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"That's all right, let's give this another try." - Benjamin Burnley

...that's all I had.

one of my favorites.

"It's fun to do the Impossible" - Walt Disney

Okay... I have a few good ones for you all to mull over... Including some from my namesake, Nietzsche, and a few from other sources as well, ranging from antiquity to the present day. Enjoy!

"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
-Nietzsche

"'Sympathy for all'--would be harshness and tyranny for thee, my good neighbor!"
-Nietzsche

"Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them is not something dreadful also." -Nietzsche

"To be ashamed of one's immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one's morality." -Nietzsche

"The Disappointed One Speaks.--'I listened for the echo and I heard only praise.'"
-Nietzsche

"The great epochs of our life are at the points we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us." -Nietzsche

"One is punished best for one's virtues." -Nietzsche

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." -Nietzsche

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night." -Nietzsche

"One no longer loves one's knowledge sufficiently after one as communicated it."
-Nietzsche

"One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior." -Nietzsche

"Victi Vinciumus (Conquered, we conquer)" -Plautus

"Victory loves prudence." -Latin Proverb

"We should provide in peace what we need in war." -Pubilius Syrus

"Let them hate us so long as they fear us." -Caligula

"Great empires are not maintained by timidity." -Tacitus

"Armed forces abroad of are little value unless there is prudent counsel at home."
-Cicero

"The fortunes of var are always doubtful" -Seneca

"War is not so much a matter of weapons as of money." -Thucydides

"The blade itself incites to violence." -Homer

"We make war that we may live in peace." -Aristotle

"Varus, give me back my legions." -Agustus Caesar after the destruction of Varus's column in the Teutoberg Forest.

"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
-Confucius

"The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be." -Ayn Rand

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot"

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." -Buddha

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically." -Henry David Thoreau

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it." -Karl Marx

"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." -John Keats

"Schizophrenia beats dining alone." -Oscar Lavant

"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been." -Gerald Ford

"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair." -George Burns

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." -Joe Ancis

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
-Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

"An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh." -Will Rogers

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle

"And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun." {Romeo and Juliet} -William Shakespeare

"True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable."
-Jeremy Collier

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." -Theodore N. Vail

"When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?" -Sydney J. Harris

"Our greatest battles are that with our own minds." -Jameson Frank

"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."
-Edward Everett Hale

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln

"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and saying so." -John Donne

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." -Fitzgerald, F. Scott

And last but not least, a quote from my friends and I:

Caleb: "Get out of town and cross the river!"
Ethan: "I don't want to cross the river. The river's cold."

"There are six ducks here, and they all want Sun Chips!" - Mitch Hedberg

I'm listening to Mitch All Together... sweatdrop

"Lost are the minds of men, we are but fools of the cruel jokes the universe plays on we as one world, one race, one humanity, but against all odds we continue this seemingly pointless journy through the darkest pits....why?...well...that's for you to decide...isn't it?"

- me I think...

The correct answer to a fool is silence

-Uknown

"Laughter dwells inside a fool's mouth" - Something we say in my country...

A dog that barks all the time gets little attention.