who said: You're standing in the shadows of a giant.?
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The quote you are thinking of is probably "standing on the shoulders of giants" which was used by Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke. He said "If I have seen further it was by standing on the shoulder of giants". Incidentally, the phrase is etched onto the side of the 2 pound coin in the United Kingdom.
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Pundits use this quote as "the ultimate expression of humility in genius," but what they miss (and almsot everyone else too) is that Newton wrote that line to a very, very short man, a hunchedbacked fellow scientist with whom he was having a bitter feud.  Newton wrote a long letter to Robert Hooke on Feb 5, 1675, defending himself from charges of intellectual piracy, praising Hooke for trifles, and then Newton built to the famous quote "standing on the shouldersof giants" line. (adapted from a line about pygmies in the then-famous book called Anatomy of Melancholy.)  \nTranslation:  "While I admit to building on the work of my scientific predecessors, I certainly didn't learn anything from from a dwarf like you!"
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Sounds like it is from "War of the Worlds". Maybe the following:\n\n"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
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hi the phrase standing on the shoulders of giants was first recorded in the twelfth century and is attributed to bernard of chantres, it is due to john of salisbury writing the following Metalogicon that it was attributed to him "Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." hope this helps
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"Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." - Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."  Kurt Vonnegut\n\n"For an educated man, Mark, you repeat yourself quite a bit. Are you aware of that?" - Prot, K-PAX
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Hunter S. Thompson. The entire quote is: 'Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"' \n\nHope I helped!!
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I don't know who said it, or the actual quote but it went along the lines of, "If you have 1 true friend, then you have succeeded in life".  I have plenty of true friends and I already feel like my life has mattered (whether for the better or worst I cannot say).  I remember a discussion we had in a class once in which a teacher said, no matter what we do, we will not matter in the large scale of things.  I disagreed of course and stated of course we change history.  For example, what if the man who invented the atom bomb were never born?  What if the people who researched penicillian had different paths and what if certain events, such as a teacher telling a student to get back in line and the student following through never occured?  Had that teacher not been there, the students' world could be very different.\n\nSo, I think everyone's life does matter in some way shape or form, unless you have no interaction with anyone at anytime your life does matter.  And even if you don't, in some way you are still a part of the earth, even when you die and become the ground again.
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I've heard something that sounds similar:\n\n" If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail " \n\nBut I can't remember who quoted that though.
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The quote is from Descartes' 'Discourse on Method'\n\nThe general idea is that he questions what he knows.  Assume that a grand deciever was capable of changing all you percieve (picture the Matrix etc, where something could make you see, smell etc things that aren't really there).   \n\nThe question is what can you trust.  The first assumption he makes is that no matter what 'reality' is,  the fact that he can consider his own existience, then he exists in some fashion.  'I think,  therefore I am'.  Even if he's decieved about everything,  he can trust that part. \n\nDescartes then goes on to prove the existence of god.   Quite an interesting book.
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Annnnd...places everybody...\nWar, stop squirming - well, no you should have gone before we started...Oh blimey, alright but be quick. Angel of the waters, where are you? Oh there you are, sorry, couldn't see you behind the Leviathan...erm...isn't he supposed to be, like, under the water by now? \n\nWhat do you mean he won't go down? Well which fool let him watch Poseidon, this week of all weeks?!\n\nNo, Famine, you do not have time to pop in for a quick Big Mac, for God's sake!\n\nHonestly, you try and run a simple Apocalypse, and this is the thanks you get!\n\nNo, I'm sorry, it's too late people, you should have learned your lines, shouldnt you? You've only had a couple of million years, after all...and...cue Jerry Goldsmith...
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My first thought was the 'light under a bushel' quote...so how about this:\n\nMatthew Chapter 5, 14-16\n\n14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. \n \n15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. \n\n \n16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. \n\n -----\n\nEmphasise verse 16, commenting that 'good works' means get off your butts and go do something that shows they can walk the walk as well as talk the talk.  There may be a more 'modern' sounding translation, I found this one on htmlbible.com.
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I think that this is probably a variation on a quote that I have heard attributed to Mark Twain and Abe Lincoln. I found it also credited to Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson died before Abe and Twain were born, so I give him credit. The quote is as follows...."It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."\n\nIn other words....keep em guessing.
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It is a Funny Quotes or you can say One-liner thought.\ni think it is by "Fossel"
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I have two favourites.\n\n1.  "God don't make mistakes.  That's how He got to be God."\n\n2.  "I ain't got nothin' against mankind.  It's people I can't stand."
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Some personal favorites are:\n\n"Suppose the prisoners were able to talk together, don't you think that when they named the shadows which they saw passing they would believe they were naming things?"\n\n"The world of our sight is like the habitation in prison, the firelight there to the sunlight here, the ascent and the view of the upper world is the rising of the soul into the world of the mind..."
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“The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible”\n\n“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”\n\n\n“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”\n\n“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”\n\nIf you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for\nyou...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this\nthing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying\ndown.\n\n“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”\n\n“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”\n\n“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”\n\n“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”\n \n“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”\n\n“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
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Also translated as "Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust," the quote comes from Voltaire's "Questions sur les miracles" (1765).  \n\nIn the original French, the quote is: "Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste."