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re: What are some of your favorite quotes/speeches?

Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:33 pm to
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:33 pm to
quote:

"ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

-JFK




Never understood the fuss about this quote. You mean besides the 30% I am involuntarily giving the US government, I should find out how to give more of myself to the cause of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
This post was edited on 4/20/15 at 12:40 pm
Posted by High C
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:38 pm to
He's talking to the ones that are getting that 30%.
Posted by pensacola
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:41 pm to
"What the hell is water?"
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:44 pm to
Bunch of John Muir quotes, and Zen quotes. Speeches are too long.
Posted by Black
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:44 pm to
"Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent."


"Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on."

"Anyway, may the wind always be at your back, and the sun always upon your face, and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars."


From the movie Blow

Posted by TheCaterpillar
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:49 pm to
Quotes I've written in my phone over the years. Some I don't really like anymore, but I'll share anyway. I think some are from long nights at 4 AM when everyone is a philosopher

The bolded one is my fave of all time I think.

-"A tyrant will always find the pretext for their tyranny"

-"Sharks are born swimming"

-"Without music, life would be a mistake" -Neitszche

-"The ego is never satisfied. Now that I live to please my soul instead of my ego, I'm a lot happier and at peace with who I am." -unknown

-"The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging" -unknown

-"A truly rich man never tells you he's rich." -unknown

-"He who tries and fails is infinitely better than he who never tries at all." -unknown


-"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

To be great is to be misunderstood."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Series I (Self-Reliance)


The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him most about humanity and he responded:

"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."

"I quit drinking, smoking, and heavy eating...and in two weeks I had lost 14 days."
-unknown

"To our Wives. To our girlfriends. May they never meet!"
-unknown

"Never try to understand women. Women understand women and they all hate each other"
-unknown

"I never had a problem with drugs, I had a problem with cops" -Keith Richards

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." -Whitney Young

"You're in a big pile of shite and you ain't got the shoes for it" -Bourne Supremacy

"No man fears to do that which he knows he does well" -Marvin Lewis

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are all in harmony" -Ghandi

"Certain people you just can't trust, you know Luke? Never trust anyone who doesn't smoke pot or listen to Dylan. Never trust anyone who doesn't like the beach. Never, EVER, EVER trust anyone who says they don't like dogs! You meet someone who doesn't like dogs you alert the authorities IMMEDIATELY and you sure as shite don't MARRY THEM!" -Dr. Squires from The Wackness

"3 days he's a guest, on the 4th he's a younger brother" -Armenian proverb

"Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried." -Thoreau
(just wrote this one in thanks to this thread)

This post was edited on 4/20/15 at 12:51 pm
Posted by fleaux
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:50 pm to
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin


Red
Posted by Meatball
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:52 pm to
"Without Remorse" is one of my favorite books.
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:55 pm to
"we didn't land on Plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us"

-Malcolm X
Posted by Black
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:57 pm to
quote:

"ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

-JFK



i prefer

quote:

We, in this country, in this generation, are -- by destiny rather than by choice -- the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: "except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain."
Posted by High C
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 1:17 pm to


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Posted by barry
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 1:22 pm to
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 1:48 pm to
Posted by Emteein
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 1:48 pm to
quote:

they don't think it be like it is, but it do


This^

Also I like:
"I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me" - Lennon via Ferris
Posted by CrazyTigerFan
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 2:48 pm to
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." I personally strive to be as efficient as possible.
Posted by Placebeaux
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 3:12 pm to
quote:

“While boasting of our noble deeds were careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”-Horace Greeley


quote:

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.” John Adams


quote:

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it’s issuance.” James Madison


quote:

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.” Thomas Jefferson


quote:

“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.”Abraham Lincoln


quote:

“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws” Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild


quote:

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.”- George Washington


quote:

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” – Napoleon Bonaparte


quote:

“You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.” . . . “If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”– President Andrew Jackson


quote:

]“If this mischievous financial policy, which has its’ origins in North America, shall be endured down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debt and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedence in the history of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.” – Editorial in the Times of London, 1862[/b]


quote:

“The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed… Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.” – Otto von Bismarck, German chancellor, 1865


This post was edited on 4/20/15 at 3:16 pm
Posted by BigOrangeBri
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 3:19 pm to
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age." - Wooderson
Posted by Placebeaux
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 3:22 pm to
I quote you knowledge and you quote me Matthew Mcconaugheyhey.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 3:25 pm to
"Alright, Alright."
Posted by Placebeaux
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 3:29 pm to
Its three "Alrights" alright?
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