"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

"Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."

"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it."
Steven Wright

 

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mill

 

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return -Leonardo da Vinci

 

A quiet war has begun, with silent weapons, and their newest slavery is to keep the people poor and stupid.
-dave mustaine

 

Sounds like an academy grad to me

 

Some awesome quotes(really long!!!, funny,if ur bored)

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunently not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."- Robin Williams "Don't be so humble - you are not that great. " - Golda Meir "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. " - Saint Augustine "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. " - Albert Einstein "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " - Sir Winston Churchill "This book fills a much-needed gap. " - Moses Hadas (get it? very funny) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " - Martin Luther King Jr. "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) XDD "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty "Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. " - Gore Vidal "The covers of this book are too far apart. " - Ambrose Bierce "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. " - Voltaire "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (he was accused of lying, and he's making fun of how ugly he was)

 

A Quote from Victor Hugo

In the fifteenth century, everything changed.

The human mind discovered a means of perpetuating itself which was not only more lasting and resistant than architecture but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The lead characters of Gutenberg succeeded the stone characters of Orpheus.

The book was to kill the building.

The invention of the printing-press is the greatest event in history. It was the mother of revolutions. It was the total renewal of man's mode of expression, the human mind sloughing off one form to put on another, a complete and definitive change of skin by that symbolic serpent which, ever since Adam, has represented the intelligence.

In its printed form, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, elusive, indestructible. It mingles with the air. In the days of architecture, thought had turned into a mountain and taken powerful hold of a century and of a place. Now it turned into a flock of birds and was scattered on the four winds occupying every point of air and space simultaneously.

We repeat: who cannot see that in this guise it is far more indelible? Before, it was solid, now it is alive. It has passed from duration to immortality. You can demolish a great building, but how do you root out ubiquity? Come a flood and the mountain will long ago have vanished beneath the waters while the birds are still flying; let a single ark be floating on the surface of the cataclysm and they will alight on it, will survive on it, and, like it, will be present at the receding of the waters; and as it awakes, the new world which emerges from the chaos will see the ideas of the drowned world soaring above it, winged and full of life.

From Book Five, Chapter

 

"When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow."

- Ayn Rand

 

Can we spread those pieces of paper around?