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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 1, 2006 8:16:28 GMT -5
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond." -Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
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Post by Rick on Mar 1, 2006 22:23:29 GMT -5
Not really a qupte but:
The Origins of "Anyway"
The inspiring manifesto below was written by Kent M. Keith when he was a 19-year-old student at Harvard. Its original title is "The Paradoxical Commandments," and it was published in a booklet that Kent wrote for student leaders back in 1968. The Paradoxical Commandments immediately began circulating among students and later the general public in the U.S. and overseas. Occasionally, those who shared them changed a few words or changed the title and format. The author's name was often left off. One well-known version, with eight of the ten Paradoxical Commandments, was posted by Mother Teresa on the wall of Shishu Bhavan, her children's home in Calcutta.
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the best you've got anyway.
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 2, 2006 11:47:40 GMT -5
Hey Rick,
Once again I've caught you looking into my quote book. ;D
But this time I beat you to it. Check out page 1 of this thread.
But thank you for the history behind the quote, for I did not know the author or its ties to Mother Theresa.
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 2, 2006 11:48:12 GMT -5
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." -Charles Austin Beard
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Post by Rick on Mar 2, 2006 18:10:47 GMT -5
Hey Rick, Once again I've caught you looking into my quote book. ;D But this time I beat you to it. Check out page 1 of this thread. But thank you for the history behind the quote, for I did not know the author or its ties to Mother Theresa. You forget I can see your harddrives..... you should have taken more deductions on your taxes, you would get more money back...
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 3, 2006 13:58:47 GMT -5
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." -Christopher Morley
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 6, 2006 12:53:17 GMT -5
“I have no illusions. I lost them on my travels.” John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 7, 2006 9:23:07 GMT -5
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." -Anna Freud
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 8, 2006 10:23:15 GMT -5
"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke -- and found that life was duty." -Ellen Stugis Hooper
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 9, 2006 9:49:57 GMT -5
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 10, 2006 11:09:13 GMT -5
"Wit is educated insolence." -Aristotle
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 14, 2006 8:03:42 GMT -5
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." -Napoleon
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 16, 2006 8:41:23 GMT -5
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." -Harvey Fierstein
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 17, 2006 7:46:43 GMT -5
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 20, 2006 8:20:21 GMT -5
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 21, 2006 8:44:03 GMT -5
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 22, 2006 9:23:04 GMT -5
A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. – General George S. Patton
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 23, 2006 8:56:56 GMT -5
Two of a kind:
" Never deprive someone of their hope; it may be all they have." --- Author Unknown
Some of us prefer illusion to despair. – Nelson Muntz in “The Simpsons”
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 24, 2006 8:54:24 GMT -5
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is. - William George Jordan
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 27, 2006 8:12:05 GMT -5
To much of a good thing is wonderful – Mae West
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Post by spriskeptic on Mar 28, 2006 8:31:03 GMT -5
"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply." -Josh Billings, His Works Complete
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 3, 2006 7:45:21 GMT -5
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." -Christopher Morley
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 4, 2006 7:00:07 GMT -5
To much of a good thing is wonderful – Mae West
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 5, 2006 7:17:14 GMT -5
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller
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Post by Rick on Apr 5, 2006 7:50:50 GMT -5
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Ralph the dog after falling out of the window
You stupid Cat!!!!!! Me after Ralph fell out of window on my head.
Looks like you need to see the doctor...
My wife after seeing my ear after Ralph the dog fell out of the window landing on my Ear
We need to stitch that up My doctor.
Put your earing in and it will hold the bandage on
Nurse trying to be funny.
<this happened a couple of years ago>
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 7, 2006 9:53:09 GMT -5
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." -Johann von Goethe
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 10, 2006 7:46:02 GMT -5
Those who see the farthest have their eyes put out. – Kim Stanley Robinson from The Years of Rice and Salt
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 11, 2006 7:30:42 GMT -5
Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill. - Jacob M. Braude
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 12, 2006 9:45:05 GMT -5
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
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Post by spriskeptic on Apr 13, 2006 7:38:12 GMT -5
"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -Abraham Lincoln
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