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There will be many, I know, but for me 2 stand out.

The first is a song:

"a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"

The second is a book:

"a man lives his life as a carpenter, whose work goes so slowly for the bluntness of his tools that he has not the time to sharpen them" (possibly not a direct quote)

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'For I guess that those heroes must always live their lives
where you and I have only been..."

Mick

"sometimes I think I dont have a soul, but just a small piece of a big soul"
book

Jonathan Richman, Summer Feeling. Pretty much the whole song but one line stands out

"Do you long for her or the way you were."

Full lyrics here:http://www.lyricstime.com/jonathan-richman-that-summer-feeling-lyrics.html

and singing here: youtube.com/watch?v=x_jRDVStzOY&

I was once told this, so can't tell you its origins:
"It's not the miles you've travelled, but the places you've been"

In reply to Removed User: "Happiness is only real when shared"

In reply to Removed User: feel free to select any from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

In reply to Removed User: 'The nearer your destination,
The more you're slip sliding away...'

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Can't decide between...

Lucky that my breasts
Are small and humble
So you don't confuse
Them with mountains

Shakira - Whenever, Wherever

and...

I don't want to see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news

Des'ree - Life

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"I'm as serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer"

Rhythm is a Dancer - Snap!

In reply to Removed User: Life is a journey taken without map or compass.Andy.

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The Claw by Ten Benson

...Claw is scratching at my door
Claw is scaly and black
And no-one can escape its grip
No, no-one can give Claw the slip...

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A few that stick in my mind include
' Only when sound appears does silence come into being. ' Eckhart Tolle .

"Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter." Albert Einstein

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. Robert Anton Wilson

In reply to Removed User: Dunno, but I'm sure it's something by Andy McNab.

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Hard to the core, I feel the floor
When I'm on the stage, yo, yo'll ask for more
I'm on the ass, I know the last
I work real hard do you like my cash
Tick tick ticka tick take your time
When I'm goin' I'm goin' for mine
Open you ears and you will hear it
I tell you this 'cause there's no limit!

[A:] No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit!
No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no there's no limit!

[A:] No no limits, we'll reach for the sky!
No valley to deep, no mountain to high
No no limits, won't give up the fight
We do what we want and we do it with pride

In reply to Glyno:

Hmm, food for thought, but try these for size.

Ten to doomsday, moving fast...
Heads up! Mind that blast.
No time to sleep, it's Def.Con.One.
Can't get no sleep as the ticking ticks on,
No time for fear, it's Def.Con.One,
No time to eat but get me some

Big Mac, fries to go...
Big Mac, fries to go...
Get me Big Mac, fries to go...
Get me Big Mac, get me fries to go...

Pop Will Eat Itself, Def Con One

or maybe...?

I will not fail nor falter, I shall succeed
My perception is altered, I do believe
Faith is so strong now nothing shall bar my way
Firm conviction is no fiction
This is my day

I can move move move any mountain
I can move move move any mountain
I can move move move any mountain


The Shamen, Move Any Mountain

In reply to Southern Man:

"No hell below us, above us only sky"

Imagine - John Lennon.

In reply to Profanisaurus Rex:

Ya can't quote entire lyrics.

Against the rules I'm afraid.

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That was an excerpt! The whole "song" is excruciatingly long...

In reply to Profanisaurus Rex:

"Open you ears and you will hear it
I tell you this 'cause there's no limit!"

This bit says it all to be honest.

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"You know there ain't no Devil, there's just God when he's drunk."

Tom Waits (er... Heart Attack and Vine, I think)

In reply to Removed User: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do".

Luke 23:34

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(-igamma^mupartial_mu + m)psi = 0

Thanks to Dirac. He didn't write it in LaTEx though...

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"Most people think
Great good will come from the skies
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You would look for yours on earth...."

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" take your time, think a lot
think of everything you've got
for you will still be here tomorrow
but your dreams may not"

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"What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down "

In reply to Removed User: They create a desert and call it peace

In reply to rh5980:

Perhaps not "profound" but one I also like:

"I'm sitting in the middle of this desert, waiting for my ship to come in"

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A man who learnt how to teach, but forgot how to learn.


Taken from a Queen song: White Man, about native Americans.

In reply to MJ:

Things crawl in the darkness
That imagination spins
Needles at your nerve ends
Crawl like spiders on your skin

Pa pa pa pounding in your temples
And a surge of adrenaline
Every muscle tense to fence the enemy within

I'm not giving in to security under pressure
I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
I'm not giving up on implausible dreams
Experience to extremes
Experience to extremes

Neil Peart, Rush.

Climbing explained.

Andy F

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Just about anything by George Benard Shaw or Alan Watts, like a fountain of profound -

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

And it books, either catch 22 or anything by Terry Pratchett


"Officers are only involved in war to stop the whole thing turning into a lower-class brawl"

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."

In reply to James Jackson:

well, if we're going down that route: e^(i*pi) = -1

In reply to Tobias at Home:

"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH70ubM&

In reply to Al Evans:

She got that one right.

Mick

In reply to Removed User: an old union song the working class can kiss my arse i got a foremans job at last..

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Wonder Stuff: Mission Drive;

"My Mission Drive, is to open up my eyes,
and I don't care who wants to stare these days.
To realize, to be brought back down to size,
the wicked lies and all the shite you say."

Or, Manic Street Preachers: This is Yesterday;

"Do not listen to a word I say
Just listen to what I can keep silent"

In reply to Glyno: I think the thread said "profound"?

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So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

In reply to ChrisJD:

A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour.
And assessing points to nowhere, leading ev'ry single one,
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun,
And take away the plain in which we move
And choose the course you're running.

In reply to Bulls Crack:

By The Mission . . .

"I still believe in God, but God no longer believes in me"

In reply to Newbuild100:

Mighty hogweed is avenged.
Human bodies soon will know our anger.
Kill them with your hogweed hairs
Heracleum mantegazziani

Giant hogweed lives

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Television, the drug of the nation.
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5faeCGg-w&feature=fvst

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That is quite hard.....

Either this....

I'm here for the sinking of all I know/and I was there for the launching in the harbour/it was me that let me lever go/it was looking at there from here that got me thinking/it's why I don't believe in believing/
it's an irreversible slide/you might as well enjoy the ride/you're going to get sick when nothing's pure/unless you find your own cure

Or this.....

'Teletubbies (Teletubbies)
Say, Hello (Eh-oh)'

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'Religion is not God; religion is a way to get to God.'

Couldn't possibly quote the source

In reply to Removed User: For some reason D H Lawrence resonates - A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.......

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'Nightmares; I have none, I am the chosen one'

In reply to Removed User: "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast 'n bulbous - got me?" from Pachuco Cadaver by Captain Beefheart & Magic Band off the album 'Troutmask Replica' (RIP the Captain, died 17thDecember)

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It's the edge of the world
And end of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it settles in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood
sells Californication

In reply to NorthernRock:

To fall in love and fall in debt
To alcohol and cigarettes and Mary Jane
To keep me insane, doing someone else's cocaine
And there's nothing wrong with me
This is how I'm supposed to be
In a land of make believe
That don't believe in me

Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less

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In the song category, one stands out for me:

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.


(Pink Floyd)

In reply to Removed User: its catholic heaven ..lying on stained wretched sheets next to a bleeding virgin
we could plan a murder or start a religion
jim morrison

In reply to Gone:
Not according to Thoreau (from whom they lifted it). He says it is a universal condition.

In reply to Tom Valentine:
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Indeed: 'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'. From 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods'.

In reply to Al Evans:

That would have been mine too, what a wonderful voice.

Instead i'll have David brent's pick -

"Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether
you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're
coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the
corner. But it's all good. 'If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put
up with the rain.' Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly
Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits."

In reply to GuyVG:

spot on
10/10

In reply to Daithi O Murachu:

"I can't go back to savoury now"
youtube.com/watch?v=L8eh72REd_s&

This must have happened to everyone at least once in their lives. Happened to me yesterday when I finished my bacon sandwich, moved onto a few segments of Terry's chocolate orange, and Mrs TC suddenly said "Do you want half this bacon sandwich, I'm full"

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'Even the most primitive society has an innate respect for the insane.'

Mickey Rourke in Rumblefish

Don't know why it sticks in my mind but it does.

'It got c*nted.' - Danny Dyer. Classic.

On a more serious note:

'Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can'

Pink Floyd

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"Workers of the world unite ;you have nothing to lose but your chains"

Karl Marx from the Communist Manifesto.

"Kindness is my religion "

HH the Dalai Lama .

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"All you need is love."

In reply to JonRoger:

A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.......

Ah yes, one of my favourite quotes from a truly cinematic Meisterwerk...................G.I. Jane!!!

In reply to John Ww: I assume you're being ironic ... the quote is DH Lawrence? Good quote though.

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My personal favourite (from a book):
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."
J.R.R. Tolkien

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"If I was a sculptor, but then again, no"

Elton John