Does anyone know who came up with this quote?
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The expression is "too close to the wind."  It is an expression based on sail ships.  To sail upwind, a sail ship must tack, follow a zig-zag path each leg of which is only slightly up wind.  If a pilot gets too greedy and tries to sail too directly into the wind, he will stall.  That is called sailing "too close to the wind" short for "too close to the direction from which the wind is blowing."\n\nAs a saying, it means trying to accomplish too much too fast.  If you try to do too much, you can end up accomplishing nothing.
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'love is a sickness and marriage may cure it, but the side affects are dreadful and possibly not worth living for!'\n\nI claim credit for this one and this is a better more realistic quote! what do you think?
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The premise of the quote is rooted in the belief that first of all there is a 'truth' to be known.  And knowing that truth and being unhappy because of that truth is better then living under false pre-tense and feeling happy.  ie. having a girlfriend who you know is cheating on you and staying with her. Is better than being happy and not knowing that your girlfriend is cheating on you.\n\nI think the quote takes the possibly to the extreme.  The person who created this quote doesn't necessarily believe that the 'truth' means that someone will be unhappy.  Rather that the 'truth' is the most important thing.
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my quote that i have always used and "owned- :) " since high school is\n~Amor Vincit Omnia~\n\n---it means Love Conquers All, plus it sounds really cool and looks pretty when it is written.the end.\n\n\n---P.S.!!! --Don't even think about stealing it!!! It is mine only! :)
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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The correct quote is actually:\n\n "Laughter is good for the soil"\n\n                 - Gregor Mendel
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looks at it.\n\n\nBut I'm finding that there are confilcts over who said it originally.  I have found both Emerson and Thoreau as being quoted.
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taken out of context, the quote's meaning is hard to dtermine with certainty.  my take is that without knowledge, people cannot "stand up" for their rights or values.\n\nin relation to bush, i guess you could say that since he has cut education spending so much, he will create a population of "empty bags" who will be easy to manipulate
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"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."...The Mysterious Stranger\n\n-Mark Twain
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I couldn't find the quote, but I found a site with a bunch of similiar quotes.\n\nhttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/War
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The original quote was actually "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them." The statement was made by George Santayana, philosopher, from Reason in Common Sense. \n\nThe quote has been tweaked a bit throughout history, perhaps to give a more modern and personal connection to the quote.
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Sorry you've had such rubbish answers. \n\nI'm usually quite good at this sort of thing, but I'm afraid I can't find any info on the origins of this phrase.\n\nI hope someone more knowledgeable answers you soon!
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I think it means things are going to get worse before they get better. I really like that quote. I do not know where it originated but it is inspiring.
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I beleive the quote was:\n"Without the a little rain, there would be no rainbow."\n\nby Jerry Chin
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It's a quote by "Rich Dad" in the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki.  I don't have the exact page number but it's within the first 10% of the book as an intro to why he wrote the book in the first place.
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i dont know but i heard that too!! where did u hear it from i heard it on a myspace bulletin!! I put down what i read on the bulletin on "Sources"
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This quotation, sometimes with minor changes, appears many times on the Internet, always without attribution to any particular poem -- except once or twice where the poem that is said to contain the quote turns out not to have it.\n\nI checked a couple of scholarly databases and found nothing there.\n\nWhile it's bizarre to have a misquote itself widely quoted, that is not unknown. It's possible Yeats never wrote or said it.\n\nYou might want to ask on this forum of experts: http://killdevilhill.com/yeatschat/wwwboard.html