A quote that has inspired me
"If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.I don't want to hold myself back from anything life has to offer. I want to experience all life has to offer."
Mat Hoffman, pro BMX rider
Mat Hoffman, pro BMX rider
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slightly modified quote. Original found in Star Wars by Yoda.
Adventure. Excitement. A jedi craves not these things.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life" - Sir Winston Churchill
- Homer J. Simpson
-- Morris Cohen, Reason and Nature, 1931
In Joshua and in the second half of Numbers is celebrated the mass murder of men, women, children, down to domestic animals in city after city across the whole land of Canaan. Jericho is obliterated in a kherem, a "holy war." The only justification offered for this slaughter is the mass murderers' claim that, in exchange for circumcising their sons and adopting a particular set of ritualsm their ancestors were long before promised that this land was their land. Not a hint of self-reproach, not a muttering of patriarchal or divine disquiet at these campaigns of extermination can be dug out of holy scripture. Instead, Joshua "destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded" (Joshua 10:40). And these events are not incidental, but central to the main narrative thrust of the Old Testament. Similar stories of mass murder (and in the case of the Amalekites, genocide) can be found in the books of Saul, Esther, and elsewhere in the Bible, with hardly a pang of moral doubt. It was all, of course, troubling to liberal theologians of a later age.
It is properly said that the Devil can "quote Scripture to his purpose." The Bible is full of so many stories of contradictory moral purpose that every generation can find scriptural justification for nearly any action it propses - from incest, slavery, and mass murder to the most reined love, courage, and self-sacrifice. And this moral multiple personality disorder is hardly restricted to Judaism and Christianity. You can find it deep within Islam, the Hindu tradition, indeed nearly all the world's religions. Perhaps then it is not so much scientists as people who are morally ambiguous.
-- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it."
-- Amelia Earhart
-Ryan!
"I quote others only the better to express myself."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit."
-- Christian N. Bovee
"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it."
-- Anatole France
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A clever saying proves nothing."
-- Voltaire
my faforite qoute is:
Yesterday Was Hiystory, Today Is A Gift, Tomorrow Is Mystery
-Ryan!
"Doubt is not a pleasant state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."
-- Voltaire
--Battousai^^x
It´s rational until you realize that by striving for it,
you become a spider yourself...
- Voltaire
'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - Arthur C. Clarke
'Hang on, I've got a book of quotes somewhere' - Me, right now
<a href="http://www.weebl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/b3ta/wrong.html" target="_blank">"Overthrow the government.SHHHHHHHHHH, we're being watched" -Jam</a>
-- William Jefferson Clinton, in 1974 when running for the House
-Ryan!
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink,
whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
-- Socrates
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
-- William James
George Patton
-My friend, who doubtless stole it from somewhere else . .
"Probably Counter-strike." -Flayra
-someguy
"Please store in the cold section of the refrigerator." -- On a bag of fresh grapes in Australia.
"Warning: has been found to cause cancer in laboratory mice." -- On a box of rat poison.
"Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage." -- On a portable stroller
"Beware! To touch these wires is instant death. Anyone found doing so will be prosecuted." -- On a sign at a railroad station.
"Warning: May contain nuts." -- On a package of peanuts.
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