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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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[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

"if you poo you also pee, but if you pee you don't always poo"

[–] Helix@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

If you get down, you can always get up again.

[–] aliceblossom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

With all of the time I have, I am an insult to the dead.

In context, the person is saying they feel like they are wasting their life and that innumerable people in the past would've killed to have the kind of free time or life they have.

It reminds me to be grateful for both the time I have alive and the quality of that time.

I find it extremely motivating in pursuing my various personal pursuits. I should seem like a Renaissance master to the people of the past and anything less is insulting.

[–] aliceblossom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

With all of the time I have, I am an insult to the dead.

In context, the person is saying they feel like they are wasting their life and that innumerable people in the past would've killed to have the kind of free time or life they have.

It reminds me to be grateful for both the time I have alive and the quality of that time.

I find it extremely motivating in pursuing my various personal pursuits. I should seem like a Renaissance master to the people of the past and anything less is insulting.

[–] pollocks@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know where this quote originated. I first heard it from my future SO and it goes something like this

"It is human nature to assume that once we have found the answer, we will find peace. Instead, one must find peace first, then the answer will come."

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

Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day

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[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I think it would be this two personally.

Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you. - Confucius

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. - V

“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.”

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[–] Kotking@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@zinklog "History loves repeat itself" With Covid , Wars and even daily life you see this so so many times. On big or little scales but this is a almost mantra to me " History is spiral it always comes back to point x" Sometimes it's scary because you know exactly what happened and what happening now can happen again...

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Im not wild about this because to often I see folks use something like it to imply something we face now is no big deal due to a false analogy. Like covid with spanish flu. I.E. - I don't need to mask or vaccinate because we got through the spanish flu. Not taking into account its not as bad because of vaccines but without them it is actually a worse disease and that pictures clearly show folks used masks for the spanish flu. Its not just that but with climate change implying it just seems like the end like the cold war but they are completely different issues with different possibilities for solutions.

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[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] kofe@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's only two things that matter in life: who you choose as your friends and where you stick your pecker.

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[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Confidence is everything.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

do unto others as you would have them do unto you

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

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