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Post number 9904

bytecode — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:38:04 -0800

Generation Terrorists - This site, though oddly named, is a great site for finding quotes. It has pages and pages of fully searchable quotes. Its great for those times when you want to know who said a particular quote or the exact wording. Or even just for inspiration. My favorite is the Crazy & Mad section. Whats your favourite quote?

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:45:27 -0800

"There's nothing a good Agnostic can't accomplish as long as he's not sure whether he really believes in it or not" Graham Chapman

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 14:54:14 -0800

"There ain't any answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." -Gertrude Stein

By: culberjo

culberjo — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:24:15 -0800

"Optimism is true moral courage." -Ernest Shackleton, polar explorer

By: m.polo

m.polo — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:17:25 -0800

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein, stand-up physicist and general genius

By: ceiriog

ceiriog — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:30:30 -0800

"Gwell llaeth Cymru na chwrw Lloegr." Better Welsh milk than English beer. - Eirwyn Pontshân

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:34:07 -0800

"Who is John Galt?" (Come on, admit it - you know who said it)

By: moss

moss — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:03:13 -0800

"Philosophy and the study of the actual world have the same relation to one another as masturbation and sexual love." --Karl Marx

By: {savg*pncl}

{savg*pncl} — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:20:22 -0800

No wonder Marxism hasn't worked anywhere.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 19:17:11 -0800

Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear. --Alvaro Mutis, from The Adventures of Maqroll

By: fpatrick

fpatrick — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 19:18:16 -0800

Business quote: "The greatest force for improvement is resistance to change." -- Eli Goldratt General advice: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard Feynman Observation: "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov . . . and others found at this self-referenced collection

By: JParker

JParker — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:56:58 -0800

Douglas Adams: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Robert A. Heinlein: "A man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

By: aflakete

aflakete — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 00:52:34 -0800

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. Nancy Reagan Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neill

By: brookedel

brookedel — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:11:41 -0800

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damned fool about it." - W.C. Fields.

By: Opus Dark

Opus Dark — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:50:53 -0800

For every pit there is a cherry skin. For every cherry skin, there is a pit. And the reverse is also true. - Opus Dark

By: salmacis

salmacis — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 04:30:52 -0800

A palindrome: Retter si flahd noces eht tub; but the second half is better.

By: owen

owen — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:59:19 -0800

"Who is John Galt?" (Come on, admit it - you know who said it) I guess we know who David's hero is. But I find these things more fun when people share with the rest of the class.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:44:58 -0800

"I will not hang donuts on my person." -Everyone knows who.

By: Reggie452

Reggie452 — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:03:56 -0800

They probably took the name "Generation Terrorists" from the name of the first CD by the Manic Street Preachers (a band whose CD covers often contain quotes by different philosophers and socialists).

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 15:18:39 -0800

And of course: "I would never belong to a club that would have me as a member!" -- Groucho Marx