Most profound quotation you have read or heard?

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"What happens if you get scared half to death twice?"

"I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen...and replaced by exact duplicates.

-Steven Wright

I have a bazillion, but this is the most profound:

"The bad news is there is no key to the universe. The good news is, it was never locked."

- Swami Beyondananda

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May personal favourite one is..

""Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us.... Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."
-Edward O. Wilson

Followed by...

"You cant always get what you want. You cant always get what you want. You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."
-Jagger.

My personal and original motto..

"Everyone is scum until proven decent."

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"Nothing's impossible in life. For example, I never thought that I could shoot down a German plane. But last year I proved myself wrong."
-- Grandpa Simpson

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" Earth is not heaven nor is it hell, it is a preparation for one or the other"

"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

---Albert Einstein, phyicist, Nobel Prize 1921---

"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."

-Hunter S. Thompson-

"Honesty is what you say or do when people aren't watching."
- Glenn Beck

"And so the day came, when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud, was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." The Maxx.

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

George Orwell

Funny, Orwell knew who would be president in 2008 and had this to say about him.

Your body is the temple and your mind is the builder

me...

After man...the desert.

Anon.

`It is better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven`t done`

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The Great Invocation (adapted)

From the point of Light within the mind of God
Let light stream forth into human minds
Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into human hearts
May the Coming One return to Earth.

From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide all little human wills
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the centre which we call the human race
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

This is a slightly adapted wording of the great invocation. Men and women of goodwill throughout the world are using this invocation in their own language. Will you join them in using the invocation every day - with thought and dedication?

"If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS,then you live in a house with no light." George Bernard Shaw.

"If you change with change you're in a changeless state."
"You can't step on the same piece of water twice."

both Bruce Lee I think

Not sure where I heard this...

"If God appeared and offered you either, everything you have now...or exactly what you deserve...which would you take?"

"Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh, do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeji geeja geeble Google. Begep flagaggle vaggle veditch-waggle bagga?"

Charles Manson

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Man that dude has a few components of his brain in the wrong order...

Did you know he was once a scientologist, but he decided that it was too nuts for him so he went on a killing spree instead? True story.

Originally posted by paxnatus
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

George Orwell

Funny, Orwell knew who would be president in 2008 and had this to say about him.

To be clear, that was a reference to GWB, correct?

Regards...KK