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Authored by: Lise on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 10:04 AM GMT+4

Ok, I'll bite. Here are my three for right now (I got a million of 'em).

Be like water
- Lao Tsu

There is more to heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy...
- Shakespeare

Don't hide your light under a bushel.
- Jesus

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Authored by: Deus Ex on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 10:14 AM GMT+4

Yeah I have absurdly large collections of quotes on my computer, scribbled in notebooks, books of quotes and etc.

I thought some guidelines were in order because I imagined ''quote wars'' quickly developing. For any wise and pithy thing said by a powerful source, its easy to find a quote by an equally respectful source that totally contradicts it!

A few for creative types

Authored by: cgrotke on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 12:09 PM GMT+4

All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner
you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone. - Nicolaides

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come
up with a handful of mud, either. - Leo Burnett

Search your parks in all your cities, you'll find no statues of committees.
-- (I don't know who said this)

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Authored by: kitty on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 12:35 PM GMT+4

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." MK Gandhi

"If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself." Bob Dylan

"I forgot my mantra..." from Woody Allen's 'Annie Hall'

My contribution - Anaïs Nin

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 02:44 PM GMT+4

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin ((swoon))

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 05:48 PM GMT+4

you made me swoon...
loved it.
G.

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that which is broken is also perfect

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Authored by: Dfk-b on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 08:26 PM GMT+4

Here are some of the quotations in my signature file:

"The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions." --Paul Tillich
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"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be." --James Baldwin
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"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." --Plutarch

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Authored by: Azrael on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 10:00 PM GMT+4

Here are a few I like, all apologise now because one is a little longer then probably you wanted but I thought it fitting.

Theres something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But by doing such things as passing under under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

-Yamamoto Tsunetomo "Hagakure"-

A good soldier is not violent
A good fighter is not angry
A good winner is not vengeful
A good employer is humble

-Lao Tzu "Tao Te Ching"-

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

-Ethan Allen of the Green Mountain Boys-

AZ

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Authored by: Deus Ex on Friday, June 24 2005 @ 10:13 PM GMT+4

Nice, thanks. Same to everybody - these are all nice, and coming at a pace where we can give them due thought.

Now that I'm not feeling grumpy, I'd be posting much more positive quotes than my initial ones - but this thread could get tough to keep up with quickly if we did such.

<sigh> I guess waiting is good for us, I'll be less impulsive in my choices next time.

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Authored by: signifyingsimian on Saturday, June 25 2005 @ 12:30 PM GMT+4

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Steven Wright

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
–Albert Einstein

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Authored by: Linaelin on Saturday, June 25 2005 @ 07:00 PM GMT+4

We should declare war on North Vietnam. . . .We could pave the whole
country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
-Ronald Reagan

I am optimistic of the outcome of our doings in the Middle East.
-JohnDoe#1

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-George Armstrong Custer

On Women

Authored by: Genie on Saturday, June 25 2005 @ 10:40 PM GMT+4

"But oh, what a woman I should be if an able young man would consecrate his life to me as secretaries and technicians do to their men employers." Mabel Ulrich

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." Katharine Hepburn

"I married beneath me--all women do." Nancy Astor

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Wonders Never Cease.

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Authored by: senior citizen on Saturday, June 25 2005 @ 11:03 PM GMT+4

I must paraphrase these somewhat since I don't have them in writing immediately at hand.

Civilization is a good idea. We should try it sometime.
Mahatma Gandhi

We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
(Senility striketh yet again. He was the flamboyant, gay, french artist, poet, writer, playwright, who was tossed into jail because of his sexual dalliance with a young lad.)

Carol Who?

Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 25 2005 @ 11:22 PM GMT+4

"No one paid any attention to anything I said. Then one day, I made a poster with my own ideas, but put quotes around it and wrote 'Lao Tzu' at the end. Then, everyone stopped to read it and remarked how brilliant it was.
Carol Korenthal

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Authored by: Stevil on Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 08:04 AM GMT+4

"I find chaos very creative. But it drives the crew crazy." - Louis Malle

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"It's in our 30s that we want friends. In our 40s we know that they won't save us any more than love did in our 20s." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"I don't want realism... I want Magic" - Blanche DuBois

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(disclaimer - It's been a long time since I found that Fitzgerald comment noted above. It may not be word for word... )

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Authored by: George Tirebiter on Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 08:58 AM GMT+4

"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
Alfred Hitchcock

"Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in."
John Cage

"I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent."
James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, in a comment on his staff

Lao Tz-Who?

Authored by: signifyingsimian on Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 06:41 PM GMT+4

"No one paid any attention to anything I said. Then one day, I made a poster with my own ideas, but put quotes around it and wrote 'Carol Korenthal' at the end. Then, everyone stopped to read it and remarked how brilliant it was."
- Lao Tzu

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Authored by: Lise on Monday, June 27 2005 @ 11:36 AM GMT+4

I think you're thinking of the flamboyantly gay Irish poet, playwright, etc. Oscar Wilde. He was my favorite decadent writer, and wrote one of the great essays of all time called The Decay Of Lying which begins:

"There is a mist upon the woods like the purple bloom upon a plum. Let us go and lie on the grass, and smoke cigarettes, and enjoy Nature."

It's about Art, of course, but I always loved his way of getting at a subject. :)

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Authored by: j. bird on Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 03:36 PM GMT+4

Just to keep the record straight, Mahatma Ghandi was touring the Louvre and was told, "this is a record of Western civilization, what do you think of western civilization Mr Ghandi?" He replied, "it would be a good idea."

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Authored by: j. bird on Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 03:50 PM GMT+4

'Sometimes you get what you want, but always what you deserve."

Viet Namese proverb.

"A camel was a horse designed by a committee."

Senacarib II

"The only correct dicison arrived at by a committe was the decision to meet again."

Senacarib II

When addressing a subordinate king who had revolted, Senacarib said, "t'would have been better to be than dead than alive, but best would have never to have been."

I'm not sure of the spelling on Sinacarib (Senacarib, etc, but god I loved this guy. An Assyrhia (damn, cna't spiel shit today) despot who delighted in impalling his enemies during dessert. My kind of guy).

Lao Tz-Who?

Authored by: j. bird on Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 04:11 PM GMT+4

Lao Tuz was this guy that wrote down a bunch of drivel, made no sense and a bunch of hippies decided it wa cool. Just goes to show that drugs are really the answer.

Anaïs Nin ((swoon))

Authored by: j. bird on Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 04:17 PM GMT+4

"Sometimes we would play a game with pappa. We would join him in his bed in the morning. He would move his finger under the sheet and we would try to catch it. When we had caught it we would squeeze it and stoke it. Pappa seemed to like this. It was years latter that I realized that it was not his finger."

Anais Nin

A sick twisted f**k

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Authored by: lancer on Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 05:35 PM GMT+4

"My answer is bring them on."

---G.W. Bush on Iraqi militants attacking U.S. forces;
Washington, D.C.; July 3, 2003

Lao Tz-Who?

Authored by: Azrael on Wednesday, June 29 2005 @ 12:39 AM GMT+4

Lao Tzu was a man beyond his times, someone who even back 2500+ years could understand something it took most westerners untill about at least the 1970 to understand, that Man no matter where he is born and who he worships is no different then any other man and should be treated as such. His Book the Tao Te Ching is the second most translated work beat out only by the bible (now you want to talk drivel that makes no sence). It's not used by just hippies most "hippies" I've run into have no idea who he even is. To those of us who are open minded thinkers his book makes sence in our own ways. Now if you're going to go off the topic that the person who created this post requested you could at least try and not insult other peoples interests.

AZ

Lao Tz-Who?

Authored by: ZAM on Saturday, July 02 2005 @ 11:38 AM GMT+4

"Lao Tuz was this guy that wrote down a bunch of drivel, made no sense and a bunch of hippies decided it wa cool. Just goes to show that drugs are really the answer."

Allow me to offer, for a moment, a brief translation of this post.

" I am incapable of comprehending Lao Tzu's words, therefore it is drivel. I am thus copelled to attack him and those who believe in him simply on the basis of my lack of comprehension. If I think outside the linear thinking I was raised with, then the terrorists will win."

Okay, that last line was unnecessary, but you catch the drift (Assuming I'm not being too cerebral here)

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Authored by: Deus Ex on Saturday, July 16 2005 @ 12:51 AM GMT+4

"I spent huge amounts of money on booze, fast cars and beautiful women. The rest I just squandered."
- George Best

"The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
- Robert Graves