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    I'd like to start this off with,

    I STARTED WITH NOTHING,
    AND I STILL HAVE MOST OF IT LEFT.

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    "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

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    “The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”
    ― Ulysses S. Grant

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    “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde.

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    The true reason that sea water is salty, is that fish sweat!

    (Captain Kangaroo - 2013)

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    "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off your bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
    Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cmmdre View Post
    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off your bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
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    The go to heaven etc. is one of my all time favorite quotes.

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    "Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

    Winston Churchill

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    "My plans, sir, are to beat the French." ...

    Arthur Wellesley, 1. Duke of Wellington




    Voilà le soleil d'Austerlitz!

    Napoleon Bonaparte

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    "Whoever said 'the pen is mightier than the sword' obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
    --Douglas MacArthur

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    My interest in history began as a child watching epic movies in the late 60's-70's. My favourite was always "the 300 Spartans" I must have seen it a dozen times. Two "quotes" have remained with me to this day

    "It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh,
    • "Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade."


    "Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
    that here obedient to their laws we lie."

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    Considering the forum, I'll keep my favorite quote(s) to something nautical.
    "You're going to need a bigger boat"
    http://youtu.be/67p4hS6vyD8

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    This is my best one
    "He who says he makes no mistakes. Is making the biggest mistake of all. Or doe's bug##r all.
    Ba safe
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    I like,

    " The one time I made a mistake, was when I thought I made a mistake"

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    Oh God make me good

    ... but not yet.

    Aleric (the Visigoth).

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    Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

    Mao

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    One of the quotes I hate:angry: the most when someone screws up,

    "I'm only human"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunner View Post
    One of the quotes I hate:angry: the most when someone screws up,

    "I'm only human"
    Not a fan of The Human League either. Too wifty and synth-popish.

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    Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

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    One death is a tragedy

    A million deaths, just a statistic.

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    [There are] lies, damned lies, and statistics.

    For an interesting read on the attribution of this quote - http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm

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    "Evil looms. Cowboy Up. Kill it. Get paid."--Monster Hunter International company motto

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7eat51 View Post
    [There are] lies, damned lies, and statistics.

    For an interesting read on the attribution of this quote - http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm
    Related:

    "Statistics don't lie but liars use statistics."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondback View Post
    "Evil looms. Cowboy Up. Kill it. Get paid."--Monster Hunter International company motto
    From a similar source:

    "Nut Up or Shut Up"

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    "It's not about how you fall.
    It's about how you get up"

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    An appropriate quote for this game is: "I shall fault no commander who lays his vessel alongside a ship of the enemy.” - Admiral Lord Nelson on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondback View Post
    "Evil looms. Cowboy Up. Kill it. Get paid."--Monster Hunter International company motto
    Oh, god -- he's a Correian.... ;)

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    "Just be yourself. Everyone else is taken"

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    "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

    Abraham Lincoln

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    Quote Originally Posted by csadn View Post
    Oh, god -- he's a Correian.... ;)
    Shamelessly--Larry's an old gun-board buddy. Been there, done that, got the autographed copy and the Team Harbinger patch... :D

    Another fave...
    "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
    --William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

    "He who lives by the sword sometimes gets it stuck up his ass."
    --George McGeary, as quoted by George Hayduke, various volumes
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    Possibly a least favourite quote, for those waiting

    ‘I see no ships’


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    "Badges? We don't need no Stinkin Badges"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunner View Post
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    "Badges? We don't need no Stinkin Badges"

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    WOW Bob, 3 minutes, you are quick.

    Comment deleted anyway. I keep forgetting that young people look at this site too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunner View Post
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    "Badges? We don't need no Stinkin Badges"
    Sorry can't resist that line always makes me think of

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    Quote Originally Posted by kelsith View Post
    Sorry can't resist that line always makes me think of
    Thanks. I've never seen this one before.

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    You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. There is only one sort of discipline - Perfect discipline.

    -Gen. Patton

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    Glory is fleeting, obscurity is for ever!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BillyRuffin View Post
    Glory is fleeting, obscurity is for ever!
    Excellent quote Joe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BillyRuffin View Post
    Glory is fleeting, obscurity is for ever!
    Always liked this from the movie "Patton" about glory:

    "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: That all glory is fleeting."

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    "There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you won't have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, 'Well, your Granddaddy shoveled **** in Louisiana.' No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton! "

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    "Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, The Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off."

    -current administration

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    Brilliant Ed!

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    "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition;
    And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
    Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day."

    William Shakespeare

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coog View Post
    Always liked this from the movie "Patton" about glory:

    "For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: That all glory is fleeting."
    "Remember, thou art mortal -- remember, thou art mortal -- remember, thou art mortal --"
    "Oh, blow it out your a**."
    [Court Spokesman Whose Name Cannot Be Repeated On A Family-Friendly Forum, and Marcus Vindictus, _History of the World, Part 1_]

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    Here is my favorite military speech type quote.

    ' My good friend, if, when we were once out of this fight, we could escape old age and death thenceforward and forever, I should neither press forward myself nor bid you do so, but death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no man can elude him; therefore let us go forward and either win glory for ourselves, or yield it to another.'

    Hector of Troy, Iliad by Homer (Samuel Butler Translation)

    However, Stephen Mitchell's is my favorite translation. I just cannot find that one on-line to paste here.

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    Another of my favorites.

    "One man with courage,
    makes a majority"

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    I FEAR NO MAN.
    And very few women.

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    Repo Man is always intense.

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