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Let's take a trip back to the 90s when those motivational posters were in every middle manager's office.

I do a love a good quote, provided there is a bit of back story to it. One of my favourites is this:

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
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This was said by a journalist named Hunter S. Thompson (a very interesting character, heave a read of his Wikipedia page, especially if you've read or seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).

I have read or heard this numerous times over the years and always thought it's a cool expression. I also enjoyed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in which Jonny Depp played Thompson (I only just today learned that it was him who said this), and I also learned that Depp and Thompson were good friends and Depp actually attended Thompson's ashes scattering in which his ashes were fired out of a cannon. I only just connected all these dots today :eek:


Weird eh?


Any of you lot got any interesting ones?
 
Another good one from him: "It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat **** and die." So true.

I also like: "Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life." - Cecil Rhodes. Not because I'm some mad racist or anything, but I just like it. I simply feel lucky and privileged to be from this country. :)
 
One for the geography grads:

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From Everett McGill's character in Under Siege 2:

"Assumption is the mother of all **** ups".

Such an inspirational quote to use, especially when frothing at the mouth and punching holes in walls.
 
Confederate General Stonewall Jackson's last words as he lay dying:

'Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees...'
 
Steve Jobbs said:
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
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John F Kennedy said:
We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.
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Rudyard Kippling said:
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
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OK this one's from a film and was originally meant to be funny. But it's also true... Miles in Risky Business :) said:
Sometimes you gotta say "What the ****", make your move. Joel, every now and then, saying "What the ****", brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.
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I like that many popular quotes are used wrongly or out of context and often part of much deeper insights or completely different meanings when read along with the context and/or surrounding material.
 
Sneakers 1992. Pretty much relevant today.

Cosmo: There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!
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Cosmo: Pollution. Crime. Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair - we throw GOBS of money at them and problems only get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.
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Fellowship of the Ring

Frodo: [of Gollum] It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.

Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
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Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.
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The Two Towers

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
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Something Black Lives Matter could learn from.
 
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