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Homer
"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Semper

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

- Albert Einstein

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
H. L. Mencken

"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."

- Burt Reynolds

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

-Elvis Presley

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.


H L Mencken

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
-- The Messiah's Handbook -- Illusions by Richard Bach

[edit on 17-7-2008 by Zaimless]

"How to tell if your mission on earth is complete, if your here it isn't"
Illusions by Richard Bach

Also, "there is no good or bad, but thinking makes it so"-Hamlet-Shakespeare

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."

- Richard Feynman

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.
- Woody Allen

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."Confucius

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

Rene Descartes

- Carrot

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to
the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead
for an authoritarian system, disguised, as a Democracy. We pay through
the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and
then wonder how all those ******** got in there.

Zappa

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius

Barbara Ehrenreich:
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?"

- Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
-Edward Abbey

"I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change."

- Bob Dylan