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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Sept 1, 2016 22:10:14 GMT -5
"But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart."
-The Tin Woodsman of Oz
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Sept 7, 2016 22:02:25 GMT -5
"But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart." -The Tin Woodsman of Oz Orders Lunch |
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 8, 2016 7:05:13 GMT -5
'Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.'
- Gabriel Garcia Marquz
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Post by Murray the Demonic Skull on Sept 8, 2016 7:17:51 GMT -5
Dellarigg has done some good work here today. (BTW, I wasn't joking earlier. I'm not a mod, but can we get this bitch back in rotation? This is the only reason I go to archive.) Where was it originally? I can put it back in circulation. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 8, 2016 9:55:21 GMT -5
‘A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.’
- Orwell
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Post by LazBro on Sept 8, 2016 14:25:56 GMT -5
Dellarigg has done some good work here today. (BTW, I wasn't joking earlier. I'm not a mod, but can we get this bitch back in rotation? This is the only reason I go to archive.) Where was it originally? I can put it back in circulation. Hmmm, I actually don't remember, but I'd think this is a good candidate for the top Tolerability Index board. I don't see a reason it should be behind the TMI wall. Edit: Oh, and THANKS! |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 12, 2016 17:04:48 GMT -5
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Sept 20, 2016 11:08:41 GMT -5
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
–John Adams
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 20, 2016 15:21:54 GMT -5
"Logic is a technology. Logic is a tool. Logic is the application of one specific kind of thinking, over and over again, showing a kind of result that we convinced one another we preferred to other processes. It’s not inscribed on the atoms of the universe. It is one kind of language. And it may not be the one most appropriate for the task at hand." - Damien Williams |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 21, 2016 14:48:46 GMT -5
"I struggled with some demons
They were middle class and tame
I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim
You want it darker
I'm ready my lord."
-Leonard Cohen
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 23, 2016 12:01:41 GMT -5
Will Graham:
This started from an abused kid, a battered infant... There's something terrible about...
Jack Crawford:
What are you, sympathizing with this guy?
Will:
Absolutely... My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to pursue trivial fantasies... As an adult, someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks...
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Do you think that's a contradiction, Jack? Does this kind of understanding make you uncomfortable?
-Manhunter
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Post by Post-Lupin on Sept 25, 2016 12:09:02 GMT -5
"I’m not a big fan of prediction in fiction – or, at least, treating fiction as an engine for prediction. Our job was never to predict the single true future.
Thinking about the future isn’t rocket science, and neither is it archery. Time’s Arrow is a seductive idea. The notion that time travels in a straight line, and that we rise into a single future. Or, if you’re feeling oppressed and cranky, that the future is a single cutting head diving down towards us. It simplifies things nicely, and makes passengers of us. It is convenient and sometimes comforting to believe we have no agency in the face of Time’s Arrow. The Future is coming and we’re trapped on the ride.
I stopped believing, a long time ago, that the future works in that way, no matter how many rocket scientists you throw at it.
...Prediction will always get you into trouble, as anyone who ever talked about flying cars will tell you.
...What science fiction, as a field, is good for, is looking at ten thousand possibilities at once. Technological, social, political, whatever. And testing them all. Imagining them as real things and testing them in the laboratory of fiction to see what they do."
-Warren Ellis
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Post by Pastafarian on Oct 15, 2016 15:07:04 GMT -5
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
- John Irving
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 15, 2016 17:03:22 GMT -5
“If [Chex Mix] were a true mix, it would have shit like ball bearings and glass shards in there, but I guess they’re just a bunch of cowards." - Natalie Portman |
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 2, 2016 7:16:26 GMT -5
'Inside every revolutionary there is a policeman.'
- Flaubert
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 2, 2016 7:19:22 GMT -5
'If you don't express yourself, you walk after you're dead. The great thing is to go empty to your grave.'
- WB Yeats
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 2, 2016 7:30:15 GMT -5
'You can't tell anybody anything he doesn't know already.'
- William Burroughs
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 2, 2016 7:40:40 GMT -5
'Love was the salt of life; one needed it to bring out the flavour of the world.'
- Irving Stone, Lust For Life
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Post by LazBro on Nov 4, 2016 10:32:02 GMT -5
'You can't tell anybody anything he doesn't know already.' - William Burroughs I've always liked the (perhaps apocryphal) Louis Armstrong version of this one: "There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Nov 4, 2016 22:40:30 GMT -5
"Walk light so I don't piss the ground off."
—Lil' Wayne
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 9, 2016 9:31:49 GMT -5
The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
- George Orwell
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Nov 13, 2016 13:48:03 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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Post by Dr. Rumak on Nov 13, 2016 22:56:36 GMT -5
"Jesus, everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end." - Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan in Cocktail
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Nov 15, 2016 9:30:47 GMT -5
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 15, 2016 9:33:18 GMT -5
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken I beat you to this one in the UK Politics thread a few weeks ago. It bears repeating, though. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Nov 28, 2016 17:38:05 GMT -5
"There are Christians who are beheaded for their beliefs. And you're complaining about Christmas."
—Brad Jones on Last Ounce of Courage
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Nov 29, 2016 0:02:47 GMT -5
"A few Jews gives a country character. Too many bring chaos. And we are getting too many."
—Charles Lindbergh
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 29, 2016 1:26:25 GMT -5
"WOOOOOOOOOOO!"
-Ric Flair
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Dec 2, 2016 22:23:25 GMT -5
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
-Samuel Johnson
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Dec 5, 2016 16:37:33 GMT -5
"Buy straw hats in the winter, because summer will surely come.”
-Bernard Baruch
(But yeah, Baruch, don't call me Shirley).
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