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<p>Douglas Adams is the best:
"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason." </p>

<p>"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." </p>

<p>Some others:
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.<br>
- P.J. O'Rourke</p>

<p>It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.<br>
- Frank A. Clark</p>

<p>I'd like mornings better if they started later.</p>

<p>I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.<br>
- Bern Williams</p>

<p>That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
- Richard Armour</p>

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<p>"Egoism is the essence of the Noble soul."
Nietzsche</p>

<p>"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."
Ayn Rand</p>

<p>“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Barry Goldwater</p>

<p>"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan</p>

<p>“I care not a straw for the opinions of the world.”
Thomas Paine</p>

<p>“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson</p>

<p>“On matters of style, swim with the current. On matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Thomas Jefferson</p>

<p>"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. "
Nietzsche</p>

<p>"Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view."
William F. Buckley Jr.</p>

<p>"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
Edmund Burke</p>

<p>"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. "
Milton Friedman</p>

<p>"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."
P.J. O'Rourke</p>

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<p>When the student is dull the teacher must labor in the obvious</p>

<p>Aristotle</p>

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<p>"I may not agree with a word you say, but I'll fight to the death for your life to say it."-Voltaire</p>

<p>"You can run from love, and if it's really love it will find you and catch you by the heel." -U2 (A Man and a Woman)</p>

<p>"Carpe Diem." </p>

<p>"Follow the argument wherever it leads."-Socrates</p>

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<p>school they never taught bout hamburgers or steak
elijah muhammad or the welfare state
but i know
and i know because of KRS-One</p>

<p>--bradley nowell (the most incredible person to ever have lived)</p>

<p>rip sublime :(</p>

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<p>"Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!"</p>

<p>"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car"</p>

<p>"I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house."</p>

<p>"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world"</p>

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<p>Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).
(Nahjul Balagha by Imam Ali (a.s.))</p>

<p>When this world favors somebody, it lends him the attributes, and surpassing merits of others and when it turns its face away from him it snatches away even his own excellences and fame.
(Nahjul Balagha)</p>

<p>Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.(Dostoevsky)</p>

<p>Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
(Thoreau)</p>

<p>There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
(Hamlet)</p>

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<p>where there's a chance, there's hope.</p>

<p>An idiot repeats his mistakes. A smart man learns from his mistakes. A genius learns from the mistakes of others.</p>

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<p>“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” - Mark Twain
By far the best thread
BUMP
BUM
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<p>You’re a habit I’d like to kick — with both feet.</p>

<p>So now we know why some mammals eat their children…</p>

<p>I hear you were born on April 2; a day too late!</p>

<p>Go ahead, tell them everything you know. It’ll only take 10 seconds.</p>

<p>I called your boyfriend gay, then he hit me with his purse</p>

<p>If brains were money, you’d be a charity case.</p>

<p>Hi there, I’m a human being! What are you?</p>

<p>I don’t know what makes you so dumb but it really works.</p>

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<p>“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.” - 1984</p>

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<p>“On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.” - Hunter S. Thompson</p>

<p>“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” - Oscar Wilde</p>

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<p>" ‘You ought to go to a boy’s school sometimes. Try it sometime,’ I said. ‘It’s full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddamn Cadillac some day
’ "
–Holden Caulfield</p>

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<p>“All the world’s a stage.” -Shakespeare
 that’s my all-time favourite quote :slight_smile: the whole monologue about it in As You Like It was great. Also:</p>

<p>“Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” I know that a later experiment proved that the bumblebee is aerodynamically about to fly, but I really like it metaphorically.</p>

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<p>Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.</p>

<p>Ronald Reagan</p>