Let them come. I need to be prepared to write an essay on whatever the quote is so no retarded movie quotes....

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"The Oracle told me I would die with my boots on. I've worn tennis shoes ever since." - Axis

God save us from an Earth in which all men are the same. God save us from a colony where that is the goal, or a culture that assumes that for its norm. Give me a thousand people speaking different tongues, worshiping different gods, and dreaming different dreams, and I will make of them a greater nation than you can make with ten thousand of your gengineered duplicates. For mine will have the spark of greatness in them, while yours live for conformity, worship mediocrity, and take their carefully modulated delight in predigested dreams.

- Reigning in Chaos: the founding of Guera Colony
(Historical Archives, Hellsgate Station)

-This Alien Shore, by C.S. Friedman

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

random quotes?

here's my favorite;

"An eye for an eye makes everyone go blind." -Ghandi

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

"Out damned spot, out I say!" - Lady Macbeth from Macbeth by SS

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-If you don't know, then don't ask...

... You *really* like that quote, don't you Wolfy

Wolfy's in the lead.

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"The Oracle told me I would die with my boots on. I've worn tennis shoes ever since." - Axis

"I don't mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?"

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Do you have stairs in your house?

in my sig

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When you expect the pain - nothing left to ascertain
When you respect the lie - Deadly chasm open wide
---Circle of Dust "Chasm"

One of the best I have in my collection, Sine. Highly recommend C.S. Friedman's works.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

If you want something rebellious/anarchical, Fight Club has toooons of great quotes.

"Our fathers were the models for God; if our fathers bailed, what does that say about God? You must accept God may not like you, he may not love you, you are alone."
-er...one of 'em. Too confusing to work out.

However if you want something more meaningful, I like voltaire.

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
Voltaire

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities"
Voltaire

Eeeeenjoy

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The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes--every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
--Orison Swett Marden

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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.

- Spock

"The future is not determined by a throw of the dice, but is determined by the concious decisions of you and me."

-Fong, from Reboot!

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.hack//SIGN - The World - Just Believe

(Yes, This is Cool Matty)

I know, I'll go play call of Duty for about an hour. Plenty of quotes right there.

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"The Oracle told me I would die with my boots on. I've worn tennis shoes ever since." - Axis

You need to write an essay on a quote? That's it?

I mean, where to begin?
There's The Biblical: [Bible stuff. Duh]

The Classical: "Veni, Vidi, Vici", "Cogito ergo sum"

The Rennaissance: "And a prince ought, above all things, always to endeavour in every action to gain for himself the reputation of being a great and remarkable man", "To be, or not to be..."

The Great War: "The old lie: Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori"

The Second World War: "Colonel Carthcart was so upset by the deaths of Kid Sampson and McWatt that he raised the missions to sixty-five."

The Drug Induced: "I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?”

I mean seriously, a quote could be about literally any topic ever...hell, it doesn't have to be profound if the topic it's about is interesting and could support an essay (though then the essay would be about the topic, rather than the quote). It's a rather odd assignment.

Introducing The random Homer Simposon quote generator!

Catch-22! Oh man, you could write an essay about soooo many quotes from that book.


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"What sane person could live in this world, and *not* be crazy?"

Council of 14

"I am the signature virus! Copy me into your signature so that I can take over the world! Moohahahee!"

"Those who are lacking intellegnce need to borrow the wit of others"

A quote on quotes...

Meh.

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http://www.4guys-1dragoon.cjb.net -No porn. We promise*

"If we win, no-one will remember! And if we fail, no-one will forget!" - Carrot, Jingo (by Terry Pratchett).

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Yeah, but you know what? This one, this one right here, this was my dream, my wish, and it didn't come true. So I'm takin' it back. I'm takin' 'em all back.

"Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we should remain silent..." Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein, (Philosopher for those who didn't know) - sometimes 'should' is replaced with 'must' - I have no idea which one is the real one, but I've always used 'should.'

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"So... Graham Andrew Rutland [Gee_4ce]... well, it says here that Graham and Andrew mean... strong and manly!" - My girl Naomi whilst consulting a big book of names...

" . . . The just arugment against a stupid head is a clenched fist." Paragraph 362, Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche

(BTW Gee_4ce, I love Wittgenstein, I took a course last year on contempary annalytic philosophy and its was about his work for about half of it, i just ate that stuff up)


oh and my sig

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"I like my women how I like my coffee, in a plastic cup." - Eddie Izzard

"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence." -Baslo

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire.

"whenever any form of government becomes destructive to securing the rights of the governed, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it" -Thomas Jefferson

Here's a long one:
"I once wrote a story about a man who was injured and taken to a hospital. When they began surgery on him, they discovered that he was an android, not a human, but that he did not know it. They had to break the news to him. Almost at once, Mr. Garson Poole discovered that his reality consisted of punched tape passing from reel to reel in his chest. Fascinated, he began to fill in some of the punched holes and add new ones. Immediately his world changed. A flock of ducks flew through the room when he punched one new hole in the tape. Finally he cut the tape entirely, whereupon the world disappeared.
If I control my reality tape, I control reality. At least so far as I am concerned.
Really, reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -Philip K. Dick (Best author EVER (next to Asimov))

Or if you want to sum that one up...
"Reality is just a point of view." - Philip K. Dick

"Question yourself. Question your questions. Question your lack of a question." -Don't remember. I think it was a Zen saying.

"They say music can talk to you, and alter moods, but can it load a gun for you? And cock it too?" -Eminem (if you want to go into a speech about music and what not)

"Sometimes it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel, but the circle." -Me (Zac Cohn)

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

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"You gotta die 2 be a legend.."

"Instead of a war on poverty, they got a war on drugs, so the police can bother me..."

"Time is the greatest teacher of all...Unfortunately, it kills all its students"

"Silence is the loudest noise to mankind.."

[This message has been edited by Temperamental (edited January 15, 2004).]

I didn't read this until after I got home from school today but that's a quote I found and used. "reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." <--- That's what I said in class today before seeing your post.



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"The Oracle told me I would die with my boots on. I've worn tennis shoes ever since." - Axis

Hehe, that's awesome @ Axis

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

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"All art is useless"
-Oscar Wilde

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Come on, shake the Nub,..... you know you want to.

immense power is aquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs
~Andrew Carnegie

n the end we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends
~Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is pain. anyone who says otherwise is selling something
~the Princess Bride

Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence
~Charles DeGaulle

the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history
~Friedrich Hegel

yeah, these are all away messages of mine. most of them are quotes I got from my APUSH teacher

oh, and:

See, we're starting to fight each other. That's just what the big shots want to see, that we're street rats. Street rats with no brains and no respect for nothin including ourselves. So here's how it is. If we don't act together we're nothing. if we don't speak together we're nothing. And if we can't even trust each other, then we're nothing. So what's it gonna be?
~Newsies

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

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"I live my life... a quarter mile at a time."
-Vin Diesel

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Thats also a Philip K Dick quote (someone else posted a quote by him somewhere in this thread already).


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Dangit, beaten by Happydud. Only saw the one post that contained the quote, not the first one.

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"Only the really crappy people are always at their best."

My version of "Only the mediocre are always at their best," an anonymous quote in a book I found called "Pessimisms."

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wang is within all

"Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again, is Mr. Plow!"

I tell you, this Simpsons thing is the ****.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

Man is afraid of only that which he does not understand...

I've heard it before somewhere but can't figure out where I'm afraid.

And to take another Vin Diesel Fast and Furious quote: "It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile - winning is winning."

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"So... Graham Andrew Rutland [Gee_4ce]... well, it says here that Graham and Andrew mean... strong and manly!" - My girl Naomi whilst consulting a big book of names...

"I am known as Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser III. Don't hesitate to call."

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike

It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash

If you die a hero, you're still dead.

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mmm, smells like something burning.

I've got two ones i like alot:

"The Liberty tree must sometimes be refreshed with the blood of patriots"
-Thomas Jefferson

"I want people to know that nature gave them not only eyes to see her wonders, but brains, to understand them"
-Galileo Galilee

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"No good can ever come from staying with normal people"
-Outlaw Star
"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade

If you want something interesting to write about..

"Here is America struck by God Almighty ... so that its greatest buildings are destroyed ... I swear to God that America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before the army of the infidels depart the land of Mohammed."
--- Osama bin Laden, in a statement on October 7, 2001

“To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able, in any country, until their armies, shattered and broken-winged, depart from all the lands of Islam.”
--- A manifesto published by various Islamic leaders

"Open your chest welcoming death in the path of God and utter your prayer seconds before you go to your target."

"But I say if the American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the U.S., then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims. Those hundreds of thousands who have been killed or displaced in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, do have brothers and relatives. They would make of Ramzi Yousef a symbol and a teacher. The U.S. will drive them to transfer the battle into the United States. Everything is made possible to protect the blood of the American citizen while the bloodshed of Muslims is allowed in every place. With this kind of behavior, the U.S. government is hurting itself, hurting Muslims and hurting the American people."

-- Both from the Al-Quaeda training manual, i think.

The one in my signature.

Also:

A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
-Winston Chuchill

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"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
-Robert Jastrow

I figure this thread is over, so I'm going to kinda hijack it.

If anyone knows what short story Philip K. Dick was talking about in that quote, please tell me. I've been engaged in a search for it for some time now.

Thanks.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.