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Many of my favorites by which I collected I'd like to post here.
By the way, the first one below is mine. ^__^
"Microsoft is an agressive, monopoly-seeking beast. The only realistic way to put it back in its place is through the action of an even greater beast: the U.S. government." -- Kevin Mark Malone
"Nothing is worse than a piece of hardware designed by a software company with a monopoly." -- Stewart Alsop; Fortune Magazine
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison." -- Henry David Thoreau
"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." -- Leo J. Burke
"A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning." -- Unknown
"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum." -- J.W. Schopf
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short
"It seems that she's addicted to you in a certain sense." -- Amarao; Furi Kuri
"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." -- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it." -- Warren Buffett
"What Microsoft is doing is targeting specific markets it wants to be in, copying the products of the leading companies as close as it legally can and giving them away through one means or another, usually by bundling it as part of one existing product. It's called the 'fast follower' strategy. Microsoft is not about innovation. It never has been, and everyone knows that." -- Richard Shaffer; Technologic Partners
"The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides." -- Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions (p. 215)
"On any given day, U.S. troops are in 140 countries around the world, with permanent bases in over half of those." -- Rahul Mahajan
"Energy is the glue that binds our society together." -- Matt Simmons
"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying." -- Fran Lebowitz
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." -- The Speaker, 12/15/00
"If you believe in me, I'll believe in you." -- Lewis Carrol; Through The Looking Glass
"When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it." -- ILN, 4/6/18
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." -- Benjamin Franklin
"[I]f I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul." -- Isaac Asimov
"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles." -- Sir Thomas Browne
"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours." -- Frank Moore Colby
"Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening. Anything not fitting into these catagories causes cancer in rats." -- Yogi Berra
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy." -- Alfred North Whitehead
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure." -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat." -- Katharine Whitehorn
"He who does not hope to win has already lost." -- Jose Joaquin Olmedoe
"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." -- Sidelights on New London and Newer New York
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language." -- Buck Henry
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -- Abraham Maslow
"If you wish to taste the ground, feel free to attack me." -- Kenshin Himura
"Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists." -- The Uses of Diversity, 1921
"If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence." -- Chapter 3, What's Wrong With The World, 1910
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -W.B. Yeats
"I bring you with reverent Hands<br />The books of my numberless dreams..."<br /> -- W.B. Yeats
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." -- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." -- Miguel de Cervantes
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Isaac Asimov
"Nothing." -- Louis XVI (entry in his diary for July 14, 1789, the day the mob stormed the Bastille)
"Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door." -- Sebastian Roch Nicholas
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"War is not 'the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you." -- ILN, 7/24/15
"Christmas is a sentient wallet-smashing entity." -- Brad Johnson
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." -- Bob Wells
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -- Isaac Asimov
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -- Whitney Griswold
"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools." -- Doug Larson
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." -- Isaac Asimov
"I love a woman who can kick my smurf." -- Spike Spiegel; Cowboy Bebop
"I am the Black Mage! I am the one who makes the peoples fall down!" -- Black Mage; 8-Bit Theater
"What kind of spiritual philosophy is process-of-elimination? Are you kidding me? What do you look like telling someone that 'You have nothing to lose!' You know? It's like, '6 months no payments! No risk! No obligation! Buy Jesus now!' That, to me, is pathetic, and I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry. I can't apologize for calling out something that poor." -- Karim Temple
"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." -- Batty; Blade Runner
"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere." --The New York Times, 1936
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race." -- Albert Einstein
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." -- James M. Barrie
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." -- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence." -- Henrik Tikkanen
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It's what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -- John Lennon (1941 - 1980); "Beautiful Boy"
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein
"Never by normal!" -- Ron; Kim Possible
"Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around." -- Catherine Deneuve
"To learn and not think over what you have learned is perfectly useless. To think without having learned is dangerous." -- Gore Vidal
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings." -- Humphrey Bogart
"Be careful Preston. You're treading on my dreams." -- DuPont; Equilibrium
"To feel. 'Cause you've never done it, you can never know it. But it's as vital as breath. And without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock... ticking." -- Mary; Equilibrium
"I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again." -- Stephen Grellet
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." -- Thomas Carlyle
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." -- G.K. Chesterton
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -- Aesop
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Compassion is like a springwater coming up from the ground, and it can be used to sustain everyone." -- Dainin Katagiri
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -- Robert Frost
"Let them hate, so long as they fear." -- Lucius Accius
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." -- Franklin P. Adams (1838-1918)
"All experience is an arch to build upon." -- Henry Brooks Adams
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." -- Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." -- Aristotle
"The man who dies rich dies disgraced." -- Andrew Carnegie
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
"Windows 98 should have been released for free on Jan. 1, 1996 and titled Windows 95.1. If this were Hollywood, then Windows 98 would be the equivalent of 'Heaven's Gate', 'Waterworld' and 'Godzilla' rolled into one. A huge, overhyped, bloated, embarrassment." -- Jesse Berst; ZDNet
"It's more than a game. It's an institution." -- Thomas Hughes
"Chastity -- the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions." -- Aldous Huxley
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men." -- T.H. Huxley
"The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and shoot." -- Dean Inge
"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." -- Thomas Jefferson
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail." -- Alfred North Whitehead
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties." -- Alfred North Whitehead
"Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." -- George Washington
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." -- George Orwell; Nineteen Eighty-Four
"Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man." -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
"There is no escape -- we pay for the violence of our ancestors." -- from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
"There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles." -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future." -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
"When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual." -- from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by Princess Irulan
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him." -- "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual." -- Words of Muad'dib by Princes Irulan
"As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy." -- from the death cell interview with Bronso of IX; Dune Messiah
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." -- Farmers' Almanac, 1978
"You do not take from this universe. It grants what it will." -- Paul Atreides; Dune Messiah
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." --- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
"Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it." -- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison
"If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves..." -- Thomas Edison
"Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work..." -- Thomas Edison
"The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness..." -- Thomas Edison
"I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing..." -- Thomas Edison
"Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison
"Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward..." -- Thomas Edison
"The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them." -- Thomas Edison
"The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast." -- Thomas Edison
"From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce." -- Thomas Edison
"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge..." -- Thomas Edison
"Democracy abhors undue secrecy." -- Victor Marrerro (U.S. District Court Judge)
"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!" -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
"Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins... and you will have sins in abundance." -- Thomas Paine
"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." -- Treaty of Tripoli
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." -- Buddha
"It hung in the air exactly like a brick doesn't" -- Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Anger is a tool, like a razor edged sword. Its not to be wielded bluntly like a mace." -- Daeraug Van`Perce
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' " -- Sydney Harris
"A true writer writes, not because he wants to, but because he can’t help it." - R.A. Salvatore
"This is the greatest tragedy; the illiterate, uneduacted masses are so sure and certain of themselves and the educated, literate ones are so full of doubt" -- Bertrand Russell
"Every man dies, but not every man really lives." -- William Wallace
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"I'm not good at Empathy, will you settle for Sarcasm?" -- Kassandra
"This is my story; it'll go the way I want or I'll end it here." -- Tidus; Final Fantasy X
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." -- Francis Bellamy (1885-1931)
"The registry: worst idea since income tax." -- Michael Wong
"I've got black magic, a hair trigger, and a short fuse. Bring it!" -- Black Mage; Episode 036: Survivor 8-bit Style; 8-Bit Theater
"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box." -- Italian Proverb
"Morons such as yourself often use an insulting tone as an excuse to ignore the underlying argument, but you are guilty of the "style over substance" fallacy (which is all too popular in a politically correct age)." -- Michael Wong
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -- Albert Einstein
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no [organized] religion in it" -- John Adams
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." -- Abraham Lincoln
"I just love the smell of C4 in the morning." -- Ling Ling; 3x3 eyes
"It's disgusting how Microsoft portrays itself as the supreme innovator when just about all the technology that it has was copied off of others' previous work." -- Timothy W Macinta
"During Microsoft's 1999 anti-trust trial there were reports of Microsoft encouraging its employees to post messages in public forums stating that "Microsoft is responsible for all good things in computerdom" and that "The government has no right to prevent MS from doing anything. Period." It's pretty sad when the only people you can get to support you are those that depend upon you for their daily sustenance." -- Timothy W Macinta
"Did you realize that a 486 is still a very useable computer if you put an operating system besides Windows on it?" -- Timothy W Macinta
"Compulsory voting makes about as much as sense as having the death penalty for attempted suicide." -- Miranda Winters
"I am an atheist, but I like the sensible theists. I have more respect for them than the annoying, douchebag atheists." -- Kevin Mark Malone
"The 'true Christian' excuse humors me as much as it hurts my soul." -- Kevin Mark Malone
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires." -- Susan B. Anthony
"You said we were getting ice cream! I'm calling my social worker!" -- Kristopher Wooldridge
"Valentine's Day is God's way of giving me the finger." -- Brad Johnson
"Someday I will be queen, but I will always be myself." -- Garnet, Final Fantasy IX
"People follow a person who keeps on track. That's why I think a hero who acts in a straightforward manner is remembered for generations." -- Garnet (to Ramuh, ``Hero'' story), Final Fantasy IX
"Oh man, Japan. Totally forgot that country existed anymore." -- Kristopher Wooldridge
"On slang: The Internet is supposed to be about the transfer of ideas and information. Let’s try and make sure our ideas are legible." -- Brad Johnson
"If you're not mature enough to walk into a pharamacy and buy condoms, or deal with the smurf that will occur if your parents find out, you shouldn't be having sex." -- Brad Johnson
"Batman > Universe." -- Brad Johnson
"When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." -- Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance." -- Robert Quillen
"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today, still queer.'" -- Robin Tyler
"You could move." -- Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood
"War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?" -- The Value of Families
"The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt." -- Dennis Miller
"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada." -- Lorne Bloch
"...watching me own people is quite the spectacle." -- Brad Johnson
"Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand -- to begin with -- how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul." -- Bruce Bawer
"About a year ago I was a guest on a network news show in New York. They were showing film clips from a gay pride parade down Fifth Avenue, but they only decided to show the part with men in dresses and heels. I had seen the parade, and there were men in business suits as well. After showing the film, the newsperson made some comments, and I found the comments extremely offensive. "This is what's wrong with the media," I said. "You show a fringe position. You show one point of view. You're closing the minds of the people by not showing them what the reality is." I got up and walked out, and I've never been asked back again." -- Kathleen Nolan
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." -- Harvey Fierstein
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." -- Ralph W. Sockman
"One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." -- Franklin Thomas
"I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." -- Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1952
"O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand." -- William Penn
"Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list." -- Dennis Leary
"Jim Bakker spells his name with 2 k's because 3 would be too obvious." -- Bill Maher
"I swear to the Lord<br />I still can't see<br />Why Democracy means<br />Everybody but me."<br /> -- Langston Hughes, <i>The Black Man Speaks</i>
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man -- the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, "You know what? Let's just grab lunch." -- Bill Maher
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere." -- Groucho Marx
"And I want to thank you for all the enjoyment you've taken out of it." -- Groucho Marx
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." -- Mark Twain
"Hitler, aside from being anti-semetic, probably would've made a good ruler, had he not been on amphetamines." -- Kristopher Wooldridge
"In fact we're both foolish. A soldier can get killed at any time; we'll see lots of friends in the colony loose their lives. Let's just live out our lives believing in the paths we've chosen...you've got to be at <i>least</i> that foolish to make it as a soldier." -- Duo Maxwell; Gundam Wing
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." -- Aristotle
"Beware of one who has nothing to lose." -- Italian Proverb
"Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet." -- Thomas Crum
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