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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: Lazarus Long
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark." Check.
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:29:12 PM PST
by
stevio
To: A CA Guy
I know it's from a movie (BladeRunner) but I always liked the line "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long"
Course my favorite movie line of all time is "Charlie don't surf"
To: stevio
" Government is
not the solution to our problem; government
is the problem....
We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price. "
~~ Ronald Reagan
To: stevio
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Neils Bohr
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:38:19 PM PST
by
Smedley
To: Liberty2112
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." - Barry GoldwaterThat's how I live my life.
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:40:23 PM PST
by
stevio
To: ATcohiba
From MASH: "Damn Army!"
From Catch-22: Our strength is our weakness, their weakness is their strength!
Many Scriptural quotes: Don't muzzle the ox"
John 3:17 because it doesn't start with 'except'...
One from Aurelius Maximus, I believe is notable. it refers to the classic nature of new political leaders to invoke change to bring about great things, when all it tends to do is obfuscate the obvious....I don't remember it, but always wish to find it when I need it.
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:42:14 PM PST
by
Cvengr
To: stevio
I kinda like:
"We will bury our dead, mend up our wounded, soothe and comfort the broken hearted, beseech our God ... and then we will come amongst them as a Lion amongst sheep."
Jeff Head, Sep 13, 2001
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:46:04 PM PST
by
gc4nra
To: FairWitness
"Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect." - British historian James Anthony Froude
"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint." - Daniel Webster (1847)(i.e., "There is no liberty without responsibility") Dang, those are good. I especially like the first one.
Copied to my quotes file.
Peace,
JW
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:46:47 PM PST
by
JWinNC
To: stevio
A few of mine:
The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right. - Albert Jay Nock.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
- Groucho Marx.
Democracy is the fine art of running the circus from the monkey cage. - H.L. Mencken.
You tell the Youth of America, "Here is the opportunity." And the Youth of America asks, "Where is the money?" - Casey Stengel.
I have never wished a man dead, but I have read a great many obituaries with a great deal of pleasure. - Clarence Darrow.
We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, what is left of it in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by abandoning it at home. - Edward R. Murrow.
A sacred cow is worth only one thing - steak - Yours, truly. (No joke: it's my own creation!)
To: stevio
Query G.K. Chesterton for a gold mine of quotes...
To: stevio
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
--the Declaration of Independence
"We do not sacrifice the rule of law to the will and whim of men. That it the old way. The old, sad, stupid way. The way of Xerxes and every creature like him.
A new age is begun. An age of great deeds. An age of reason. An age of justice. An age of law. And all will know that three hundred Spartans gave their last breath to defend it."
--Leonidas in Frank Miller's 300
"How do I write such good female characters? Simple. I start with a man and take out reason and accountability."
--Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets
To: gc4nra
How did that Arnold Schwarznegger quote go....?
To defeat our enemy, drive them before us, and the intimidation of their womenfolk!
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:50:07 PM PST
by
Cvengr
To: stevio
"Water every little shrub because you never know where the flowers may grow." - Charlie Bouye
Peace,
JW
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:51:53 PM PST
by
JWinNC
To: Cvengr
Of course it must be stated in front of a roaring campfire while gnawing on roasted gamebird, drinking stout ale, and emitting gutteral noises to have the appropriate effect.
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:52:27 PM PST
by
Cvengr
To: stevio
"Owww, hey that hurts!"
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posted on
01/09/2002 7:54:24 PM PST
by
MistrX
To: stevio
My favorite quote? That's easy!
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!"
That's from Hunter S. Thompson, by the way. Truly words to live by.
To: stevio
Persistence: 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. Winston Churchill
To: stevio
"Too much of anything is worse than not enough."
Columbus Baker Jones
To: Chapita
Thanks.
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posted on
01/11/2002 5:03:47 AM PST
by
stevio
To: stevio
One more favorite quote: "I'll Bump that!"
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