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Quote? What is your favorite quote?
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Here's a joking but very apt variation on an old lesson; I don't remember where it came from.
First they came for the journalists, and I said nothing, for I was not a journalist.
We don't know what happened after that.
Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been.
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“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” ― Wernher Von Braun
Good one.
“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” |
ANNE FRANK |
Nice. The exact quote is from Lily Hardy wrote a book called The Garden of Delight. Within its covers, the saying, "You don't pay love back; you pay it forward" appears.
It has been used a lot in its shorter form.
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| ~William Hazlitt |
"God, forgive the man who invented this thing."
-Mother Angelica on alarm clocks
-Mother Angelica on alarm clocks
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Really?!!
It's taken slightly out of context but yep, she gave a talk on Lenten penances where she said that.
https://www.ncregister.com/features...her-angelica-s-guide-to-fasting-and-sacrifice
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C. S. Lewis, from his book, “The Magician’s Nephew.”
The quote, “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are, is that you very often succeed.”
Lots of people "succeeding" these days........
The quote, “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are, is that you very often succeed.”
Lots of people "succeeding" these days........
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"Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything."
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This one just got added to the list...
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting." |
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"...Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyway. ..." - Anthony Bourdain
"At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results." |
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Religious, but too good not to share. Attributed to St. Brigid of Ireland. God love the Irish.
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
good one. who said it?
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Often attributed to Ben Franklin. However, the accurate quote from him is:
“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy!”
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." |
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
--Frank Zappa
--Frank Zappa
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. |
| Madeleine L'Engle |
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it." |
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This is now my favorite quote.
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