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Electrifying the Titanic won’t melt the icebergs in its path.  

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Jane (Priscilla Presley): "How could you do something so vicious?"

Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalban): "It was easy my dear. You forget, I spent two years as a building contractor."

-The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
 
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"Freeze! Drop your weapons! There they are -- blast 'em!"

-Entire conversational repertoire of every Imperial Storm Trooper in the Star Wars universe
 
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You've got to watch out for Greek Philosophers and modern Physicists:

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and it's not the same man."  Usually attributed to Heraclitus. (The Greek Philosopher)

"Though Heraclitus didn't actually write that. Is a quote in which word after word has been replaced until none on the original words remain, still the same quote?"

Sabine Hossenfelder (The Physicist)
 
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There’s a tree that grows here in Germany and the same tree also grows near the Mediterranean Sea, where it’s used to higher temperatures. Scientists took southern seeds and planted them in the Black Forest. It was the exact same tree species but it didn’t grow well. They did molecular genetic research and found the local fungi in the Black Forest didn’t like the trees from the south. So humans say “this is the same tree species” but the fungi says “no, it’s not and I won’t co-operate with it.” We need to remember it’s a human definition to identify something as the same species. Highly specialized fungi and insects, for example, may disagree.


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“He made people think that forests are valuable,” she says. “That service is much greater than any harm he could have done.”
B.C. scientist Suzanne Simard
 
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"I’m the best there is. Plain and simple. When I wake up in the morning I piss excellence."
-Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights
 
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What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is.......warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists......Next question. ~Michael Crichton

(Book: The Lost World)
 
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A good plan isn’t one where someone wins, it’s where nobody thinks they’ve lost.
 
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I think I would have worded it:

Technological progress is a marvelous thing; it keeps providing us with more and more efficient means of going backwards.
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Everyone should just loose their ideologies and focus on solving problems. If we did that, we'd all be better off.

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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him - Cardinal Richelieu 1585 – 1642

 
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"I wish you well on your journey of life,
I hope you connect with some genuine
souls along the way,
and may you move between your
failures with optimism,
and always know life is fluid,
it changes.
Some things are too heavy to carry on
your journey, but love is light,
keep that."

Shams Tabrizi
 
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"It's creating a difference,
being part of something,
and doing work we're proud of.
This is the song of significance.
This is what motivates people
to do the work that can't be automated,
mechanized or outsourced.
And this is the song that humans
yearn to sing together."

~Seth Godin
(writer economist, philosopher)
 
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This too...
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There are various versions of this:

You must not only speak so that men can understand you, but so that they cannot misunderstand you.

Captain W. E. Smith
 
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to get what you love
you must first be  patient
with what you hate.
 
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Can I get an amen?!
Now get out there and eat a whole lot of pie!!!
 
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And don’t think the garden loses its
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the roots are down there riotous....

Mevlana Rumi
 
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When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his practice. (...) His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Atticus had urged them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with "jackass". The Haverfords had dispatched Maycombs' leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody. They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.

-Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
 
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Cassie Langstraat wrote:So I know we already have a thought of the day thread in this forum and I know there are quite a few quotes on there but I wanted there to be a whole thread just for quotes. It doesn't have to be anything related to permaculture or homesteading but it totally can be if you want.

I generally try really hard to be an original thinker, and I try to have my own thoughts and insights. It is something I highly value. BUT sometimes I just LOVE sitting on my butt after a long day of thinking and just soak up smart people's wisdom. That is why I am creating this thread. Of course I would love for the quotes to inspire you to think about something, but just in case you have had enough thinking and processing for the day, you can just come to this thread and just veg out on some good ol quotes from other people.

Here is my first one:

"be softer with you. you are a breathing thing. a memory to someone. a home to a life" - nayyirah waheed

In a society that strives to make us feel never good enough, this short quote really resonates. We sometimes need to stop being so hard on ourselves.

 
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

John Lennon
 
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