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Seldon2639

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NoMoreSanity said:
" I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds " ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer after seeing the first nuclear bomb detonate in front of him, the bomb he helped create.
The quotation I saw of this has him referencing "Shiva, destroyer of worlds", but that's neither here nor there.

My favorites are my family's motto:

"Never pass up the opportunity to do a good deed."

One from Oscar Wilde:

"Quando dio vuole castigarci ci manda quello che desideriamo"

"When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

And finally one from Joss Whedon:

"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do."
 

GonzoGamer

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Mr0llivand3r said:
"Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza"

lol 2 points to whoever can identify that phrase

but seriously, anything Bruce Lee said while he was a live. he was a great philospher
TMNT1 - I'm old.

Yes, Bruce was a genius. Get the Tao of Jeet Kun Do if you want a whole book of these kinds of things. As someone who's trained in JKD, sparring is the best video game you'll ever play.

Lately I've been into HL Mencken for these kinds of phrases. He summed up America's last 8 years pretty well:

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart?s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.?
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Some other Mencken quotes:
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. [can also be applied to the Bush years]

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.


It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever
ineligible for public office.


The men that American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

And what might be my favorite:
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

I have tons more but this is already a great wall of text.
 

Kevvers

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stormcaller said:
*pulls out list of things the old guy says when you research new technologies in Civilization 4*

Yeah pretty much this.
That was Leonard Nimoy saying that I think.
 

MrGFunk

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Meet_Your_Doom said:
Any clever or witty things you'd like to share, feel free.
you asked for wise.

here's a personal one -" in all situations try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Sentiments can be misconstrued so always hear what is said as if meant with the best intentions."
Sometimes this is hard and usually takes time to think. I'm guilty of not doing this but it always has worked out when I have.
 

Zani

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"You live because we allow it and you will die because we demand it" - Mass Effect, Sovereign.

"Fortune favors the audacious" - Erasmus

"I am the king of Rome and therefor I am above grammar" Emperor Sigismund
 

Glerken

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Anarchemitis said:
Glerken said:
Anarchemitis said:
Cortheya said:
"He who controls the present controls the past" a nickel to whoever gets what its from
O'Brien from 1984. I effing hate that guy.

  • Love each other or Perish
    -Morrie Schwartz.
Orwell not O'Brien.
Orwell wrote it, the Character O'Brien said it.
Ah, thought you were quoting the quoter as the author, my mistake.