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Favourite Quotes

"Jesus is a C**t" - classic, it's just so offensive and in more than one way

so much so that I'm sure I'll more than likely get in trouble for even repeating it here but meh.

I don't know many other quotes that have caused such a stir and even gotten people thrown in jail just for wearing a t-shirt with it printed on.
 
I can't pick just one. Here are some favorites, both serious and non-serious.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx

""In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
 
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

- Salvador Dali
 
Don't have a favorite quote, but this one has been playing a lot these past weeks on my iPod:

when the gavel descends your freedom ends
and the cost of your choice like lightning descends
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Hourglass
"The Hammer's Strike"
CD: Subconscious
 
"Most people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices" - David Bohm
 
George Carlin

"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be."
 
1. "Liberals are so darned immature. Too many of them have been convinced that power corrupts always. They are well-meaning people afraid to take action."

2.
The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007.

3.
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
 
Oh dear, I couldn't narrow it down. I love 'em all.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. - Mahatma Gandhi

The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge (I think?)
 
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Frank Lloyd Wright

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.

Charles M. Schulz

Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Louis L'Amour
 
EGT said:
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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That reminded me of a few more that I had seen.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
 
John Lennon

''All we are saying is give peace a chance.''

''God is a concept by which we measure our pain.''

''I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!''

''If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.''

''Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.''


Steve Jobs

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

"I wish him(bill Gates) the best, I really do. I just think he(Bill Gates) and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd(Bill Gates) be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once"
Steve Jobs

See sig for House M.D.
 
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