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Here's some miscellaneous quotes I enjoy:

"Wars are seldom caused by spontaneous hatreds between people, for peoples in general are too ignorant of one another to have grievances and too indifferent to what goes on beyond their borders to plan conquests. They must be urged to the slaughter by politicians who know how to alarm them." (H.L. Mencken)

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." (Mark Twain)

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." (Jimi Hendrix)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Ghandi)

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." (William Shakespeare)

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." (Will Rogers)

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@chad3006,

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." (Mark Twain)

I like it.

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@elizabeth phil,

Here are some of my favorite quotes...

Common sense is not so common.
--Voltaire

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
--Voltaire

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
--Rousseau

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
--Rousseau

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
--Jane Howard

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
--(I forget)

To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
--Thomas Moore

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@chad3006,

[INDENT]To know all, is to forgive.
[1864 R. H. Hoine Prometheus Fire-Bringer 48]

Dan.
[/INDENT]

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@chad3006,

"Minds are like Parachutes, they work best when open"
Thomas Dewar

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@de budding,

de_budding wrote:

[INDENT]To know all, is to forgive.
[1864 R. H. Hoine Prometheus Fire-Bringer 48]

Dan.
[/INDENT]

Hey, you part of prometheus society?! "Fire brings gold."

"I hear a voice inside, It's crooning to a scream. I'm not the next of them, I am the first of me" - Hoobastank.

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@Holiday20310401,

I just had another one hit me that I heard during a newscast the other day, I'll probably get it wrong:

'It's not about how to weather the storm, more like learning to Dance in the Rain'

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@chad3006,

chad3006;1899 wrote:

Here's some miscellaneous quotes I enjoy:

"Wars are seldom caused by spontaneous hatreds between people, for peoples in general are too ignorant of one another to have grievances and too indifferent to what goes on beyond their borders to plan conquests. They must be urged to the slaughter by politicians who know how to alarm them." (H.L. Mencken)

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." (Mark Twain)

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." (Jimi Hendrix)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Ghandi)

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." (William Shakespeare)

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." (Will Rogers)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Ghandi)
i like this a lot:-)
other quotes i live by (or try to anyway):
"life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage" Confuscious
"success is not key to happiness,happiness is key to success, if you love what you do,then you are successful" Buddha

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@oxherder,

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." ~Voltaire

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~Nietzsche

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@Xerinth,

William Shakespear In "As You Like It"
1.All the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely player's.

William Shakespear In "Hamlet"
2.All that lives must die, russing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespear In "Alls Well That Ends Well"
3.The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespear In "The Tempest"
4.We are such staff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespear In "Vanity Fair"
5.The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every person the reflection of there own face. (*note I changed man and his, to person and there)

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@No0ne,

William Shakespear In "A Midsummer Nights Dream"
1.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespear In "Richard II"
2.Things sweet to taste prove in digestion, sour.

William Shakespear In "Sonnets"
3.For sweetest thing's turn sourest by their deeds, lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespear In "Merchant Of Venice"
4.How far that little candle throws her beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (*note I changed his to her)

William Shakespear In "Merchant Of Venice"
5.How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears, soft stillness and the night becomes the touches of sweet harmony.

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@No0ne,

William Shakespear In "Romeo And Juliet"
1.Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespear In "Macbelth"
2.I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is None.

William Shakespear In "The Tempest"
3.How sharp the pang of this remembrance is!

From the book of "Proverb"
4.He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool--avoid him! He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep--waken him! He who knows not and knows that he knows not, wants beating--beat him! But he whoo knows and knows that he knows, is a wise man--know him..

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@chad3006,

"Law are the invisible bars of the prison we build while trying to become free."

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@chad3006,

I don't even know who this is from, but it sums up how I feel about life....

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."

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@No0ne,

Live in the now, for the past is only enjoyed in the now, and the future can only be actualized in the now.

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@chad3006,

"I never panic when I get lost. I just change wherever it is I want to go." - Rita Rudner (American comedienne).

I like this a lot. It reminds me that around every corner there is always something new and unexpected to discover, even when I don't actually know where I'm going.

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@Salo phil,

"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." - Stalin

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@Stormalv,

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G.K.Chesterton

Beat that one.

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@avatar6v7,

When it comes to understanding truth,
One is all you need.

=
MJA

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@MJA,

MJA wrote:

When it comes to understanding truth,
One is all you need.

=
MJA

failed to beat it!

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