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What is the most significant statement ever uttered in human existence?
- can be said from someone living or dead
- can be from a movie - if said movie is based on real person, did real person actually say statement
- why you think said statement is significant
- can be from a movie - if said movie is based on real person, did real person actually say statement
- why you think said statement is significant
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My favorite is from the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank WHAT?"
Why is it significant? Because laughing at our mortality signifies our abilities to consider the concept of a future and mortality and, the best human trait, humor. This is what sets us apart from the animals.
Why is it significant? Because laughing at our mortality signifies our abilities to consider the concept of a future and mortality and, the best human trait, humor. This is what sets us apart from the animals.
humor.... the cure for everything.
Isn't this a quote from the movie 'Real Genius', not truly Socrates?
Mitch: What are you doing?
Chris Knight: Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes
I am SUCH a geek!
Mitch: What are you doing?
Chris Knight: Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes
I am SUCH a geek!
Not to be punny, but that was exactly what I was thinking.
"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should...our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S...or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our...(inaudible)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
voted helpful: mike, danielle, jbennettrv
A fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a world map?
Can't find a source for that, thank God. I think it's a myth that got traction.
According to this:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/pdf/FINALReport2006GeogLitsurvey.pdf
94% of Americans aged 18-24 can locate the US on a world map.
However only 37% can locate Iraq on a Middle East map, and only 25% can locate Israel on the same map.
And only 36% can locate the UK on a world map.
Also only 50% can locate New York State, on a US map, and only 43% can locate Ohio.
Also interesting:
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/08/30/upton/
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/08/29/south_carolina/index.html
Can't find a source for that, thank God. I think it's a myth that got traction.
According to this:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/pdf/FINALReport2006GeogLitsurvey.pdf
94% of Americans aged 18-24 can locate the US on a world map.
However only 37% can locate Iraq on a Middle East map, and only 25% can locate Israel on the same map.
And only 36% can locate the UK on a world map.
Also only 50% can locate New York State, on a US map, and only 43% can locate Ohio.
Also interesting:
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/08/30/upton/
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/08/29/south_carolina/index.html
This is in the contention for most idiotic statement ever uttered
"a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on the world map?"
Geography who needs it anyway right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw3QBTQjhSk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc
Geography who needs it anyway right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw3QBTQjhSk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc
I am not afraid…I was born to do this.
-- Joan of Arc
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Two other quotes that reflect the same sentiment:
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
-- Dolly Parton
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-- Joan of Arc
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Two other quotes that reflect the same sentiment:
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
-- Dolly Parton
*****
"We all got it coming, kid" - Will Munny (Clint Eastwood) from Unforgiven 
"I have a dream... "
One of the most meaningful speechs ever speeched =) - MLK
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" Genious is one of the many forms of insanity. "
-Cesere Lombroso
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" We don't like their sound, groups of guitars are on their way out."
Inspirational
-Decca records, in turning down a recording contract with the Beatles in 1962.
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" Rats are very simular to humans, except they are not stupid enough to purchase lottery tickets. "
- Dave Barry
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" Do not let your left hand know what your right one is doing. "
- Matthew 6:3
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" We share half our genes with a banana. "
- Robert May
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One of the most meaningful speechs ever speeched =) - MLK
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" Genious is one of the many forms of insanity. "
-Cesere Lombroso
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" We don't like their sound, groups of guitars are on their way out."
Inspirational
-Decca records, in turning down a recording contract with the Beatles in 1962.
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" Rats are very simular to humans, except they are not stupid enough to purchase lottery tickets. "
- Dave Barry
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" Do not let your left hand know what your right one is doing. "
- Matthew 6:3
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" We share half our genes with a banana. "
- Robert May
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hehehe
source(s):
- Psycology 7th edition by David G Myers
- Psycology 7th edition by David G Myers
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
--Kahlil Gibran
And also:
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
also Kahlil Gibran
--Kahlil Gibran
And also:
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
also Kahlil Gibran
voted helpful: notshocked22
"Our homes are our larger bodies"
KG
KG
Caution: Wet Paint
Seriously though, this takes thinking,I keep trying to think of something profound, I keep thinking of things that are the most significant statements in American history, but that's not the question.
I agree with the person who posted "I love you" , its the little things that can have the most impact. "thank you", " I'm Sorry", "Good job", Its these statements, when uttered with meaning (which is key) that are the most powerful in my opinion.
Choosing just one statement though : "I'm here for you." , A deeper way of saying "I love you"
Seriously though, this takes thinking,I keep trying to think of something profound, I keep thinking of things that are the most significant statements in American history, but that's not the question.
I agree with the person who posted "I love you" , its the little things that can have the most impact. "thank you", " I'm Sorry", "Good job", Its these statements, when uttered with meaning (which is key) that are the most powerful in my opinion.
Choosing just one statement though : "I'm here for you." , A deeper way of saying "I love you"
voted helpful: notshocked22
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrich Schiller
source(s):
Google, Isaac Asimov
Google, Isaac Asimov
Mahatma Gandhi
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
I personally like the formulation of the Golden Rule (or Ethic of Reciprocity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity) attributed to Hillel the Elder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder):
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."
I think the first part is pretty much universal, in one form or another. The second part is a little bit Judaism-specific, but I think it can easily be universalized. After all, the Golden Rule by itself is highly useful, but doesn't *quite* capture everything one needs to know about the world and interacting with others. It is a universal statement that learning, work, and exploration are necessary for a complete life.
Whether you take this formulation or one of many others, the Golden Rule is widely accepted as a foundational moral/ethical principle.
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."
I think the first part is pretty much universal, in one form or another. The second part is a little bit Judaism-specific, but I think it can easily be universalized. After all, the Golden Rule by itself is highly useful, but doesn't *quite* capture everything one needs to know about the world and interacting with others. It is a universal statement that learning, work, and exploration are necessary for a complete life.
Whether you take this formulation or one of many others, the Golden Rule is widely accepted as a foundational moral/ethical principle.
voted helpful: daigakuinsei
"...the only thing we have to fear is Fear itself" -- Franklin Roosevelt
Taken out of context of his speech, if we were afraid of fire, Southern California would be fertile farmland in no time. (among other things)
Taken out of context of his speech, if we were afraid of fire, Southern California would be fertile farmland in no time. (among other things)
"Hang on a minute lads - I've got a great idea."
Ok, that was said in a movie by Michael Caine.
But the millions of times someone's said something like that all taken together would add up to something very significant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8vRGI4_BJ8
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4315767/Cliffhanger-climax-to-The-Italian-Job-solved-after-40-year-wait.html
Ok, that was said in a movie by Michael Caine.
But the millions of times someone's said something like that all taken together would add up to something very significant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8vRGI4_BJ8
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4315767/Cliffhanger-climax-to-The-Italian-Job-solved-after-40-year-wait.html
Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado
(It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!)
-Emiliano Zapata
So This is the first thing that came to mind and after an Hour of looking at tons of other worthy statements I came to realise that this one means more to me than anything else. I have a revolutionary spirit in me, ive been told this numerous times in school, work and life. This statement is significant, because if we conforme, if we bend, if we stop living life the way its meant to be lived than we are not living.
Heres a list of the other note worthy statements:
I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men
-Emiliano Zapata
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man
-Che Guevara
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth
-Che Guevara
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
-Abraham Lincoln:
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
-Ernest Becker:
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
-Joan Baez:
Well, I'm the best there is. Plain and simple, when I wake up in the morning I piss excellence.
-will Ferrell
(It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!)
-Emiliano Zapata
So This is the first thing that came to mind and after an Hour of looking at tons of other worthy statements I came to realise that this one means more to me than anything else. I have a revolutionary spirit in me, ive been told this numerous times in school, work and life. This statement is significant, because if we conforme, if we bend, if we stop living life the way its meant to be lived than we are not living.
Heres a list of the other note worthy statements:
I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men
-Emiliano Zapata
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man
-Che Guevara
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth
-Che Guevara
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
-Abraham Lincoln:
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
-Ernest Becker:
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
-Joan Baez:
Well, I'm the best there is. Plain and simple, when I wake up in the morning I piss excellence.
-will Ferrell
"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place... and I don´t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain't about how hard you hit... It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That´s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you worth, go out and get what you worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers saying: You ain´t what you wanna be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain´t you! You´re better than that!"
Rocky Balboa. Talking to his son. This speech motivates me every time!
Rocky Balboa. Talking to his son. This speech motivates me every time!
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
It's tough to pick one that is the best, but those are the one's I got as an influence.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
It's tough to pick one that is the best, but those are the one's I got as an influence.
"Here."
As in the first time someone offered what they had.
Probably went something like..."Here, have some of this gopher I hunted. I don't need all of it."
That began the symptoms of civilization.
As in the first time someone offered what they had.
Probably went something like..."Here, have some of this gopher I hunted. I don't need all of it."
That began the symptoms of civilization.
"When the power of love over comes the love of power the world will know peace"
- Jimi Hendrix
- Jimi Hendrix
"Hope is a waking dream."
-Aristotle
The world could be driven on those words. All just and meaningful dreams could become reality.
-Aristotle
The world could be driven on those words. All just and meaningful dreams could become reality.
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I think there were many intelligent and insightful answers on this thread, many of which were strongly supported by examples. I think that at least one of the answers could have qualified as the best answer, even if it wasn't your ideal "most significant statement". Thank you.
I think there were many intelligent and insightful answers on this thread, many of which were strongly supported by examples. I think that at least one of the answers could have qualified as the best answer, even if it wasn't your ideal "most significant statement". Thank you.
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