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Hey everyone,

 

Write down your favorite quote(s) for everyone to see and feel inspired (or lack thereof), make sure to mention who said the quote!

I'll go first

 

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep, but I am afraid of any army of sheep led by a lion."

- Alexander the Great

 

Happy quoting!

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"It worked."

Robert Oppenheimer on the Atomic Bomb.

Two simple words, for a devastating result.

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4 minutes ago, GeneSmith said:

"It worked."

Robert Oppenheimer on the Atomic Bomb.

Two simple words, for a devastating result.

Very nice! I'm familiar with the quote as well. Almost comical that he picked just two words to sum up the most destructive force mankind has ever created.

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6 minutes ago, KingBen1223 said:

Very nice! I'm familiar with the quote as well. Almost comical that he picked just two words to sum up the most destructive force mankind has ever created.

"I am become Death, destroyer of Worlds."

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6 minutes ago, GeneSmith said:

"I am become Death, destroyer of Worlds."

yet another beautiful Oppenheimer quote. Brilliant!

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4 minutes ago, KingBen1223 said:

yet another beautiful Oppenheimer quote. Brilliant!

He was a man ahead of his time. His genius was only matched by his nobility.

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On 2017-01-01 at 3:58 PM, MarvinForman1 said:

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

Yet another great quote! Thank you for this excellent addition to the post!

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23 hours ago, Shimozukachi said:

mass x velocity = momentum

A formula used almost everyday by engineers to calculate the momentum of their moving creations, all of which power our modern society today. Great and unique contribution to the post!

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20 hours ago, GeneSmith said:

"We think too much, and feel too little."

Charlie Chaplin

 

19 hours ago, KittyDeKarebu said:

"nothing to fear but fear itself."

Nice! Both are great

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"It is not enough that I should succeed - others should fail"

 

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

Love this one

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"These Violent delights have Violent ends."

"... I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall--I will do such things,-- What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep No, I'll not weep: I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!"

 

"A man Chooses, A Slave Obeys."

 

"Valar Morghulus, Valar Dohaeris"

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"you don't buy a Ferrari to drive it like a Fiat"

Zlatan Ibrahimovic after being asked on his opinion about being the shadow striker to Messi in Barcelona.

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. 
- Alan W. Watts

“Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish” 
- Mao Tse-tung

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

- Confucius

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. 
- Lao Tzu

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

- Zhuangzi

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

- Zhuangzi

 

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12 hours ago, Boertjie said:

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted"

Someone likes Assassins Creed! Great quote!

11 hours ago, AlanDavidson said:

"These Violent delights have Violent ends."

"... I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall--I will do such things,-- What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep No, I'll not weep: I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws, Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!"

 

"A man Chooses, A Slave Obeys."

 

"Valar Morghulus, Valar Dohaeris"

Wow you've really been brushing up on your Shakespeare! Well done!

5 hours ago, NecroIgy said:

"you don't buy a Ferrari to drive it like a Fiat"

Zlatan Ibrahimovic after being asked on his opinion about being the shadow striker to Messi in Barcelona.

Love it!

4 hours ago, FlyingDuck said:

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. 
- Alan W. Watts

“Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish” 
- Mao Tse-tung

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

- Confucius

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. 
- Lao Tzu

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

- Zhuangzi

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

- Zhuangzi

 

Love these Chinese philosophers, especially Confucius, he has some real great quotes. Nice!

 

Well done everyone!

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39 minutes ago, KingBen1223 said:

 

Wow you've really been brushing up on your Shakespeare! Well done!

 

The 'Westworld' series on HBO really got me back into it. (Plus it will come in handy for menacing N'er do-wells when they try to rob me)

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“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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"I could have annihilated all the Jews in the world, but I left some of them alive so you will know why I was killing them..."

 

Adolph Hitler-Mien Kampf 

 

not a happy one I know but important nonetheless 

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"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

 

- John F. Kennedy

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1 hour ago, Xaero said:

"Never be average. Average is the best of the worst and worst of the best." -Unknown

oooh I've never heard of that one. I like it!

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"One reaps what one sows." -Proverb.

"Laissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui-même."  Translates to, "Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs on its own." Quote comes from a short story regarding one of the last French kings that tried to improve the situation in France by asking what the merchants needed.

"Big government sucks." -Charlie Kirk.

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -Thomas Jefferson.

"An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will no trule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - no r sacrifice anyone to myself." -Ayn Rand.

"There are still people who confuse individualism and selfishness." -Albert Camus.

"While it is undesirable to equalize wealth, and everyone cannot have the same, legal rights at least should be equal among citizens of the same commonwealth." -Cicero.

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker." -John Locke, Second Treatise of Government.

"Just be you." -Anonymous.

"A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass." -Martin Luther (from The Reformation).

"173467321476C32789777643T732V73117888732476789764376. Lock." -Data.
 

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