Inspired by Michael Phelps and the movie cliche's thread.

"You can do anything you want as long as you put your mind to it."

Often said after some amazing accomplishment that it would seem only one person on the planet has ever put their mind to. I believe the 41 year old swimmer said something similar. Must be nobody else has the mind power of these two individuals.

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.

"Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

And often causes masssive internal injuries.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

'Let's think outside the box'

"There's no such thing as a stupid question."

Just stupid people asking them.

Well, down the line:

General Cliche'
Colonel O. F. Tematter
Major Mistake
Captain Obvious
Lt. ???

Seriously, there are so many I've heard, but the religious ones come to mind, so I'll stop now.

The only stupid question is the one not asked

(which is far from true)

The best things in life are free

(they might not be purchasable with paper money, but that doesn't make them free!)

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

"Money can't buy happiness."

They just don't know where to shop.

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Bill Slugg
Albany, GA

"Violence never solved anything."

Sure, it is important to avoid unnecessary violence, but sometimes there is no choice, and it certainly can solve things.

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I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

"Beauty is only skin deep".

(Plenty of good looking people are nice people too, and some not so good looking people are ugly inside too.)

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More average than moderate.

That one about the Inuit having 5.28E34 words for snow.

It's never quite as exciting anymore after you look in a thesaurus and realize that English has 8.32E37 words for snow.

"a self-made man"

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"Men want to be him, women want to be with him."

One I noticed in TV shows in the mid-80s. This was in every detective/action show I can think of, and it bugged me when I was 14. There will be the episode where:
The gruff hero falls for the woman who is either blind or deaf.
The person that is afraid for their life is really a split personality and is also the "badguy".
A secondary character finds love. By the end of the episode, the newfound love is revealed as a "badguy" that was just using the person.
Any new character that is likable to anyone but one of the main characters will have a breakthrough with that main character just in time to be killed, usually in the arms of the main character, in a long drawn out death scene.
Fleeing suspects will always run up to the roof of a building.
Any moderately well known actor that gets a guest spot on a show will be the badguy.
The judge will "allow it, but it better show some relevance".
Any scene of something very common and ordinary that goes on just a bit too long will end in a shock, such as the death of a major character, or a big reveal on some secret association.

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I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.

"It takes two to tango.."

I don't know about you, but I am not big on dancing.

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This whole internet thing is probably not a passing fad.-Ronald Brak
While speech might be free, consequences cost.-Doodler

"Rome wasn't build in a single day"

I suppose London or New York were just banged together in one afternoon.

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This whole internet thing is probably not a passing fad.-Ronald Brak
While speech might be free, consequences cost.-Doodler

Or rephrased:

"Money isn't everything."

But it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

There are two sides to it, and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

But not when there's a correct and a wrong side.

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance convinces" -- slang's dad
"Your right to hold an opinion is not being contested. Your expectation that it be taken seriously is." -- Jason Thompson

Godwin's Law, also known as the reductio ad Hitlerum:

"You know who else liked Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? HITLER DID!"

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[Foot mouth in put]
Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

Oh, and:

"Girls always go for the jerk, not for the nice guy."
(usually to be read as that the whiny jerk speaking thinks of himself as the nice guy)

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[Foot mouth in put]
Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

Dwarves gotta stick together.

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
-- Jean Kerr

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Science is like sex. Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.
-- Richard Feynman

Racial stereotyping.

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