# Inspiring quotes thread

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 3, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspiring-quotes-thread/636576 "2012-10-03T13:09:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspiring-quotes-thread/636576/61 "2012-10-18T04:14:01Z")

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> [@Baker](#):
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> Donne’s Meditation XVII is a Christian religious essay. **This small segment always ignores that.**

Which is why I like it and chose it, framed precisely so. It won’t be the first or last time that the wilful ignorance of religion spawned something greater than itself, all unknowing.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspiring-quotes-thread/636576/62 "2012-10-18T04:56:25Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> I’m pretty sure its"
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> “–the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted”.

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” - Spock

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**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspiring-quotes-thread/636576/63 "2012-10-18T05:06:44Z")

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Society is like chilli, if you don’t keep it stirred up, the scum rises to the top.

-Edward Abbey

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inspiring-quotes-thread/636576/64 "2012-11-01T15:36:54Z")

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Just got a 2013 calendar from a friend. It included these quotations:

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” - Lowell Thomas

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” - Elbert Hubbard

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” - John Muir

“Act as if it were impossible to fail.” - Dorothea Brande

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