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Quotes for Hard Times
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Re: Quotes for Hard Times

P.S. I DIDN'T EAT THAT FUCKIN SANDWICH OR THE TOIELET THING EITHER! - Robert Hawkins
01-11-2009 08:34 AM
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Dont worry about a thing. 'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright. - Bob Marley
02-13-2009 01:43 PM
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Heart of Shadows Wrote:It doesn't matter if your pretty, ugly, fat, skinny, rich or poor.
Everyone dies.. And a corpse can't laugh..

-Eddie Dowboski

Wow, I read this here before playing SH2 and now that I did, when Eddie said that I was like "This sound so familiar!" and today I was looking again here for no reason and found it and was like "now everything makes sense" ,lol.

I like that quote so much.
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I don't have a favorite quote but for me, here's something personal that I can say: "Times may be hard but it doesn't mean we should loose all hope. We must still take care of ourselves, from our dental and overall health, to our way of living. Live with dignity amidst all the hardships in life because at the end that's all we have."
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back." -- Arthur Rubinstein

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it." -- Buckminster Fuller

"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." -- Carl Sandburg

"Life is just one damned thing after another." -- Elbert Hubbard
07-24-2009 07:21 AM
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Rome wasn't built in a day. -can't remember

When life give you lemons, do whatever the fuck you want with them. Don't listen to others and their vices, except if it's some starving African hobo. Still it's your choice. -me

CUMSHOT YEAH -me when bored and on IRC

Accepting whatever you're told might be the easy way, but it's not the best. -me again

It will soon pass. -various, includes Bobby McFerrin and Wolfeh

NIGGERS!!! -|55555|


EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9K4BKkLaCI I once just played this song on my head during the last days of school. Because of this certain teacher of mine, I was REALLY on edge almost the entire day (doubly so because it was near the end of the year), and then I found this song.
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If you're fighting for a dream, then never give up and(other and/or yourself said) just let it be, because you never know how close you're to making history. - First quote myself

Only when you can say goodbye to yesterday, do you realize that you live a life worth living to the end of your days.(or that you're living at all) Second quote myself

(message) I add these as extra add on that can be use with the quote.
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Sometimes, money costs too much. - A fortune cookie I once read.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government. - Thomas Jefferson.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll

" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
09-06-2009 09:16 AM
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"When life gives you lemons, make orange juice and let everyone wonder how you did it." - Unknown
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Had an idea. This thread should be renamed " Quotes for Truth and Great Justice. " Being SS and all.

" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
09-07-2009 01:48 PM
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"Smile fuckers" -Evestus

"Not even in the face of Armageddon, Never compromise" -Rorschach
09-07-2009 01:49 PM
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"Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?" - Nietzsche

"The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXMA34CeoQ
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I like the Rorschach one. I think I'm going to put it in my sig.
09-08-2009 03:47 AM
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'Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.

Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.'

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Hanny Wrote:'Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.

Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.'

Laugh Win.

" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
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Life isn't about surviving. It's about living.

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when life gets down
and things get tragic
have a spliff
cos its fucking magic
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The ones in my sig

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I think, therefore, I.M.
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"And from that day forward anytime a bunch of animals are together in one place IT'S CALLED A ZOO!"

-THe Soldier
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" If you wanted to invent a mechanism to drive people insane, I mean literally insane, so they don't follow their own best interest and good common sense, the school bell would be it. "
- John Taylor Gatto

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
~Author Unknown

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~Robert Byrne

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
~Charles Schulz

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
~Lillian Dickson

Hugs are the universal medicine.
~Author Unknown

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.
~Lewis B. Smedes

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" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
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One of my favorites quotes

"Do not judge people who try and fail but those who fail to try" -Tom Hopkins
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"Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

-Bruce Lee.

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"No matter what, we'll get out of this!" Smoke on the water...
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"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."
Geroge Carlin

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"History will win. The world will be elevated to a better place. Will we survive? That depends on us." Julian Assange

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." - Anita Koddick

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby


"Life is all too short and precious to waste doing things we don't want to do." - Sarah Fitz-Claridge (a psychologist)

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." - Albert Einstein

"Sometimes you need to run away to see who will follow you."- Unknown

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” – Harry S. Truman


"When I was five years old, my mom always told me happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “Happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life." -- Unknown

“Fulfilment is reaching your own expectations, not the expectations of others.”


“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
-Juan Ramón Jiménez

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Pieman Wrote:"
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
So does insanity

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Again, I agree with you. School does teach you things. And once again, you are missing the point entirely. It's not that I disagree with school's mission or the things it teaches. What I object to is that the students are deprived of any choice in the matter. As benign as the intentions may be, any system that forces people into an environment where they have no say in their lives is a situation ripe for abuse of power.

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Specially the quote by the Arabian Poverb blew me away Biggrin
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“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
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