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    Interesting Quotes

    Evening folks.
    We've had movie quotes, air traffic controller quotes, US military manual quotes, and lots more.
    How about some thoughtful/intellectual quotes that people like/find interesting or thought provoking?

    Here are a few that I like...

    "The true power of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who oppose it to imitate it" Adolf Hitler

    "The Bible has some notable poetry in it...and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies" Mark Twain

    "Tolerance has become so important that no exception is tolerated" Charles Colson

    "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened" Dr Seuss

    And clubagreenies sig. love it.
    Note that these quotes don't necessarily mean I support the people who said them, I just find them interesting.
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    It's not one that is particularly intellectual, but one that I can't really argue with :

    'There's nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll' (John Lennon)

    The other is:
    'In love, all life's contradictions will dissolve and disappear' (Rabindranath Thukur)


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    "Whatever you are: Be a good one."

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    money is not everything, As long as you have it.

    nobody gives a **** about what you do

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    From Khalil Gibran one of our poets, painters, sculpturers and thinkers

    "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

    "But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." From the Prophet

    "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

    "A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"

    "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

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    From Antoine de saint Exupèry the writer of the Little Prince

    "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

    "Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. "

    "A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

    "It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

    "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

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    Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    Omar Khayyám, رباعيات خيام



    “A book of verses underneath the bough
    A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou
    Beside me singing in the wilderness
    And wilderness is paradise now.”
    Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Euphranor and Salaman and Absal


    “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
    Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


    As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.”
    Omar Khayyám, Quatrains
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    From a guy who knew how to put together a thought provoking line or two - Mahatma Ghandi:

    'Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth'

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    One I always say with my mate before a big ocean race, particularly the Sydney to Hobart when one can almost be guaranteed some dangerous conditions:

    "When I see the sea once more
    will the sea have seen or not seen me ?" - Pablo Neruda

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