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Favorite Quote?
The Theory Started conversation Dec 2, 2001
So what is everyone's favorite quote? It can be from a book, cd, speech, etc...
This one is from a cd by Joy Electric. You probably won't find it funny, but being a teen into hard music, it cracks me up...
"Heavy metal shirts aren't funny, COME HERE BOY I'LL SHOW YOU FUNNY."
peace.
Favorite Quote?
a girl called Ben Posted Dec 2, 2001
Goodness, there are so many of them.
Here is a favourite from my days as a radical: "Wearing Badges is Not Enough"
But my current favourite is probably from Carl Sagan: "To make an apple-pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"
a former-radical called Ben
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Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' Posted Dec 2, 2001
'We are the people our parents warned us about.'
(But who said it?! Driving me slightly distracted!)
Anything by Mae West. Like a million tonight but only one at a time, life in your men, when I'm bad I'm better etc. One for every occasion.
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a girl called Ben Posted Dec 3, 2001
And she looked great in corsets too. I have a fridge-magnet which says "When women go wrong, men go right after them".
But my most recent fridge magnet says; "You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing?"
B
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Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' Posted Dec 3, 2001
Heheh, we lead the way as always.
Reminds me of that t-shirt that says 'I'm not a bitch... I'm THE bitch, and that's Miss Bitch to you.' Hurrah.
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The Theory Posted Dec 3, 2001
Here is one that seems to hi-light the state of the way people interact with one another...
"Who are you, and what do you want?"
peace.
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The Sciolist Posted Dec 3, 2001
I have a couple of favourite quotes.
Man is Nature's sole mistake. -Sir Gilbert
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. -Einstein
If you are against abortion, get a vasectomy.
Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.
LOL,
-The Sciolist
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The Theory Posted Dec 3, 2001
The Einstein quote is too true... least that is what I have found. I can never seem to halt my idiotic musings of nothing...
peace.
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Mister Matty Posted Dec 3, 2001
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde
"I talk to God but the sky is empty" - Sylvia Plath
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the autist formerly known as flinch Posted Dec 3, 2001
"Women do need the vote, they need arming" - Agatha Christie
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The Theory Posted Dec 3, 2001
Agatha Christie is my *favorite* mystery book author... I enjoyed almost all of her books I read (which was a *good* many!)
peace.
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the autist formerly known as flinch Posted Dec 3, 2001
Doh! That should have read:
"Women don't need the vote, they need arming" - Agatha Christie
also
"Man is truly free only among equally free men" - Micheal Bakunin
"If i can't dance, it's not MY revolution." - Emma Goldman
"God make me chaste, but not yet" - St Augustine
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kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Dec 3, 2001
I really can't remember where I heard this but I feel it sums things up just right for me.
My continuing struggles in life are definitely a 'triumph of optimism in the face of experience'
vestigial
k
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The Theory Posted Dec 3, 2001
Ok... that makes a bit more sence *grin*
I make those kind of mistakes all the time...
Albert Camus said this...
"I have concluded that power in itself is neutral, neither evil nor good."
peace.
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Tube - the being being back for the time being Posted Dec 3, 2001
Ooooooh... a thread for me, alright, Ben! 
Let's see....
* Don't confuse vulnerability with weakness. Joan Saunders / Matt Ford
* Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, more void, simpler than these. Friedrich Nietzsche
* Never raise your voice over your horizon. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Never post too many quotes at once. They need space. 
These are just some from my Space. I shall frequent this thread with more and different ones. I like it! 
Tube
Favorite Quote?
Zero Irregardless Posted Dec 3, 2001
"Never call a man a fool. Borrow money from him." -- Mark Twain
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Mustapha Posted Dec 3, 2001
"Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' Lever... Give the right word and the right accent and I will move the world." - Joseph Conrad
"In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - John 1:1
"Know your enemy and know yourself - in one hundred battles you will never be defeated." - Sun Tzu
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Favorite Quote?
- 1: The Theory (Dec 2, 2001)
- 2: a girl called Ben (Dec 2, 2001)
- 3: The Theory (Dec 2, 2001)
- 4: Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' (Dec 2, 2001)
- 5: a girl called Ben (Dec 3, 2001)
- 6: Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' (Dec 3, 2001)
- 7: The Theory (Dec 3, 2001)
- 8: The Sciolist (Dec 3, 2001)
- 9: The Theory (Dec 3, 2001)
- 10: Mister Matty (Dec 3, 2001)
- 11: the autist formerly known as flinch (Dec 3, 2001)
- 12: The Theory (Dec 3, 2001)
- 13: the autist formerly known as flinch (Dec 3, 2001)
- 14: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Dec 3, 2001)
- 15: The Theory (Dec 3, 2001)
- 16: The Theory (Dec 3, 2001)
- 17: Tube - the being being back for the time being (Dec 3, 2001)
- 18: The Theory (Dec 3, 2001)
- 19: Zero Irregardless (Dec 3, 2001)
- 20: Mustapha (Dec 3, 2001)
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