A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives"
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"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
Winston Churchill
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"Why do the trees conceal the splendor of their roots"?
Pablo Neruda
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"An Honest man is always a child."
Socrates
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Plato
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Plato
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Albert Einstein
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"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
George Bernard Shaw
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“The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.”
John Cleese
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"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."
Author unknown. (Often attributed to Mark Twain).
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"Two nations divided by a common language."
Sir Winston Churchill
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"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required"
Sir Winston Churchill
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
Stephen Hawking
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"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
Albert Einstein
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them"
Karl Marx
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know"
Ernest Hemingway
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"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt
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"Below 40 degrees, there is no law. Below 50 degrees, there is no God."
Old Whaler's saying
(Speaking of 40 and 50 degrees south latitude and the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica)
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"Daniel-san, must talk. Man walk on road. Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk down middle, sooner or later, get squished."
Mr. Miyagi "The Karate Kid"
(If something is worth doing, go for it; all out. If it's not worth doing, don't waste your time)
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"No one gets to Antarctica by accident"
Eric's brother Richard. He and his wife went to Antarctica for his 50th birthday.
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"Regret and fear are twins who rob us of today"
Robert Hastings
(Regret deals with dwelling on the past; Fear deals with the future. The only thing that we have control over is the present)
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"90 percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name"
Dr. Henry Kissinger
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Response from Eric to the above warning.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
I'm schizophrenic,
and i am too.
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"
Albert Einstein
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation"
Henry Kissinger
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"for man with no forgiveness in heart, life worse punishment than death."
Mr. Miyagi
Karate Kid II
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"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein
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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
Albert Einstein
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"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
Pete Seeger
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"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
Cato the Elder
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
John Erskine
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
Albert Einstein
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"Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of it."
C P Scott, editor, Manchester Guardian
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"So much time, so little to do."
Willy Wonka (the original)
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"Wherever you go, there you are."
Author unknown
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The Muppet Movie (the original)
"I've seen detergents that leave a better film than this."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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Pooh
"I'm a bear of very little brain and long words bother me."
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Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act V Scene 5
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
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Star Trek Next Generation, Season 6
From the Episode "Tapestry"
Jean Luc Picard:
"There were loose threads, untidy parts of me that I would have liked to remove, but when I pulled on one of those threads, it unraveled the tapestry of my life."
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Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Act III Scene 2
Mark Antony:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar…. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it….
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
(For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral….
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Eric Stromberg