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Well the Pratchett and Adams corner seems to be occupied. Brilliant men. So i'll stick with Einstein.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the first"
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the first"
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the first one." - Einstein, gotta love the guy.
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Along those lines, "We're all a little mad here." And the Cheshiere cat grins.
Now with Cantr in my life, I can't stop referring to Roz, as it was her old sig.
p.s. Yes, I completely agree with the sentiments about full metal jacket and braveheart.
Tonight's feature presentation is Gladiator, however.
Now with Cantr in my life, I can't stop referring to Roz, as it was her old sig.
p.s. Yes, I completely agree with the sentiments about full metal jacket and braveheart.
Tonight's feature presentation is Gladiator, however.
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Guess what, I just dug up some of my favourite quotes... only posting 5, as requested:
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open." - Günter Grass
"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within." - Gandhi
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll
Reporter: "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilisation?"
Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea"
Lady Astor talking to Churchill: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open." - Günter Grass
"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within." - Gandhi
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll
Reporter: "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilisation?"
Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea"
Lady Astor talking to Churchill: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Churchill: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
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My favorite quotes are actually by me. (note, these are not my favorite quotes, they are just hilarious)
Maybe I could hit that..... Oh wait she's a dumb bitch!
If you have already failed at being a man, shut the hell up, buy my book, don’t read any more because you are not worthy, then go and pray for forgiveness for not obeying your testosterone (from a book that I am writing that will probably never get finished)
That is all I can think of off the top of my head. If you are not laughing yet, step back and take a moment to realize that sarcasm is a virtue.
Maybe I could hit that..... Oh wait she's a dumb bitch!
If you have already failed at being a man, shut the hell up, buy my book, don’t read any more because you are not worthy, then go and pray for forgiveness for not obeying your testosterone (from a book that I am writing that will probably never get finished)
That is all I can think of off the top of my head. If you are not laughing yet, step back and take a moment to realize that sarcasm is a virtue.
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"My berries(prostitutes) are trained, to make that dollar,
To take you out, fool, it ain't not bother." MC Hammer, Greatest MC in the world.
"I'll make the trains run on time." Benito Mussulini, President of Italy 1922-1945
"One death is a tragedy, a million is just statistics." Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia, President of the Soviet Union 1922-1953
"F*ck off!" Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada 1968-1979, 1980-1984
For some reason when I wrote f*ck, it changed it too kiss. So I put a star in to fix it.
To take you out, fool, it ain't not bother." MC Hammer, Greatest MC in the world.
"I'll make the trains run on time." Benito Mussulini, President of Italy 1922-1945
"One death is a tragedy, a million is just statistics." Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia, President of the Soviet Union 1922-1953
"F*ck off!" Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada 1968-1979, 1980-1984
For some reason when I wrote f*ck, it changed it too kiss. So I put a star in to fix it.
"One death is a tragedy, a million is just statistics."
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
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Here's a couple.. Dunno if I'd call them faves, but I like them... the first really makes me think of Cantr... 'Cos that's all that newspawns start out as really.. little cogs striving towards bigger ones... I guess they both kinda make me think of Cantr..
I might think of other quotes later on and post them..
Max Weber wrote:It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving toward bigger ones. This passion for bureaucracy is enough to drive one to despair.
Abraham Maslow wrote:Man is a perpetual wanting animal. The average member of society is most often particularly satisfied and particularly unsatisfied in all of his wants.
I might think of other quotes later on and post them..
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War and Conflict
For some reason, mine mostly have to do with war and conflict.
They're also annoyingly long. Apologies in advance.
"Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
"I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men.
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land."
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964
"Those who profess to favor freedom
and yet deprecate agitation,
are like men who want crops without
plowing up the ground.
They want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
This struggle may be a moral one;
or it may be a physical one;
or it may be both moral and physical;
but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did, and it never will.
Find out just what people will submit to,
and you have found out the exact amount of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue until they are resisted
with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the
endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass August 4, 1857
“…wanting good government in their own states, they first established
order in their own families; wanting order in their homes, they first
disciplined themselves; desiring self-discipline, they rectified their
own hearts; and wanting to rectify their hearts, they sought precise
verbal definitions of their inarticulate thoughts (the tones given off
by the heart).”
Confucius, translated by Ezra Pound
"When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
Wendell Berry
“I was a prisoner too, but for bad reasons."
George W. Bush, referring to his DUI arrest, to Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, on being told that all but one of the Argentine delegates to a summit meeting were imprisoned during the military dictatorship, Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 13, 2004
They're also annoyingly long. Apologies in advance.
"Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
"I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow. I believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men.
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land."
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964
"Those who profess to favor freedom
and yet deprecate agitation,
are like men who want crops without
plowing up the ground.
They want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
This struggle may be a moral one;
or it may be a physical one;
or it may be both moral and physical;
but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did, and it never will.
Find out just what people will submit to,
and you have found out the exact amount of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue until they are resisted
with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the
endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass August 4, 1857
“…wanting good government in their own states, they first established
order in their own families; wanting order in their homes, they first
disciplined themselves; desiring self-discipline, they rectified their
own hearts; and wanting to rectify their hearts, they sought precise
verbal definitions of their inarticulate thoughts (the tones given off
by the heart).”
Confucius, translated by Ezra Pound
"When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
Wendell Berry
“I was a prisoner too, but for bad reasons."
George W. Bush, referring to his DUI arrest, to Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, on being told that all but one of the Argentine delegates to a summit meeting were imprisoned during the military dictatorship, Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 13, 2004
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