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Old 14-06-2009, 03:57 AM
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Lightbulb Obvious one...

The really obvious one was the one I should have thought of in the beginning...

"Don't quote me"
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Old 15-06-2009, 07:14 PM
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One of the best quotes is the Armageddon speech!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCJeR0UebR8

Such a great movie!
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Old 15-06-2009, 08:33 PM
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1 - "Nothing exists but atoms and empty space. Everything else is opinion."
Titus Lucretius Carus 99-55 B.C.

2 - "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
Stephen Hawking

3 - “To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
Stephen Hawking

4 - “Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
Stephen Hawking

5 - "Life is short, the art is long, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult."
Hippocrates

6 - "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato

7 - "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."
Socrates

8 - "Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it."
Thales


I am a big fan of Stephen Hawking and Greek philosophy....
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Old 15-06-2009, 08:38 PM
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Oh.. and this one...

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Robert J. Hanlon

Known as Hanlon's Razor
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Old 15-06-2009, 08:57 PM
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If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes
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Old 15-06-2009, 09:10 PM
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I feel terrible quoting this one
"Life is like a bowl of cherries"
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