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What's Your Favorite Quote?
1/3/02 | Stevio

Posted on 01/03/2002 5:33:02 AM PST by stevio

I know this is pure vanity, but here it is.

I'm joining a new company and they have a "Get to know your fellow employee" kind of thing. They ask your name, marital status, favorite book (The Bible), movie (Road Warrior), music (Jazz), web site (Free Republic), etc..
My dilemma is I need a favorite quote. Some quotes are good for certain situations and some are not. As I respect and admire my Freeper family, I ask for your help.

P.S. When asked; "what you want your co-workers to know about you", I penned a very pro-Second Amendment statement.


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To: stevio
"When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform."

Senator Roscoe Conkling

101 posted on 01/03/2002 7:43:48 AM PST by QuestionBureaucracy
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To: OWK
"Far better it is to dare the mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat" - Theodore Roosevelt Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899
102 posted on 01/03/2002 7:43:55 AM PST by Chapita
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To: Cincinatus
"Outside of a dog, a book is mans' best friend.

Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."

Groucho

103 posted on 01/03/2002 7:45:51 AM PST by E.Allen
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To: Hugh Akston
***********""Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." **************************************

That was on Carlos Marcello's office back door on Veterans Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana.

104 posted on 01/03/2002 7:45:55 AM PST by Chapita
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To: mc5cents
Captain McKay: "I'm transferring you to personel."

Harry Callahan: "To personel, that's for assholes."

Captain McKay: "I was in personel for ten years."

Harry Callahan: "Ya."

From "The Enforcer."

105 posted on 01/03/2002 7:46:20 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: stevio
My current fave:

"Government big enough to give to the people everything they want is powerful enough to take from the people everything they have."

Unfortunately, I don't know who first said it.

106 posted on 01/03/2002 7:49:20 AM PST by LibertyGirl77
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To: stevio
Here are a few of my favorites:

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.

John Wayne

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Woody Guthrie

And finally,

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, is the destruction of the truth.

William Jefferson Clinton

107 posted on 01/03/2002 7:49:53 AM PST by brewcrew
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To: Chapita
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" from Marmion [1808], canto VI, introduction, st. 17 - by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
108 posted on 01/03/2002 7:51:03 AM PST by Chapita
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To: stevio
Here's two that you may find appropriate for the workplace:
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

PJ O'Rourke

There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts.

La Rochefoucauld


109 posted on 01/03/2002 7:52:00 AM PST by beckett
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To: Chapita
"Live every day as if it were your last - one day you're sure to be right."

Lt. Harry 'Breaker' Morant

110 posted on 01/03/2002 7:52:33 AM PST by centexan
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To: stevio
"After God made me, He broke the mold. And then He tried to pretend like it was an accident."
111 posted on 01/03/2002 7:52:36 AM PST by asformeandformyhouse
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To: OWK
Modesty is for monks; take life in big chunks.
--Lazarus Long
112 posted on 01/03/2002 7:54:02 AM PST by VRW Conspirator
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To: stevio
"Who the hell is John F. Kennedy?." Lorraine's father in Back to the Future.
113 posted on 01/03/2002 7:58:00 AM PST by 1L
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To: stevio
Tolerance is the last virtue of a morally bankrupt society. - a great line I stold from some freeper a couple of years ago.
114 posted on 01/03/2002 7:58:06 AM PST by joebuck
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To: stevio
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement" - unknown
115 posted on 01/03/2002 7:58:41 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: stevio
"We get signal!"

 

 

116 posted on 01/03/2002 7:59:01 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny
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To: centexan
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. , 551?-479? B.C. Confucius
117 posted on 01/03/2002 8:03:30 AM PST by Chapita
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To: stevio
"Anything done in moderation shows a lack of interest" -Capt. Tom
118 posted on 01/03/2002 8:05:50 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Chapita
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. --Dale Carnegie
119 posted on 01/03/2002 8:07:56 AM PST by Chapita
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To: stevio
This might get you into trouble at work!

A Little Story

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

120 posted on 01/03/2002 8:10:40 AM PST by Chapita
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