explanation of quotes?
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you better do something about current bad situation than just sit down and complain about the situation you dislike.\n\nlight a candle represents your action to avoid the darkness from remaining\ncurse the dark represents the absence of action to improve the situation but instead you are just complaining about the situation.
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First, this quote makes fun of the fact that people see society as an entity, when in reality it is composed of, well, people. Keeping this in mind...\nTo make it easier I'll break-down this quote as follows;\n-quote\n-litteral meaning\n-metaphorical meaning\n\n"society everywhere is in concpiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members."\n-everyone everywhere is in conspiracy against their own qualities and attributes (conventionally thought to be appropriate to a man) especially physical strength, courage, and determination\n-it seams people are purposely forcing themselves to forget what strength, courage, and determination are all about\n\n"society is a joint-stock company" \n-this portion is meant litterally\n- society is made up of people that all influence it individually, just as a joint stock company is made up of shareholders that also influence it individually\n\n\n"in which the members agree"\n-in which the stock holders agree\n-people  agree,\n\n"for the better securing of his bread to each share holder"\n-for the better securing of the food of each share holder\n-that in order to better secure their income\n\n"to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater"\n-to compromise the freedom and character of themselves\n-they should compromise themselves as people.\n\nTo sum up, The true meaning of the quote is:\npeople are inadvertantly destroying themselves. It's as if people feel that to succeed finantialy they must compromise the very characteristics that make us superior beings.\n\nhope this helps  good luck
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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They are short, pithy statements meant to illustrate a point.\nAlso called proverbs, axioms, mottoes.\n\nA stitch in time saves nine\n\nA penny saved is a penny earned\n\nEtc.\n\nThe examples you post are pretty weak aphorisms
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The quote is that "The unexamined life is not worth living". What he meant was that we should all question our lives and things in it. If you do not question things, you just go along with everybody else..nothing advances. If you do not question things..there would be no advances in science or anything else......if someone didn't ask how you could improve  writing your report, and figure it all out, we'd still be writing on caves. If you stop asking how, or why etc. you remain the same..nothing changes or gets better...
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It's probably from Aesop's Fables. That's where most quotes like that come from.
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Basically the quote tells you that you can only grow or advance as high or as far as your dreams will take you. So to make great strides in life you must dream big. It also tells you that it is not nearly enough to dream, but you must put some sweat equity into achieving that dream. \n\nIt figures into my life through every scientific or engineering advance that man makes. The fact that I am communicating with you right now over the internet is attributable to that quote. Someone had to dream of such a great endeaver, and then had to work hard enough to carry that out.
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Here:\n\nhttp://www.bernardsboe.com/Cedar-Hill/Linked_pages/grade4/warquotes.htm
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The first quote means that doing right isn't easy and will, in fact, be more difficult, given that people often will try to prevent you from doing right, because it (often) causes them to feel guilty about their own lack of effort.\n\nThe second means all the laws in the world won't keep bad people from behaving badly, while truly good people don't need to know right from the law; it is intrinsic in their nature.\n\nHope this helps...
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Quote:\nNever say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour. He will always use it in evidence against you. \n\nAuthor: Beerbohm, Herbert, Sir
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I don't know. It's in the "bushisms" book, available at your local library (they really do have it). Then you can read the quote in context. You will better understand the quote when you better understand what he 'meant to say'. Oh well, he's got two more years to work on making a comprehensible sentance.
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it's meant to express the inherent inequality that society creates in mankind.  It's meant to satirize the ideological view of equality amongest men.  basically it's saying, "we're all equal, but some are better than others." it's a great quote i think.
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Check this out:\n\nhttp://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/7/messages/381.html
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It means, that taking into consideration the words quoted, you can improve the topics mentioned in the quote. For example, if I tell you: "All men were created equals and should be trated as equals, you can "build" on these words by saying,eg, "doesn't matter if a person is black or white, should have the same rights.
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Here are some links to sites where you can browse for good quotes. So many quotes are meaningful to me in one way or another it's difficult to just pick one. the first link is just general quotes.\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/quotations/ \nThe second link is quotes from tv, movies, music and tv.\nhttp://www.quotegeek.com/\nhttp://www.wikiquote.org/\nhttp://www.quotationspage.com/\nhttp://www.quoteland.com/
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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! :)