Good deeds are the best prayer.
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Serbian proverb
I’d rather be rich than stupid.
Jack Handey (b. 1949) American humorist
Deep Thoughts
THE DOCTOR: I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
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Doctor Who
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
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German proverb
PRIZE WINNING HANDMADE SAUSAGES: ONCE TASTED YOU’LL NEVER WANT ANOTHER
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Sign in the Oxhey Lane Farm Shop, UK
DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR BEST RESULTS
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Sign in Bangkok dry cleaners
Ask a question and you’re a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you’re a fool for the rest of your life.
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Chinese proverb
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
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Scottish proverb
“It’s not just the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.”
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Miso with the smell of miso is not good miso.
Enlightenment with the smell of enlightenment is not real enlightenment.(Other Authors and Sources)
Zen proverb
Hate not the people, but the crime.
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Japanese saying
“You’re just jealous because the voices are talking to me.”
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You can’t keep trouble from coming, but you don’t have to give it a chair to sit in.
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Vermont proverb
“Any ship can be a minesweeper … once.”
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SPENCER: I suppose you can make an explosive out of chewing gum?
MACGYVER: Why? Got some?”(Other Authors and Sources)
MacGyver (1985)
WILLOW: So, how did it go?
XANDER: On a scale from one to ten? It sucked.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer.
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Sun System & Network Admin manual
#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.
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California Civil Code, “Maxims of
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
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Turkish proverb
ANYA: You know, you can laugh, but I have witnessed a millennium of treachery and oppression from the males of the species, and I have nothing but contempt for the whole libidinous lot of them.
XANDER: Then why are you talking to me?
ANYA: I don’t have a date for the prom.(Other Authors and Sources)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “The Prom”
SPIKE: She wouldn’t even kill me. She just left. She didn’t even care enough to cut off my head, or set me on fire. I mean, is that too much to ask? You know? Some little sign that she cared?
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Lover’s Walk”
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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Chinese proverb
Quoted in W. C. Wilson, ed., The Teacher's Visitor (1846).
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
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African proverb
Charm is more than beauty.
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Yiddish proverb
A rabbi spoke with God about heaven and hell.
“I will show you hell,” God said, and they went into a room which had a large pot of stew in the middle. The smell was delicious, but around the pot sat people who were famished and desperate. All were holding spoons with very long handles which reached to the pot, but, because the handles were longer than their arms, it was impossible to get the stew back into their mouths.
“Now I will show you heaven,” God said, and they went into an identical room. there was a similar pot of stew, the smell was delicious, and the people had identical spoons, but they were well-nourished and happy.
“It’s simple,” God said. “You see, they have learned to feed one another.”(Other Authors and Sources)
Medieval Jewish story
It ain’t so much a matter of not knowing as it is knowing so much that ain’t so.
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Ozark proverb
Don’t discount flying pigs before you have good air defense.
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“Well,” Brahma said, “even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred.”
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Mahabharata
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
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Chinese proverb
He was so mean, if you cut him open you’d find your grandma!
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Jim Rockford
“Never trust a stockbroker who’s married to a travel agent.”
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“Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Cthulhu thinks you’d make a nice sandwich.”
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PERRY COMO’S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: The members of a Greek family are murdered systematically in a bizarre fashion.
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Toronto Sun, TV page listing
“Everything can be filed under ‘miscellaneous.'”
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Early to rise, early to bed,
Makes a man healthy but socially dead.(Other Authors and Sources)
Animaniacs, The Warner Bros.
“Joan of Arc heard voices, too.”
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A loyal friend is a powerful defense: whoever finds one has indeed found a treasure.
The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 6:14 [NJB (1985)]
(Source)
Alternate translations:
A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found him, hath found a treasure.
[DRA (1899)]
A faithfull friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.
[KJV (1611)]
A loyal friend is like a safe shelter; find one, and you have found a treasure.
[GNT (1976)]
We’d like to offer our affection as a gift by the white bird on sky to every genuinely go the same may together with you. This is our only requite to you.
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In-flight magazine of Xiamen Airlines
Sorry: No talking to cashier. No smoking. No fighting. No credit. No outside food. No sitting long. No talking loud. No spitting. No bargaining. No water to outsiders. No change. No telephone. No match sticks. No discussing gambling. No newspaper. No combing. No beef. No leg on chair. No hard liquor allowed. No address enquiry.
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Sign outside Bastani Café, Bombay, India
“Lord, grant me the patience to suffer fools, or, alternatively, a chainsaw.”
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Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
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I Ching
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s rights to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954) US Supreme Court Justice (1941-54), lawyer, jurist, politician
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) [majority opinion]
Full decision
I don’t have problems with things I can’t see. God and Jesus and Heaven, I believe in all those things. It’s the things I can see that I have trouble accepting.
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Anonymous Psych Patient
http://crazytracy.com/blog/archives/000467.html
Moving is a lot like drinking too much. I have all these bruises I can’t explain, and I don’t know where any of my sh*t is.
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JillMatrix.com (29 Aug. 2002)
The fact that [someone is] an unattractive character with followers holding rather odd theology, does not mean that they have no civil, legal or constitutional rights. Calling such a group a “cult” should not deprive them of their rights.
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Alex McColl, in Soldier of Fortune (1993)
on the Branch Davidian ATF raid
One of the advantages of being captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
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James T. Kirk
“Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.”
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Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 7:1-2 (KJV)
Alt. trans.:
- "Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get."(NRSV)
- "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (NIV)
- "Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others." (GNT)
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
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Chinese proverb
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
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French proverb
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
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Zen proverb
“It might look like I’m doing nothing, but at the cellular level I’m really quite busy.”
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“If I throw a stick, will you leave?”
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“The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.”
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