Wat vind jij de beste quote ooit?

Mijn keuze voor beste quote ooit is deze (icm een foto)

Ter verduidelijking, deze foto laat de aarde zien. Er bestaat geen enkele afbeelding van de aarde die verder weg is gemaakt dan deze, ver voorbij pluto.


Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

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Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

"In the end, everything we did is just everything we've done."

Oh, en natuurlijk de quote vd week, slaat natuurlijk op de schoolroosters:
"En de roostermakers hebben het dit jaar wederom verneukt."

"Every life has an end" is mijn favo.

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Op woensdag 27 augustus 2008 18:30 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

Verhaal

wow...

Trouwens, Refragmental, waarom is de aarde wit op die foto? We stralen geen licht uit en de andere planeten zie je ook niet. Is het gewoon wit gemaakt ter verduidelijking?

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Op vrijdag 29 augustus 2008 14:18 schreef iisys het volgende:
Trouwens, Refragmental, waarom is de aarde wit op die foto? We stralen geen licht uit en de andere planeten zie je ook niet. Is het gewoon wit gemaakt ter verduidelijking?

Is een beetje verstoring door de zon die verderop in de volledig versie van deze foto staat (IIRC).

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Op woensdag 27 augustus 2008 18:30 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Mijn keuze voor beste quote ooit is deze (icm een foto)

Ter verduidelijking, deze foto laat de aarde zien. Er bestaat geen enkele afbeelding van de aarde die verder weg is gemaakt dan deze, ver voorbij pluto.
[ afbeelding ]

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

Bron:
Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

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Op vrijdag 29 augustus 2008 14:18 schreef iisys het volgende:
Trouwens, Refragmental, waarom is de aarde wit op die foto? We stralen geen licht uit en de andere planeten zie je ook niet. Is het gewoon wit gemaakt ter verduidelijking?

Allereerst is het niet wit maar blauw (pale blue dot zou toch al genoeg moeten zeggen ).
Het is licht dat door de aarde gereflecteerd wordt.

De andere planeten zie je niet op deze foto simpelweg omdat ze er niet op staan.

Op de volgende foto zie je een geheel familie portret. De Planeten staan behoorlijk ver uit elkaar.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Op zaterdag 30 augustus 2008 20:37 schreef Devion het volgende:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
- Marcus Aurelius

Nice....

'If power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.' - Zeitgeist

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Op donderdag 4 september 2008 15:28 schreef dennisw het volgende:
'If power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.' - Zeitgeist

Zeker uit die kutfilm

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Op donderdag 4 september 2008 15:38 schreef Scaurus het volgende:

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Zeker uit die kutfilm

Moeilijk he? De boodschap los zien van de boodschapper...

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Op woensdag 27 augustus 2008 18:30 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Mijn keuze voor beste quote ooit is deze (icm een foto)
etc

Impressive

I'll be back - A. Schwarzenegger

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice" - Scooter

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Op donderdag 4 september 2008 15:38 schreef Scaurus het volgende:

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Zeker uit die kutfilm

Een aardig filosoofje heeft wel eens iets soortgelijks gesteld:

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

'Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner.'

'Where there is doubt, there is freedom.'

'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'

'People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.'

'The main trouble is there are too many people who don't know where they're going
and they want to get there too fast.'

'The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.'

'Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.'

'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.'

-Standing here with my loving family,
I wonder why I'm running from the axe.
-Strike!!
*-We're closed and, much like my life, the day is over.
-We all have to live with our disappointments...
I have to sleep with mine.
-Something sinister's going on so I know a woman's behind it
-If you want to have sex, the kids have to leave,
and if you want it to be good, you'll have to leave.
-I was driving home... God knows why?
-The only power I sensed was that of the mighty forces
unleashed by beans.
-Marcy, the part with the cups goes in front.
-A man's home is his coffin.
-I'm gonna give this to the only one I truly love... me!
-The opera isn't over until the last heterosexual falls asleep.
-You go home and tell your daddy you have the mail-man's eyes.
-I'm the only guy in the world who has to wake up
to have a nightmare.
-Ah, home sweet hell.
-I hate my life ... can't eat, can't sleep,
can't bury my wife in the backyard.
-People who work putting shoes on fat women who wear dresses
should not have 20/20 vision.
-Let me explain. It's just like an elevator.
There's a 2 ton weight limit on those shoes...
-Well, I chalked up some more frequent loser miles today.
-Insurance is like marriage.
You pay and pay but you never get anything back.
-The home shopping network! There's a good idea for women! It was a little too hard driving to the mall with a couch strapped to their ass!!!
-You know what I would do if I was President? I'd take a big empty state, that nobody's using, y'know, like Idaho, and I'd pack every pregnant woman in the country into donut trucks, and convoy 'em all to Boise. And since Idaho means nothing anyhow, I'd change the name to Preg-naho.
-Pretty women make us BUY bear. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.
-A fat woman came into the shoe store today.

Al Bundy

Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Ik weet helaas niet van wie die is.

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them

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Op dinsdag 9 september 2008 18:12 schreef Droopie het volgende:
Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them

House toch?

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Op dinsdag 26 augustus 2008 19:42 schreef katerwater het volgende:
Nietsche is dood
-god-

Om deze heb ik echt gelachen, dit is de beste quote tot nu toe! Zelf verzonnen?

"the more things change, the more they remain the same''

Gelezen op een cd-hoes maar ongetwijfeld van een groter denker.

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Terry Pratchett, "Good Omens"

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Op dinsdag 9 september 2008 18:12 schreef Droopie het volgende:
Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them

Zit enige waarheid in maar uiteindelijk duurt eerlijk toch het langst...

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Op donderdag 4 september 2008 23:23 schreef kabelhaspel het volgende:
I'll be back - A. Schwarzenegger

Opvallend hoeveel mensen voor een Engelstalig citaat kiezen.

De post van Refragmental vind ik trouwens een hele mooie, fascinerend die foto van de Aarde.

"An Honest Politician Is Just A Contradiction In Terms"

Roger Taylor - The Key

"What The World Needs Is More Nazis, Like It Needs A Hole In The Head"

Roger Taylor - Nazis 1994

TVP.

Eén van mijn favoriete quotes komt van eigen bodem, namelijk uit een interview van Arjan Visser met Nebahat Albayrak (in het kader van Visser's serie 'De tien geboden'):

"ik geloof niet dat ze (= Albayraks ouders) ooit zullen begrijpen wie ik werkelijk ben. Nee, dat is helemaal niet triest, want ik begrijp wel wie zíj zijn en hoe het komt dat ze me nooit zullen begrijpen. Dat is voldoende.”

Niets is wat het lijkt....... van wie was die ook alweer?

“All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. All misery comes from the desire for oneself to be happy.”
-Shantideva

We shall test your faith by means of fear and hunger and loss of wealth and lives and crops, but give good tidings to those who endured with courage, who in hardship say, "To Allah we belong and to Him shall we return."



- Qur'an, Al Baqara, Surah 2:155-56


Such is God, your Lord. There is no god but him. He is the creator of all things; therefore serve him. He is the protector of all things. No mortal eyes can see him, though he sees all eyes. He is aware of all subtleties; he knows all.



- Qu'ran, Al-An'am, Surah 6:102-103

'IJdelheid der ijdelheden, alles is ijdelheid'

- Prediker

De werkelijke betekenis van het gehele leven ligt in dat citaat besloten.

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"Hello, 999 emergency! Who is this pretty guy in my room? Oh, sorry, it is only me!"

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Op zondag 14 september 2008 23:25 schreef Edwinuss het volgende:

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PROEST

"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely"

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."


From the short story "A good man is hard to find" from Flannery O'Connor'.

"When the enemy is in range, so are you"

'Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.'

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans"

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Op zondag 14 september 2008 23:25 schreef Edwinuss het volgende:

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Johnny Bravo

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"He who hasitates, masturbates..."

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 03:22 schreef Cyclonis het volgende:
"When the enemy is in range, so are you"

Doet denken aan "Tracer rounds work both ways"

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Op dinsdag 12 augustus 2008 21:47 schreef intraxz het volgende:
"I´ve got balls of steel"

Duke Nukem

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta gum! "

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 03:22 schreef Cyclonis het volgende:
"When the enemy is in range, so are you"

tenzij de vijand Argentinie is met kannonen die 7 km kunnen schieten, en je zelf GB bent met kannonen die 12 km kunnen schieten.

een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht
zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen
dan dooft het licht...
- H.M. van Randwijk


Those who would give up essential liberty
to purchase a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin


I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (paraphrasing Voltaire's "Essay on Tolerance")

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Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.