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“Hero-worship is strongest where there is the least regard for human freedom.” - Herbert Spencer.

“You go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch 'em in the face, and for what? So some pimply little puke can treat you like dirt because your not on the team. Well, I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt. I mean not that fancy store bought dirt. That stuffs loaded with nutrients. I... I can't compete with that stuff.” - Moe The Bartender

‘I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap.” - Spanish Proverb

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." Benjamin Franklin

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting." Benjamin Franklin

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." Benjamin Franklin

"There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him." Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life." Benjamin Franklin

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." Benjamin Franklin

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions." Benjamin Franklin

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." Benjamin Franklin

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" Benjamin Franklin

"Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal." Benjamin Franklin

"A man is not completely born until he is dead." Benjamin Franklin

"A penny saved is a penny earned." Benjamin Franklin

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody." Benjamin Franklin

"Joy is not in things! It is in us!" Benjamin Franklin

"Anger warms the Invention, but overheats the oven." Benjamin Franklin

"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us." Benjamin Franklin

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." Benjamin Franklin

"God heals and the Doctor takes the fee." Benjamin Franklin

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Benjamin Franklin

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" Benjamin Franklin

"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin

"Remember that time is money." Benjamin Franklin

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin

"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place." Douglas Adams

"In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it." Peter F. Drucker

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Albert Einstein

"I had to make some optimistic assumptions to meet the revenue target In week three, we're visited by an alien named D'utox Inag who offers to share his advanced technology." Dilbert

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

"If it's green, it's biology, If it stinks, it's chemistry, If it has numbers it's math, If it doesn't work, it's technology." Unknown

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." Clive James

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Enough is a feast.” - Buddhist proverb

“Don't speak unless you can improve upon silence.” - Spanish Proverb

‘Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.’ - Lao-Tzu

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.” - Walt Whitman

"Am I not destroying my enemies by making them my friend?" - Abraham Lincoln

I'm new here, and I do apologize in advance, but this quote has been dogging me for years.

"if parody alone can adequately render the reality of our times, only irony offers us the freedom and detachment that are essential conditions of responsible analysis and action."

Theodore Ziolkoroski (in the forward to Herman Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game")

Discuss.

(Semi-Transparent Fellow, since we all seem to be hot to post funny/wise/weird quotes on this topic, you may not have much luck in starting a discussion on any one quote here. But new topics can be whatever you want it to be. )

“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” - Matt Groening

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reep:
[QB] (Semi-Transparent Fellow, since we all seem to be hot to post funny/wise/weird quotes on this topic, you may not have much luck in starting a discussion on any one quote here. But new topics can be whatever you want it to be. )

Reep, comment well taken. Discuss was not meant seriously.

You mean was a clue?

“Art is like a shipwreck - it's everyman for himself.” - Marcel Duchamp

I toyed with calling myself "obvious man" but trembled at the thought of the copyright suit.

"... rejection kills -- disappointment only maims."
-- Jeanine Garafalo, "The Truth About Cats & Dogs"