What sort of saying or quote do you live by?

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Success is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.

Haters are my motivators.

an eye for an eye

only two things are infinate in the world, the universe and human studpidity, i am not sure about the universe

'The strong are saying nothing until they see.' - Robert Frost

'Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it.' - W.B. Yeats

'What is now proved was only once imagined.' - William Blake

'This above all, to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.' - Shakespeare.


and no small few of my own.

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What is learning? Its paying attention. its opening yourself up to this great big ball of s**t that we call life! And whats the worst that could happen? You get bit in the ass! Well let me tell you, My ass looks like hamburger meat, But I can still sit down!

Lewis Black, Accepted(movie)

"It's good to shut up sometimes" Marcel Marceau

'Never trust a quote found on the internet' - Niccolo Machiavelli

'Never tell a lie' is another one I have.

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
- Orson Welles
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
- Albert Einstein
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
- Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
- Albert Einstein
"Why is it that when someone is sad we ask them what is wrong? If we are trying to cheer them up would it not be more efficient to have focus on what is right."
- Myself

Ood Sigma: We will sing to you, Doctor. The universe will sing you to your sleep. This song is ending. But the story never ends. ~ "The End of Time Part Two" Doctor Who

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I could conquer the world, if I conquer myself. ~ "K-9's Lament" Chameleon Circuit

It's a very, very mad world. ~ "Mad World" Tears for Fears

The Eleventh Doctor: The good things don’t always soften the bad, but vice-versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
~ "Vincent and the Doctor" Doctor Who

Some are in my signature, some are here:

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." ~George Burns

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." ~Will Rogers


“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ~Plato (an ancient Greek philosopher)

I don't necessarily live by any quotes, but I find these worth remembering:

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
-Hunter S. Thompson

But I repeat to you for the hundredth time that there is one case and only one, when man may deliberately and consciously desire something that is downright harmful even stupid, even extremely stupid, and that is: to have the right to desire what is even extremely stupid and not to be duty bound to desire only what is intelligent.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
-Hugh Macleod

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I don't discriminate-- I hate everybody.

"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand."
-Homer Simpson

Buy a ticket and ride the ride.

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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance”
-Robert Quillen

“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”
-Dave Barry

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” 
― Aldous Huxley

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
-1984

"Sanity is not statistical."
-1984

war is peace 
freedom is slavery 
ignorance is strength
- 1984

Dripping water can pierce a stone

“...fact takes no heed of human hope
-the sleeper awakes

“That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.” 
― Max Barry

Never run with scissors

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My forum is still there and everyone is welcome to come join as well. There is a private women only subforum there if anyone is interested. Also, there is no CAPTCHA.

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I n a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist so don;t ask for one. - Ze Frank