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Famous Quotes and laws of reality...

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  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
    -- James Gordon Bennett
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
    -- Lewis Mumford
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    @Kamigoroshi I'm just reading the Dune series again. This was perfectly timed for me... Now I only have to discover how you're spying me :wink:
  • KamigoroshiKamigoroshi Member Posts: 5,870
    @mlnevese Not as perfectly timed as I'd wished it to be. Given that the upcoming Dune movie won't air until 2020. :p
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    @Kamigoroshi By 2020 this thread should have gained a few more pages... just post it again and nobody but the Ancient Ones will remember :)
  • BillyYankBillyYank Member Posts: 2,768
    Half of the third season of the Extra Credits series Extra Sci Fi dealt with Herbert and the creation of Dune:


  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    “It’s a long road to wisdom, it’s a short one to being ignored.” Lumineers, Flowers in your Hair.
  • shabadooshabadoo Member Posts: 324
    If life has given you lemons, find someone who's life has given them vodka and have a party.
    -Ron White(comedian)
  • Montresor_SPMontresor_SP Member Posts: 2,208
    I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first the ones who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    - Abraham Lincoln

    By the way, can you tell me where he gets his whiskey? He has given us successes, and if his whiskey does it, I should like to send a barrel of the same brand to every general in the field.

    - Abraham Lincoln (attributed), responding to allegations of Ulysses S. Grant being a drunkard
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
    -- Alexander Woollcott
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
    -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed
  • BillyYankBillyYank Member Posts: 2,768
    “A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”
  • ArviaArvia Member Posts: 2,101
    @BillyYank , right, that's one of her best ones!
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
    -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • ArviaArvia Member Posts: 2,101
    "Death is lighter than a feather, duty is heavier than a mountain."

    (Lan Mandragoran in The Wheel of Time)
  • Montresor_SPMontresor_SP Member Posts: 2,208
    "I have a reason to look ugly. Most people don't."

    - Niki Lauda
  • ArviaArvia Member Posts: 2,101
    "I have a reason to look ugly. Most people don't."

    - Niki Lauda

    And may he rest in peace.
  • Montresor_SPMontresor_SP Member Posts: 2,208
    A country’s political system is based on its code of morality.

    - Ayn Rand
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it ... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
    -- Will Rogers
  • shabadooshabadoo Member Posts: 324
    I'm not sure where she got it from, but a radio personality in my city is always saying: "If you're going to be stupid you better be tough".
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
    -- Emersons' Law of Contrariness
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
    -- Ivern Ball, "Modern Secretary"
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