Your Favorite Quote

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   rotlposted 13 years ago

   I love great quotes... they can be inspiring, thought provoking, stirring...
   
   I have several favorites, but I love this one:
   
   "There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying." - Francis Bacon
   
   What's your favorite quote (and who is it by, if you can remember)?

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      Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      "Two hundred and seventy pounds"
      
      By the cheaper garage.

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         rotlposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Is that a quote or a song title?   

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            Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            It's just a cheap gag.  Regretted it as soon as I hit the submit button.

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               rotlposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               LOL... you get a mulligan.

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   Sue Adamsposted 13 years ago

   No Pain Just Gain

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   Urbane Chaosposted 13 years ago

   "This above all to thine own self be true"
   
   Shakespeare, of course.

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   Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

   Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
   
   RFK

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      rotlposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Hear, hear

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   couturepopcafeposted 13 years ago

   "Novelty lies in the quality of the artist's perception rather than in eccentricities of form."

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   mythbusterposted 13 years ago

   "Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do"
   
   --James Harvey Robinson

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      rotlposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Ain't that the truth.

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      couturepopcafeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      You know what they say about insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

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   prettydarkhorseposted 13 years ago

   "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"
   by ; Friedrich Nietzsche

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      MichelleArakakiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      "Rewrite your major goals every day,in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed." ~Brian Tracy~

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   RealityBombposted 13 years ago

   I LOVE a good quote too. Just the thought of saying something so profound in your life that it actually outlives you and goes onto effect other people after your gone sends a shiver down my spine.
   
   Here are my four favorite quotes:
   
   "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." 
   John Lennon
   
   "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather."
   Bill Hicks
   
   "There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
   Admiral Adama (Character in Battlestar Galactica)
   
   I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist 'tin-foil hat' nut which explains the last quote. LOL Also, just because it was on a TV show, it doesn't make it any less important as far as I'm concerned.

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      Ivorwenposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I love your last one.  It reminds me of the saying:
      
      'Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.'

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   mythbusterposted 13 years ago

   RealityBomb,
   
   I liked the John Lennon Quote. Thx for sharing!

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    hubzerposted 13 years ago

    “If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. ” Jim Rohn
    
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you” - Kurt Cobain

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    roberttraczgroup1posted 13 years ago

    “The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.”
    
    – John Simone

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    roberttraczgroup1posted 13 years ago

    I love this one:
    
    “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

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    Patty Inglish, MSposted 13 years ago

    "When things go bad, don't go with them." - Elvis Presley

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    Mark Ewbieposted 13 years ago

    Thanks for the mulligan rotl.
    
    "The only difference betwen me and a mad man is that I am not mad"
    
    Dali.

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    roberttraczgroup1posted 13 years ago

    Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates,

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