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Phiffenella

"The older I get, the less importance I give to things--including the importance of importance."

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"Are ye more trapped by the way the world sees ye, or by the way ye see the world seein' ye?"

- Cattie-brie, from The Leged of Drizzt book series

"Flummoxed by a foreign concept that resembles close to nothing of what you know? I can't imagine how that feels." - Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow TV Show

"You want my help, which suggests you have no options." - Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow TV show

"you mean the world to me. the rest can poof into dust" - a former close friend

"You are my precious friend." - Myself to my best friend

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"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." -Andre Dubus

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Bernard M. Baruch

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Dragonscales

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

- John Green

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"When the zombie apocalypse happens, the zombies won't give a damn what you look like or where you're from, so long as you have delicious, delicious innards they can nom on. How sad that zombies are more racially egalitarian than 99% of the world's current population." - Someone on another forum

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AlwaysADreamer

Let me direct you to my signature. I have more, but those ones are pretty big in my life.

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DistractedAce

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Stephen King

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Several quotes I really like are in my signature.

And here are some other favorites of mine....

“Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. ”
― C.J. Langenhoven

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”
― Ann Brashares

I have a lot more but I'll try not to have a huge line of quotes. Someone else post again! :D

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"People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou

(Typed quote to save space.)That's so true.

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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. (Richard P. Feynman)

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein)

When a true genius appears in the world, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. (Jonathan Swift)

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"In life you don't find yourself; you create yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

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Wannabe Vulcan

“For it is up to you and me to take solace in nostalgia's arms and our ability to create the everlasting from fleeting moments." -Sanober Khan

I'm a very nostalgic person, and this quote just makes me feel tranquil.

Also, I feel like the quote by Spock in my signature is something I can relate to, with my "internal arrangement" being my asexuality.

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"Dying gotta be easy because life is hard"- 50 Cent

"The realest people don't have a lot of friends"- Tupac Shakur

"No particular race is the enemy, ignorance is the enemy"- George Lopez

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"Always look on the bright side of life."

Monty Python.

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

Douglas Adams

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Albert Einstein

Plus the three in my sig.
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"Your saying that humans need fantasy to make life bearable?"

"No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."

"With tooth fairies, Hogfathers..."

"Yes. As practice you have to start out believing the little lies."

"So we can believe the big ones?"

"Yes. Justice, mercy, duty, that sort of thing."

"But, they're not the same at all."

"You think so? Then take the universe and grind it up into the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet... you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world, some rightness by which it may be judged."

"But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?"

"You need to believe in things that aren't true, how else can they become?"

-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (Movie)

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I’ve found out that being the Doctor ... it’s not about having special knowledge or abilities.
It’s about not being cruel. It’s about not being afraid.
There are monsters out there, yes. Terrible things. But you don’t have to become one in order to defeat them.
You can be peaceful in the face of their cruelty. You can win by being cleverer than they are.

Human Nature by Paul Cornell 1995

+++++++++++

The Doctor closed his eyes.

Strip away all the deceptions, uncover the truth.
And the truth is: the Doctor was the finest dream of hundreds of human beings,
refined as they tapped away at their typewriters. For generations, they'd made
him a hero to countless millions in over a hundred countries. Then,
just once, he hadn't come back. His enemies had kept him away. But despite
their best efforts, he hadn't been forgotten. There were those who
remembered him when they walked past a dummy in a shop window or sat
on the beach looking out to sea, and every time they ground pepper.
Some of those who remembered had typewriters of their own.
And after far too long, a new generation of children were about to hear that
music for the first time, and they would hear their sofa wasn't just
for sitting on ...

The Gallifrey Chronicles
2005
Lance Parkin's tribute to the Doctor & his fans. (Pg. 130-131)

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Thud, by Terry Pratchett
Sergeant Fred Colon: War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?
Corporal Nobby Nobs: Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?
S. Fred Colon: Absol -- well, okay.
C. Nobby Nobs: Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?
S. Fred Colon: All right, I'll grant you that, but --
C. Nobby Nobs: Saving civilization from a horde of --
S. Fred Colon: It doesn't do any good in the long run is what I'm saying Nobby, if you'd listen for five seconds together.
C. Nobby Nobs: Yeah, but in the long run, what does Sarge?

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There are monsters out there, yes. Terrible things. But you don’t have to become one in order to defeat them.

You can be peaceful in the face of their cruelty. You can win by being cleverer than they are.

Wise words.

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There are monsters out there, yes. Terrible things. But you don’t have to become one in order to defeat them.

You can be peaceful in the face of their cruelty. You can win by being cleverer than they are.

Wise words.

Wished they'd been used in the two parter made from the book.

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VindicatorPhoenix

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"Yesterday is gone forever

Tomorrow will never be here

So life for today"

"From the generation that destroyed the ozon layer... to the generation that is ignoring clobal warming." (GTA - I just love this... :D )

"Remember when we thought the 80's were lame? That's because we hadn't lived through this decade yet!" (it's partially true, for me at least!)

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The future doesn't pass

and the past won't overtake the present

all that remains is an obsolete illusion.

-Epica, The Phantom Agony

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

-Terry Pratchett

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

-Terry Pratchett

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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly."
-Marcus Aurelius

"Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
-Unknown

“Common sense is not so common.”
-Voltaire

“Beware of the fury of the patient man.”
-John Dryden

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
-Socrates

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
-Ayn Rand

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Alexandria Lindsey Davis
(Upon breaking down a pair of doors)
Falco: They made a good job of it!
Paslous: I heard a natural science student was fetched.
They tend to be large healthy young men.
Falco: The outdoor life?
Paslous: Few lectures, so most spend their spare time out at
the Gymnasium. On field trips, they build up their legs
running away from rhinocerouses.

(On discussing the death of the Librarian)
Aulus: No handy suicide notes? No hastily scrawled declaration of
"Chi did it!" Written in blood perhaps?
Falco: Chi?
Aulus: Chi the unknown quantity. Chi marks the spot.

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Dune Frank Herbert

Lady Jessica Atreides: When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Lady Jessica: ... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Gurney Halleck: Parting with people is a sadness; a place is only a place.

Lady Fenring: Each day, some time each hour, brings change.

Lady Fenring: Do not count a human dead until you've seen the body. And even then you can make a mistake.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Star Trek: Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeve-Stevens

Micah Brack: There has never been a simpler time. Never. In all of human history, everything has always been as complex as it is right now. The people change. The technology changes. But the ... the forces at work, whatever it is that drives us to be human, that's always the same. (pg. 31)

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LadyErzsebet

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

-The Sandman, Neil Gaiman.

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death, JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH"

-Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

"Dead the warrior, dead his glory, dead the cause in which he died"

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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