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Old 12-13-2005, 01:32 AM   #21
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Nice quotes, crew !
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Old 12-14-2005, 11:36 AM   #22
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may you live as lon as you want, and never want as long as you live!
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Old 12-15-2005, 12:57 AM   #23
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
John F. Kennedy

"dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today" - James Dean

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."-Robert Frost

"Live for today for tomorrow is always another day"
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Old 12-15-2005, 12:59 AM   #24
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I'm a quote fanatic..they really keep me going
here are a few of my favorites (more)

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life"

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Old 12-15-2005, 03:03 AM   #25
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"Live your life as if the world is the way it should be, to show it what it can be."
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Old 12-17-2005, 07:02 AM   #26
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There are 10 types of people in the world, those who get binary and those who dont
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Old 12-17-2005, 01:20 PM   #27
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Originally posted by Qwardian@Dec 17 2005, 10:02 AM
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who get binary and those who dont
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HAHAHAHA that's good because the bianary for 2 is 10 good stuff
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"Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once."
-Anthony Bourdain

“If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea what popular Turkish music is like.”
-Bill Bryson

"The older I get the less likely I feel I will ever figure my life out... I think that might be okay though"
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Old 12-28-2005, 01:36 PM   #28
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So I am reading this book that I got for Christmas and one on the lines in it really caught my eye:

She is talking about how her "European Backpacking Extraviganza" is going to be expensive, but some how she new it would be worth it. She thinks back to something her brother once told her "Crystal, worry about the money later, because when your eighty, you'd pay a million dollars to be twenty-three and in europe."

I feel that this is so true even thought I am not 80, I can not imagine a better trip than the one I had this summer.
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“Life is too short to spend it doing something you don't like... if your passion is selling surfboards by the sea, then that is where you should be.”
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"Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once."
-Anthony Bourdain

“If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea what popular Turkish music is like.”
-Bill Bryson

"The older I get the less likely I feel I will ever figure my life out... I think that might be okay though"
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Old 12-28-2005, 01:54 PM   #29
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Great quotes.

My favorite has always been the response of the US commanding officer in Bastonge during WW II when his 101st airborne was hopelessly surrounded by superior German forces. He was asked to surrender by the German commander and all he sent back was a one word reply: "Nuts!"

some other good ones:

I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.
-Stuart Wilde "The Secrets of Life"

At the center of your being you have the answer; You know who you are and you know what you want.
-Lao-tzu

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles Austin Beard

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

In my humble opinion, Einstein probably has more amazing quotes than anyone I've ever read.

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Old 12-28-2005, 02:45 PM   #30
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yeah, einstein is the man.

the world as i see it & ideas and opinions are two great books!

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Old 01-13-2006, 04:24 AM   #31
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no way as way, and no limitation as limitation - bruce lee

Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. - Elwood P. Dowd

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. - Douglas Adams

Well behaved women rarely make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The lifespan of the butterfly is precisely the right length - amanda

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
That old saw about the early bird just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed. - Lazarus Long

Be who you are and say what you want, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss
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Old 01-13-2006, 04:28 AM   #32
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oh!oh! i forgot my favorite..

there are three types of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can't.

i can't remember who said it tho...i guess i must've.

there's a bevy of great quotes in rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead and pretty much everything maude says in harold and maude is righteous.

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Old 02-28-2006, 07:32 AM   #33
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These are "negative" quotes, but inspirational in how short-sighted and wrong these status-quo naysayers turned out to be:
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
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"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
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"But what ... is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip
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"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?* Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.'* And they said, 'No.'* So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you.* You haven't got through college yet.'" - Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,
1977
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981
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Old 02-28-2006, 08:44 AM   #34
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I don't know if this is exactly positive, but I love what it says about having the courage of one's convictions:

Duke of Norfolk: "...I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not. But damn it, Thomas, look at those names...You know those men! Can't you do what I did, and come with us, for fellowship?"

(St.) Sir Thomas More: "And when we stand before God, and you are sent to Paradise for doing according to your conscience, and I am damned for not doing according to mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?"

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Old 03-10-2006, 11:06 AM   #35
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When asked where he would travel if he could go anywhere in the world....

"I can travel anywhere... except Cuba, and I will travel to New Zealand and walk the Lord of the Rings trail to Modor and then I will hike Mount Doom."
- Dwight K. Schrute
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Old 03-25-2006, 09:07 PM   #36
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How about

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka (1st movie)

And just because

"To know all things is not permitted." Horace


(I was a band geek in high school AND college along with taking Latin in college.)
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Old 03-27-2006, 12:28 PM   #37
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"Goonies Never Say Die!"


From, of course, the Goonies :P
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Old 03-27-2006, 02:34 PM   #38
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the sane may never live but the crazy never die - Hunter S Thompson!

i will work thst into a tattoo somehow
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Old 03-27-2006, 02:47 PM   #39
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oops a few more!!!

Do or do not there is no try - Yoda (cant believe that werent here already)

i have something to say...its better to burn out than to fade away - The bad dude from highlander!!!

Groovy - Ash from the Evil dead!

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