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Quote something. I'll start.
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy peasant simplicity, which, however, is possible in all classes and can be encountered only with respect and a smile, believes even today that everything is in good hands, namely in the "hands of God"; and when it maintains this proportion with the same modest certainty as it would that two and two make four, we others certainly refrain from contradicting. Why disturb THIS pure foolishness? Why darken it with our worries about man, people, goal, future? And even if we wanted to do it, we could not. They project their own honorable stupidity and goodness into the heart of things (the old God, deus myops, still lives among them!); we others — we read something else into the heart of things: our own enigmatic nature, our contradictions, our deeper, more painful, more mistrustful wisdom.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
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  • Happybunny37
    Happybunny37 Posts: 213 Member
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    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”


    ― Marianne Williamson
  • _errata_
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    “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    And then is heard no more: it is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
  • 48Christy
    48Christy Posts: 785 Member
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    “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
  • Happybunny37
    Happybunny37 Posts: 213 Member
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    Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • _errata_
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    [singing] Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two. -HAL
  • Happybunny37
    Happybunny37 Posts: 213 Member
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    Stanley Goodspeed:
    "I'd take pleasure in guttin' you, boy. I'd take pleasure in guttin' you... boy." What is wrong with these people, huh? Mason? Don't you think there's a lot of, uh, a lot of anger flowing around this island? Kind of a pubescent volatility? Don't you think? A lotta angst, a lot of "I'm sixteen, I'm angry at my father" syndrome? I mean grow up! We're stuck on an island with a bunch of violence-for-pleasure-seeking psycophatic marines, SHAME-ON-THEM!


    THE ROCK.
  • _errata_
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    Masked, I advance.
    -Descartes
  • Happybunny37
    Happybunny37 Posts: 213 Member
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    Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.


    Kevyn Aucoin
  • _errata_
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    “He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
  • Happybunny37
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    Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

    John F. Kennedy

    AND ME A UNITED STATES SAILOR WITH 17 YEARS AS OF LAST NIGHT!
  • _errata_
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    Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

    John F. Kennedy

    AND ME A UNITED STATES SAILOR WITH 17 YEARS AS OF LAST NIGHT!

    Impressive! Oorah!
  • Happybunny37
    Happybunny37 Posts: 213 Member
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    Thank you!
  • _errata_
    _errata_ Posts: 1,653 Member
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    Thank you!

    I'm the one that should be thanking you. :)
  • Happybunny37
    Happybunny37 Posts: 213 Member
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    You just did! :)

    It's been my pleasure and I carry a gun what's not to love.....
  • Happybunny37
    Happybunny37 Posts: 213 Member
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    I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved, and I'm armed! Don't *mess* with me!


    Miss Congeniality (2000)
  • CompressedCarbon
    CompressedCarbon Posts: 357 Member
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    I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved, and I'm armed! Don't *mess* with me!


    Miss Congeniality (2000)

    Thank you. And this is great.
  • CompressedCarbon
    CompressedCarbon Posts: 357 Member
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    "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"

    Lennon and McCartney
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
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    "Tho' I've belted you and flayed you,
    By the livin' Gawd that made you,
    You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
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    Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

    ~PJP2
  • allopathicJ
    allopathicJ Posts: 36 Member
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    One of my favorite quotes..

    "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child"

    -Picasso

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