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Favourite quotes!

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I love quotes! It can be interesting to read some and it can also make you open your eyes and think about some of them.

Most of the ones I know of came from Doctor Who Grinning which despite being a TV show it's taught me a lot. It's taught me it's ok to be whacky and different! 

Here's some of my favourite quotes:

  • There's no point being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. - 4th Doctor.
  • I am and always will be the optimist - the hoper of far-flung hopes. The dreamer of impossible dreams. - 11th Doctor.
  • There are no fails, only setbacks that can always be overcome - my Nan.
  • You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream. - CS Lewis.

And, my all time favourite quote, also from Doctor Who Grinning 

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  • I'll just do the one, because it's quite long:

    "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

    Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

    But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

    This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."

    From 'Men at Arms' by Terry Pratchett

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  • I'll just do the one, because it's quite long:

    "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

    Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

    But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

    This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."

    From 'Men at Arms' by Terry Pratchett

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  • in reply to battybats

    That's great! A lot of truth in that, cleverly put. The other way that they manage to spend lesss money is by quarelling over every tiny thing that must be paid. Not universally of course, mustn't tar all rich people with the same brush. But...

    When I worked in public libraries I was between two main sites: one in a working class area. Another in a well-to-do one. Guess in which one the vast majority paid fines politely and apologetically without question, often even raising the subject themselves? Meanwhile, in poshville, a twenty pence fine would be quibbled over by some rich lawyer driving a fancy car and living in a huge near-mansion of a house. Very much an attitude of 'I didn't get where I am today...' Like getting blood out of a stone sometimes.