"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."~John Cusack

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."~Katherine Hepburn

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"doubt everything, believe nothing, because life lives on lies."~[GH]Wallace (game helper on the MMORPG Dragon's Call)

"A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation."~Thomas Jefferson

"A warrior takes sword in hand, clasping a gem to his heart. Engraving vanishing memories into the sword, he places finely honed skills into the stone. Spoken from the sword, handed down from the stone. Now the story can be told..."~from the opening sequence of the video game 'Final Fantasy Tactics'; quoted by detour103

My mom got this calendar about left-handed people this year, and the following is just about all of the quotes from that calendar from the weekend of July 23/24 onwards."I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions, they will be moved to act."~Bill Gates ( Read more... )

I found a bunch of legal quotes last night.

"I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer."-Adolph Hitler

"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Where law ends, tyranny begins."-William Pitt

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I am not so modest as to not include at least some of the numerous quote-ables I have come up with over the years...

"What is science but the imagination of God himself?"~April 14, 2011

"War is the fault of fathers and mothers, fought by children."~November 23, 2010

"Everything has its time, and everything ends."~July 1, 2010

All quotes in this post come from Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku."If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it."~Albert Einstein ( Read more... )

"Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire."~Linda Berdoll ( Read more... )

Dakh'uh pthak. Nam-tor ri ret na'fan-kitok fa tu dakh pthak.
Cast out fear. There is no room for anything else until you cast out fear.

Vah mau vah tor-yehat ri stau. Kup-fun-tor ha'kiv na'ish du stau? Dom nam-tor vohris nem-tor ha'kiv.
As far as possible, do not kill. Can you return life to what you kill? Then be slow to take life.Ma etek natyan ( Read more... )