Memorable Quotes!
On this page, I simply hope to pass along quotations that I run across in my average life.
These quotes are not to be construed as the "life philosophy" of Karl B. Andersen, but just thoughts of others that may help us to see other ways of thinking.
I hope you enjoy them!
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| A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
United States Constitution, Amendment II
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"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
-The Dalai Lama
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Keep shooting until they stop doing whatever it was that made you start shooting!
(I don't know who said that, but I like it)
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Any member of Congress who lowers morale during times of Military Conflict should be quickly apprehended, tried, and then hanged.
Abraham Lincoln
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Jesus Christ, Himself, could send a bar of steel down from Heaven, but it would end up no better than the heat treatment it gets.
Jerry Rados
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The maker tells the steel to do something, but the steel tells the maker when it is ready to do it.
Lin Rhea, ABS Master Smith
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When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment;
that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
from the "Conclusion" to Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Some hang onto the science of steels like a drunk hangs onto a lamppost for support, rather than using the illumination provided to explore where none have gone before.
Ed Fowler
10 July, 2008
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Those who trumpet how very outside the box they are often lack the perspective to see that they are doing all that chest-thumping from within the cozy confines of a different box.
Roger Pinnock
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There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures.........
right next to the mashed potatoes.
Unknown
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If perfection was my goal,...failure would be the only possible outcome.
Tai Goo
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"I feel a change
Back to a better day
Hair stands on the back of my neck
In wildness is the preservation of the world
So seek the wolf in thyself"
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
- General George Patton Jr
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"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."
- General George Patton Jr
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