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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 6, 2017 19:52:17 GMT -5
A guy comes along. He heals the sick, criticizes the wealthy and suggests that we all be nice to each other, and so the Romans strung him up. And the moral? Well, you didn't have to be a genius, did you? And that, judging by the results over the intervening centuries, had been the lesson they'd taken to heart. Screw the sick, suck up to the rich, stomp on your neighbor and you'll avoid the gallows. Just common sense, really.
- Tom Holt, The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 7, 2017 16:22:27 GMT -5
"It has only recently occurred to me that I might not be allowed to eat after I die. This is discouraging."
--Jim Harrison, "Food and Mood"
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 7, 2017 17:14:37 GMT -5
Once a turnip said, “I taste good with honey.”
“Get away, you boaster,” replied the honey. “I taste good without you.”
—Russian proverb
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 8, 2017 10:18:14 GMT -5
"We learn from history that man does not learn from history."
-Georg Hegel
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 13, 2017 9:35:27 GMT -5
"In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse."
-Saki
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 21, 2017 14:38:46 GMT -5
"If you have to take something seriously, don't take it personally.
If you have to take it personally, don't take it seriously."
--supposedly The Silver Rule, as explained by one of my teachers
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Post by fab on Sept 21, 2017 15:04:34 GMT -5
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Litany Against Fear -- from Dune by Frank Herbert.
it's a sublime work of science-fiction, and one of the few that I would hands down recommend to anyone, even those who don't care for science fiction in the slightest.
it's an utterly transcendent work, and I'm not sure why I haven't bothered reading the core sequels (aside from having been told that they're not as great as the original masterpiece).
I have no tattoos, but this is on a very short list of things I likely wouldn't regret tattooing on myself -- specifically, the second line of the mantra.
(is the etiquette for this thread to just post the quote or can I comment a bit? fuck y'all. I'm editorializing and debating whether I'll get inked someday. #dealwithit <3 )
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 21, 2017 15:49:40 GMT -5
" I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Litany Against Fear -- from Dune by Frank Herbert.it's a sublime work of science-fiction, and one of the few that I would hands down recommend to anyone, even those who don't care for science fiction in the slightest. it's an utterly transcendent work, and I'm not sure why I haven't bothered reading the core sequels (aside from having been told that they're not as great as the original masterpiece). I have no tattoos, but this is on a very short list of things I likely wouldn't regret tattooing on myself -- specifically, the second line of the mantra. (is the etiquette for this thread to just post the quote or can I comment a bit? fuck y'all. I'm editorializing and debating whether I'll get inked someday. #dealwithit <3 ) Editorialize away! |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 21, 2017 16:13:11 GMT -5
" I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Litany Against Fear -- from Dune by Frank Herbert.it's a sublime work of science-fiction, and one of the few that I would hands down recommend to anyone, even those who don't care for science fiction in the slightest. it's an utterly transcendent work, and I'm not sure why I haven't bothered reading the core sequels (aside from having been told that they're not as great as the original masterpiece). I have no tattoos, but this is on a very short list of things I likely wouldn't regret tattooing on myself -- specifically, the second line of the mantra. (is the etiquette for this thread to just post the quote or can I comment a bit? fuck y'all. I'm editorializing and debating whether I'll get inked someday. #dealwithit <3 ) (I don't know if this will discourage or encourage you (I hope the latter), but I know someone who has the Litany as a tattoo, and it looks awesome. Several of my tattoos are designed as reminders to myself.) OK, back to Great Quotes. |
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Post by fab on Sept 21, 2017 17:02:52 GMT -5
(I don't know if this will discourage or encourage you (I hope the latter), but I know someone who has the Litany as a tattoo, and it looks awesome. Several of my tattoos are designed as reminders to myself.) OK, back to Great Quotes. I find that encouraging. idk if I'd do the whole thing, but I'd certainly leave space for it, if that was warranted? ideally I'd like to put the line somewhere I can refer to it easily. people are pretty cool about tattoos nowadays, but I'm guess wrist ish area may be a bit much (and I don't wanna wear long sleeves unless absolutely necessary) |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Sept 21, 2017 17:54:32 GMT -5
"Yo, me and my boys, we love being in a clawfoot bathtub together, washing each other off. Me and my homies, we're always tryna move an anvil for a rich woman and dropping it on our feet. Me and my fucking crew? We drink a fucking bottle with three Xs on it and before you know it, yeah, we're wearing overalls and playing washboards. That's what me and my fucking entourage do."
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Sept 21, 2017 18:14:17 GMT -5
"Yo, me and my boys, we love being in a clawfoot bathtub together, washing each other off. Me and my homies, we're always tryna move an anvil for a rich woman and dropping it on our feet. Me and my fucking crew? We drink a fucking bottle with three Xs on it and before you know it, yeah, we're wearing overalls and playing washboards. That's what me and my fucking entourage do." Proust? |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 21, 2017 19:26:25 GMT -5
"Yo, me and my boys, we love being in a clawfoot bathtub together, washing each other off. Me and my homies, we're always tryna move an anvil for a rich woman and dropping it on our feet. Me and my fucking crew? We drink a fucking bottle with three Xs on it and before you know it, yeah, we're wearing overalls and playing washboards. That's what me and my fucking entourage do." Proust? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! |
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 23, 2017 12:36:31 GMT -5
'A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.'
- Clive James
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 2, 2017 22:13:25 GMT -5
"This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
King Lear, p46"
-Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Oct 8, 2017 22:18:00 GMT -5
This is the bill that will convert the State Hospital for the Insane into the William J LePetomane Memorial Gambling Casino for the Insane.
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Oct 9, 2017 19:23:28 GMT -5
I mean come on, this isn't Soviet Russia. Or Soviet Europe. This is Soviet America.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Oct 29, 2017 18:15:46 GMT -5
What comfort can the vortices of Descartes give to a man who has whirlwinds in his bowels!
—Benjamin Franklin
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Oct 31, 2017 20:26:24 GMT -5
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." - attributed to Jean Giraudoux
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 31, 2017 20:56:01 GMT -5
"You can put all the sincerity in Hollywood in a gnat's navel and have room left over for three caraway seeds and an agent's heart."
-Fred Allen
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 31, 2017 22:26:11 GMT -5
"Most people miss this, but there's a secret twist at the end of [The Shining]. The whole movie you think Jack's having a bad time at the hotel; then we see the photo at the end, and suddenly we realize he was having a good time all along. Pretty cool, right?"
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 21, 2017 12:08:00 GMT -5
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
--Rumi (possibly)
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Post by Incense on Nov 21, 2017 12:22:03 GMT -5
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." --Rumi (possibly) Well, that's going in my journal. I'm working through that right now. |
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Post by Sanziana on Nov 28, 2017 12:23:16 GMT -5
“I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.”
- Kazuo Ishiguro
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Post by Powerthirteen on Nov 28, 2017 14:06:22 GMT -5
I think about this passage of For Whom The Bell Tolls almost every day now.
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Post by Sanziana on Nov 30, 2017 3:36:39 GMT -5
"Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?"
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Dec 8, 2017 18:30:05 GMT -5
A while back I was in a car accident and my dick and balls switched places. My dick is on bottom and my balls are on top.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Dec 8, 2017 22:31:50 GMT -5
A while back I was in a car accident and my dick and balls switched places. My dick is on bottom and my balls are on top. How'd you get the beans above the frank? |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Dec 11, 2017 10:52:42 GMT -5
"The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world."
--physicist Max Born
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Post by Sanziana on Dec 11, 2017 12:06:46 GMT -5
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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