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Your favorite quote.

Posted by soarkaios • 3/03/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: epicurus, literature, quote, quotes

Mine at the moment is:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”

- Epicurus

User Comments

3/03/08

voodooKobra

"I'm not evil; I'm chaotic neutral." - Me at a D&D session. It's become my philosophy in a nutshell :P.

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3/03/08

aningeniousname

Great quote for writers from George Orwell: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

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1. 3/03/08
  
  soarkaios
  
  Speaking about George Orwell, I should probably finish 1984.
3/03/08

kab625

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra

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1. 3/03/08
  
  soarkaios
  
  Hah. I like it.
3/03/08

JillSaxon

"Keep your enemies close and your friends closer... in case they all turn out to be bastards." - Anonymous (as far as I know)

Haha... words to live by! :-DD

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3/03/08

morgantj

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - RD Laing

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1. 3/03/08
  
  JillSaxon
  
  LOL... ouch.
3/03/08

nplbjirel

Some of my favorites are:

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to top yourself by H Norman Schwarzkopf

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs energy and the will to win by Demos Waitley( not totally sure)

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it by Bernard Meltze

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3/03/08

bsilvia

at the moment:

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.
Albert Schweitzer

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1. 3/03/08
  
  daniel23
  
  "Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will." Antonio Gramsci
3/03/08

Scout

"We must remember that art is art.
Well, on the other hand water is water isn't it?
And east is east and west is west.
And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesause
they taste much more like prunes than rubarb does."
Groucho Marx

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3/03/08

phoenix007

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

-Dr. Seuss

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1. 3/03/08
  
  morgantj
  
  nice.
2. 3/03/08
  
  soarkaios
  
  Nice indeed.
3/03/08

jackpayne

An "expert" knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

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3/03/08

gosmelltheflowers

God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. ~Mark Twain

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3/03/08

morgantj

"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than truth as the authority."

-G. Massey

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3/03/08

offendedblogger

"Being offended is a natural consequence to leaving one's house."

~ Fran Lebowitz

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3/03/08

DrowseyMonkey

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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3/03/08

daniel23

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell

or

"TANSTAAFL!" Robert Heinlein

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3/03/08

daniel23

Dammit. Actually my favorite quote is this one by Oscar Wilde: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

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3/03/08

Aprilfreelance

"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not meant, then what ought to be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and arts will deteriorate; if morals and arts deteriorate, justice will go astray; if justice goes astray, then people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."

Confucius

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3/03/08

artscapes

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein

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1. 3/03/08
  
  daniel23
  
  Says the genius who invented the a-bomb.
2. 3/04/08
  
  artscapes
  
  Never mind the facts...
3. 3/04/08
  
  morgantj
  
  a bomb doesn't have to be used for war or attacks.
3/03/08

DamienFranco

"It's like my grandma used to say 'Why buy the cow when you can get the sex for free'"
Brodie - Mallrats

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1. 8/29/08
  
  Hangingonahyphen
  
  The night is young and so are we, but only God can make a tree... hahahaha
3/04/08

Anok

"Your past doesn't dictate your future." By a very wise, and dear friend of mine.

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3/04/08

voodooKobra

"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally." - Bill Maher

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1. 3/04/08
  
  daniel23
  
  Ace.
3/04/08

bobonism

make money not war.

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3/04/08

kdawg68

"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war.
We have felt, we still feel - the passion of life at it's top.
In our youths our hearts were touched with fire."
-Oliver Wendell Homes, reflecting on the Civil War.

"I cannot consent to receive pay for services which I do not render."
-Robert E. Lee, upon being propositioned for a large sum of money in exchange for the use of his name by an insurance firm after the Civil War.

"We gained nothing but glory, and lost our finest men."
-unnamed rebel private after the repulse of Pickett's Charge.

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3/04/08

lordsomber

“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”

-- Dr. Jonas Salk

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3/04/08

urikalish

"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."

"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."

"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down."

"I didn't know he was dead... I thought he was British."

-- You know who...

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3/04/08

Dukepro25

"At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark
from another person.
Each of us has cause to think
with deep gratitude of those
who have lighted the flame
within us."

Albert Schweitzer

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3/04/08

ekim941

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination"

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3/04/08

ssetd

Remember: You are much more important to you than you are to me.

(Bill Cosby's grade-school teacher)

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3/05/08

kcp47

Don't sit on a fence-jump!
aceguide.blogspot.com

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3/05/08

VampireFaust

Anything from the movie Fightclub

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3/05/08

bethwashington

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love." -Wally Lamb

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3/05/08

bidarlah

i tot i saw a pussy cat...i did, i did!

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4/22/08

c0rin

Yes, i'm a slut, but i'm the best slut in town.

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4/22/08

kirewass

Nothing is impossible, the difficult takes longer....

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4/22/08

DeadRooster

"Better a dead rooster than a running hen."
--Unknown

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4/22/08

nisha2007

"My happiness derives from the happiness of others"
"Live and let live"
"When you laugh, the world laughes with you.. when you cry, you cry alone"

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4/22/08

lauramichaels

Gandhi: "Be the change you want to see"

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4/22/08

nardeeisms

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors." -- Jim Morrison
- Nards

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4/22/08

boazstuff

"If not for the last minute, things wouldn't have been completed." - Albert Enstein

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4/22/08

morgantj

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens

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4/22/08

RuinousRight

"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace"
~ Michael Franti / Bomb The World

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1. 4/22/08
  
  morgantj
  
  ooh! I like it!
2. 4/22/08
  
  RuinousRight
  
  Our latest post is about Michael Franti. Check it out if you get the chance.
4/22/08

csiunatc

It's not that I am smarter, I just stick with a problem longer than most - A. Einstein

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4/22/08

Psychodiabolix

All that is necessary for Evil to succeed is that good Men do nothing.

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4/22/08

praning5254

i like this one, it's taken from SCARY MOVIE:
"I'm sorry if my complicated life is an inconvenience to your perfect existence"
how's that?

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4/22/08

irelandpropertypro

Hey you guys,

lighten up...

follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road
Follow, folllow, follow, follow, follow the yellow-brick road
Follow the yellow-brick, follow the yellow-brick
Follow the yellow-brick road

You're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
You'll find he is a Whiz of a Wiz if ever a Wiz there was
If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was the Wizard of Oz is one because
Because, because, because, because, because
Because of the wonderful things he does
You're off the see the wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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4/22/08

machinehuman

"Call on God, but row away from the rocks"

Hunter S. Thompson

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4/23/08

jackpayne

To err is human, to eat a muskrat is not.

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8/29/08

AntonioA

I like this one: If you can't be good, be careful.

Cheerio.
Antonio.

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8/29/08

robinj

Mother Tersesa I know god will not give me anything I cannot handle I just wish he didn't trust me so much

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8/29/08

JDh888

buckaroo banzai

"No matter where you go, there you are"

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8/29/08

drjay1966

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman

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8/29/08

LGramlich

Too many to include here, but they can be seen at www.angelfire.com/ak/ravenmyst/quotes.html

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8/29/08

jackpayne

It's bad luck to be superstitious.

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8/29/08

LoveIan

"To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names."

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6/17/09

elcharis

"Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it."
Tonny Robbins

Find more quotes at:
quotes2day.blogspot.com

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