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What is the best quote you've heard.

Running shoes only work if you do.

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
John Wayne
 
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You are where you should be.
You are doing what you should be doing.
Otherwise;
You would be somewhere else,
doing something else.

I heard that quote when I was studying Taoism, and it seemed to sum up the philosophy pretty simply.

Dave
 
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H.L. Mencken – Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
 
"Everywhere is within walking distance, if you have the time" Steven Wright
 
"Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble."---Sidney J. Harris
 
Rebuke a fool and he will hate you... but correct a wise man and he is wiser still.
-- Solomon

If you find a job you love, then you will never work again.
-- W. Churchill

If at first an idea does not seem absurd, then there's no hope for it.
-- A. Einstein

If you want to get a good idea, get a lot of ideas.
-- A. Einstein

If I have a thousand ideas, and one or two prove useful, then I am happy because that is about the ratio on can expect in such things.
-- A. Nobel

Let your mind go free. Imagine devine landscapes. Think of a thousand things... that you may then reduce them to their proper order and form.
-- Leonardo di Vinci

George Washington could have been a king, but he decided to be a citizen. It was the most momentous decision any ruler has ever made.
-- S. Simon

I'll teach you to run this place and I'll teach it to you right now: It's more important to listen than to talk. You'll never make the grade unless you're decisive; a timely wrong decision is better than no decision at all. And don't just half-heartedly wound problems; kill 'em dead!
-- K. Johnson

The Halide 914 has no place in the modern office.
-- IBM Internal Report to the Board of Directors recommending that IBM decline Halide Corporation's offer to sell IBM its Model 914 product and related technologies and patents. The report, shared with Halide management, shook Halide's confidence such that while they decided to go ahead and bring their 914 product to market by themselves, they also decided not to risk soiling the Halide name with a possible flop. They decided to bring the 914 to market under a new name. Halide went on to sell over 35 million Xerox 914 photocopiers. IBM was, nevertheless, correct in its conclusion. The Halide 914 had no place in the modern office which centered around IBM dictating machines and IBM typewriters. The Halide 914 in just a few years transformed the modern office into the post-modern office centered around Xerox photocopiers.

I think that there is a world-wide market for maybe five computers.
-- T. Watson (Chairman of IBM)

640K ought to be enough for anybody!
-- B. Gates (Founder of Microsoft)

There is no reason anybody would want a computer in their home
-- K. Olsen (Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation)

Forget injuries, but never forget a kindness.
-- K'ung Tze (a.k.a. Confucius)

The miracle of the human mind is not that we can see the world that is, but that we can see the world that isn't.
-- K. Schulz

The reasonable man tries constantly to adapt himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- G. B. Shaw

I love quotation and collect them. I have whole file folders full of them.
 
Pain is inevitable-Misery is optional.

Perception supersedes reality-See it your way.

The majority of problems are self induced.

Never trust anything that bleeds for three days and does not die.
 
A mind once stretched never regains it's original dimension.
---Oliver Wendel Holmes

Change the people or change the people.
-- Famous management quote

If your coasting,your going down hill.

If you fail to plan
You plan to fail.
 
"Many quotes are misquoted"

UffDa

If you are not worried, you just don't understand the situation. (Or something like that.)
 
If you know the Way broadly you will see it in everything.- Miyamoto Musashi

Call on God but row away from the rocks.- Hunter S Thompson

Good people drink good beer.- Hunter S Thompson

Buy the ticket, take the ride.- Hunter S Thompson

Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent -Hunter S Thompson

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you. -Hunter S Thompson
 
"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country." -Rep. Michele Bachmann,

"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes." –Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003

''Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.'' —Mark Twain
 
"You don't win war by dying for your country, you win war by making the other silly son of a B**ch die for his" - General George Patterson
 
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." ~ G.K. Chesterson
 
Morkte said:
"You don't win war by dying for your country, you win war by making the other silly son of a B**ch die for his" - General George Patterson
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Did you see my post about misquotes? That's a movie quote. I doubt that Patton ever said that.
 
For a man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

J. R. R. Tolkien
 
For the purists out there. :D

"Quando dou comida aos pobres chamam-me de santo. Quando pergunto por que eles são pobres chamam-me de comunista."

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara– cited in "Helder, o dom: uma vida que marcou os rumos da Igreja no Brasil"‎ – Page 53, by Zildo Rocha – Published by Editora Vozes, 2000, ISBN 85-326-2213-5, 9788532622136 – 208 pages
 
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” - Hunter S. Thompson

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” - Ronald Reagan

“Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.” - Lewis Black
 
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