Quotes and Phrases
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"Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism"
-Type O Negative-

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
-Laurence Peter-

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-Thomas Edison-

"Opinions are like assholes.......everybody has one."
-Cossete-


"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."
-Freud-

"Love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies."
-unknown-

"And think not, you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your  course."
-Kahlil Gibran- 


"Do not be led astray by a false sense of honour - a thing which often brings men to ruin when  they are faced with an obvious danger that somehow affects their pride."
-History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides- 

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need."
-The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus-

"All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson- (submitted by Picara)


"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be;  but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
-Charles Lutwidge Dodgson-

"If two people agree, at least one is not a philosopher."
-Sidney Hook-

"Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their  business."
-Paul Val ry-


"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
 but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."
-The Vatican Sayings, Epicurus-

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
-Steven Wright-

"If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition;
 if you want to know your future, look into your present action."
-Padmisambha-

"People who soar are those who refuse to sit back and wish that things would change."
-unknown-

"On a clear day you can see a long long time ago."
-unknown-

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
-Anonymous-


"Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that  is worth knowing can be taught."
-Oscar Wilde-

"As far as the laws of mathematics apply to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are  certain, they do not apply to reality."
-Albert Einstein-

"Those who do not read..are no better off than those who can't."
-Old Chinese Proverb-

"Don't let your schooling interfere with your education."
-Mark Twain-

"The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't."
-Ernest Rutherford


"Everybody is somebody else's weirdo."
-Dykstra-

"You can trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they have tried every other  alternative."
-Winston Churchill, 1941-

"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some  kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER."
-Frank Zappa-

"Some people call making a web page 'HTML programming.' Then again, some people call  getting that little blinking 12:00 off your video player 'VCR programming.' "
-Miko Masamura, Hotwired-
 
Engineering:
Science:
Management:
Liberal Arts:
"How will this work?"
"Why will this work?"
"When will this work?"
"Do you want fries with that?"
-unknown-


Religious Views on Life - warning: language may offend some.
 
Taoism:
Confucianism:
Buddhism:
Zen:
Hinduism:
Islam:
Protestantism:
Catholicism:
Judaism:
Atheism:
Agnosticism:
"Shit happens"
"Confucius says shit happens"
"If shit happens, it’s not really shit"
"What is the sound of shit happening?"
"This shit happened before"
"If shit happens it is the will of Allah"
"Let shit happen to someone else"
"If shit happens you deserve it"
"Why does this shit always happen to us?"
"I don’t believe this shit"
"What is this shit?"
-unknown-
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
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