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Posted: 9/30/2008 1:45:06 PM EST

Lets see how many good, single quotes we can get. One per poster, and please don't repeat ones already posted.

Here is mine:

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

-Simone Weil

Thoughts? What have you got?

-Ben

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:46:16 PM EST

[#1]

My sig is pretty good.

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:46:54 PM EST

[#2]

Quoted:
My sig is pretty good.

+1

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:46:59 PM EST

[#3]

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:47:34 PM EST

[#4]

There are only two certainties in life, death and taxes.

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:48:19 PM EST

[#5]

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity." -- Albert Einstein

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:48:38 PM EST

[#6]

Get busy living, or get busy dying. - Andy Dufresne

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:48:42 PM EST

[#7]

Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:50:12 PM EST

[#8]

"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:50:18 PM EST

[#9]

"There's two kinds of people in this world----those who think there's two kinds of people and those that don't."

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:50:21 PM EST

[#10]

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun. He is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
--Thoreau

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:50:55 PM EST

[#11]

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Einstein

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:54:40 PM EST

[#12]

TJ: "The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.....it is its natural manure."

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:55:14 PM EST

[#13]

My Fathers last words
"Be careful Son, that gun might be Lo..."

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:55:21 PM EST

[#14]

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit - you'll be a winner.
The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
- Paul William "Bear" Bryant

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:57:23 PM EST

[#15]

Life is tough...It's even tougher when you're stupid.

Motto of the 1703rd Provisional Air Wing, KKIA, Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf War I, August 1990 to March 1991.

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:59:08 PM EST

[#16]

"It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener." It's a quote from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, but I'm not sure who said it.

Posted: 9/30/2008 1:59:33 PM EST

[#17]

"I only had 80 pounds in my ruck the last couple days. I'll swap out with you for AG/AB today."

holy christ. my body hurts.

wrong thread. whatever.

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." - FDR

vs

"This sucker's going down!" - GWB

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:00:13 PM EST

[#18]

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

- P.J. O'Rourke

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:01:24 PM EST

[#19]

I drank what...? -Socrates

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:03:40 PM EST

[#20]

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:04:52 PM EST

[#21]

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."

-Yahweh.

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:06:34 PM EST

[#22]

Don't judge someone until you have walked a thousand miles in there shoes. That way when you judge them you will be a thousand miles away and they will have no shoes.

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:10:30 PM EST

[#23]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:11:09 PM EST

[#24]

Hold my beer and watch this

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:12:53 PM EST

[#25]

time is what keeps things from happening all at once...

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:13:53 PM EST

[#26]

I would like to buy Obama for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth.

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:16:03 PM EST

[#27]

Quoted:
My Fathers last words
"Be careful Son, that gun might be Lo..."

I know I've heard that somewhere. Where's that from?

"I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it"

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:16:55 PM EST

[#28]

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country......he won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:18:00 PM EST

[#29]

written by Lord Alfred Tennyson in Ulysses

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

a Philippine proverb

I had no shoes and I complained; until I met a man that had no feet.

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:18:18 PM EST

[#30]

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." — Sir Alex Fraser Tyler (1742-1813)

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:19:09 PM EST

[#31]

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that "news" is not something that happens to other people.

Robert A. Heinlein

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:19:47 PM EST

[#32]

"... but I poop from there!"

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:20:51 PM EST

[#33]

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

americanrevival.org/quotes

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:21:32 PM EST

[#34]

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:23:38 PM EST

[#35]

The only easy day was yesterday. Some of you will know where that comes from.

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:23:40 PM EST

[#36]

The difficult we can do immediately
The impossible takes a little longer

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:24:34 PM EST

[#37]

Win. Pure win. Win slathered with win, wrapped inside win, sealed in a bag of win and stored in the win freezer.

Posted in another thread. I LoL'd.

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:25:36 PM EST

[#38]

For the true warrior the fear of dying in battle is never as great as the fear of being unworthy to enter into it.

--Phil Messina

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:25:54 PM EST

[#39]

"never raise your hand at a child, it leaves your midsection exposed"

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:29:35 PM EST

[#40]

sig line

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:30:24 PM EST

[#41]

"I've been to 57 states - two more to go...."
-Barack Obama

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:30:47 PM EST

[#42]

Plan for the worst, hope for the best.

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:32:20 PM EST

[#43]

"Fuck it. I'm foing." -????

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:34:11 PM EST

[#44]

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. "

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:34:32 PM EST

[#45]

If I had kept my mouth shut, I wouldn’t be here.
Sign under a mounted fish

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:36:00 PM EST

[#46]

Quoted:
The only easy day was yesterday. Some of you will know where that comes from.

SEALS, correct?

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:36:18 PM EST

[#47]

We must always have old memories and young hopes.

Arsene Houssaye

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:37:28 PM EST

[#48]

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with pockthread, do. Else if you would be a man speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be misunderstood! Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:40:26 PM EST

[#49]

In my sig line:

"Posted by Mxpatriot51: Yep, IPSC is a racist sport. Shoot the brown ones, don't shoot the white ones, and the black ones don't count."

Posted: 9/30/2008 2:42:54 PM EST

[#50]

If pro is the opposite of con then what is the opposite of Progress?

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