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Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 01:45 PM Jan 2020

Quoth the Raven: Post Your Favorite Quotes!

Why not post your favorite quotes? A potent quote can stir the mind and light the fuse of conceptual fireworks. This station is tuned to inspiration.

And so it begins:

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."
- Henry David Thoreau

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
- Henry David Thoreau

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Quoth the Raven: Post Your Favorite Quotes! (Original Post) Newest Reality Jan 2020 OP
"We are better than that" mainstreetonce Jan 2020 #1
never argue with stupid people, unblock Jan 2020 #2
Some things never change Mad Lib Jan 2020 #3
Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government. Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2020 #4
A confusion of the real kairos12 Jan 2020 #5
This one brings Trump to mind lunatica Jan 2020 #6
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; lpbk2713 Jan 2020 #7
Life is a great big canvas, Dem2theMax Jan 2020 #8
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Brother Buzz Jan 2020 #9
You should never try to teach a pig to sing. TomSlick Jan 2020 #10
Some more TexasBushwhacker Jan 2020 #11
'if you cant say something nice about someone, mopinko Jan 2020 #12
"I'm not a member of any organized political party... The Figment Jan 2020 #13
"When you're going through Hell, keep going." Trailrider1951 Jan 2020 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Jan 2020 #15
Those with no idea, have no idea, they have no idea. uriel1972 Jan 2020 #16

unblock

(52,323 posts)
2. never argue with stupid people,
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 01:51 PM
Jan 2020

they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
- samuel clemens

Mad Lib

(86 posts)
3. Some things never change
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 01:55 PM
Jan 2020

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. [Anatole France]

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
6. This one brings Trump to mind
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 03:54 PM
Jan 2020

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Shakespeare ~ Macbeth

TexasBushwhacker

(20,214 posts)
11. Some more
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 11:44 PM
Jan 2020

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead

mopinko

(70,221 posts)
12. 'if you cant say something nice about someone,
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 12:19 AM
Jan 2020

come sit here by me'
i believe it was teddy roosevelt's niece alice.

Trailrider1951

(3,414 posts)
14. "When you're going through Hell, keep going."
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 10:22 PM
Jan 2020

Winston Churchill

"The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself." FDR

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain

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