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Would you like to share any quote you liked?

Asked by imrainmaker (8380points) August 21st, 2017
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imrainmaker's avatar

Here’s one – We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

jonsblond's avatar

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

Kardamom's avatar

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi.

jonsblond's avatar

One more from me: “Breathe it all in. Love it all out.” – Mary Oliver

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned. – Richard Feyman.

Everyone is a genius
But if you judge a fish on it’s ability to climb a tree
It will live it’s whole life believing it is stupid
– Not Einstein.

ragingloli's avatar

“Kill white people and get paid for it? What’s not to like?” – Django Freeman

JLeslie's avatar

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?” Albert Einstein

Knowing what not to do is not the same as knowing what to do. Me.

“In the south we don’t ask if you have crazy people in your family; we ask, what side are they on?” Julia Sugarbaker Designing Women.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning” Albert Einstein

“Don’t write down anything that you don’t want other people to know” My mother when I wanted to buy a diary in 6th grade.

“Do what you want to do while you can do it” my grandma Irene.

If people are good only because of the fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” Albert Einstein

“We see things as we are, not as they are,” Rosten

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Theodor Seuss Geisel

“Forgiveness is letting go of the idea that the past could be different.” Heard it on Oprah, but she was quoting someone else.

Sneki2's avatar

A remarkable, glorious achevement is just what a series of unremarkable, unglorious tasks looks like from far away. – from some website, I didn’t bother remembering the author.

Sneki2's avatar

*achievement. Dammit

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boffin's avatar

“If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.”
— Mark Donohue

NomoreY_A's avatar

“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, God is all powerful – draw your own conclusions”. Anonymous

Pachy's avatar

“That’s too bad.”

President Donald Trump’s response to news that 10 sailors could be dead”

flutherother's avatar

“An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud”
D. Trump.

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MooCows's avatar

“Even when you know you are wrong…you are right.
Because knowing you are wrong makes you right!”

Patty_Melt's avatar

“I am Groot.”

LostInParadise's avatar

If I am not for myself who is for me?
And being for my own self, what am ‘I’?
And if not now, when?
Hillel

I love this quote and don’t know why I did not think of it earlier. I particularly like the way second line complements the first. Instead of condemning those who are self-centered as greedy or villainous, it says that they limit the scope of who they are.

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