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Post by Sanziana on Apr 22, 2018 8:55:22 GMT -5
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 30, 2018 9:54:58 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on May 10, 2018 20:26:45 GMT -5
"I only know one person who's seen a flying saucer, and they've seen several." -G.R. longtime friend, former classmate, skeptic, and smart-ass
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Crash Test Dumbass
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jun 5, 2018 19:40:45 GMT -5
I enjoyed his show, greatly respect Mr Rogers and think that the world would be a better place if more people followed his example and died in 2003. Modusoperandi, TOC thread on the Mr. Rogers documentary |
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Post by Prole Hole on Jun 7, 2018 6:35:08 GMT -5
"We built statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt" Walter Scott
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jun 7, 2018 7:50:32 GMT -5
"Life: One thing led to another and, before we knew it, we were dead." —Michael O'Donoghue
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jun 12, 2018 14:55:22 GMT -5
"Always keep your bowler on in times of stress and watch out for diabolical masterminds"
-Emma Peel
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Post by Sanziana on Jun 15, 2018 1:23:29 GMT -5
"A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. "
Anna Howard Shaw
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jun 19, 2018 21:34:13 GMT -5
"Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher in baseball. He is always pitching when the other team doesn't score any runs." - Tim McCarver
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 25, 2018 17:22:26 GMT -5
Everyone knows the story of the traveler in Naples who saw twelve beggars lying in the sun (it was before the days of Mussolini), and offered a lira to the laziest of them. Eleven of them jumped up to claim it, so he gave it to the twelfth.
—Bertrand Russell
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jun 28, 2018 23:42:33 GMT -5
"I used to know Dan Blocker, who played Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza. He was a wise and a kind man, and there are tens of dozens of people I would much rather see dead than Dan. One time, around lunch-break at Paramount, when I was goofing off on writing a treatment for a Joe Levine film that never got made, and Dan was resting his ass from some dumb horsey number he'd been reshooting all morning, we sat on the steps of the weathered saloon that probably in no way resembled any saloon that had ever existed in Virginia City, Nevada, and we talked about reality versus fantasy. The reality of getting up at five in the morning to get to the studio in time for makeup call and the reality of how bloody much FICA tax they took out of our paychecks and the reality of one of his kids being down with something or other . . . and the fantasy of not being Dan Blocker, but of being Hoss Cartwright. And he told me a scary story. He laughed about it, but it was the laugh of butchers in a slaughterhouse who have to swing the mauls that brain the beeves; who then go home to wash the stink out of their hair from the spattering. He told me–and he said this happened all the time, not just in isolated cases–that he had been approached by a little old woman during one of his personal appearances at a rodeo, and the woman had said to him, dead seriously, "Now listen to me, Hoss: when you go home tonight, I want you to tell your daddy, Ben, to get rid of that Chinee fella who cooks for you all. What you need is to get yourself a good woman in there can cook up some decent food for you and your family." So Dan said to her, very politely (because he was one of the most courteous people I've ever met), "Excuse me, ma'am, but my name is Dan Blocker. Hoss is just the character I play. When I go home I'll be going to my house in Los Angeles and my wife and children will be waiting." And she went right on, just a bit affronted because she knew all that, what was the matter with him, did he think she was simple or something, "Yes, I know . . . but when you go back to the Ponderosa, you just tell your daddy Ben that I said . . . "
-Harlan Ellison
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 29, 2018 7:34:27 GMT -5
So Dan said to her, very politely (because he was one of the most courteous people I've ever met), "Excuse me, ma'am, but my name is Dan Blocker. Hoss is just the character I play. When I go home I'll be going to my house in Los Angeles and my wife and children will be waiting."
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 30, 2018 18:37:14 GMT -5
It is easy to strip language and action of all meaning and to make them seem absurd…But the other miracle, the fact that in an absurd world language and behavior do have meanings for those who speak and act, remains to be understood.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 5, 2018 7:51:19 GMT -5
"Be true to the best within you... I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things, without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate. Peace that rises triumphant over war. And justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
--Fred Rogers, Dartmouth 2002
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 12:00:49 GMT -5
"You'll mold yourself with people time and time again. And you'll do it with the same wonderment. Not because you are naive. Not because you are a glutton. Because feeling something, even pain, is smashing a little bit off your rock of solitude every time. The bits you'll carry and call them memories."
- my best friend
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 16, 2018 16:00:00 GMT -5
“It is curious that I always attribute these devious motives to other people, being anything but cunning myself.”
—George Orwell
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Post by Sanziana on Jul 17, 2018 5:39:51 GMT -5
“Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
Hermann Hesse.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Aug 1, 2018 14:15:13 GMT -5
"The greatest sins on this earth are committed by people of standing and means who abuse their power."
--Joe Biden
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 2, 2018 20:47:20 GMT -5
"The greatest sins on this earth are committed by people of standing and means who abuse their power." --Joe Biden Like by influential legislators who help shift the Overton window on criminal justice far to the right by appealing to racist law and order politics? |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 19, 2018 12:05:08 GMT -5
"The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it." - Ty Cobb (1925)
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 9, 2018 14:25:27 GMT -5
' ... we are more inclined to mistake a shadow for a burglar than a burglar for a shadow.'
- Richard Dawkins
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 21, 2018 16:29:25 GMT -5
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.”
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 25, 2018 22:28:10 GMT -5
"I'm one of the few people you'll meet who've written more books than they've read."
-Garth Marenghi
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 30, 2018 14:16:57 GMT -5
"A lot of times I ask myself, “Man what was I thinking?” and it’s not in the regretful sense; I really need to remember what the fuck I was thinking and I can’t get it back. Never turn 40."
--Drew Magary
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Post by Dellarigg on Oct 3, 2018 14:26:40 GMT -5
'Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.'
- Arnold Toynbee
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Post by Jimmy James on Oct 5, 2018 11:47:38 GMT -5
'Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.' - Arnold Toynbee "How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." -Abraham Lincoln
(I'll act like I know this because I'm a cultured student of history, instead of because it was used on a Titus Andronicus album) |
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Post by Tellyfier on Oct 9, 2018 3:17:20 GMT -5
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Donald Trump
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 15, 2018 0:30:39 GMT -5
WORK???!!!  -M.G. Krebs
Edit: I did not actually select a frowny face to put at the end of the quote. It was a typing error, I just typed a couple more question marks. But it makes sense where it is, so I'm leaving it.
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Post by Tellyfier on Oct 15, 2018 3:12:38 GMT -5
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
- Rudolph Giuliani
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 16, 2018 1:15:19 GMT -5
"During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
-Kurt Vonnegut
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