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"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."

M. H. Abrams

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“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”

Oscar Wilde

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"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

Kahlil Gibran

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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

Brian Tracy

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´Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.´
Fran Lebowitz

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“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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"Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."

Polly Toynbee

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“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”

Bette Midler

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A true saying from a great woman! :biggrin:

"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."
Rita Rudner

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Great saying :jossun:

“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.”

Irwin Federman

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Oh, are song excerpts allowed??!! :arms:

Ooops, just checked the first post and noticed they're not. So much for my excitement. :lol:


"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

Abraham Lincoln

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"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness"
Albert Einstein

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"If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded."

King Solomon

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“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”

Woody Allen

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Oke, this one is not so interesting, but I couldn't find a fun one about Chinatown without coming from the movie Chinatown itself :doubt:

"The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes."
Eli Wallach

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Impossible to find a quote with Jakes so I hope this will be allowed. If anyone can find one you can ignore this and post it and we can go from there.


"Jake's on a journey of how to play the game. He's very good at playing games and he's done very well out of playing by a certain formula but he didn't realize how big and consistent that formula is. He only saw the formula in its microscopic form and didn't realize that it could be macroscopic."

Guy Ritchie

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Sorry, :embarasse I had not noticed that Jakes would be quite a bother too ...
“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.”
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself".

Andy Warhol

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"There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting."
Sean Kinney

I wouldn't say it is the worst thing in the world when this happens, but it definately isn't funny ...

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“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”

Groucho Marx

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"Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message."

Mahalia Jackson

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“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."

Hu Shih

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“I think it’s really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to—the beauty of playing baseball.”
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2006

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“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.”

Al Lopez

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"But, in retrospect, it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there."

Jim Carrey

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“Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it.”

Brian Cramer

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"Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow."

Stephen King

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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
Winston Churchill

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"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."

Samuel Johnson

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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”

Winston Churchill

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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."

Louisa May Alcott

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“Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.”

Og Mandino

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"We are dealing with the remnants of an earlier civilisation, a civilisation which vanished and has left behind only these few records in stone. What will our civilisation leave behind? Scars and the greed of mankind?"

Alexander Thom

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“The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.”

Albert Einstein

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"The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled."

Dennis Bergkamp

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“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

Helen Keller

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"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

Napoleon Hill