Favorite quote

Capt.Flannel

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not a skiing quote, what's your favorite?

mine is :

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

- Robert Kennedy
 
"Corruption charges...corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulation. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the street. Corruption...is why we win." - Tim Blake Nelson as Danny Dalton to Jeffrey Wright as Bennett Holiday
 
Additionally:

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep"

-The Tempest (Shakespeare)
 
ive got three

1."The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his leisure and his body, his education and recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of exdcellence in whatever he does leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."

-author unknown

2."colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the midleclass nonidentity wchich usually finds is perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well to do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with every body looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous cililization."

-Jack Kerouac- The Dharma Bums

3."the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes, 'aww!'"

-author unknown
 
"it works 60% of the time, every time."

strive to be different embrace what you have for i have nothing and i hold it all
 
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein

Accuracy is not 100%
 
“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.” – James M. Barrie
 
Friedrich Nietzsche, best philospher ever (1844 - 1900)

"God is dead."

"Only sick music makes money today."

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
 


You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart." ~Thomas J. Watson

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~T. S. Eliot

"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that’s teamwork"-Coach John R. Wooden
 
fuck i love physics

"And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it." -Bohr
 
"to do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"

steve prefontaine

"I insist you desist"

-boxer on the simpsons
 
These are all kinda serious:

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Churchill

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves Goethe

 
There are 3 kinds of people in life, the winners, the losers, and those who huck themselves off high shit. I am the third.

~Ben Sawyer

Cliff Jumper Extrodeneire
 
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