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    NBA rookie of the year diamenz's Avatar
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    "When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."

    Will Rogers


    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

    Epictetus



    “The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.”

    Christopher Lasch


    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

    Winston Churchill


    “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”

    Helen Gurley Brown



    “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

    Aristotle



    “If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.”

    J. Paul Getty



    “Never criticize a rifleman until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way, he’ll be barefoot and you’ll be out of range.”

    The 2nd Target Company



    “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”

    Benjamin Franklin

    "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."

    Mark Twain

    “If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.”

    George Gobel


    “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you were heading.”

    Lao Tzu


    “At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

    Aristotle


    “It is equally important to have a happy and engaged workforce as it is to have a profitable bottom line.”

    Vern Dosch


    “People who cannot find time for recreation are sooner or later to find time for illness.”

    John Wanamaker


    "Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."

    John Gay


    “There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.”

    Anatole France



    “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”

    Robert Frost


    “Water and air, the two essentials on which life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

    Jacques Yves Cousteau



    “In order to rally people, governments need enemies … if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”

    Nhat Hanh

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    Default Re: some of your favorite quotes...

    Those are some good ones OP. I'll add a few below:

    "For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else."
    -Winston Churchill


    "Everyone wants to be a part of something superior and unique. Ultimately, that is what successful strategy is."
    -Michael Porter


    "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."
    -Jim Bowie


    "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
    -George Patton


    "Change before you have to."
    -Jack Welch


    "Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?"
    -Victor Hugo


    "A rising tide lifts all boats"
    -Aphorism


    "If you're going through hell, keep going"
    -Winston Churchill

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    Stop it Stop it now!!!!

    -Gohan

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    "Que? Que dijiste? Dijiste que vas a derrotar al mundialmente famoso asesino Tao Pai Pai?"

    -Tao Pai Pai.

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    "I'm a little b*tch that loves semen in my mouth"

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    "Playoff mode ACTIVATED"

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    “I am Iron Man.”

    - Tony Stark- Iron Man

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    Of course a thread with potential gets ruined by edgy morons.


    It's not about the result, but the journey. -Carl Lewis


    “Any fool can criticize, complain and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” Dale Carnegie

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    "The eyes are useless when the mind is blind"

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    “Existence is pain.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gohan View Post
    Stop it Stop it now!!!!

    -Gohan
    What did piccolo just do to you rt?

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    Quote Originally Posted by warriorfan View Post
    “Existence is pain.”

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    For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
    Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

    And on a lighthearted note...



    And while this is a funny movie quote, how true it is...

    https://streamable.com/4lecqd

    Would you tell me, please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade 1 tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants 1 mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can.

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