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Hey, goods. This is my quote section, where I take the best quotes I've seen and I post em here. Just to make it clear, this is the THIRD idea I stole from ry...along with thoughts and lyrics. Just so ya know.

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?
-- Sister Miriam Godwinson

Without sensibility no object would be given to us, without understanding no object would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
-- Immanuel Kant,
"Critique of Pure Reason"

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
-- Aristotle,
"Nichomachean Ethics"

(this is my favorite) The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
-- Saint Augustine,
"Confessions"

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.
-- Aristotle,
"Nichomachean Ethics"

And when he has brought forth and reared this perfect virtue, he shall be called the friend of god, and if ever it is given to man to put on immortality, it shall be given to him.
-- Plato,
"The Symposium"

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
-- Soren Kierkegaard,
"The Sickness Unto Death"

Information, the first principle of warfare, must form the foundation of all your efforts. Know, of course, thine enemy. But in knowing him do not forget above all to know thyself. The commander who embraces this totality of battle shall win even with the inferior force.
-- Spartan Battle Manual

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"

God does not play dice.
-- Albert Einstein

The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
The Father of Rocketry

Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements.
-- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
"The Ethics of Greed"

The chief aim of their constitution and government is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
-- Sir Thomas More,
"Utopia"

Sometimes I even cut myself just to see how much it bleeds./ It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.
--Eminem,
"Stan"

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone
- Paul Tillich

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-Indira Gandhi

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us
- Helen Keller

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-Irving Caesar

"And when the time comes to die, though I chase such thoughts away, I want time to whisper one thing; My darling, I love you."
- Dmitry Kolesnikov, captain of Russian submarine Kursk.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are
- Albert Camus

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
-Muhammad Ali

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom
- Elbert Hubbard

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-Cynthia Heimel

Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk.
-- Steven King

To lead the people, walk behind them
- Lao-Tzu

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them. - Mahatma Gandhi

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
-Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
- Cardinal de Retz

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
-Andy,
'Shawshank Redemption'

(These next three are some of my favorite song quotes)

How long, how long will I slide..?
-Red Hot Chili Peppers,
"Otherside"

"Sixteen just held such better days,/Days when I still felt alive."
-Blink 182,
"Adam's Song"

"Remember, the one you hold a grudge is foul,/And everything you ever wanted is in front of you now."
-LL Cool J
"Me and You"

"The greatest feeling in the world is not love, or happiness. It is but the one thing that gives life meaning: cold purpose."
~ME

"Have I said too much? There's nothing more I can think of to say to you...
But all you have to do is look at me to know that every word is true..."

-Andrew Lloyd Webber
Do I REALLY love anyone?
Does anyone REALLY love me?
I thought I did.
I thought they did too, though.

~ME
"I don't know how to live my life...if these are the choices."

-Buffy
"If I die, I'll be pissed."

-CoOlin Rankin, New years day, 2001(last year)
Ryan: Yo Bry(me), settle down!!
Brian: YOUR JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE I HAD SEX WITH FOUR GIRLS!!

~Me being EXTREMELY drunk.
Dealer: Are you SURE you want to double down on a thirteen?
Me: YES!! (I was then dealt a nine)

~Possibly the stupidest thing I've ever done...I lost $100 doing that.
"Parents are like root canals. They're sometimes nessecary, but always dreaded.

~Me (really)

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~Bri

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