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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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posted on
01/03/2002 5:33:04 AM PST
by
stevio
To: stevio
I have many favorites, but this quote in particular is one that no sensible person can argue with:
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato
To: stevio
"You can fool some of the people all of the time....."
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:42:44 AM PST
by
wizr
To: stevio
In the beginning there was nothing...
And God said, "Let there be light!"
And there was still nothing....
BUT
you could see it!
To: stevio
I would never want to belong to an organization that would have someone like me as a member. --- Woody Allen
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:45:49 AM PST
by
abandon
To: stevio
I would go with:
"I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?"
- Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry, 1971)
Of course, you could go with the shortened version, "Well, do ya punk?"
I am not really sure how that will go over with your fellow employees, but I think it would be funny.
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:46:35 AM PST
by
mattdono
To: stevio
"A man's got to know his limitations." -- Inspector Harry Callahan.
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:46:42 AM PST
by
Jay W
To: stevio
Couple this (my thanks to Tarantino, Sam Jackson and the Bible) with your pro-2A statement, and your new co-workers will be quite polite, if a bit edgy around you.
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
Or you could just click here.
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:46:44 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: stevio
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." Albert Einstein
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:46:59 AM PST
by
SpookBrat
To: stevio
"If you're not a liberal by the time you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 30, you have no brain."
- Winston Churchill
To: mattdono
Clint quotes are a way of guiding one's life.
Another is: "Go ahead, make my day!"
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:48:42 AM PST
by
Jay W
To: abandon
I thought that was Groucho?
prambo
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:49:12 AM PST
by
prambo
To: stevio
"I will take your problems into my head, and into my hands, but I will not take them into my stomach."
-Euclid
To: stevio
From the right woman, nothing sounds as sweet as "yes"
To: tacticalogic
I've always been fond of . . .
"If you don't like metal, you can't be my friend." -Manowar
To: abandon
"I would never want to belong to an organization that would have someone like me as a member. --- Woody Allen"BZZZTT ... no, the correct answer is "Groucho Marx".
But thanks for playing.
8')
To: BlueLancer
That's all right, I wouldn't want to belong to an organization that would have Woody Allen as a member anyway. ;-)
To: stevio
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliott, martyr. (Ecuador.)
To: stevio
"P.S. When asked; "what you want your co-workers to know about you", I penned a very pro-Second Amendment statement."
My guess is that you just reduced the traffic past your office or cube by 95%. Especially if you are deemed to be having a bad day.
To: prambo
I think you may be right. Now that I think of it, in Annie Hall, Woody indicated that the line had been attributed to Groucho. (Or was it Freud in Myth and its Relation to the Subconscious?)
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posted on
01/03/2002 5:53:25 AM PST
by
abandon
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