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- Brookoioioi
Some of my favorites, please add some more!
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North Whitehead
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
JBS Haldane
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
JBS Haldane
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
TH Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
TH Huxley
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
TH Huxley
- mg330
"Assumption is the bomb that will destroy us."
By me, 1997.
- kyl30
fries with that shake?
_not sure
- xovi0
"An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality."
- xovi0
: "a wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"
"memories are like stones: time and distance erode them like acid"
"there are those that build houses for themself, and then there are those that build houses for others to look at."
- gruntt0
You don't buy beer, you rent it.
(not sure)
- ********0
"Get back to work."
My boss, 2 seconds ago.
- xovi0
"Get back to work."
My boss, 2 seconds ago.
skt
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LOL@skt
- weestu0
"Get off my elevator"
Kool Keith
- Engage0
Jim's Dad: It's like playing a tennis ball against a brick wall, which can be fun. It can be fun, but it's not a game.
Jim: Right.
Jim's Dad: It's not a game.
Jim: No.
Jim's Dad: What you want is a partner to return the ball.
- fullerc0
"Hey cock smoker!
Go eat a bag of dicks!"QOTSA
- gruntt0
'Good character' is often given the credit that 'lack of opportunity' deserves.
- Brookoioioi0
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Sir Francis Bacon
- Mal0
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
Celia Green
- Brookoioioi0
Beware, when you stare into the void, the Void begins to stare back into you."
Nietzsche
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Voltaire
- Bluejam0
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
- those0
'I don't know... hit it with a shoe... what am I..? Freakin' Quincy..?'
Bob Fossil
- ghandolf0
'Normal', is the average of all the insanity in the world.
- flagellum0
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
- C.S. Lewis
"If it could be shown that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."
- Charles Darwin
"But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it."
- John Stuart Mill
"Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless."
- C.S. Lewis
- fullerc0
You're an ugly, fat faced zero, and I'm a famous multi millionaire. Those are the facts there, dear sweet kevin :)
Joe Rogan
- fullerc0
How many medications are YOU on and then you tell me who is the depressed attention-whore... Enjoy balding,
MySpace Kevin