Interesting Quotes - Page 21

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One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.
- Thomas Schelling
102
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- Goodhart's Law
103
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
- Cunningham's Law
104
If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.
- Noam Chomsky
105
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
- Lewis L. Strauss, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1954
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Level 28
Feb 16, 2022
Wow, new quotes!

First

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Level 67
Feb 23, 2022
No. 28 and No. 101 are the same.
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Level 64
Feb 25, 2022
Yep
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Level 68
Feb 26, 2022
ironic
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Level ∞
Mar 30, 2022
Fixed
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Level 53
Feb 25, 2022
yep
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Level 52
Mar 4, 2022
You know what... I'm going to start a petition. We need a page for community quotes on JetPunk.

"Isn't it a tad bit strange to think that all 20 quintillion animals and all the quadrillions more fungi, plants, and prokaryotes were descended from one single microorganism? And we think of bacteria as a bad thing ..."

"Don't let life's challenges get in the way of achieving your dreams. Or do. It's not really my problem, is it?"

-Me

SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE!

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Level 65
Mar 5, 2022
I had the same idea! SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE!
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Level 51
Mar 5, 2022
SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE! +1
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Level 53
Mar 21, 2022
Sign The Petition, Join the Cause
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Level 59
Apr 3, 2022
what if i say no
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Level 59
Apr 15, 2022
no
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Level 43
May 22, 2022
Sign the petition! Join the cause! I have a few of them:

“It’s cold as hell”

“You learn something new everyday :)”

“Poético, fascinante”

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Level 65
Jun 12, 2022
MG is hiding his best quote:

"It's so nice to see my little capybaras becoming Brazilian"

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Level 24
Nov 2, 2022
sign the petition, Join the cause
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Level 64
Apr 26, 2022
SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE! +1
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Level 50
Jun 26, 2022
SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE

I like riots :)

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Level 62
Jul 15, 2022
SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE! WHAT IS THE CAUSE! I FORGOT! SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME! SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE...
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Level 54
Jul 18, 2022
SIGN THE PETITION, JOIN THE CAUSE!

I too enjoy riots :)

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Level 62
Jul 22, 2022
SIGN THE PERTION! JOIN THE CAUSE!

yep riots are great.

please don't ban me for rioting QM!

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Level 50
Jul 27, 2022
If it does comes out, here’s mine

“I like riots”

-YouLoveEagle

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Level 50
Jul 28, 2022
Here’s a little bit more,

“Sometimes life is unfair, like you staying poor your whole life while some other rich people spending a lot of their money and that’s literally more than what you make in a entire year”

-A quote that really shouldn’t be here by YouLoveEagle

But honestly, some rich people really deserves it, all the hard work they been through and it payed off

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Level 59
Aug 2, 2022
And yet there was never a petition to actually sign...
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Level 15
Aug 23, 2022
oh well

SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE!

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Level 55
Jul 30, 2022
Sign the cause! Join the petition!
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Level 50
Sep 17, 2022
Please QuizMaster, please do this
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Level 60
Oct 5, 2022
Is the fastest of the slowest really fast?

-MiecraftMan

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Level 43
Oct 22, 2022
“The truth is that when life closes a door, my finger is right there.”

— MG17

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Level 50
Nov 15, 2022
“Hate the word probably, a whole b ruined my spelling career”

-YouLoveEagle

(this happened during a spelling bee)

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Level 60
Nov 22, 2022
Probabbly?
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Level 62
Dec 7, 2022
more likely "Probaly"

I see this all the time *cringe*

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Level 50
Dec 15, 2022
Nah MiecraftMan, I spelt it probaly but apparently it’s wrong, jeez, they should of accept both variants
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Level 60
Jan 2, 2023
I know lol I’m joking
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Level 68
Apr 10, 2023
Sign the pose! Join the causation!

Rioting is cool :)

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Level 66
Jan 25, 2023
"A user quotes page is a bad idea, because, well, people will brainstorm 'brilliant' quotes, instead of letting them come naturally. That's not how quotes are made! I reckon the whole section would just be misattributions and r/im14andthisisdeep fodder."

- Me, occasionally misattributed to Julius Caesar.

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Level 59
Feb 2, 2023
"SIGN THE PETITION! JOIN THE CAUSE!"

-ZooTuber3000, March 4, 2022

But actually, I think quotes should be voted on for User Quotes, would make more funny quotes and sutf.

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Level 26
Dec 22, 2023
Sign The Petition! Join the Cause!
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Level 57
Mar 5, 2022
"People say that nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie-the-Pooh

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Level 71
Mar 29, 2022
Winnie-the-Pooh or Xi Jinping?
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Level 59
Apr 3, 2022
both
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Level 59
Feb 2, 2023
All 3
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Level 65
May 8, 2023
But there are 7.
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Level 62
Jun 24, 2022
I have no special talent, I am just passionately curious.

- Albert Einstein

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Level 62
Jun 24, 2022
Success is relative. The more success, the more relatives.

- Stephen Mally

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

- Les Brown

The big lesson in life, baby, is to never be scared of anyone or anything.

- Frank Sinatra

Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Level 62
Jul 5, 2022
Once the rockets go up

Who cares where they come down

That's not my department,"

says Wernher von Braun

--- Tom Lehrer

--DonTheLamplighter (who originally posted the quote/poem)

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Level 76
Jul 2, 2022
i've got to disagree with the first one (number 101) - there are plenty of things i can list that would never have occurred to me, that other people have done. i would say on a regular basis when reading books, listening to music or learning about science i come across a choice someone made and i think to myself "Wow, i would just never have thought of something like that. amazing."

or am i misunderstanding the quote?

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Level 62
Jul 5, 2022
i'm pretty sure it means to just sit there and think of things you would never think of - for example, say your teacher gave you this assignment : take five minutes, and write a list of as many things that you would never think of as you can.
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Level 68
Jul 12, 2022
Point being that, if a thought does occur to you, you wouldn't be able to write it on the list, given it just occurred to you, and that disqualifies it. The idea of writing a list of ideas that would never occur to oneself is contradictory, since writing said list would require thinking of unthinkable ideas.
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Level 34
Jul 7, 2022
Kanye West played for the Golden State Warriors
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Level 62
Jul 17, 2022
Ever wondered where the word fear comes from?

False

Evidence

Appearing

Real

- Unknown

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Level 53
Aug 9, 2022
I though my grandma made this up.
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Level 50
Aug 16, 2022
I thought Unknown no last name made this up
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Level 52
Jul 21, 2022
“In Heaven, a minute is the difference between one brilliant sentence and another. In Hell it’s the difference between one brilliant sentence and a dead man.”

— Unknown

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Level 50
Jul 27, 2022
“Talent without work is nothing”

-Christiano Ronaldo

The biggest key to his personal success

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Level 62
Jul 28, 2022
When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the fire department usually uses water.

- Unknown

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Level 62
Jul 28, 2022
A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it.

- Spartacus

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Level 62
Jul 28, 2022
If you want a rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

- Augustus

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Level 59
Aug 21, 2022
“But sometimes you might need an umbrella”

-Someone probably

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Level 89
Sep 17, 2022
Or be on the other side of the storm.
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Level 62
Jul 28, 2022
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

-Marcus Aurelieus

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Level 62
Jul 28, 2022
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon.

- Captain John Parker, a moment before someone in his band of militia fired and started the Battle of Lexington in the Revolutionary War.

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Level 58
Oct 8, 2022
ironic
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Level 62
Jul 28, 2022
Follow the customs or flee the country.

- Zimbabwean saying

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Level 50
Jul 28, 2022
Jesus crisis, couldn’t you of put all those quote in one comment? No need for 1 billion comments
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Level 62
Jul 28, 2022
Actually I did all those at different time intervals
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Level 50
Jul 29, 2022
Oh ok, probably because it says it on the same day for the date
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Level 51
Sep 11, 2022
Hey Quizmaster! Here are some good potential quotes:

"An elected legislator can trample a man's rights as easy as a king can." -From the movie "The Patriot"

"How we always turn into everything we're running from." -Zach Bryan

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -Winnie the Pooh

"Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love." -John Stott

"Are you more anxious to avoid suffering or acheive delight."

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Level 58
Oct 8, 2022
Here are some quotes:

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” - Aristophanes, the “Father of Comedy”

“The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.” -Dizzy Dean, baseball player

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell, 1984

“To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.” -Oscar Wilde

“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” -Sigmund Freud

“God cannot alter the past, but historians can.” -Samuel Butler

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” -Cicero

“Never, never, was a wicked man wise.” -Homer

And finally…

“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.”

- Aristotle

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Level 57
Oct 17, 2022
"I'm not seeing enough movement!"

- Tyler "Ninja" Blevins

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Level 50
Dec 15, 2022
Im not seeing enough typing
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Level 43
Oct 31, 2022
"He who does not know the truth is Ignorant, he who knows and not speaks up is Criminal."

- Bertolt Brecht

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Level 62
Dec 7, 2022
found this one on a truck the other day...

"People never really grow up, they just learn how to act in public"

- some random truck

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Level 54
Dec 9, 2022
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Level 50
Dec 15, 2022
Love it.
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Level 58
Dec 29, 2022
*waiting quietly for more quotes*
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Level 59
Feb 2, 2023
*Waits, less patiently*

There haven't been more quotes since last year!

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Level 66
Jan 3, 2023
“Heck no, that's socialism! Anyways, pass the pretzels.”

- One of my friends.

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Level 59
Feb 2, 2023
"And I'm Kanye West"

-Kevin Hart, I think

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Level 72
May 16, 2023
"Never make false assumptions"

- me