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I love a lot of the quotes by Lou Holtz. For those who don't know who he's a former football coach who became a motivational speaker in the US. Here's a few:

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I have never heard a successful man or woman get up and say, "I owe my success to drugs and alcohol."

If you're patting yourself on the back about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.

Show me a person who is a success, and I'll show you a person who has overcome adversity.

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I have loads at home somewhere which I will post at some point, here are a few for now
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Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

My name is an anagram of toilets - T.S Eliot.

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Having just enjoyed watching all three Back To The Future films...

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious [LIFTED]."

"It works! It works! I finally invent something that works! "

"Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here!"

"I hate manure!"



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And there's the unmistakable figure of Joe Mercer... or is it Lester Piggott? – Brough Scott

Shane Warne: "I've been waiting two years for the opportunity to humiliate you in front of your own crowd."

Daryl Cullinan: "Looks like you spent it eating."

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"There's something out there waiting for us.....and it ain't no man."

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"I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
I always thought it was " … destroyer of worlds.".

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"Kalo Asmi Loka-ksaya-krit Pravardho, Lokan Samartum iha Pravattah"

I think it depends on how you translate the above passage.

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The Dalai Lama wrote:
Sleep is the best meditation.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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Adam Savage: "I reject your reality and substitute my own" :lol:

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This above all: To Thine Own Self Be True

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When planning for the future, remember that if you aim for nothing you will always hit your target. - my old school teacher.


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When planning for the future, remember that if you aim for nothing you will always hit your target. - my old school teacher.

But you are never disapppointed. :D

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To alcohol - the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. – Homer J Simpson

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paulzolo wrote:
To alcohol - the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. – Homer J Simpson

I thought that was one of mine :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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"I'm gonna kill 'em. Anyone that was involved. Anybody who profited from it. Anybody who opens their eyes at me."

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Robert Heinlein wrote:
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit.


P.J. O'Rourke wrote:
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic, and useless. Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats.


Benjamin Franklin wrote:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety


Alan Bennett wrote:
We started off trying to create a small anarchistic community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.


V wrote:
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you, and you may call me V.


C.S. Lewis wrote:
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.


G.K. Chesterton wrote:
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

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Only an idiot fights a war on 2 fronts

Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on 12 fronts!

(Londo Mollari to Refa in Babylon 5)


<Soldier to Patton> "Where are you going General?"
<Patton> "Berlin - I'm gonna personally shoot that paper-hanging son of a bitch"

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That CS Lewis quote is pretty awesome.


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