Quotes domino

[jamesreed292]

After reading the quote cited in the post above, post a quote that is the opposite (or in contradiction) with this quote, plus add another one that is your favorite.

It’s important that everyone posts two quotes, one that contradicts the quote of the post above and one that is your favorite.

 

[jamesreed292]

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates

 

[Melllvar]

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-Buddha

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"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
-Niels Bohr
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[jamesreed292]

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
-Niels Bohr
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Avoid his strength and strike at his weakness, and like water, none can oppose you
Sun Tzu

 

[ElvenVeil]

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Avoid his strength and strike at his weakness, and like water, none can oppose you
Sun Tzu

the above wasn't exactly oppersite? anyway, melllvar picked a difficult one


Turn the other cheek
- Christian doctrine

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n
- John Milton

 

[Melllvar]

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n
- John Milton

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
-Ann Landers

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

 

[Jordan~]

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
- Winston Churchill

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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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[Fresh Baked]

“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”
-Genghis Khan



"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.:
-Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri

 

[ApostateAbe]

“The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”
-Genghis Khan



"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.:
-Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good."

-- ancient Jewish psalmist

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"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."

--Calvin

 

[Jah]

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”


-Thomas Jefferson



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"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

- Oscar Wilde.

 

[jamesreed292]

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”


-Thomas Jefferson



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"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

- Oscar Wilde.

“Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers".”

surfun

Thomas Sowell quotes



"In my practice I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happens slowly instead of all at once. I didn't seem to mind.... All of us, a little bit. We harden our hearts. Grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear"
Daniel Mainwaring

 

[Melllvar]

"In my practice I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away. Only it happens slowly instead of all at once. I didn't seem to mind.... All of us, a little bit. We harden our hearts. Grow callous. Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us, how dear"
Daniel Mainwaring

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Samuel Johnson

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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
-Martin Gardner
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[jamesreed292]

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
-Martin Gardner
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[/QUOTE]

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
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Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Kahlil Gibran

 

[Fresh Baked]

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Kahlil Gibran

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
-William Shakespeare
(erm sorry I'm just not quite sure what Kahlil Gibran meant in that quote...)







Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
-John Steinbeck