Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Apr 23, 2022 6:58:00 GMT -5
'The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the region of solitude.'
- Aldous Huxley
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on May 5, 2022 7:34:15 GMT -5
'To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.'
- Oscar Wilde
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on May 5, 2022 16:29:05 GMT -5
"If I had all the answers, I'd run for God"
-Cpl. Max Klinger, 4077 M*A*S*H
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Post by Prole Hole on May 8, 2022 16:22:31 GMT -5
'To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.' - Oscar Wilde Could we maybe have this faxed to Tory central office, or maybe projected on to the side of the House Of Commons? |
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Post by songstarliner on May 22, 2022 19:03:14 GMT -5
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 3, 2022 15:35:17 GMT -5
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
- Voltaire
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jul 26, 2022 13:48:11 GMT -5
"It was a lot more fun being 20 in the 70's than it is being 70 in the 20's."
- Joe Walsh
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 28, 2022 12:07:13 GMT -5
And even in Atlantis of legend
The night the seas rushed in
The drowning men still bellowed for their slaves.
- Bertholt Brecht
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 8, 2022 13:46:56 GMT -5
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 8, 2022 13:48:01 GMT -5
I don’t know if there are men on the Moon, but if there are, they must be using the Earth as a lunatic asylum.
- GB Shaw
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Oct 14, 2022 5:26:27 GMT -5
You people believe in what you have. The rich believe in money, the intelligent believe in intelligence, the powerful believe in power, the Army believes in strength, the Church believes in morality. But you really mustn't expect that to apply to everyone. You really shouldn't expect the oppressed to believe in misery and the starving to believe in hunger.
- Savages, Christopher Hampton
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Post by Dellarigg on Oct 14, 2022 5:28:13 GMT -5
A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it while you are within sound of the guns.
- George Orwell
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Nov 1, 2022 4:44:27 GMT -5
As a British Asian of the same generation, intense feelings overwhelm me when I see Rishi Sunak cross the door into 10 Downing Street. All that envy and bitterness will pass, though.
- Janan Ganesh
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 28, 2022 16:43:35 GMT -5
When the train left Edinburgh
The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow,
But Boreas blew a terrific gale,
Which made their hearts for to quail,
And many of the passengers with fear did say—
"I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay."
-- William McGonnagal, the worst poet in English history; today is the 143d anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster*
* the collapse, not the poem
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Post by Prole Hole on Dec 28, 2022 18:25:27 GMT -5
When the train left Edinburgh The passengers’ hearts were light and felt no sorrow, But Boreas blew a terrific gale, Which made their hearts for to quail, And many of the passengers with fear did say— "I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay." -- William McGonnagal, the worst poet in English history; today is the 143d anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster* * the collapse, not the poemThe worst poet in the history of the English language, to be clear. William McGonnagal, as you may gather from his name, is Scottish and therefore not the worst poet in English history. Important distinction! Interesting minor piece of history. The most famous bridge in Scotland is, of course, the Forth Bridge (this one, or as I like to call it, "the view from my balcony")  This bridge is massively over-engineered, one result of which is it's distinctive diamond-shape construction. The reason for the over-engineering was... to avoid another Tay Bridge disaster, as captured in the truly terrible poem by one William McGonnagal. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 5, 2023 16:59:35 GMT -5
“It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.”
-Philip K. Dick
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Post by songstarliner on Mar 14, 2023 22:03:31 GMT -5
See the cat? See the cradle?
- Vonnegut
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 17, 2023 11:11:58 GMT -5
"Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac."
--Pat Schroeder (D-CO), 1940-2023
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 10, 2024 7:37:11 GMT -5
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.
- Tom Waits
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Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 13, 2024 8:39:44 GMT -5
I've suffered many troubles in my life, most of which have never happened.
- Mark Twain
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 13, 2024 8:40:27 GMT -5
I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
- Lorca
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Nov 13, 2024 15:16:02 GMT -5
"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."
-Al Swearengen
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