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I thought it might be nice to have a thread with some great quotations. I think it's interesting to see what words are inspiring and meaningful to other people.
So I hope you will share with us some of the statements that have been significant to you in the course of your life. Thanks for any replies. I *really* like this snippet from "Ulysses" by Tennyson. Quote:
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Lord of the Rant.
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In my battle against procrastination, I always liked this ad:
"JUST DO IT!" Though not a quotation, years ago I had a poster in my walk-in closet that showed a turtle joyously riding on a skateboard. I thought that was kinda cool. Edit: Actually, it just occurred to me that the wording on that poster was "Just Do It!" Whoa! I had forgotten that. Last edited by Windswept : 2006-10-08 at 13:18. |
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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move."
Jack London, _The Call of the Wild_ And, pretty much anything by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, or Winston Churchill. |
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Thunderbolt, fuck yeah!
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I'll just join the Winston fanboys and add my favourite:
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I just did a little reading about Jack London and found a few interesting things.
http://london.sonoma.edu/jackbio.html Quote:
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I'm pretty young looking (even though I'm approaching 40) and have a pretty youthful personality in person, but I've had grey hair since my mid-20s. Like, not a few strands here and there, but a full head of grey hair (genes inherited from my father). I'll get asked about it every now and then by the fairer sex, and my favorite reply is: "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."
Any woman that knows where that line came from is in. So it goes. |
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I have far too many "favorite" quotes, but here are a few near the top. "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Bill Watterson "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony "What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?" - Winston Smith (1984, George Orwell) The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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When I was a junior in high school (age 16), I read The Forsyte Saga.
A line from that book proved especially memorable. "...the bracken grove of irretrievable delights... of golden moments in the long marriage of heaven and earth." |
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"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince |
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Jack London was great! I read White Fang as a young boy, long before I read The Call of the Wild. I also greatly enjoyed The Road.
But I've chosen a quote from Aristotle's Ta Politika: [N]ature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.This might seem a strange quotation, but Aristotle repeats it several times in different forms. His point is that prudence, wisdom and morality are only achievable with a lot of leisure time, and that the ultimate goal of politics must therefore be to maximise the amount of leisure time in society. (Classical civilisation viewed work as a negative thing: a necessary evil.) This appreciation of leisure time was destroyed in the 16th century by the Protestant Reformation and the "Protestant work ethic" that followed, from which we developed instead a respect for and cultural acceptance of work: hard work, long work, often for the sake of it, and at enormous expense to our virtue. Now in the UK people work so long that they have hardly any interests or hobbies beyond crashing into the couch to watch TV and going for a "holiday" once or twice a year. Few people are passionate about anything, few people have more than a rudimentary understanding of our culture's achievements and institutions, and few people understand why they even subject themselves to such an empty existence. They don't have time to think about it. |
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Bertrand Russell: A History Of Western Philosophy:
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Crazy. If you Google Search the last line, the 6th hit is one of my posts here. And the 9th is one of my very few on AppleInsider. |
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I only need turn to my list of sigs I've collected in Entourage..... haven't been using them in years...
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The first part of The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, and signed on July 4, 1776.
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Preamble to the US Constitution, followed by the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
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I shot the sherrif.
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Make the choice, adventurous stranger,
Strike the bell and bide the danger Or wonder 'till it drives you mad What would have been if you had... ---C.S.Lewis |
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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873) |
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I'll come back for more, but right now I'll have to go with these: "Kids, you tried your hardest, and you failed miserably! The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson "Family. Friendship. Religion. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." -Monty Burns |
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One of my favorite song quotes is by Dylan in his 'Ballad in Plain D' (an epic length song about love & loss). At the end of the song, as he relents on their separation:
Oh! My friends from the prison, they ask unto me: "How good (how good) does it feel to be free?" And I answer them, most mysteriously: "Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?" Another fav from Dylan: All the money you made Will never buy back your soul Thats from "Master of War". He's basically addressing warmongerers, and all but calls em shitheads in every verse. |
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I was knighted
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