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Awwwwwwwwwwwww crap Brian! - Peter Griffin

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

(A) The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
(B) On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
(C) The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks
than the British or Americans.
(D) The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
(E) Conclusion: Eat and drink what you like. It's speaking English that kills you.
-unknown

Number of physicians in the US: 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000
Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000
Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups): 1,500
Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand.
As a Public Health Measure, I have withheld the statistic on Lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical aid.
-unknown

Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts. Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all. This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water.
-unknown

"The only wisdom is knowing that you know nothing at all" -Plato?

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

~ Robert Hillyer

" You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here."

Janye from Firefly

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." - Albert Schweitzer

"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight" -Bruce Cockburn

"Enemy-occupied terriroty -- that is what this world is." - C.S. Lewis

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - GOD



















































- From the Futurama episode where Bender meets GOD.

[edit on 24-8-2005 by beyondSciFi]

All beginnings require that you unlock a new door.

- Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

The impossible is often the untried.

~ Jim Goodwin

Although this may not be the exact wording its basically correct:

People should never fear their Government, the Government should fear the people

Originally posted by UK Wizard
Although this may not be the exact wording its basically correct:

People should never fear their Government, the Government should fear the people

Already posted a few pages back. It goes:

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

Originally posted by jetsetter
Already posted a few pages back. It goes:

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

thanks, I heard it on a trailer for a film yesterday but couldn't remember the wording exactly.

"In every man there is an eye of the soul more precious than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen" ~Socrates

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

-T.S. Eliot

Don't cross the stream to look for water.

~ Swedish Proverb

"To be upset about what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

~ Ken Keyes, Jr.

"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well."

~ Josh Billings