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dailykos.com — My favorite: Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither --Benjamin Franklin
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- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+150...and that quote really is: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759- f4st4word, on 10/12/2007, -24/+2Also:
"Yes he's kinky, weenie and jinky, got fresh rock on his pinkie" - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35the most often misquoted Quote in the history of of time
- thelastknowngod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+79no stalin or churchill?
One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-Sir Winston Churchill - Geekbeard, on 10/12/2007, -19/+8Remember all, 'to quote' is a verb, 'quotation' is a noun (as in the thing having been quoted).
- royall64, on 10/12/2007, -25/+10Not one of those quotes were even remotely insightful. Try reading some Douglas Adams if you want some good quotes.
- Panchobook, on 10/12/2007, -17/+7royal64 said: "Not one of those quotes were even remotely insightful. Try reading some Douglas Adams if you want some good quotes."
Agree. Doug Adams is the Cervantes of our lifetimes. - anchorman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."
Einstein was just too cool. - aviazn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11I actually prefer one of the misquoted versions of the Ben Franklin quotation:
"Those who wish to trade essential liberty for temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither." - BigManOnCampus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I love that quote... I wish it weren't conveniently forgotten by both sides...
Liberals: When they argue for gun control.
Conservatives: When they talk about the war on terror. - JonnyTrombone, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Too bad the liberty/safety quote was actually something said by Richard Jackson....
- playerZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4...and actually was not even authored by Franklin (at least according to him in his autobiography). He published the book, but claims to have authored very little of it. And the context is that of a letter from the Assembly to the Governor of Pennsylvania, concerning the inability of the colonists to defend themselves against the natives they had recently displaced. There's obviously a lot of context i'm leaving out (and i'm far from well educated on the subject anyway). But it's pretty clear that we don't know who actually authored the quote, though it may very well have originated with Franklin. And that it is almost universally misquoted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_who_would_give_up_Essential_Liberty
http://www.futureofthebook.com/stories/storyReader$605 - asskey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Another quote that should have made the list is also frequently misquoted.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire - GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32They forgot "The jerk store called, and they're running out of you."
- ExCornelius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7jrocknyc: You might WANT him to have said "have," but he only said "Deserve."
You note the important choice Mr. Franklin made with his words, but fail to grasp how much more scornful was his use of "deserve". He was not commenting on mere facts, nor of natural laws, but on the caliber of such men; that they would in so doing also throw away the liberty of their fellow man, and thus no longer merited the benefits of free men. - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5These are the top 25 quotes only if you're really, really serious about everything in life. There are a lot of really good quotes out there that are better than
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
That shouldn't even be on the top 1000 . . . it's not bad, but c'mon, it shouldn't be on any "top N" list. I can think of at least 5 quotes from "Predator" alone that are better than that festering heap of crap. How 'bout "I ain't got time to bleed" or "This stuff will make you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus." Obviously whoever made this list was pissed about something. - RawShark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Ironic, isn't it how much the liberals love this quote but when it comes to the Second Amendment, god damn but do they want to get rid of liberty for the sake of security.
***** hypocrites.
- f4st4word, on 10/12/2007, -24/+2Also:
- mdnash, on 10/12/2007, -37/+8how many slaves did ben franklin own? did they have any civil liberties?
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26to his credit, he did release his slaves in 1785 and became and abolitionist, but he still said that long before he did so, which is very odd
And wikipedia says he only had 2 slaves to begin with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin - Eyeooga, on 10/12/2007, -16/+9nothing in that quote indicates that Ben thought that EVERYONE should have civil liberties, wtf does whether or not he had slaves have to do with anything? Everyone knows that only landowners should have liberties.
All your renters are us. - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38Whats the quote along the lines of "judge not the past through the moral looking glass of the present"? (anyone know?)
Gandhi was married by 13... Michaelangelo was a thief... For every great man, there is a lesser man who can find flaws in him...
Yes, less civilised times created less civilised circumstances for the men who sought to move beyond them...
The future might judge you harshly for eating meat, being apathetic in the face of war and buying nike shoes, but that doesn't invalidate any of our attempts to rectify injustice... - SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've never heard that quote before, but it's a good'un.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Eyeooga is right, you know. The quote is in relation to people who already have liberties, and the giving up of those liberties for security. There's nothing in that quote about who should or should not have liberties.
That, of course, is not to justify slavery, or Franklin's taking part in it. But if you're going to make an argument based on a quote, pick the right quote. - groovytrance, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5slaves didn't have liberty to give up for safety. they had neither.
- nonannystate, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13You cannot apply modern enlightenment to 200 years ago. Then where's your condemnation of the Mayans throwing Virgins into the fire to appease the gods. Where is the condemnation of the sexism of the native american tribal structure; people love to quote Chief Joseph. Why not pick on him for not allowing women a role in the leadership? Where is your condemnation of the barbarism of the Spanish Moors who overran Ireland? Of the Hessians who warred our world apart from modern-day Germany? There's NO shortage of human evils. But there is one thing you cannot deny; the seed of Democracy as we know it arose from the men and women (primarily men,but again, another time, another place) of the American Revolution. Without it, the French still eat Marie A's cake (another quote taken out of context and again, that's another story) and the Eastern Europeans still bow to a Czar. IMHO.
- d17182, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Regarding the last, "favorite" quote, what is so great about it?
Why should we be concerned about other people's bellies?
Seriously, I'm confused. - cjstone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Regarding the last, "favorite" quote, what is so great about it?
Why should we be concerned about other people's bellies?
Seriously, I'm confused."
Um, concern that their bellies are empty, i.e., that they are hungry. You know, how those loony liberals think (sarcasm). - d17182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh ok, thanks cjstone.
I thought he meant we should be more concerned about people who are fat or have have ugly hairy bellies or eating too much trans fatty food - i.e., a different kind of liberal lunacy. :-p
(gratitude)
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26to his credit, he did release his slaves in 1785 and became and abolitionist, but he still said that long before he did so, which is very odd
- JacNet, on 10/12/2007, -26/+1No Digg!
- orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38 20. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
-- Epictetus (c.55-c.135)
Wow, ain't that the truth!- MakinBacon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17My favorite is not on the list:
"If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain."
- Winston Churchill
And I'm somewhere between the two... - apophisitis, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Between 20 and 40, eh? And here I thought digg was full of high-schoolers.
- painkillr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8somewhere between no heart and no brain?
- ragipy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"somewhere between no heart and no brain"
A good description of most politicians today - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Where does the Cowardly Lion (and the rest of the Wizard of Oz characters) fall?
- d17182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Elranzer,
The Tin Woodsman is 20 if he's conservative, and the Scarecrow is 40 if he's liberal, and the Lion is French.
- MakinBacon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17My favorite is not on the list:
- Laytonx, on 10/12/2007, -25/+12Not a good list. No digg
- VijchtiDoodah, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Eh, to each his own. I especially enjoyed this one:
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) - deannnnnn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"An assortment of quotes is usually paraphrased greatly or wrongly attributed unless properly and thoroughly sourced unlike this one!"
- Abraham "The King" Lincoln
1864, A letter to Stonewall Jackson
- VijchtiDoodah, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Eh, to each his own. I especially enjoyed this one:
- codyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36Hmmm.. No Mark Twain Quotes?
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."- kloo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2On that note, no Terry Pratchett either?
- kloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10mumble...
"Light a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -- TP
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it." -- TP
"There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts." -- TP
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48my personal fav...
"I know kung-fu."
--Neo from The Maxtrix (1999)- vaguelyrandom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14My favourite is still:
"I wear them. I also wash them and iron them"
Norman Thatcher (husband of Maggie when asked 'who wears the trousers in your house') - royall64, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28"God gave men a brain and a penis, but not enough blood to run both at once."
I forgot who said it.. - codyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Who said it I believe was Robin Williams regarding Clinton's fiasco...
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4>> "I know kung-fu."
>> --Neo from The Maxtrix (1999)
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - appleman108, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1these quotes are *****. I''ve tons of better ones.
- vaguelyrandom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14My favourite is still:
- GDunck, on 10/12/2007, -16/+6Most of those are terrible, sorry.
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45can't you just say "25 great quotes" or something? do you have claim to be the authority on the best of what's ever been said?
- isukeyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Couldn't agree more!
This happens with almost all lists (and other things). Sometimes I think its just semantics, but other times it seems people really can't tell the difference between fact and their own opinions. - PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Quit bitching bitches...that's my favorite quote, at least for today.
- isukeyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Couldn't agree more!
- 1ee7sauce, on 05/28/2008, -3/+1He probably never said that
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin - ardarvin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Bah...another Digg story with "BEST EVER...." No digg.
- phenolholic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5matters not. at the time of writing this, there's 304 morons who disagree with you.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not a moron. I just think they're good quotes and dugg it despite the inaccurate title. Same goes with a lot of stories, people are stupid on digg. Maybe submissions need some sort of edit feature where if enough people vote for an edit it's applied and there is a link to "show original" or something.
- AgentMull, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5To quote Peter Griffen: "Thats the smartest thing I've ever heard anyone say about anything."
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6To quote Phillip J Fry (after seeing Bender steer the space ship with his ass): "That's the BEST THING I EVER SAW"
- royall64, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"I have an idea so great the my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about..."
- Peter Griffin
- Nameless1, on 10/12/2007, -16/+10Best?
"640k Ought to be enough for everybody"
Bill Gates- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Another Gates quote:
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again." - captjc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Another Gates Quote:
"You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. All your base are belong to us."
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Another Gates quote:
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"..........DESERVE........"and would LOSE both (security liberty)
this has been on 3 times today......still you cant get enough of a good thing - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My favorite:
"The entire world is wedged together with shims." - Tim Ferro, 1999. - Henaro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Where is "I was born a poor black child." by Navin Johnson.?
- whoaohh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"i don't care about losing all the money... it's losing all the stuff!"
- ImTheDarkcyde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11after reading through it, sounds more like hes trying to make a political statement than form a list of 'the best thing ever said by anyone'
- kptrikstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this story is posted in the political opinion category so your assumption would be correct
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Donne quote I like, it's at the beginning of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Hemingway, which is where I read it first.
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ya, and if you're wondering. the poem basically says that everyone is part of everyone else. And when someone dies, a part of you dies. "the bell tolls for thee"
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm aware of that... I did say it was one of my favorite quotes.
- fufubag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why don't you two just get a room?
- afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -15/+4Obviously a Jewish bias in this list, but still some good ones I've never heard before.
- Victorioso, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Did you see the one on the end ?
Its from a Rabbi :
Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried abut our own souls, and other people's bellies - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like your post Victor. It's interesting how most people seem to apply all these quotes to other people. I certainly don't do enough to help the world, but bitching about Bush is as useful as spitting in the ocean.
- Victorioso, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Did you see the one on the end ?
- aGiit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0If I'm not totally mistaken the quotation by Mr. Frankling is a bit wrong, it says there "Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither"
From the top of my head i recall the quote being "Those who would give up a little freedom to gain a little security, deserve neither and will lose both"
Not that it makes alot of difference, but it is one of my favorite quotes of all time. Well that and the Einstein's comment about WW4 being fought with sticks and stones...- Roommate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know it is tough but you could at least try to read a few comments before posting. This was brought up in the very first comment.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13what a terribly coded page.
- PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Quit bitching bitch.
- DireAngel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Appreciate wisdom where it exists. You're going to split hairs over a comparison to some other authority on 'The greatest' quotes? Perhaps, we can all just agree that these are some great quotes and 'The best of all time' remark, is signification of this users personal favorites.
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Karl Marx had some of the greatest quotes i have ever heard...
- cranium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not very well-read, I see.
- ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7about 12 of these are misquotes and misattributions--including the one by Franklin. sorry, readers.
- heresy0, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
This one really caught my attention. Too often in recent years have I heard the far right make claims that the founding fathers were speaking in the context of a Christian nation in respect to the First Amendment, et cetera. Well yeah. ***** you.- interpaul, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.”
--George Washington in a speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible." - George Washington
I believe George Washington was a founding father.
WELL YEAH. ***** YOU. - qingshuo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"Much of the myth of Washington's alleged Christianity came from Mason Weems influential book, "Life of Washington." Weems, a Christian minister portrayed Washington as a devote Christian, yet Washington's own diaries show that he rarely attended Church.
Washington revealed almost nothing to indicate his spiritual frame of mind, hardly a mark of a devout Christian. In his thousands of letters, the name of Jesus Christ never appears. He rarely spoke about his religion, but his Freemasonry experience points to a belief in deism. Washington's initiation occurred at the Fredericksburg Lodge on 4 November 1752, later becoming a Master mason in 1799, and remained a freemason until he died.
To the United Baptist Churches in Virginia in May, 1789, Washington said that every man "ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."
After Washington's death, Dr. Abercrombie, a friend of his, replied to a Dr. Wilson, who had interrogated him about Washington's religion replied, "Sir, Washington was a Deist."
Read the rest at http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/debate.htm
Pretty interesting stuff. Combine this with Dawkin's book and it becomes pretty clear that the 3 key founders (Washington, Jefferson, Franklin) intended our government to be a secular one.
- interpaul, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.”
- tnsimonson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26"The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."
-Mitch Ratcliffe- digitalsin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3haha - thats my fav :)
- daofma, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You sir, win the thread.
- phenolholic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4my two favourites:
"Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing." --William A. Ward
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving." --Albert Einstein - clemsontiger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i have yet to read all these comments so im sorry if this has been said, but there is not way these are the greatest things said if Winston Churchill is not on the list. My Facebook is filled with nothing but his quotes. the man is a genius.
he has been quoted saying to a woman that came to him and told him that if he was her husband, she would have poisoned him to which he replied, "If I was your husband, I would have gladly drank it." - silversword990, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -HP Lovecraft
- afreytes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wtf? why would anyone dig the parent down!?
- Gdjrptryjg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
-- Joseph Joubert
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
-- Herm Albright
"What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks."
-- Sacha Guitry
"Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by."
-- Andre Maurois
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
-- Alfred Adler
"One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones."
-- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
-- Henry Mencken
"No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy."
-- Sir Laurence Olivier
"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody."
-- John Churton Collins
"Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you."
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before."
-- Mae West
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose."
-- Cullen Hightower
"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."
-- Blaise Pascal
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain
"He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose."
-- Gotthold Lessing
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
-- Erich Fromm
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-- George Bernard Shaw- captjc, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
-- Bill Gates
"Nobody ***** with the Jesus"
-- Jesus "The Jesus" Quintana
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
-- Bill Clinton
"..."
-- Silent Bob, Teller, Marcel Marceau, Harpo Marx
"Mission Accomplished"
-- George W Bush - isukeyo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12@ captjc
You're a ***** moron!
Stop perpetuating that stupid Bill Gates rumor quote. Its just a rumor. I am not a fan boy, but I know he's never said it! He's stated time and again that he's never said it, and noboby who's ever claimed he's said it has ever offered the source of this so called quote.
Where's your source? When did he say it? Who did he say it to? What was the context?
You are just one in a million assholes who throws around quotes that's he's heard at some point in order to make himself feel important or intelligent! - Managore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Fantastic quotes Gdj. My favourites of those are
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
-- Joseph Joubert
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
-- Alfred Adler
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-- Bertrand Russell
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-- George Bernard Shaw
- captjc, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
- aratika, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Ahh - the most favored quote of those least likely to give up their own liberty and safety to defend the liberty and safety of another!
Not to worry - others have gone before, are going now and will go later. In the meantime, feel free to continue to leach. - Victorioso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. ~ Jim Elliot
- charlie55, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2"anyone who makes a list of best quotes is really just telling you what they want you to think they are about and is always a *****" - me
- bshock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Of the quotes I enjoyed, I enjoyed them from a sense of nostalgia. "Meaning" for such things tends to involve synchronization with experiences in our lives. Sometimes we're not yet to the point where they mean anything to us. Sometimes we've long since learned more important things.
I have a manager about 5 years younger than myself chronologically and about 20 years younger intellectually, and he's constantly spouting quotes that seem like childish truisms to me. - Sagan1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't get the one about prediction (Number 12) - can someone explain it to me?
- stealthpenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a joke, leveraging a form of irony.
Prediction - attempting to estimate the outcomes of an event or the event itself. Due to the way we perceive (the illusion of :D) time, this is implicitly estimating future events...
On second thought, if you don't get it, maybe you just don't get to understand some things...
- stealthpenguin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a joke, leveraging a form of irony.
- Victorioso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When you bend the truth, all you are left with is a crooked lie ~ me
- vspazv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Beware the Leader who bangs the drum of war in order to whip the citizenry into a Patriotic Fervor.
For Patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
It both Emboldens the Blood, just as it narrows the mind.
And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch, and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed,
the Leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry.
Rather, the citizenry , both infused with fear and blinded by Patriotism,
will offer up their rights unto the Leader and gladly so.
How do I know?
For this is what I have done.
And I am Julius Ceaser.- orientis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Caesar. (FYI only, excellent quote)
- leboff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4and never said by Caesar, or written by Shakespeare
- ExCornelius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Still a good bit of prose.
- captjc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." - Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
/Well.. At least it is funny (if not kind of depressing) - newrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Even He to whom things that most people thought were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart"
--D. Adams
That there is a quote...think... - NeedleGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1no. 26: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." - whoever relieves the current POS POTUS in 01/2009.
- washcapsfan37, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Is it sad Digg is slowly become like Slashdot?
Reddit reported this 2 days ago.
If this was noteworthy, Slashdot would report this in 3-5 days.
Come on Diggers, stop regurgitating Reddit! Let's see more orginal and meaningful content!- PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Quite bitching bitch.
- ybisme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's "quit bitching" bitch.
- Stemp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Excuse me, but in the 25 best Sentences, most are in English (from English speaking people) ?
Do you understand there is others languages, civilizations, cultures ?- cranium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Psst...
(You might want to read it again. English is not the primary language many of those quoted, and was probably not the original language of many of the quotes.
You seem like you might be the subject of several of them, however.) - noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One of the last quotes is originally in Hebrew, and actually goes "אם אין אני לי, מי לי?" (Eem Ein Ani Li, Mi Li?).
- katiew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's interesting ...... need to research it though just like usual
- cranium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Psst...
- mishaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5none more accurate than :
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw - kettle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@iamcitizen - did paste that in there just for me, and my earlier chastising comments? I'm flattered!
http://www.digg.com/politics/George_Orwell_Was_Right - willhaney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2IWhen ever I read a story like this I know that the comments will be far better than the story itself.
You’ve all done it again.
Thanks you. - jimmy87lee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"You can't hug with nuclear arms.." - Unknown..
- interpaul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice!
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That was from that episode of Family Guy where Death is dating a girl who loves animals.
- daxsymbiont, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"by anyone, no we really meant american presidents and a few leftists that we like".
- CGorman68, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg for the Donne poem.
- interpaul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"He called me a rapist and a recluse. I'm not a recluse." - Mike Tyson
"Everyone has a plan...'til they get hit." Mike Tyson- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I'm gonna eat your children!"
- rlrr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
-- Sir Richard F. Burton -
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