Good Quotations Thread

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I like the strong words section.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

  • George S. Patton

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  • George S. Patton .

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

  • George S. Patton

We need more men like Patton.

Anybody who has built his own heaven, has found the strength to do so only out of his own hell. - Nietzsche

A human being is a part of the 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. - Einstein

Man, if you gotta ask, you ain’t never gonna know. - Louis Armstrong on being asked to define Jazz.

Computers are useless - they can only give you answers. - Picasso

“I’m going to conquer the earth & change the world …as soon as I’m done taking this shit!” ~my brother

My favorite quote is from the powerful words section here:

“Do not fear death so much, but rather an inadequate life.”

-Bertolt Brecht