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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
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
41 posted on 01/03/2002 6:09:54 AM PST by pke
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To: stevio
"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")

42 posted on 01/03/2002 6:10:30 AM PST by FairWitness
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To: stevio
Serious Answer: the most life-changing words I've encountered are:

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me."
(John 14:6)

Slightly less serious, but still true: The Two Pillars of Wisdom are:

  1. There is a God.
  2. You ain't Him.
Dan
43 posted on 01/03/2002 6:10:35 AM PST by BibChr
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To: stevio
Sounds like your company is a bit nosey. Is it small or large? ;-)
44 posted on 01/03/2002 6:12:50 AM PST by Freedom2specul8
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To: stevio
OK, more:

"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning."
-- Hesiod, Works and Days

"You'll conquer the present
Suspiciously fast
If you smell of the future
And stink of the past." -- Piet Hein (again)

--Boris

45 posted on 01/03/2002 6:13:35 AM PST by boris
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To: stevio
"LET'S ROLL!"
46 posted on 01/03/2002 6:13:46 AM PST by Heartlander
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To: stevio
"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me," Mae West.
47 posted on 01/03/2002 6:14:38 AM PST by Catspaw
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To: stevio
"To hold America in one's thoughts is like holding a love letter in one's hand — it has so special a meaning." - E.B. White
48 posted on 01/03/2002 6:16:09 AM PST by Starrling
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To: stevio
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

--Winston Churchill

Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?

-- GySgt. Daniel J. "Dan" Daly, USMC; near Lucy-`le-Bocage as he led the 5th Marines' attack into Belleau Wood, 6 June 1918

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

-- Ferdinand Foch

49 posted on 01/03/2002 6:16:50 AM PST by Tennessee_Bob
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To: Delta 21
Bravo !!
50 posted on 01/03/2002 6:17:44 AM PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: stevio
Veni, vidi, vici.
51 posted on 01/03/2002 6:19:10 AM PST by Petronski
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To: stevio
Knowledge is Good

Emil Faber

52 posted on 01/03/2002 6:19:25 AM PST by cowtowney
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To: stevio
"Silence speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear"
53 posted on 01/03/2002 6:19:34 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: stevio
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
-- Patrick Henry

54 posted on 01/03/2002 6:21:06 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: Lumberjack
Well, you could have, if it was there to see. Or if you were there to see. I think.

See?

55 posted on 01/03/2002 6:21:40 AM PST by Hugh Akston
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To: stevio
"The best thing you can do for the poor is.............not be one of them!"

Eric Hoffer (I think)

56 posted on 01/03/2002 6:21:50 AM PST by albee
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To: stevio
Last ones, I promise:

"For I dipp'd into the Future
Far as mortal eye could see;
Saw the Vision of the World;
And all the Wonder that would be.

"Saw the Heavn's fill with commerce,
Argosies of magic sails;
Pilots of the purple twilight,
Dropping down with costly bales."

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall

"A new thing came, and they could not see it;
A new wind blew, and they would not feel it."
--Lord Dunsany (John Edward Moreton Drax Plunkett), In His Own Country

--Boris

57 posted on 01/03/2002 6:22:26 AM PST by boris
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To: stevio
"Beauty fades, but stupid is forever."

"Betrayal is a garment without seams, and one betrayal inexorably leads to another: codes, secrets, agents, friends, lovers, wives -- all part of a seamless web." (Professor Robert King's conclusion from his studies of British spies and government officials who had betrayed their country)

58 posted on 01/03/2002 6:23:06 AM PST by Dante3
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To: stevio
"Speed limits are there for a reason."

Steve Hounsham, spokesman for pressure group Transport 2000

59 posted on 01/03/2002 6:26:50 AM PST by Scally Wag
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To: stevio
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity" -- Albert Einstein
60 posted on 01/03/2002 6:27:24 AM PST by Gunner9mm
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