Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 30, 2016 3:36:26 GMT -5
The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Dec 31, 2016 14:16:28 GMT -5
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jan 5, 2017 23:09:19 GMT -5
“The Best Way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.”
― Bill Murray
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 11, 2017 15:50:42 GMT -5
"You are a brave soldier. Soon we will need brave civilians. In the new Germany, if such a thing is allowed to exist, there will be need for builders, thinkers...Let me make this my final order to you: you will search out and contact all of these... 'better people,' you call them? And together you will take on the responsibilities of survival."
—James Mason in Cross of Iron
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 12, 2017 7:16:02 GMT -5
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 12, 2017 7:16:58 GMT -5
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jan 12, 2017 19:28:52 GMT -5
"I cannot answer you, because it’s totally unknown to me what you just asked me, and also very boring."
-Udo Kier
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 14, 2017 13:25:10 GMT -5
"I cannot answer you, because it’s totally unknown to me what you just asked me, and also very boring." -Udo Kier (Puts hand over side of face out of spiteful ignorance) |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jan 15, 2017 6:04:50 GMT -5
"At the end of four or eight years we're going to compare the number of whistleblowers the Trump DOJ prosecuted compared to Obama, the amount of people deported, the amount of people killed by foreign air strikes, etc. And the numbers may be higher or they may be the same, but there's no longer gonna be a guy going out there and making charming videos and being like 'I, uh, I enjoy Jay-Z,' the insanity is going to be right there in the open, it's gonna be a guy just going out there and fucking screaming about TV ratings and piss."
- Felix Biederman
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 15, 2017 8:22:22 GMT -5
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 15, 2017 9:53:26 GMT -5
"Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we’re going to survive with dignity."
Audrey Hepburn
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Post by Trurl on Jan 20, 2017 13:19:44 GMT -5
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- Yeats "The Second Coming"
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 21, 2017 20:23:23 GMT -5
'Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.'
-Albert Einstein
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 21, 2017 22:50:51 GMT -5
'Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.' -Albert Einstein isn't neasles the measles of mankind? I suppose . . . stupid Einstein. Maybe the translation's at fault? |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 21, 2017 23:25:47 GMT -5
isn't neasles the measles of mankind? I suppose . . . stupid Einstein. Maybe the translation's at fault? I don't speak German, but according to Google translate, "mankind" translates into German as "Menschheit", which can also be translated into English as "humanity". And "[Nationalism] is the measles of humanity" makes a bit more sense, I think. So, probably the translation's fault? |
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Post by Celebith on Jan 22, 2017 1:13:50 GMT -5
To break the rules is to break the spell - Christopher Lasch
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jan 22, 2017 1:24:48 GMT -5
"Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 22, 2017 11:36:51 GMT -5
isn't neasles the measles of mankind? I suppose . . . stupid Einstein. Maybe the translation's at fault? Maybe he meant measlesAIDS |
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 22, 2017 11:37:30 GMT -5
He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) November 7, 2012
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Post by Generic Poster on Jan 22, 2017 22:14:57 GMT -5
"Man, I sure saw a lot of vaginas today."
-one of my sons, as we were leaving the Women's March
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 22, 2017 22:27:36 GMT -5
Re: Nazi-punching thread:
"Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun."
—Gen. Vasiliy Chuikov, Stalingrad
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jan 22, 2017 22:39:38 GMT -5
"I have seen the future, brother. It is murder."
- Leonard Cohen
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2017 23:16:05 GMT -5
"It's a-me, Mario" - Mario
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Post by Generic Poster on Jan 22, 2017 23:16:08 GMT -5
"Man, I sure saw a lot of vaginas today." -one of my sons, as we were leaving the Women's March did he see vaginae or vulvae? no matter, i guess, as long as he didn't use the p-word; you're already swimming against the tide. Technically vulvae, but he didn't see anything that wasn't made of felt. There were lots of hats and costumes. |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 22, 2017 23:37:13 GMT -5
He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country! — Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) November 7, 2012 |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jan 24, 2017 4:00:14 GMT -5
"Oh, abortion. Such a divisive issue. Even my friends - very intelligent people - are divided on it. Some of them think these pro-life people are annoying idiots. Others think they're evil fucks!"
- Bill Hicks
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jan 25, 2017 0:21:16 GMT -5
"The 'tolerant' left strikes again by laughing at my arm being stuck in a vending machine."
- @randygdub
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jan 25, 2017 2:29:20 GMT -5
"i pay good money to load my sons bag with treats, and if Erasmus Infowars Copfucker wants to devour them in the university library, so be it."
- @dril
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jan 26, 2017 13:09:43 GMT -5
"The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time."
—Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Minister, 1914
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jan 28, 2017 6:30:51 GMT -5
"LADIES - call me 'bitcoin', because you can watch my humiliating collapse in real time on multiple social media websites."
- Virgil Texas
"Mike Huckabee's tweets are better if you picture him excitedly reading them to his only friend, a houseplant."
- Tom Ceraulo
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