron entry."
"Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."
Reality is merely a delusion brought on by the deficiency of the vitamin LSD.
all it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing
the price of freedom is eternal vigilance
i've got better things to do tonight than die
the human adventure is just beginning.
there is no fate but that which we make for ourselves.
god doesn't play dice with the universe.
Grind: Huh? I thought he was spelled "Adolf".
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my bad. fixed. Although it was from Hitler, I find that quote to be very true today in modern politics and medicine...and religion...and
I'm the master of low expectations.
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
All George Bush obviously. Funny stuff.
~Voltaire
"Procrastination is like Mastrubation, it's all fun, until you realise you've screwed yourself"
~Quote I attempted to use for my senior quote
~Bhagavad Gita
Imagination is more important then Knowledge
~Albert Einstein
Courage is resistance to fear Mastery of Fear not the absence of fear
~Mark Twain
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him
~Mark Twain
Fixed the name
I am become Death destroyer of Worlds
~Some Indian(the country) book I cant remember
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Calling the Bhagavad Gita "some Indian book" is like describing the King James Bible as "some European book". It is one of the primary texts of the Hindu faith, the oldest contemporary religion in the world. If you're only familiar with this phrase and not the book, I think it's more likely you're quoting J. Robert Oppenheimer's reference at the first atomic bomb test in 1945 than the Hindu goddess Shiva.
Regarding quotes, Oscar Wilde provided the only one that I feel is worth remembering: "Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." Know that one and you can skip the rest.
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
-- The Rolling Stones
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I am become Death destroyer of Worlds
~Some Indian(the country) book I cant remember
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Calling the Bhagavad Gita "some Indian book" is like describing the King James Bible as "some European book". It is one of the primary texts of the Hindu faith, the oldest contemporary religion in the world. If you're only familiar with this phrase and not the book, I think it's more likely you're quoting J. Robert Oppenheimer's reference at the first atomic bomb test in 1945 than the Hindu goddess Shiva.
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I am familiar with the book
I was just rather exausted and couldnt remember the name
But yes I first heard it reguarding something Oppenheimer said
"ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?"
- Jules "Pulp Fiction"
I still believe in spite of everything that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank.
If you want peace, prepare for war. - The Punisher
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away and have their shoes! - George Carlin
Martin Luther King's entire I have a dream speech.
"Give me one regiment of the Australians and I will conquer the world" - Erwin Rommel, addressing Hitler on why his superior forces were defeated by a bunch of colonials.
I cant remember for the life of me who said that, I have a feeling Oscar Wilde but may be badly wrong.
-jack handy
-- Mitch Ratcliffe of the EFF
"Information wants to be free, but authors and software programmers want to get paid."
-- Bruce Sterling
"What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself unless you can see where it keeps its brain!"
-- Arthur Weasley, in 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'
/jzero
--Unknown
From A Blind Spot, by H.L. Mencken, 1920
Verm. Only Oscar Wilde I recall is: Temptation is the only thing I can't resist.
Inspiration exists but it has to find us working. --Pablo Picasso
"Sometimes a good piss is as good as having a maid!" Tyrian Lanister
Taking your complaint to the very top level personal not one way, it is the only way. frosty
If your gonna win the rat race you better be a big rat.
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If your gonna run with the big dogs you better be ready to pee on the big bushes or just stay on the porch.
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If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strenth is small. Proverbs 24:10
By the breath of God frost is given, and the breadth of the waters is straightened. Job 23:10
--Unknown
-Cant remember...
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
-Cant remember either
hamlet, act 3 scene 1
'we need breathing room!'
'hitler, earth, 1938'
chang and kirk ST6.
'they invade our space and we fall back. the assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. well no more, the line must be drawn here, this far NO FURTHER!'
picard, star trek: first contact
"'gracious in defeat' my ass, i'm going to kick the crap out of them"
mackenzie calhoun star trek: new frontier book 4.
"Let me hear you say it...'i surrender herr keiser. Make it quick!"
"Surrender? SURRENDER??!! YOU THINK THIS LETTER ON MY HEAD STANDS FOR FRANCE ?"
kleiser and captain america ultimates #12
--Plotinus
Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
-Adolf Hitler
"Give me one regiment of the Australians and I will conquer the world" - Erwin Rommel, addressing Hitler on why his superior forces were defeated by a bunch of colonials.
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Neither of those were said by those men,
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Russian Astronaut, 1961
If you want peace, prepare for war. - The Punisher
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Unless romans had timemachine i doubt it belongs to Punisher.
Actually, no, I just made that up.
-- Jim Harkins
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If you want peace, prepare for war. - The Punisher
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Unless romans had timemachine i doubt it belongs to Punisher.
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Meh, I heard it on the movie and thought it was cool. Couldn't be bothered to find where it really came from. I'm so learned.
Neither of those were said by those men,
[/ QUOTE ]You may be right, but Rommel's line has certainly been attributed to him a number of times by a variety of reliable sources (books, documentarys, etc). Theres always a good chance that its a complete fabrication... you have to wonder how exactly the quote came to known outside Hitler's office much less outside Germany.
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If you want peace, prepare for war. - The Punisher
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Unless romans had timemachine i doubt it belongs to Punisher.
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Meh, I heard it on the movie and thought it was cool. Couldn't be bothered to find where it really came from. I'm so learned.
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It's alright - you still get mad bonus points for being a chick and quoting lines from The Punisher.
--Willian Morris
john donne
we all know the movies are full of shit
i've been eating a lot of garlic and i just farted, silent, but deadly.
unlike other vampires, her fangs are in her cunt.
now do we sign you up for the night-stalker decoder ring?
hannibal king, blade: trinity
diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you find a big enough rock
will rogers
the five d's of dodgeball: duck, dodge, dip, dive and dodge.
patches o'houlihan dodgeball.