[ SUPER THREAD] Inspirational Quotes

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Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.

Elbert Hubbard



Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius COOL!



Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson





Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream

Malcolm Muggeridge




They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759




I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

William Gibson





Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.





Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy





The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

Freud





Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Solomon Short



After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.

Spock, "Amok Time"





Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror"






History tends to exaggerate.

Col. Green
"The Savage Curtain"




Men of peace usually are brave.

Spock
"The Savage Curtain"






There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln
"The Savage Curtain"





"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

Chinese Proverb




"Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people."

Richard Armour



"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.




Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack."

Winston Churchill



Ratio of Americans who die from tobacco-related illnesses each year to the number who are murdered : 17:1

September issue of Harper's Index

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"War is progress, peace is stagnation."

Hegel




A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.

Edgar A. Shoaff




A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill




An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.






Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Ayn Rand





Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Churchill





Conserve energy -- make love more slowly.






Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.






He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Giacomo Leopardi





If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Einstein





Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier





It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.





Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel





Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goethe





I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Xenocrates





I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon (the original)





They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Dorothy Parker





He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.





No guts, no glory.
No pain, no gain.






Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils.