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

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

-- T H White

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

Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.

[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

As one door closes, another opens on the shit-chute to hell

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year 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
[–] IrrelevantBoB@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Solo sé que no sé nada" Sócrates

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

Two plus two equals five for large values of two

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

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

[–] 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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