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I have taped over my desk at work (which has really helped me through the times when I question why I'm at work), "Do not do what you want, and then you may do what you like." (Sadasiva)

Oft said but always helpful when I am over-analyzing something: shit happens.

"And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home"..... Christopher Columbus.

whenever people banter on and act so shocked and appalled by the stupid things others do... my general comment is: "trees are wood"

some things just aren't going to change... no matter how much we gripe about them

It shall pass......

"we run past what we need chasing what we want"

The best things will happen when you ask a question that has never been asked before. Often, this question is simply "Why not?"
- Me

(At least I hope. I have never heard that before and I thought it was kind of good. If someone has already said that, please let me know so I can once again puncture my ego.)

6P - Proper planning prevents piss poor performance

heres some of my favourites:

"don't worry be hippie"-unknown

"all you need is love"-John Lennon

"one mans hell is another mans heaven"-unknown

"free your mind and open the doors of perception"-unknown

and heres a verse i like from a certain song:

jesus was a capricorn he ate organic food
he believed in peace and love and never wore no shoes
long hair,beard,and a funky bunch of friends
reckon if he was alive today they'd nail him up again

I live by the quote in my signature, which is taken from a poem, Risk.

"The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. Only a person who risks is free."

Another quote I love, although not a one liner but we appear to have evolved along the way so I'll post it anyway:

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it, not even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense" - Buddha.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes it is not what you choose to do that is important, but what you choose not to do.
ANON

Pick your battles
My mother said this to me often; once I replied "I pick all of them!" What a petulant child.

"If children always took the advice of their parents, we'd still be living in caves."

This, and other wisdom in today's Jon Carroll column.

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

~ Andrew Carnegie

Six lines:

"Better ask questions, before you shoot
Deceit and betrayal's a bitter fruit
It's hard to swallow
Come time to pay
That taste on your tongue
don't easily slip away."

Bruce Springsteen (before the invasion of Irag)

One fitting for the political climates...

quote:

If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning.

Robert S. McNamara from The Fog of War

Skobb - that's very interesting. I like it.

And another:

"The essence of life is change, a panoply of growth and decay. Elect life and growth, and you elect change and the prospect of death."

From 'The Road Less Traveled' by M. Scott Peck


[Sorry, it's not a one-liner]

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Oh JESUS, Eowyn: that is about the most dulsatory, dark thing I have ever read. How about "the slowest way to die is to be born."

YUCK.

Ah, salmo, I'm here to brighten your day as usual. Isn't that my job?

Actually it doesn't have to be taken in a grim light; the quote is taken out of context, and you can interpret it in different ways. The book is full of really great stuff, but most of the quotes are like a paragraph long.