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    Posted: 22-Oct-2006 at 16:42
Quotes of popular music, modern arts or loony american tv-series. Everybody is using quotes and sometimes it seems , that life is only a copy and paste thing.
Speeches of famous politicians , gesture of prosperous actors,athletes or politicians.
Easy to understand and easy to repeat.
The ad often is an only quote and popular ad campaigns will be recognized in the whole world.
                                           
 
So, do you use quotes and what's about the initiator ? do you mention him?

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I often quote an unknown Maltese corsair:

"Trust is good, distrust is better"
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Oct-2006 at 02:40
The most famous quote that some people use "I have a headache".
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They are good every once in a while, but I really hate to overuse quotes for fear or becoming too cliqued or unoriginal.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Oct-2006 at 06:55
I” and “you” are but the lattices,
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I shall express my opinion by quoting Oscar Wilde on quoting...

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Oct-2006 at 08:04
Originally posted by Constantine XI

They are good every once in a while, but I really hate to overuse quotes for fear or becoming too cliqued or unoriginal.

"Bis repetita non placet."
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Not necessarily easy to undersand ulrich but easy to repeat for sure.
 
You need only two persons to form a queue, the others will just follow.
 
Since everyone seems to think about reducing energy spending, people should stop thinking, for using the brain cells is extremely energy costing to our body. There's no wonder why some people say: "My toaster is smarter than me!".
 
"Why are you doing this?"
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"Did he/they explained why?"
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"Did he/they convinced you?"
"Not really. But since he/they are so popular I don't bother with thinking abou what I'm doing. I'm just doing it because he/they told me that I should do it" 
 
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 The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. G.W.F. Hegel
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"There's 3 ways of doing things, the right way, the wrong way and the Paul way.
 
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Posts: 63 		  Quote Sorgina Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22-Apr-2007 at 01:05
Originally posted by Paul

"There's 3 ways of doing things, the right way, the wrong way and the Paul way.
 
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. 
 
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Not necessarily. Only if by "not work" they mean stopped. If the clock lost 1 minute an hour. Then it will not be right twice per day (at best, once per day)
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Originally posted by Omar al Hashim

Not necessarily. Only if by "not work" they mean stopped. If the clock lost 1 minute an hour. Then it will not be right twice per day (at best, once per day)
 
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Humans beings that leave from this the world are not lost, when we continue to honouring and loving them.

We contribute therefore also at some way in their unending survival, in their floruit, with our effort becomes always perceptible, live around us their presence.
 
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