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Post by Hanna on Apr 23, 2007 3:43:40 GMT -5
"For your tomorrow, we gave our today."
From John Taveners song Exhortation and Kohima.
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Post by Isa on May 2, 2007 18:28:03 GMT -5
On the very first page of Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country:
"There is no reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia."
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Post by bookaddict on May 2, 2007 21:30:24 GMT -5
"Women are like tea bags, you never know how strong they are until they get into hot water" Eleanor Roosevelt
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Post by Isa on May 3, 2007 8:40:35 GMT -5
love that one!
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Post by Lu on May 3, 2007 14:15:53 GMT -5
I really liked a quote from Mark Twain mentioned in An Inconvenient Truth:
"What get us into truoble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so"
I hope it's correct because I've written it from memory.
Here's another Twain's quote I found on a website about him:
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
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Post by Isa on May 3, 2007 18:26:21 GMT -5
Another one by Vonnegut:
"Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes."
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Post by Lu on May 4, 2007 14:14:33 GMT -5
Me too. I also loved the one from Eleanor Roosevelt .
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Post by Hanna on May 4, 2007 18:57:33 GMT -5
I like what one of my high school teachers told us, when speaking of the Holocaust:
"The world is doomed if you don't read your history book."
Maybe I'll have that in my room when I'm a teacher of history :DI might do the same, Kristie!
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Post by Lu on May 6, 2007 2:49:37 GMT -5
A quote from Bertolt Brecht:
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Post by Hanna on May 7, 2007 5:08:23 GMT -5
I thought this one was funny, from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince:
"Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge."
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Post by Dominique on May 7, 2007 6:16:03 GMT -5
This is a quote from my friend's myspace that I thought funny:
"Hello, I'm President George W. Bush, and I would like to buy some oil.
That will be six million military casualties, sir.
May I pay with.... American Tax Dollars? "
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Post by Bina on May 7, 2007 6:45:17 GMT -5
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel by Samuel Johnson or Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. By Robert Benchley who is always good for a quote
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Post by Dominique on May 7, 2007 8:10:50 GMT -5
These are more from my friend, very crazy and funny (to me at least) "I haven't slept for ten days......because that would be too long."
On an added note; when I die, I want to be buried in a bog.
I want to become a bog person!
The acidic and anaerobic bog water will preserve and tan my soft tissues, while dissolving the calcium in my bones.
The end result is that thousands of years later, someone will find my body, still posed as i have requested it: Giving the fonzie-style double thumbs up and holding a sign that says: "Dudes, What's shakin'."
Of course the sign itself will have to be made of skin and my body will all floppy because of the lack of a skeletal system but at least it will give something for the scientists of the future to think about: "Wow! Who was this incredible man?" "Why was he so concerned with what was shakin' with the dudes?"
"Is that what killed him....?"
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