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 Post subject: Favorite Quotes
PostPosted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:53 pm 
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This thread is for our favorite quotes. Political, amusing, heartfelt, irreverent....

One of mine is a rather more eloquent version of, "Ride it, 'til they pave it."

“Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
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 Post subject: Re: Favorite Quotes
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^^^Anyone who quotes Ed is okay by me.
<--- Note my favorite trail...

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 Post subject: Re: Favorite Quotes
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Canaan, yours reminded me of this one:

"Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life." -Lance Armstrong, Dodgeball


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 Post subject: Re: Favorite Quotes
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^^^Anyone who quotes Ed is okay by me.
<--- Note my favorite trail...


Here's the full quote:
"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."

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...meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells...

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OldDogDan wrote:
OldDogDan wrote:
^^^Anyone who quotes Ed is okay by me.
<--- Note my favorite trail...


Here's the full quote:
"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."


I can see why that's your favorite trail . . . .

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 Post subject: Re: Favorite Quotes
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I have a few favorites from Breakfast of Champions, but here are two:

“Fucking was how babies were made.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“...the sea pirates were white. The people who were already on the continent when the pirates arrived were copper-colored. When slavery was introduced onto the continent, the slaves were black. Color was everything.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

Also a bunch from Hitchiker's:

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of The Leopard'."
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

There's the obvious choices too. Here's one from Donny

"Phone's ringing dude"
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