What are some of your favorite quotes?

One of mine is.
If I tell you who I really am and you refuse to believe me then I can hardly be blamed for your disappointment. - Klaus Mikaelson

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  • cipro

    The measure of a man is what he does with power - plato

    The measure of a man is how he handles defeat - green goblin

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  • LornaMae

    Tell me who you are! Go on, disappoint me!!! I won't blame you.

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  • Wherever you go, there you are!

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  • "I'd rather regret something I've done than something I didn't do!"

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  • 100000Grimservantofdeath

    "Sure, ignorance is bliss, but have you ever tried being an all knowing deity? That sounds awesome." -- Me

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  • BleedingPain

    “When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die”

    “Anything can be come a dildo if you try hard enough!”

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  • You don't heal a broken heart by pretending it's not broken.

    Ahh, yes! The famous alien probe! So versatile it works into any orifice. No matter how it looks, abductees all love the probe!

    I'm a pet psychic... psychic! I can tell you what your pet psychic is thinking and feeling. Your pet psychic is thinking "This is safe. No one can contradict me and realize I'm lying. I don't even have the balls to be a human psychic. I feel like such a pile of bullshit!"
    All said by penn jillette

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  • CozmoWank

    “Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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  • Ellenna

    "Hurt me with the truth, but don't comfort me with lies" (source forgotten)

    "We can all endure much more than we think we can"
    Frida Kahlo

    "There is one choice no-one can take away from you and that's the choice of how to respond to any given set of circumstances" (paraphrase)
    Viktor Frankl, only member of his family to survive Auschwitz
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    • Spoken like properly aged meat! You've learned your lessons well.

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  • Fair_Lucy

    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

    Feels a bit fedora-ey now that I think about it, but it's still a word of advice a lot of people need.

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  • McBean

    "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

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    • LornaMae

      Who said that? And in what sense is it important to you?

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      • McBean

        The quote is from Albert Einstein.

        Firstly, I like it as an anology. Poetry: Languge::Mathematics: Logic. In other words, poetry is a higher form of verbal expression raising awareness with metaphorical thought, and artistic use of language. In this same way mathematics enables symbolic expression that gives logical thought more power and incisiveness.

        Secondly, algebraic expression is a bit esoteric. It has a mysterious quality that plays on a logical thinker's curiosity. In fact, it looks poetic as if it is hiding a secret in the same way a poem does.

        Enough rambling. What do you think?

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        • LornaMae

          I think I'd never heard it until now. I was curious because I'm the daughter of a mathematician whose research field is pure mathematics. I really liked the reasons why you like that quote yourself. And I think I agree with them. I'm in the field of humanities so it's foreign to me, except for having lived around equations and papers all my life, which brings me happy feelings of ignorant appreciation - if that makes any sense. I've always loved the graphs and saw beauty in the imagery of his work. Once I attended a talk he gave at an international conference and I understood literally nothing but was still able to tell him what I liked the most, which were a few of the words that he used while describing the problem solving, like rombus, intersect, vanishes, etc. from a word-person perspective. He found it amusing, at least!

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          • McBean

            Thanks for sharing your story. Nice that you had an interesting Dad. I'm an engineer who did the math and tactical code for many subsurface targeting systems. I've given talks at conferences too, about a multiple hypothesis method I pioneered called "path matrix inferencing".

            I think your 'ignorant appreciation' could become more insightful. BBC has a series called "The Story of Maths". Netflix has it. It is unique because it summarizes the development of mathematics in a purely chronological way from the dawn of agriculture to the 21st century. You see clever ways that ancient people approximated solutions for problems that they couldn't solve. The essence of this show could maybe be called "analytic humanities." By seeing the development thru the eyes of a historian, you don't appreciate math for being maths, you appreciate math as a gift to civilization.

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            • LornaMae

              That's interesting, I'd never figured that about you. He also majored in engineering, he just chose math as his path. To be honest, I'm not as ignorant as I made myself seem haha! I know some of the history of it, I've had my ears and eyes open to it all my life, so to an extent I understand the gift it is. The thing is, it's way easier for me and others to understand applied math rather than pure, know what I mean? The series you suggest reminds me of a more sensationalist one I was addicted to a few months ago, Ancient Top 10 on History Chanel... They make things sound so exciting! Love it! Pop History! Hahaha!

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  • Annie25

    "A smooth sea never made skilful sailor"

    "We never lose our demons, we only learn to live above them" - the ancient one (doctor strange)

    "Heaven is a fairy story for those afraid of the dark" - stephen hawking

    "Trust my rage" -Loki

    "Every villian is a hero in their own mind" - Tom hiddleston on loki

    This one really got me--
    "Taking your own life, interesting expression.
    Taking it from who?
    Once its over, its not you who will miss it.
    Your death is something that happens to everybody else.
    Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it."- Sherlock (series)

    "You see, in their last moment people show who they really are"-- joker (the dark knight)

    This ones not exactly a quote but the name of a studio album by M83 and I kinda love it
    "Hurry up, We're dreaming"

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  • akuma00_

    Idk if I phrased it right but: "Get good at something, and get paid to do it."

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  • You can’t buy love, but you can rent it for three minutes.

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  • paramore93

    The hardest thing in this world is to live in it - Buffy Summers.
    Your logic does not resemble our earth logic - Buffy Summers.
    Sometimes, things are more than they appear - Shrek.

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  • "Drugs started feeling like it's decaf." - The Weeknd.

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  • "He didn't eat my pussy, so he can suck my dick." - Mama from CollegeHumor's "Precious Plum".

    "Aim higher, in case you fall short." - President Snow.

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  • Good things happen to those who hustle.

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  • Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
    Penn jillette

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  • Ummitsstillme

    Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act- Truman Compote

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  • Ummitsstillme

    "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act" -Truman Compote

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  • SmokeEverything

    I used to be a fan of that guy who would post on here about "boner cocks" and ask everyone how old they were, but I don't have any specific quotes to share.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

      i liked robbie the guy whod shit himself in protest over posts he didnt like

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      • LornaMae

        So you're saying robbieforgotpassword didn't like ANY of the posts he commented on?

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

          yeah i guesses so

          *sharts in solidarity*

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          • LornaMae

            Hahahaha I hated robbie!

            *sharts in disbelief*

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  • "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

    "Variety is the spice of life."

    "If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

    "Anyone who holds others back is gonna have an unhappy life," (I wish that were true).

    "With great power comes great responsibility."

    "The only ones who should kill, are those prepared to be killed."

    There's so many other quotes that I like as well, but I'd like to finish with this one-

    "You are now breathing manually."

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  • Whatever will happen will happen, but choose your companions with care. Choose them because you like to look at them and you like the sound of their voices, and they have profound secrets in them that you wish to know. In other words, choose them because you love them. Otherwise you will not be able to bear their company for very long. - Anne rice

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  • RoseIsabella

    "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

    Marilyn Monroe

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  • Insane_madh

    " A world forgetting by a world forgot " it really is an amazing quote once you grasp the deep philosophy of the internal meaning it's trying to portray.

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    • Is it a little bit similar to, "Ignorance is bliss"?

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      • Insane_madh

        my quote is not talking about that but i could see where you get that i never thought about the quote like that thx

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  • Cuntsiclestick

    "I cheat on my diet, but nobody knows, because the damage is on the inside, and the first warning sign is sudden death."

    ~Homer Simpson.

    I find this relatable and a quote I laugh at from time to time.

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    • paramore93

      I find myself slipping simpsons quotes into far too many conversations xD

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      • Dangerine

        You and my dad would get along blissfully.

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        • paramore93

          Haha the simpsons is great :P

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  • Jinko

    "When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!"

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