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This was just a random idea to post if it dies kewl if it lives, well wow.

Post your favorite quotes real simple.

"Wise man say, Do not use cannon to kill mosquito, use clusterbomb instead."

"BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD"

'If you can't dazzle them with your knowledge, baffle them with your bs!'

'One Englishman is a civilisation. Two is Afternoon Tea. Three is an Empire!'

'To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places – and there are so many – where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some g...rand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. '

"I hate humanity for I think of myself as one of the best of them and I know how bad I can be." - Joseph Barreti

'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.' ~Carl Saigan~

'Rejection makes men stronger. If you can't laugh about it... or at least use it as writing material, you're not a real man.' ~Jiraiya~

'Love me, hate me, or be indifferent. It matters not. Just respect me' ~Ye olde good self~

DOCTOR: 'It's funny, I thought if you could hear me, I could hang on somehow. Silly me. Silly old Doctor......When you wake up, you'll have a mom and dad, and you won't even remember me. Well, you'll remember me a little. I’ll be a story in your head....
That's okay. We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
Cause it was, you know - it was the best. The daft old man, who stole a magic box, and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it, I was gonna take it back. Oh that box, Amy, you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time! Brand new and ancient and the bluest of blue ever! And the times we had, eh?... would have had...never had....
In your dreams I'll still be there. The Doctor and Amy Pond, and the days that never came.... the cracks are closing, but they can’t close properly until I'm on the other side.... I don't belong here anymore...
I think I'll skip the rest of the rewind; I hate repeats. Live well, love Rory...

Bye bye, Pond. '

"I can imagine a land without war, a land without violence. A land of peace. And I can see us invading that land because they would never expect it!"

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development.

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." ~ C.S. Lewis~

'Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be an illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?' ~Itachi Uchiha~

'All men…are NOT created equal! Some are born smarter, or more beautiful, or with parents of greater status. Some, by contrast, are born weak of body or mind, or with few, if any, talents. All men are different! Yes, the very existence of man is discriminatory! That's why there is war, violence and unrest. Inequality is not evil. Equality is! What became of the EU, who claimed that all are equal? It is in constant conflict because its tenets go against human nature! '
~Emperor Charles di Brittania~

'Science is not an occult enterprise like alchemy. It's not for nobles and royals in their palaces, nor for monks in their cathedrals. Science is neither faith nor sorcery, it is provable fact that can transfigure and transform us at our very core! All the suffering of humanity, the ages of misery and darkness, science can change that. But what use is it if we don't bring its power to everyone? Mankind everywhere is in desperate need... they are waiting for the blessings of science!!'
~Edward Steam~

'In his Thoughts, which I have always considered fare badly in translation, Bouffant says that to intervening in order to prevent a murder is to curtail the freedom of the murderer, and yet that freedom, by definition, is natural and universal, without condition....Thus we might consider , for example, that taking a bottle from a man killing himself with drink is a charitable, nay, praiseworthy act, and yet freedom is curtailed once more.....Freedom may be mankind's natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling. On the other hand, Freidigger, in Modal Contextities, claims that all freedom is limited, artificial and therefore illusory, a shared hallucination at best. No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or divine can face it with open eyes'.

'During my 20 years in the military, I worked a great deal of time in the Intelligence field. When I worked at a Major General's HQ in the Operations and Training section, our office had numerous posters about "Possible Aggressors" with photos/drawings of Soviet/Chinese/North Korean equipment and uniforms.

Behind my desk, I had several pictures all with the captions "Possible Aggressors". Darth Vader, Klingons, Godzilla, Mojo Jojo and I believe Harley Quinn.

The few times someone raised an eyebrow, my boss (A Sergeant Major) would shrug his shoulders "He's an Intel Guy. You know about them."

Ketara wrote:
'During my 20 years in the military, I worked a great deal of time in the Intelligence field. When I worked at a Major General's HQ in the Operations and Training section, our office had numerous posters about "Possible Aggressors" with photos/drawings of Soviet/Chinese/North Korean equipment and uniforms.

Behind my desk, I had several pictures all with the captions "Possible Aggressors". Darth Vader, Klingons, Godzilla, Mojo Jojo and I believe Harley Quinn.

The few times someone raised an eyebrow, my boss (A Sergeant Major) would shrug his shoulders "He's an Intel Guy. You know about them."

thats awesome!

beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy-Benjamin franklin
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.-einstein

"I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge."
~J.R.R Tolkien

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."
~Adam Savage

“Sanity is madness put to good uses.”
~George Santayana

"If everything on Earth were rational, nothing would happen."
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but unable?
Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"
~Epicurus

"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
~Thomas Jefferson

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
— C.S. Lewis

"The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion."
~Treaty of Tripoli, 1797

"If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence you even tried."
~Steven Wright

"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world."
~Herman Melville

“It is the fundamental wisdom of the capitalist system that it functions irrespective of the wisdom or the stupidity of the capitalists.”
~Gustav Stolper

“Believing in capitalism does not mean believing in growth, the economy, or efficiency. Desirable as these may be, these are only the results. Belief in capitalism is, fundamentally, belief in mankind.”
~Johan Norberg

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
~Thomas Sowell

“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have as much.'”
~Phelps Adams

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”
~Arthur C. Clark

“Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.”
~Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.”
~Jack Handey

"Your foe is well-equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours."
~ Colonel Joachim Pfeiff, 14th Krieg Panzer Regiment

"Yea verily, though I charge through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am driving a house-sized mass of 'f*** you'."
~Anonymous Mammoth Tank crewman

"Do not waste your tears. I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men."
~Rogue Trader

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius

"It is a poor sheapred who blames his flock , this failure is yours and yours alone Eliphas.
Daemon Prince to Eliphas the Inheritor
"I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.'
'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.'
'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.'

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...

Rapture.

A city where the artist would not fear the censor,
where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality,
where the great would not be constrained by the small.

And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city, as well."
―Andrew Ryan

' Machete don't text'



Gold :-)

Some of my favorites have already been hit, but here are a couple more.

"All progress in human history is due to liberalism."
-George McGovern

"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men
and their story is not given only on stone over their clay
but abides everywhere without visible symbol
woven into the stuff of other men's lives."
-Pericles

"Speak softly, and carry a big stick. You will go far". - TR Roosevelt.

"Let the Galaxy burn!" - Arch-traitor Horus Luprecal

"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" - Monty Python

"Two things are limitless: The universe and the stupidity of mankind, and I'm not sure about the Universe." - Albert Einstein

"Compound interest is the most powerful force in the Universe" - Einstein

"Saw by saw I saw whereever I saw I saw saw by saw." - Random Swedish poet after visiting a Swedish town renowned for it's logging industry. Not joking BTW, it just happens to work just as well in English as in Swedish.

And, my personal favourite:

"Corporation. Noun: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce

"Why do these threads keep popping up!"

-Cheescat, April 2011

Misa: "I can't imagine a world without Light [Yagami]"
L: "Yes, it would be rather dark"

Cheesecat wrote:"Why do these threads keep popping up!"

-Cheescat, April 2011

"I don't know, Cheesecat. I think people like hearing what awesome people have to say."

-n0t_u, April 2011

n0t_u wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:"Why do these threads keep popping up!"

-Cheescat, April 2011

"I don't know, Cheesecat. I think people like hearing what awesome people have to say."

-n0t_u, April 2011

"I lick myself in places I didn't know I had."

-WarOne, April 2011 (Unconfirmed)

"You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives."
— Gary Busey

'God and the soldier, all men adore In time of danger and not before. When the danger is passed and all things righted, God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted.'

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for the..
-John Donne

If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
-Jeff Dunham

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
-Douglas Adams

"If it scatters into your tactical squad, Ill laugh at you until I pee myself. If it scatters into my boyz, you can punch me in the mouth"
KingCracker at random game

" If you give blood..you get cookies,but if you spill it...you get headlines.."

Don't recall where I heard it...but it's stuck with me for years..

n0t_u wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:"Why do these threads keep popping up!"

-Cheescat, April 2011

"I don't know, Cheesecat. I think people like hearing what awesome people have to say."

-n0t_u, April 2011

While it was cool the first time it's sort of lost it's excitement value after being done over several times, it's just not very interesting of a thread anymore.

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." Einstein

"What could possibly go wrong?" - Anyone just before doing something that goes hideously wrong.

Oh yeah and another thing for all y'all that don't do gangsta rap
Don't get on T.V. talkin' about gangsta rap
Cause 9 times at of 10 you don't know the feth you're talkin' about
Talk about that bs rap you do
And stay the feth out of mines
-Ice Cube

feth the beat, listen to the words in the damn song.
-Dark Man X

Anything by George Carlin or Woody Allen

"any man who says he can see through women is missing a lot"

" Revenge is a dish best served with mayonaisse and those little Cheesy sticks"

And most of the prayers in the Guardsmans primer.


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"any man who says he can see through women is missing a lot"

" Revenge is a dish best served with mayonaisse and those little Cheesy sticks"

And most of the prayers in the Guardsmans primer.

"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing." - Albert Camus


"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." - Philip K. Dick.


"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” - Hunter S. Thompson


"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -Hunter S. Thompson


“Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.” - Homer Simpson


"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan


"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner." - Aleister Crowley


"Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security." - Benjamin Franklin


"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." - J. Robert Oppenheimer


"I don't have pet peeves, I have major psychotic fething hatreds." - George Carlin


"If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fethed up. " - Mitch Hedberg


"I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bs. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are." - Bill Hicks


"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you." - Bill Hicks


"We declared war on terror—it's not even a noun, so, good luck. After we defeat it, I'm sure we'll take on that bastard ennui." - Jon Stewart


"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson


"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fething effort. Thre is a difference." - Bill Hicks


The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." - Carl Sagan


"To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself." - Albert Einstein


"If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get... " - Hunter S. Thompson


"Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it." - Mark Twain


I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. - Susan Sontag

I will fear not when I am in the valley of the shadow of death, because i'm the baddest fether in the entire damn valley.
Patton I believe.

There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
Kill them, kill them all.
Exterminatus: the only way to be sure.
There will be no peace, until every last man, woman, and child is dead.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

my warboss has not felt pain in 4 months... he must be getting pretty flabby.

I recognise some of these, and there a plenty of good ones I hadn't heard before. I haven't seen this one yet.

"Endure and Prevail." -Attributed to the Polish Hussars

And there are plenty of dakka quotes that deserve to be mentioned.

"That's the poorest quality arguement I've ever heard, and I've been on the internet." -sebster