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Hey guys - my son has a project for High School English class where he has to talk about 10 meaningful quotes. I may regret this, but whatcha got?

 
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill
 
Anonymous favorites:

"Never try to teach a pig to sing: It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."

"Never argue with idiots. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."

I like this from Michael Jordan:

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

 
One of my favorites, but probably not for your kids project...

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

-George Carlin
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This is a good one to help fill (but not anchor) such a project...

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!-Benjamin Franklin
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He who knows not and knows not that he knows not: he is a fool - shun him.

He who knows not and knows that he knows not: he is simple - teach him.

He who knows and knows not that he knows: he is asleep - wake him.

He who knows and knows that he knows: he is wise - follow him.

-Chinese Proverb

 
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”


― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
 
Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong.

I’m worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

– P. J. O’Rourke

 
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

But getting lucky is when desperation meets opportunity.

-random internet guy I've long forgotten

 
Anyway, I should want you to know that I have done my best

As I'm sure you have, too

Others are bound to us, the gentle and blameless

whose names are not confessed in the ceaseless palaver

My dearest, the clear unquaried blue of these depths is all but blinding

-Anthony Hecht

 
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

-Arnold Glasgow

 
Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.

 
"That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the #### up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence."

- Mia

 
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

T Roosevelt

 
Before you insult a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way you are a mile away from him, and you have his shoes.

-Jack Handy

 
"Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man." ~Shan Yu

 
Lots of good material in this passage from the Tao of Too Short.

You see I made up my mind when I was seventeen,

I ain't with no marriage and a weddin' ring,

I be a player fo' life so where's my wife,

Prob'ly at the rehab stuck on the pipe,

'cause she must be smokin' and I'm not jokin'

Too Short baby comin' straight from Oakland,

Got way mo' #####es than I ever need,

I put that on a big fat bag of weed,

'cause I can give you a ##### who wouldn't give you joint,

#####es ain' #### and now I made my point,

So you can light that weed,

While I spit this rap,

And tell you 'bout a player from way back,

I was only fourteen when I first got my #### sucked,

Now I'm grown up and I really like to bust nuts,

Gittin' freaky in the right situations,

You wanna rap well that's a nice occupation,

To git ##### when you want 'n how you want it foo'

'cause I was ####in' ugly hoes back in high schoo'

I used to #### young-### hoes,

Used to be broke and didn't have no clothes,

Now I #### top notch #####es,

Tellin' stories 'bout rags to riches,

'bout a pimp named Shorty from the Oakland set,

Been mackin' fo' years 'n ain't fell of yet,

So if you ever see me rollin' in my drop top caddy,

Throw a peace sign and say hey pimp daddy!

'cause I never would fron' on my folks,

I slow down and let the gold diggers count my spokes,

#####es come a dime a dozen,

So don't get mad when I #### your cousin,

Your two sisters, I even #### your ex-#####,

Short Dog in the house with some player ####

 
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life

Never make a pretty woman your wife

So for my personal point of view

Get an ugly girl to marry you

 
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