Wat vind jij de beste quote ooit?

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 17:45 schreef pwned het volgende:
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.

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Op dinsdag 16 september 2008 17:45 schreef pwned het volgende:
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.

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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.
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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

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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.

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Op donderdag 25 september 2008 11:29 schreef kabelhaspel het volgende:
Expect the unexpected - Scooter

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L'enfer c'est les autres

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

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So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

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"You’ll get everything society can give a man. You’ll keep all the money. You’ll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You’ll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I--I’ll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt." - "You’re getting more than I am, Howard." [Howard Roark and Peter Keating]

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Most people would die sooner than think — in fact they do so.

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We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.

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Op donderdag 25 september 2008 11:29 schreef kabelhaspel het volgende:
Expect the unexpected - Scooter

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Op dinsdag 12 augustus 2008 09:46 schreef Dwerfion het volgende:
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis

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Op dinsdag 12 augustus 2008 09:40 schreef bigore het volgende:
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.
-- Richard Dawkins

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Op donderdag 25 september 2008 23:34 schreef speknek het volgende:
Same here . Vroeger was ik het trouwens wel altijd eens met Bertrand Russell. Zijn pessimisme over de mensheid zou je ook aan moeten spreken denk ik (alhoewel hij dan weer progressief is, wat mij weer aan zou moeten spreken, maar goed, het blijft een commie). Na Ayn Rand niet meer. Maar wat je zegt, zo eloquent en spits met woorden, daar past alleen respect voor.

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Op woensdag 17 september 2008 22:00 schreef De Wouzeraar het volgende:
Dat je niet paranoïde bent wil nog niet zeggen dat ze je niet achtervolgen. -?

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"Ik val aan, volg mij"

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Op dinsdag 30 september 2008 10:12 schreef Dagonet het volgende:
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good.

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And now you can call your mathematician friends to tell you all the nice topological properties of Calabi Yau manifolds. And if you don't have any friends, you can just grab a book.

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Op zondag 28 september 2008 15:57 schreef rinzzz het volgende:
Hij was anders "Just because you're paranoïd, doesn't mean nobody's chasing you"

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Op dinsdag 30 september 2008 22:32 schreef DrDarwin het volgende:
"We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake." - Catherine Fahringer

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Op dinsdag 30 september 2008 23:56 schreef STORMSEEKER het volgende:
''To be is to do'' – Socrates
''To do is to be'' – Jean Paul Sartre

''Do be do be do'' – Frank Sinatra.