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Looking for your favorite quote - one that is worth learning from.

My son will be born in Jan of next year. My contribution to his nursery (and future room) is going to be about 8 quotes that I will have stencil printed in frames. I am looking for quotes that we can discuss with him as he grows older. I don't care where they're from - you, famous people, cartoon characters... it doesn't matter. Just so long as they have something worth learning from.

Thanks for sharing.

EDIT: Thanks everyone. There's some great stuff in here. I appreciate it. Keep them coming if you have any more!

Posted Oct 31, 2010, 3:23 AM UTC · edited

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I submitted this to the last quote thread and it was well received:

"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The
third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents.
By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth."
                        -Prince Sultan bin Salman al-Saud
                         (Saudi Arabian astronaut)

My advice is to look up similar threads and look towards the top (but not just the top).

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PersonOfInternets•

Saudi Arabian....astronaut?

It's true though, astronauts who get to see the Earth from that vantage point often have profound spiritual experiences, suddenly and abruptly realizing that we are not a planet of nations, but of Earthlings, and we should all be in this thing together.

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And the best part is, you don't have to be an astronaut to come to that realization.

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PersonOfInternets•

Cool. I just want to vent about something real quick...

first member of royalty in space.[1]

Nobody cares if you are royalty anymore. To say someone is the first "royalty" to do something is just plain gay. Nobody cares unless you live in England where they never got the memo that "royalty" are only human. This isn't the seventeenth century. They are just people like anyone else.

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Ikswols•

More profound than expected when I started reading this...

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"Whatever you think you can, or cannot do. You are correct."

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pezki•

-Michael Scott.

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phailcakez•

Similar to "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." Richard Bach.

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Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter. Dr. Seuss.

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metalbladex4•

Awsome quote

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wolfsktaag•

i would modify it to say 'those who mind can frequently ruin your plans and your life, but fuck them anyway'

now that is a quote more befitting adults

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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.

FTFY. You misquoted it, it flows much better this way.

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I never dug the "those who mind don't matter" part of this quote...seems like an excuse to blow off anybody that is critical of you. Regardless of whether or not that was the original intention, I see people interpreting it that way :-/

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I think it just means if people love you and you love them you are accepted.

I didn't think to look at it from the cynical perspective.

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hakuna_matata77•

"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up."

-Martin Niemöller

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"You always miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

I live my life by this quote

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I can't help but think of this every time.

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I wish I could say the same.

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Never too late to start, my man

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pezki•

Not hard to live by something like that. I also miss 100% of the shots I don't take.

On a serious note though, good quote.

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Phloss•

If you give a hooker money to buy weed, she will never come back. -Artie Lange

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Words to live by

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Phloss•

I'd say it's as straightforward as it gets. You'd have to ask these other people about their long convoluted quotes

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murphraven•

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

  • Gandhi
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

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GoBack2DiggOP•

Ah, this one has to go up for sure. Thanks.

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handinthebush•

"el tiempo y yo contra cualquier dos" ("time and i against any two") - baltasar gracian.

if you persist, you can do it.

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CloseEnough•

I LOVE your first 2 quotes. Really good stuff here

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redpandabear•

"All the talking in the world can't prove two people see the same color red."

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As a colorblind person I find this hilarious.

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redpandabear•

Well, good!

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theanswerisfries•

People will forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

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RandShrugged•

Acquire Currency, Fuck Bitches

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PersonOfInternets•

But write the second half in invisible ink so he can discover it later.

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Areign•

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

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CloseEnough•

Fucking brilliant!

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JOHNREDCORN•
- Michael Scott
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Nhilius•

"It's 10% that make 90% of the noise." (I forget who said this one).

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix (I think).

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zaklauersdorf•

The Jimi Hendrix one is my favorite too.

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E_lucas•

What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything
from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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HumbertHumbertHumber•

“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

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