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Offline FlyingDevildog

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Re: Great Quotes
« Reply #30 on: May 11, 2019, 03:41:11 PM »
never pass up a bathroom, never trust a fart, and never waste a hard on.

 what movie is this from?
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Re: Great Quotes
« Reply #31 on: May 16, 2019, 08:44:54 AM »
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson                           
                           
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« Reply #32 on: May 26, 2019, 01:29:40 PM »
the Movie quote was from The Bucket List (spoken by Jack Nicholson).


"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed (quoted in You're teaching My Child What? by Miriam Grossman, MD)
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #33 on: May 30, 2019, 01:07:15 PM »
 Here's one that makes forced vaccination sound all the more ominous.

"The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on Buck v Bell (1927) which was deciding on forced sterilizations.
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"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2019, 05:59:01 PM »
Karl Jaspers “The power of leadership appears to be declining everywhere. More and more of the men we see coming to the top seem to be merely drifting.”

Ted Engstrom (former head of Youth for Christ, author of Making of a Christian Leader)  “ We see the tragedy of weak men in important places; little men in big jobs.”

British Essayist Walter Savage Landor “When little men cast long shadows it is a sign that the sun is setting.”

Isaiah 3:12 “As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.”
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #35 on: July 22, 2019, 08:24:28 AM »
"I want you, young men, to always bear in mind that it is the nature of fire to go out. You must keep it stirred, you must keep it fed, and you must remove the ashes" William Boothe, Salvation Army
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #36 on: September 22, 2019, 04:32:03 PM »
"There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom." Joao Coutinho

"We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific, difficult, manual tasks." Woodrow Wilson

(Quoted in a schoolsucks podcast)
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« Reply #37 on: November 22, 2019, 07:40:08 AM »
"The last time someone expected the American people to give up their guns we shot at them for 8 years straight. This country is not exactly known for our compliance. Every aspect of this country's history reeks of noncompliance."
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"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #38 on: November 22, 2019, 07:51:09 AM »
Here is a list of really great quotes on education from the Alliance for the Separation of School and State.

http://www.schoolandstate.org/quotes.htm
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #39 on: December 13, 2019, 03:00:46 PM »
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane" Philip K. Dick

"Humor is almost always anger with it's makeup on." Stephen King

"The best fighter is never angry." Lao Tzu
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #40 on: January 03, 2020, 10:23:23 AM »
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
Marilyn Monroe
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #41 on: April 17, 2020, 11:49:07 AM »
"We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking." Jonathan Swift
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31

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« Reply #42 on: April 17, 2020, 05:52:30 PM »
Maybe it's not a great quote, but still a good one:
"He is like a trained ape. Without the training."
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« Reply #43 on: April 18, 2020, 11:29:24 AM »
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"Well Peter, this is what comes of empire building."
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« Reply #44 on: June 12, 2020, 06:24:41 PM »
Maybe it's not a great quote, but still a good one:
"He is like a trained ape. Without the training."
Anything from Firefly is a great quote.

(not from firefly) "Looting is socialism without the middle man." Peter schiff
"For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Jesus Christ Luke 23:31