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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 11, 2015 13:53:21 GMT -5
'"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Wayne Gretzky
-Michael Scott"
-Montypark
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 11, 2015 13:56:09 GMT -5
"I believe that all that anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich."
-Liz Lemon
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 11, 2015 16:32:00 GMT -5
"I believe that all that anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich." -Liz Lemon Enjoy every sandwich. -Warren Zevon |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2015 18:01:09 GMT -5
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
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Post by Sanziana on Oct 12, 2015 4:41:43 GMT -5
“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Oct 13, 2015 4:10:41 GMT -5
It's after six. What am I, a farmer?
–Jack Donaghy
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 16:24:36 GMT -5
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live? --Dwight D. Eisenhower Goddamn, do I love that entire speech. They don't make leaders like Ike anymore. The man led Operation Overlord for Christ's sake, and had the insight to say something like quoted above. |
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Post by Sanziana on Oct 20, 2015 11:47:34 GMT -5
"Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2015 1:59:26 GMT -5
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 16, 2015 18:50:23 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2015 14:57:26 GMT -5
"What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire. We do not love their desire. If what we loved in them was their desire, then we should love them as ourself." - Simone Weil "Every time I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy." -Simone "Holdena" Weil
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Post by Lord Lucan on Nov 18, 2015 15:39:29 GMT -5
"What we love in other human beings is the hoped-for satisfaction of our desire. We do not love their desire. If what we loved in them was their desire, then we should love them as ourself." - Simone Weil "Every time I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy." -Simone "Holdena" Weil
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2015 17:24:41 GMT -5
"Every time I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy." -Simone "Holdena" Weil
Holdena?
An improvised female form of Holden. Reference to The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's desire to be a martyr/saviour; his teacher's note to him, saying "The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause; the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Nov 18, 2015 18:06:32 GMT -5
'There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased....no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.' -Martha Graham  |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Nov 21, 2015 21:42:11 GMT -5
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
- Philip K. Dick
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 0:31:32 GMT -5
"I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." Oliver Sacks |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 16:54:59 GMT -5
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Nov 30, 2015 1:49:21 GMT -5
Maybe it's the years I spent learning about the rigid self-loathing instilled by certain schools of Christian fundamentalism to intimidate and dominate parishoners using similar language, but this is creepy as hell. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 9, 2015 18:39:16 GMT -5
"I shall return."
–Douglas MacArthur
Corregidor, Philippines
11 March 1942
"I have returned."
–Douglas MacArthur
Leyte, Philippines
20 October 1944
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 12, 2015 15:45:29 GMT -5
“Man is able to colonize man, and you choose to believe in ghosts?”
—A surprisingly philosophical Jigen Daisuke
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Post by Powerthirteen on Dec 21, 2015 18:18:30 GMT -5
Quid de rerum natura querimur? Illa se benigne gessit: vita, si uti scias, longa est.
Why do we complain about the nature of things? Nature treats us kindly! Life is long, if you know how to use it.
- Seneca
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 28, 2015 17:13:32 GMT -5
"I think it's well known that anti-Americanism has its roots in sexual impotence, at least in Europe."
–Chris Eigeman, Barcelona
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 30, 2015 6:43:27 GMT -5
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.
― Vladimir Nabokov
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 2, 2016 8:57:51 GMT -5
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- GB Shaw
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 21, 2016 4:41:09 GMT -5
“No man living will ever see a Congress that will lessen the enforcement of that law. The saloon is as dead as slavery.”
–Josephus Daniels, 1920
"The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years..."
–Erich Honecker, January 1989
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 21, 2016 4:57:04 GMT -5
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 30, 2016 5:41:11 GMT -5
"As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic]."
–Abraham Lincoln
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 31, 2016 16:35:34 GMT -5
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- Goethe
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Post by songstarliner on Jan 31, 2016 16:39:32 GMT -5
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Goethe Too fucking true |
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Post by repulsionist on Feb 23, 2016 13:43:51 GMT -5
"From now on you need never await temporal attestation to your thought. You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the highest advantage of others."
- Buckminster Fuller
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