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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We were shown an A&E biography episode on Ray Crock my freshman year of high school for career class and they quoted the dude as saying

If my competitors were drowning in a sea of gasoline, I would throw in a lit match.

Milkshake man was ice fuckin' cold!

[–] corvax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

if you assume you make an ass of u and me

[–] eddietrax@dmv.social 2 points 2 years ago

“Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry.. and I’ll give you something to cry about you little bastard.” -Jeff Goldblum - The Great White Hype

[–] MrGerrit 2 points 2 years ago

"Why did I follow him...? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned... I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always... into the East."

  • Marius, Diablo 2
[–] keeb420@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

"these problems are the good ones to have." from an atmosphere song, where they got it form idk. but whenever im feeling like shits going south i remember this and it reminds me that its not all so bad.

[–] harry_h0udini911@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

“What I’m about to tell you is top secret, a conspiracy bigger than all of us. There’s a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I’m talking about the guys no one knows about, the guys that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission.”

  • Elliot
[–] sgtnasty@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

[–] Karjapuskuri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Don't be a dick

-Ismo Leikola, stand-up comedian

[–] Wayren@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

"God thinks he's all that and a bag of chips." -David Bowie

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

A joke calender in the 80s told me that "Ich habe mein stammwappen verloren" means "I have lost my totem pole"

[–] Jake@blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

@zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml

"Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation."

James Baldwin

[–] IrrelevantBoB@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Solo sé que no sé nada" Sócrates

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[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Education is experience and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

-- T H White

[–] Electric_leprechaun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day

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[–] UnperfectOne@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.

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