What is your favorite quote?

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I thought about the need for this thread a while ago, but now I don't remember which quote I've wanted to put... Sigh.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage, though I've heard that he wasn't the one to come up with it even though he spread its popularity

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"You should never let the sun set on tomorrow before the sun rises today." - From the Nine Days song "If I Am", could have originated somewhere else though

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton

I've got way, way too many quotes that I like. I also really like quotes from songs taken out of context such that they gain no concrete or meaningful meaning.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
— Abraham Lincoln

"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for awhile they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always." -Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (1869-1948)

"No-one dies a virgin. Life f**ks us all" - Kurt Cobain

“Dream as if you have forever. Live as if you only have today.”
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes. But he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
"An eye for an eye makes the world blind."

Something I heard from a friend today:
"I'm not just mean, I'm evil."

And something another friend wrote once:
" 'Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.' - Abraham Lincoln "
Yeah, it's a quote within a quote.

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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
- Groucho Marx

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."
- Oscar Wilde

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
- Robert J. Hanlon

"If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor."
"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
"Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right."
"If God had intended us not to masturbate he would've made our arms shorter."
- George Carlin

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
"Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
- Henry Louis Mencken

"Sometimes smart people are great at rationalizing the things they came to believe for not-smart reasons."
- Michael Shermer

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
"Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term."
- Carl Sagan

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head."
"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."
"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
- Terry Pratchett

"Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk, you would know the difference?"
"It's very sad how in the information age you cannot get information into people's heads."
"When homophobia trumps terrorism in America... wow. This country needs to get laid."
"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."
- Bill Maher

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"Censorship is the younger of two sisters. The older one is called inquisition."
- Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
"If you're going to tell the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you."
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We are a tragically confused species, not quite monogamous and not quite polygamous, which accounts for 90% of our great literature."
- Robert Sapolsky

"A chicken is just the tool that an egg uses to make another egg."
"All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it."
"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day."
- Samuel Butler

"Philosophy: Memorizing what which dead white guy said when."
- A wise person in another forum

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say 'we did it ourselves.'" - Lao Tzu

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you." - Max DePree

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." - Eric Hoffer

"Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead." - Ross Perot

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." - John Kenneth Galbraith

"Any problem, big or small, within people, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening." Origin:- Emma Thompson ( I change it to people ).