Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky


For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

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I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

Mitch Hedberg

"Per Astera Ad Astrum"

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." Will Durant

"Some people go through their whole lives wondering if they ever made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."


-Ronald Reagan

if you always do, what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!!

Mark Twain

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Why can't we get along? Why can't we all just get along?"

~ Rodney King (after he was beaten to a pulp on camera by the Los Angeles police)



"Why can't we get along? Why can't we all just get along?"

~ Rodney King (after he was arrested by the Los Angeles police for beating his girlfriend to a pulp)

To contradict oneself from day to day is to live.

The self-fulfilling prophecy encompasses us all. It articulates the human power of creativity in its fullest and unmitigatedly shapes what we've come to know as our own respective realities; to a very large extent, if you think it, it is so. The question that is pertinent then is not "is what I am thinking real?" but rather "what have I made as real, how real have I made it, and how is it bettering life for me and life as a whole?"

Science is founded upon the rigorous testing of new ideas whereas religion is founded upon the stubborn preservation of ancient ones.

-Me ;) ...not my favs of course, but I couldn't resist sharing.

"My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists, and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the ruling values of his life: Reason, Purpose, Self-esteem.
Reason, as his only tool of knowledge.
Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve.
Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues"
-Ayn Rand


Do you believe in God, Andrei?
No.
Neither do I. But that's a favorite question of mine. An upside-down question, you know.
What do you mean?
Well, if I asked people whether they believed in life, they'd never understand what I meant. It's a bad question. It can mean so much that it really means nothing. So I ask them if they believe in God. And if they say they do -- then, I know they don't believe in life.
Why?
Because, you see, God -- whatever anyone chooses to call God -- is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.
-- Ayn Rand,

I had loads on the old computer but it blew up. Nevermind :)

I sorta remember a couple, [not word for word]:

"Why would I listen to god tell me how to raise my kids when he had to kill his own"

"earth: a planet, two thirds water - made specifically for a being that has no gills" (something like that)

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

That which is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour.
This is the entire Torah (Law); all the rest is commentary.
- Rabbi Hillel

Veni, vidi, dormivi

um, magister artis ingeniique largitor venter

"Whatever we want to achieve, we should be able to. The rest is just making excuses" - Geordi LaForge, on divine intervention.

I guess we can all recall some occasion when we expressed the view that something or other was likely or inevitable, and found our remarks interpreted as indicating that we therefore approved and supported the outcome we were forecasting -- even though we never said as much. Here's a quotation that comes in real handy in this situation. It comes from scifi writer John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes:
If I happen to mention that, as a process, the autumn follows summer, it does not follow that I am all for getting a ladder and pulling the leaves off the trees.
Americans are allowed to substitute "fall" for "autumn".

"That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die."

H.P. Lovecraft

Quoting the Necronomicon, in "The Nameless City"

"Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails. Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began." (Emma Goldman (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/goldman/aando/anarchism.html))

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"Don't worry, 'cause this is only meant to be just like a warning to you from me, and I am only meant to be affectionate." (Floater)

• • •

"Why don't you form a line, form a line and swim? Oh, now, form a line, form a line and swim. Oh, you see me kicking at a tin can, and I blame it on the sea. You see, I'll never know when, I'll never know why, and I'm never going to be you. No, I'm never going to be you." (Floater)

• • •

"Nothing ever begins.

There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

Thus the pagan will be sanctified, the tragic become laughable; great lovers will stoop to sentiment, and demons dwindle to clockwork toys.

Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction, mind and matter woven into patterns that may have only this in common: that hidden among them is a filigree that will with time become a world." (Clive Barker)

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"Think, dear friend, reflect on the world that you carry within yourself. And name this thinking what you wish. It might be recollections of your childhood or yearning for your own future. Just be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you. Your innermost happening is worth all your love." (Ranier Maria Rilke)

A few that come to mind...

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" - Julius Ceasar

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" - Benjamin Franklin

The second one is very relevant to what's happening today...

He whom fights with monsters for too long, risks himself becoming a monster...he who stares at the abyss, has the abyss stare back at him.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

~

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

~

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

~

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

~

-all by Jacob Bronowski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski)

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power that is when true world peace will happen." Jimi Hendrix

Sorry... :D

Don Hirschberg: Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
Blaise Pascal: Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Diderot: A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.
F. Forrester Church: Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
G.K. Chesterton: I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
Galileo Galilei: I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
H. L. Mencken: The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
Noam Chomsky: Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Richard Francis Burton: The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Robert A. Heinlein: One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.
Sigmund Freud: Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
Thomas Jefferson: Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

niet:

He whom fights with monsters for too long, risks himself becoming a monster...he who stares at the abyss, has the abyss stare back at him.


Baldur's Gate!

Sorry... :D

Don Hirschberg: Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
Blaise Pascal: Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Diderot: A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.
F. Forrester Church: Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.
G.K. Chesterton: I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
Galileo Galilei: I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
H. L. Mencken: The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
Noam Chomsky: Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Richard Francis Burton: The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Robert A. Heinlein: One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.
Sigmund Freud: Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
Thomas Jefferson: Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Every single one of those quotes are awesome. Nice find.

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of powerful people.

A fool would become wise if he would persist in his foolishness.

No one expects the Spanish inquisition.

Chinese curse, movie, monty python.

Robots are stealing our strippers! Xev

"orgasm Long And Prosper!"

gun's dont kill people, people kill people, YEAH people with guns!!
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if you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!
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If there were no such thing as love,
why would there be a word for it ?
(me; about 8 years ago)
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Schnerble
(me; now)
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but this one takes the cake in my opinion
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cosmictraveler "When the power of love overcomes the love of power that is when true world peace will happen."
[{(<><>Jimi Hendrix<><>)}]
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because I said so
Quit crying or I will give you something to cry about
Don't make me stop this car
This hurts me more than it hurts you
Mom

because I said so
Quit crying or I will give you something to cry about
Don't make me stop this car
This hurts me more than it hurts you
Mom

Danger is my middle name,
thats why you'l have to go first :D

Janis Joplin said,

"Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people - then I go home alone."


"Don't compromise yourself. It's all you've got."


"Is that what you guys talk about, really? Is that all, man? At least you could've been talking about me, you fuckers…."

"They sure laid a lot of shit on me."

"Knock it back, man." Janis says sympathetically. "You can't sip this stuff at eight in the morning. That's Happy Hour shit."

"…Besize, honey, this Janis's tour so…you better pay attention to me, motherfucker!"

"Don't mind me, man, I'm just fuckin' with ya…"

Life, the deadliest thing there is...

Rüdiger Nehberg said something like that

Life is a chronic illness that kills you slowly.
its not about how well you feel but how not ill you feel,
your going to lose in the end.
the question is ,
how well do you handle failure, because you wont live forever,
and the biggest test will be how ripped off you feel when you die.

(me; now)

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

thats a great one !
by who ?
i cant recall who it was recorded it on tv.

One who fails to engage his being in a chosen endeavor, with serious intent and fierce determination,will forever be a dilettante: never remembered as one of the greats and never forgotten as one of the millions guilty of lesser desire. The path ahead may be difficult, but ability surmounts the greatest challenges. Be the torch that lights the way; be the persistence worthy of recognition and adoration.





































... and not just because I wrote it. ;)