RHEE.EU QUOTES
“Travel is
fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people
need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and
things cannot be acquired by Vegetating in one little corner of the earth all
one’s lifetime” Mark Twain |
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“There's no
such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing” Alfred
Wainwright |
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“History is
the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon” Napoleon
Bonaparte |
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“Truly it
has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is
revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a
system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or
prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been
lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depth” Paracelsus |
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“One man’s
terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” … |
~ errare humanum
est, perseverare diabolicum "To err
is human, but to persist in error is diabolical" Seneca ~ |
“Haya El
Azzah: Why is it that when the powerful use force it is called
“self-defense" and when the weak use force it is called
"terrorism”?” |
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“The
building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power
by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up
a building can change the world” |
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“Advertising
has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we
don’t need” Tyler
Durden, Fight Club |
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“During
times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” George
Orwell |
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“Cui prodest
scelus, est fecit (He who gains from crime, commited it)” Lucius
Annaeus Seneca |
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“Did you
ever experienced the strange phenomenon of Deja Vu Did you ever
experienced the strange phenomenon of Deja Vu" Monty Python |
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“To be is to
do” Socrates “To do is to
be” Sartre “Do be do be
do” Frank
Sinatra |
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“Once you’re
over the hill, you’ll pick up speed” … |
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“Fail to
Prepare then Prepare to Fail” … |
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“A false
sense of security is worse than being unsure” … |
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“Son, when
you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose, it's
how drunk you get” Homer
Simpson |
~ “Never eat
yellow snow” … |
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“If at first
you don't succeed, redefine success” … |
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“Of course
we don't know what we're doing. Otherwise it wouldn't be called research” Albert
Einstein |
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“Library: Kind
of an early version of the World Wide Web” … |
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“Wise men
talk because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say
something” … |
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“A man
travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find
it” George Moore |
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“Trying is
the first step towards failure” Homer
Simpson |
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“An
objective knowledge of the human self will only be possible through contact
with other mammals or with inhabitants of other planets” Carl Gustav
Jung |
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“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 |
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“The world
wishes to be deceived” Sebastian
Franck around 1500 A.D. |
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“Every gun
that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the
final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are
cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It
is spending the lives of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the
hopes of its children... this is not a way of life in any true sense. Under
the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron” Dwight D.
Eisenhower |
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“If You
Don't Stand For Something You Will Fall For Anything” Malcolm X |
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“There is no
place like 127.0.0.1” … |
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“If the
doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is,
infinite” William
Blake |
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“Only two
things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about
the former” Albert
Einstein |
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“Everything
is about sex. Except for sex, which is about power” Franc
Underwood (House of Cards) |
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“First they
ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you. Then you win” Mahatma
Gandhi |
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“It is the responsibility
of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that
knowledge is, no matter how much it may bother those in power. We are not
smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which
are not” Carl Sagan,
in a 1991 commencement address at UCLA |
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“Condemnation
without investigation is the height of ignorance!” Albert
Einstein |
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“The world
is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of
the people who don't do anything about it” Albert
Einstein |
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“Man will
occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up,
walk over or around it, and carry on” Winston
Churchill |
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“There is a principle
which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments,
and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That
principle is contempt prior to investigation” Herbert
Spencer |
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“If you are
going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will
kill you” Oscar Wilde |
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“Never argue
with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with
experience” … |
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“Life is
pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome” Isaac Asimov |
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“A person
starts to live when he can live outside himself” Albert
Einstein |
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“People are
like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when
the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light
within” Elisabeth
Kübler-Ross |
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“I have
called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is
preserved, by the term Natural Selection” Charles
Darwin ~ |
“Nothing
endures, but change” Heraclitus
540 - 480 BC |
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"First,
let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just
because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill" George W.
Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003 |
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"It's
very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to
America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in
freedom, helped change America" George W.
Bush, Dakar, Senegal, July 8, 2003 |
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“The world is
governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are
not behind the scenes” Benjamin
Disraeli |
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"The
illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it's profitable to
continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive
to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the
curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will
see the brick wall at the back of the theater" Frank Zappa,
musician and cultural iconoclast |
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“All truth
passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently
opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident” Arthur
Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860 |
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“Attacking
Iraq after 9-11 is like Roosevelt attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbor” John Kerry |
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“I have seen
the truth, and the truth has made me odd” Flannery
O'Conner |
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“War is
never a solution; it is an aggravation” Benjamin
Disraeli |
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"Everything
is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers
destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom,
the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality" Michael
Ellner |
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“I don't
mean to sound cold and cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out” Bill Hicks |
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“Don't be
alarmed, it's only my wife laughing. Sounds like somebody machine-gunning a
seal” |
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“Last night
I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone” Tommy Cooper |
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“The problem
with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital
punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of
everything and let the problem solve itself?” … |
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"The best
proof of intelligent life out there is the fact that they haven't contacted
us" Arthur C.
Clarke? |
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“80% of all
questions are statements in disguise" Dr. Phil |
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“The
difference between theory and practice, is that in theory they are the same,
but in practice they are not” … |
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“When little
is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth” Benjamin
Disraeli |
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“What we
anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens” Benjamin
Disraeli |
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“Upon the education
of the people of this country the fate of this country depends” Benjamin
Disraeli |
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“The secret
of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it
comes” Benjamin
Disraeli |
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“A positive
attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will
annoy enough people to make it worth the effort” Herm
Albright (1876 – 1944) |
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“Arguing on
the internet is like the Paralympics, you can win but you still look like a
retard” |
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“Bombing for
peace is like shagging to get your virginity back” … |
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“Nothing is
absolute. Redefine concepts, redefine yourself. Barriers are in your mind.
Accept No Limits” Patrick
Musimu |
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“Education
is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught” Oscar Wilde,
The Critic as Artist, 1890 |
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"America
is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake
nevertheless." Sigmund
Freud |
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“Thousands
of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle
will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared” Buddha |
Updated
15-03-2018