<p>We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation. - George Bernard Shaw</p>
<p>spastic, what does on pain of liquidation mean (or anyone else who has a good idea can answer).</p>
<p>“Shut up kid–mommy and daddy are talking.”
–Spiderman :)</p>
<p>“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” -Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>“The world is but a canvas to the imagination” -Henry David Thoreau</p>
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<li>Act like you’ve been there before, with respect to everything in life.-Anon</li>
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<p>_ The true measure of a man is not how he reacts in times of convenience, but in times of crisis. _Dr. Martin Luther King</p>
<p>-A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for.-Keating</p>
<p>-A failure to plan on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part.</p>
<p>“I will only have truly left this school when none here are loyal to me…help will always be given at hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
- Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore</p>
<p>“Want to hear something scary? Just think of how stupid the average person is and remember that half the people are even dumber.”</p>
<p>-Guy at my school.</p>
<p>“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” - Socrates</p>
<p>“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” -Henry David Thoreau</p>
<p>“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</p>
<p>“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” -William Shakespeare</p>
<p>“Money can’t bring you happiness, but it sure as hell can buy it.” -Miscellaneous</p>
<p>“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” -W.C. Fields</p>
<p>“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” -J. K. Rowling</p>
<p>I love quotes. And nerdfighters. :D</p>
<p>DFTBA, CherryRose.</p>
<p>My favorite nerdfighter quotes: </p>
<p>Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don’t have to be like, ‘Oh yeah that purse is okay’ or like, ‘Yeah, I like that band’s early stuff.’ Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself-love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they are saying is, ‘You like stuff’, which is just not a good insult at all, like ‘You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
-John Green</p>
<p>It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.
-Hank Green</p>
<p>When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
-Miles Halter (Looking for Alaska)</p>
<p>What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.
-Quentin Jacobson (Paper Towns)</p>
<p>It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.
-Quentin Jacobson (Paper Towns)</p>
<p>Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.
-Hazel Grace Lancaster (The Fault in Our Stars)</p>
<p>That’s the thing about pain…It demands to be felt.
-Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars)</p>
<p>But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn’t matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.
-Hank Green</p>
<p>We’ve got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It’s the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced…but we’re taking it on.
-Hank Green</p>
<p>You simply do not feel what is always there.
-Hank Green (A Song About an Anglerfish)</p>
<p>“Perfection is never an option. Try as hard as you can, and there will always be some people will always be better than you, but you will always be better than those who quit.” -Me </p>
<p>“Some people spend their whole life wondering if they<code>ve made a difference…Marines don</code>t have that problem.”-Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>“You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.” -Abraham Lincoln</p>
<p>“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.” -Juma Ikangaa (1989 NYC Marathon winner)</p>
<p>“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” -John Bingham</p>
<p>“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment.
I told them they didn’t understand life.”
-John Lennon</p>
<p>"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
-Albert Einstein</p>
<p>“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It’s how rats are. It’s what makes them rats. But a human doesn’t run and hide in dark places, because he’s something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.”
-Tam Lin (House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer; one of my favorite books)</p>
<p>“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.”
— Eminem</p>
<p>“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and ask myself: “if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
~Steve Jobs</p>
<p>“Don’t chase success; chase excellence, and success will inevitably follow.”</p>
<p>-The greatest philosophical pioneer, mathematical genius, and scientific trailblazer of our generation (ME :D).</p>
<p>And how could I ever forget? </p>
<p>“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”</p>
<p>-Alfred Tenpenny (The Dark Knight a.k.a. the greatest movie of all time-yes it’s better than the third one).</p>