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#1 ·
Similar to the alcoholic or POD thread rules. Post a quote that interests you for some reason.

I'll start
"Drinking and night swimming... a winning combination" Lenny on the Simpsons
 
#7 ·
Elan said:
"those who would give up liberty for security deserve neither" =Ben franklin
haha, im going to tell that to this broad in my journailistic writing class... she wants to have sex with the patriot act.. i doubt i will ever be effected by it but i really enjoy pissing her off all the time....

my quote: "I'm the Dude so that's what you call me..ya know ah, that or his Dudeness or duder or El Dudereno if you're not into the whole brevity thing." - Jeff bridges, The Big Lebowski
(one of the best movies you could ever see... if you havent seen it, get off your nuts and buy it on dvd)
 
#8 ·
kevin- you might want to do some research on Viet Dinh, the author of the patriot act, he said some things that are contrary to the way that it is being currently translated and applied. i cant remember the exact quote thoug, he migh have even written an article or somthing to the effect?
 
#9 ·
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry
"We must all hang together, or hang seperately" - Benjamin Franklin

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

"I regret to say that I only have one life to give to my country." - Nathan Hale

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

Vivir en miedo es virir a media.(A life lived in fear is a life half-lived)
Strictly Ballroom

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music...
Kristian Wilson, CEO, Nintendo Gaming Corporation, Inc,

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart about, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
Kurt Vonnegut

Science can tell us what is happening, and how, but surely not why.
Edward Abbey

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.

Reporter: "What do you think of Western Civilization?" M.K. Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea."

Togetherness is not caused by physical proximity but by believing in the same cause with the same intensity.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper
Rod Serling

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
 
#12 ·
From my desk calendar...'An apt and true reply was given to Alexander
the Great by a pirate who had been seized.For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile posession of the sea,he answered with bold pride."What thou a robber, Whilst thou who dost with a great fleet art styled emperor."
-St.Augustine,The City Of God

"God made dirt and dirt bust ya azz!"
-Old Dirty Bastard

"Voice or no voice ,the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.That is easy.All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked ,and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
-Herman Goering,
at the Nuremburg TRIALS!

"We do know of certain knowledge ,that he is either in Afganistan,or in some other country, or dead"
-Donald Rumsfeld,
on whereabouts of Osama bin Laden

"Hey there bartender ,can I owe you the cash? 'Cause the end of the world well it came in a flash,and I know that tommorrow I'll have some new excuse ,to cry tears for my water, and pour whisky in my shoes."
-Frank Black
 
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