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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. ~Christopher Morley

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~Doug Floyd

Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. ~Author Unknown

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~Dr. Seuss

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us – and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. ~Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. ~Juvenal

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. ~Veterans Fast for Life

If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ~Malcolm X

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu

Most Popular Movie Quotes

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Lambas bread. Oh and look! MORE lambas Bread!
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

No parent should have to bury their child.
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

I made a promise, Mr Frodo. A promise. “Don’t you leave him Samwise Gamgee.” And I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

I do believe in fairies, I do I do.
– Peter Pan

If I were you, I’d give up
– Peter Pan

So you want a heart? You don’t know how luck you are not to have one…Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable
– The Wizard Of Oz

Because people who have no hopes are easy to control. And whoever has control has… the power!
– The Never Ending Story

Anyways, you need people of intelligence on this sort of… mission.. quest.. thing!
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happend. 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.
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

I learned that, if I ever go looking for my hearts desire again… I shouldn’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.
– The Wizard Of Oz

Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!
– The Wizard Of Oz

A place where there isn’t any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place Toto? There must be. It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It’s far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain.
– The Wizard Of Oz

Oh, but anyway, Toto, we’re home. Home! And this is my room, and you’re all here. And I’m not gonna leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all, and – oh, Auntie Em – there’s no place like home!
– The Wizard Of Oz

There is still hope.
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Voldemort killed my parents, he was nothing more than a murderer.
– Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets

Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got?
– The Wizard Of Oz

Oh, believe me, that’s enough! But the worst thing is, if you so much as set a foot in the Bog of Stench, you’ll smell bad for the rest of your life. It’ll never wash off.
– Labyrinth

Well, I – I think that it – it wasn’t enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em – and it’s that – if I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?
– The Wizard Of Oz

My precious!
– The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Coffee Quotes

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Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. – Drew Sirtors

Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong. – Dutch Proverb

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. – Turkish Proverb

Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. – Turkish Proverb

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. – Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. – Dutch Proverb

A morning without coffee is like sleep. – Anonymous

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. – Voyager

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. – Flash Rosenberg

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee – Anonymous

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. – Anonymous

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. – Henry Ward Beecher

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. – Alexander Pope

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. – Anonymous

Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven. – Jessi Lane Adams

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. – Eddie Izzard

Decaffeinated coffee is the devil’s blend. – Anonymous

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller

I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. – Anonymous

I like my coffee strong and my women weak. – Alexander Pappas

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. – Alphonse Allais

Decaffeinated coffee is kind of like kissing your sister. – Bob Irwin

Sleep is just a symptom of caffeine lack. – Herman Friele

Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever. – David Letterman

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee. – Carly Simon

Coffee: Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love. –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord

Petroleum and coffee had no value a few centuries ago. – Anonymous

Coffee and love are best when they are hot. – German Proverb

Being Afraid Quotes

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I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Eddie Rickenbacker

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. – Anonymous

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. – Lao Tzu

Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. – William Faulkner

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true… or being afraid it is. – Terry Goodkind

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller

Cool Funny Sayings

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“If all else fails, read the manual.”

“Knowing without doing is like plowing without sowing.”

“People are never too busy to tell you all that they have to do. ”

“Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.”

“My biggest problem is that I believe almost everything I tell myself.”

“Seen it all, done it all, can’t remember most of it.”

“Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things.”

“Do’s and don’ts influence wills and won’ts.”

“Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one.”

“Despite the high cost of living, it remains very popular.”

Dwight Schrute Quotes #2

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* Through concentration, I can raise and lower my cholesterol at will.
* A 30-year mortgage at Michael’s age essentially means that he’s buying a coffin. If I were buying my coffin, I would get one with thicker walls so you couldn’t hear the other dead people.
* I come from a long line of fighters. My maternal grandfather was the toughest guy I ever knew. World War Two veteran killed twenty men and spent the rest of the war in an Allied prison camp. My father battled blood pressure and obesity all his life. Different kind of fight.
* Yes I have acted before. I was in a production of “Oklahoma!” in the 7th grade. I played the part of Mutey the Mailman. They had too many kids so they made up roles like that. I was good.
* As a volunteer Sheriff’s Deputy I’ve been doing surveillance for years. One time I suspected an ex-girlfriend of mine of cheating on me, so I tailed her for six nights straight. Turns out . . . she was. With a couple of guys, actually. . . so . Mystery solved.
* Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.
* I like the people that I work with, generally. With four exceptions.
* And I did not become a Lackawanna County volunteer sheriff’s deputy to make friends. And by the way, I haven’t.
* When you become close with someone, you develop a kind of sixth sense. You can read their moods like a book. And right now, the title of Michael’s book is.. “Something Weird Is Going On…colon…What Did Jan Say? The Michael Scott Story…by Michael Scott. With Dwight Schrute.”
* He was already dead, and we Schrutes use every part of the goose. The meat has a delicious smoky rich flavor. Plus, you can use the molten goose grease and save it in the refrigerator, thus saving you a trip to the store for a can of expensive goose grease.
* As a farmer I know that when an animal is sick sometimes the right thing to do is put it out of it’s misery. With the electricity we are using to keep Meredith alive we could power a small fan for two days. You tell me what’s unethical.
* I signed up for Second Life about a year ago. Back then, my life was so great that I literally wanted a second one. Absolutely everything was the same…except I could fly.
* Babies are one of my many areas of expertise. Growing up I performed my own circumcision.
* I am not a security threat, and my middle name is Kurt, not Fart.
* Can we steer away from gay people? I’m sorry it’s an orientation not a race. Plus, a lot of other races are intolerant of gays, sooo paradox..
* D.W.I.G.H.T – Determined, Worker, Intense, Good worker, Hard worker, Terrific
* People say, oh it’s dangerous to keep weapons in the home, or the workplace. Well I say, it’s better to be hurt by someone you know, accidentally, than by a stranger, on purpose
* I wish I could menstruate. If I could menstruate, I wouldn’t have to deal with idiotic calendars anymore. I’d just be able to count down from my previous cycle. Plus I’d be more in tune with the moon and the tides.
* Once I’m officially Regional Manager, my first order of business will be to demote Jim Halpert. So I will need a new number two. My ideal choice? Jack Bauer. But he is unavailable. Fictional. And overqualified.
* In the wild, there is no healthcare. Healthcare is “Oh, I broke my leg!” A lion comes and eats you, your dead. Well, I’m not dead, I’m the lion, your dead!
* Did you know that the human thumb is formed by 15 interchangeable joints? Wrong. Don’t believe everything the people on television tell you.
* I have been Michael’s number two guy for about 5 years. And we make a great team. We’re like one of those classic famous teams. He’s like Mozart and I’m like…Mozart’s friend. No. I’m like Butch Cassidy and Michael is like…Mozart. You try and hurt Mozart? You’re gonna get a bullet in your head courtesy of Butch Cassidy.
* Why are all these people here? There are too many people on this earth. We need a new plague…
* A hero kills people, people that wish him harm. A hero is part human and part supernatural. A hero is born out of a childhood trauma, or out of a disaster, that must be avenged.
* [indicating his purple belt] This is not a toy, this is a message to the entire office so that everyone can see I can physically dominate them.
* Sasquatches are the strongest animal on the planet so fine call me a Sasquatch!

Dwight Schrute Quotes

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* When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had adsorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No, I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.
* I am faster than 80% of all snakes.
* I don’t care what Jim says, that is not Benjamin Franklin. I am 99% sure.
* I don’t believe you, continue.
* Reject a woman, and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also, weak arms.
* When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
* The eyes are the groin of the head.
* My feelings regenerate at twice the speed of a normal man
* Before I do anything I ask myself “Would an idiot do that?” And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.
* You know whats better than a triceratops. Only every other dinosaur that has ever existed.
* Dolphins get a lot of good publicity for the drowning swimmers they push back to shore, but what you don’t hear about is the many people they push farther out to sea! Dolphins aren’t smart. They just like pushing things.
* There are 40 rules all Schrute boys must learn by age 5. Rule #17- There are 3 things you never turn your back on- bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season
* I train my major blood vessels to retract into my body on command. Also, I can retract my penis up into itself.
* Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most.
* How would I describe myself? Three words: hard working, alpha male, jackhammer…merciless…insatiable…
* I am fast. To give you a reference point I am somewhere between a snake and a mongoose…and a panther.
* The problem, Jim, is that people who are really suffering from a medical condition won’t receive the care they need because someone in this office is coming up with ridiculous stuff. Count Choculitis….Why did you write that down, Jim? Is it because you know I love Count Chocula?
* I grew up on a farm. I have seen animals having sex in every position imaginable. Goat on chicken. Chicken on goat. Couple of chickens doing a goat, couple of pigs watching.
* Security in this office park is a joke. Last year I came to work with my spud-gun in a duffel bag. I sat at my desk all day with a rifle that shoots potatoes at 60 pounds per square inch. Can you imagine if I was deranged?