The Perpetual Quotes And Sayings Thread! :)

elton · May 13, 2005

No resit in LIFE

slyf0z_87 · May 13, 2005

"A Man Deserves To Choose His Destiny" (or sumthine like that)-Guess Who?

wodenus · Jun 12, 2005

Jean Jacques Rousseau said:

"The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before." This is the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution.

The clauses of this contract are so determined by the nature of the act that the slightest modification would make them vain and ineffective; so that, although they have perhaps never been formally set forth, they are everywhere the same and everywhere tacitly admitted and recognised, until, on the violation of the social compact, each regains his original rights and resumes his natural liberty, while losing the conventional liberty in favour of which he renounced it.

These clauses, properly understood, may be reduced to one — the total alienation of each associate, together with all his rights, to the whole community; for, in the first place, as each gives himself absolutely, the conditions are the same for all; and, this being so, no one has any interest in making them burdensome to others.

Moreover, the alienation being without reserve, the union is as perfect as it can be, and no associate has anything more to demand: for, if the individuals retained certain rights, as there would be no common superior to decide between them and the public, each, being on one point his own judge, would ask to be so on all; the state of nature would thus continue, and the association would necessarily become inoperative or tyrannical.

Finally, each man, in giving himself to all, gives himself to nobody; and as there is no associate over whom he does not acquire the same right as he yields others over himself, he gains an equivalent for everything he loses, and an increase of force for the preservation of what he has.
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Ject · Jun 12, 2005

"First loves are never really over..." -unknown

"If we were all blind, would love be defined a different way?"
-Patrick D. Mcphail

"I often find myself wishing
The world was blind,
Thinking how differently
Things might be defined,
Unfortunately we often see
Through only our eyes,
Thus missing out
On the true beauty of life."
-Patrick D. Mcphail

"What good is wishing upon the stars for I already have everything, I have you."
-Patrick D. Mcphail

"If a blind man can see the beauty that is within, then why is it that people with sight are too blind to see it?"
-Patrick D. Mcphail

"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the darkest hours."
-Patrick D. Mcphail

amhso · Aug 18, 2005

I hope these weren't posted before...

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." -Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
-Albert Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -same...

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -same

What can I say, he was a genius.

Mad1 · Aug 18, 2005

"My computer beats me in chess, but no match when it comes to boxing.."- someone's sig from another forum

Bestia(ry) · Aug 18, 2005

"I don't drink water. Fish fu*ck in it." William C. Fields

amhso · Aug 18, 2005

I also have one from someone else's sig in another forum

"My software doesn't not have bugs. It just develops random features over time." -anonymous.

"Show my a sane man and I'll cure him for you."-anonymous

Papercut · Aug 19, 2005

amhso said:

I also have one from someone else's sig in another forum

"My software doesn't not have bugs. It just develops random features over time." -anonymous.
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Reminds me of that guy who published a book. The title was "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" I'm going to go look up his name now...David something, I think..

David Lubar

amhso · Aug 19, 2005

oh that's cool, hehe, i just saw it in a forum.

Granite · Sep 24, 2005

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell

vien · Sep 28, 2005

quote this:

"You aged but you did not matured"
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--- me

Miyuko · Oct 11, 2005

Age is just a number

Dashken · Oct 12, 2005

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)
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u suck.com · Oct 15, 2005

'i think society today spends too much time learning how to make a living, but not enough time learning how to live life' -unknown

Chai · Oct 15, 2005

Quote of the day!

ToyotaFreak · Oct 15, 2005

"Lying is evil, Evil is a sin, Sins are forgiven. So, Stick it right in!" -> Zuephok

"Sex is like maths,you subtract the clothes,add the bed,divide the legs and hope you don't multiply!" -> Someone from GTPlanet

hyper_raider · Oct 25, 2005

There is no place like 127.0.0.1

Adrian Wong · Oct 25, 2005

hyper_raider said:

There is no place like 127.0.0.1
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ROTFL!!! That's a good one!!!!

Jet · Oct 27, 2005

what is 127.0.0.1??

Google gives me no answer..

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