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Post by krasimirova on Aug 17, 2012 9:12:51 GMT -5
If you are normal the crowd will embrace you..
If you are deranged, the crowd will elect you as their leader..
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Post by Julian Sharps on Aug 23, 2012 1:03:36 GMT -5
Another Rodneyism: "Yes, but I have some experience with these systems. Moreso than a tap-dancing explosives expert!"
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Post by Hookah, S.C. on Aug 23, 2012 19:32:49 GMT -5
'This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry, Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death!'
John of Gaunt in Shakespears Richard II such a great speech. Ironic how much of it applies to modern Britain.
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Post by DadCRO on Aug 23, 2012 20:58:21 GMT -5
"This town isn't big enough for two supervillains!" "Oh, you're a villain all right, just not a SUPER one!" "Yeah? What's the difference?" *Megamind walks out on the tongue of a giant floating statue of his head* "PRESENTATION!!!"
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Post by Adkenpachi on Aug 24, 2012 3:08:13 GMT -5
I like that great richard the third speech...
"NOW...........something something something something"
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Post by Vice-Shogun Himura on Aug 24, 2012 18:03:29 GMT -5
Doing nothing is doing evil. (Anon.)
Don't waste good iron for nails . . . good men for soldiers. (Anon.)
One loves more the first time, better the second. (Anon.)
The common soldiers' blood makes the general great. (Anon.)
To part is to die a little. (Anon.)
The Greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. (Anon.)
One murder makes a villain millions a hero. (Anon.)
A ruler must learn to be other than good. (Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.)
Success is the one earthly judge concerning right or wrong. (Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf.)
I have only one purpose, the destruction of Hitler, and my life is very much simplified thereby. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. (Winston Churchill.)
I was early to finish, I was late to start, I must be an adult -- I'm a minor at heart. (Minor Threat, Minor Threat.)
El Presidente smokes cigars. Anyone he does not like he shoots of puts behind bars. (Circle Jerks, Coup D'ETAT.)
Life has confided so many stories to me, I shall have to retell them to people who cannot read the book of life itself. (Elly Hillesum.)
All the world's a stage and all men and women merely players they have their exits and entrances and one man in his time plays many parts. (Shakespeare, As You Like It.)
No one commands me. No man. No god. No Elder. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to Hell with me. (Gnter D”rn, Das Ungeheuer Darin.)
Be all that you can be, the greatest challenge of them all . . . Yourself. (Anon.)
Do unto others as they've done to you, But what the hell is this world coming to? (Metallica, Fight Fire With Fire.)
God is dead! (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.)
That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.)
Nietzsche is dead! (God.)
Who can control his fate? (Shakespeare, Othello.)
Weapons are tools of ill omen. (Sun Tzu, the Art of War.)
A courageous man never wants weapons. (Anon.)
Hit even the face of Buddha three times, and he will become angry. (Anon.)
If your eat poison, don't forget to lick the dish. (Anon.)
The nail that sticks out is the one that gets pounded. (Anon.)
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. (Francis Bacon.)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases. It will never pass into nothingness. (Anon.)
To err is human. To forgive is against departmental policy (California police.)
The only sure thing is there's no sure thing. (Anon.)
Revenge is a dish best served cold. (Anon. Klingon)
Thought is existence. (Decartes.)
Okay, we won. What do we do now? (Brian Mulroney.)
Resist much. Obey little. (Walt Whitam.)
Question authority. (Anon.)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. (Thomas H. Bayly.)
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. (Anon.)
I am willing to love all mankind except an American. (Samuel Johnson.)
I believe because it is impossible. (Tertullian.)
God Almighty hates a quitter.( General Samuel Fessenden.)
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.)
A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity, and can belabour that. (Victor Hugo.)
Let the dead bury their dead. (New Testament.)
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. (Anon.)
Evil is wrought be want of thought, as well as want of heart. (Thomas Hood.)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt.)
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be, thought to be. (Socrates.)
Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their Hell than I. (Alfred Kreymburg.)
Without honour a man is nothing. (Richard Steele.)
When faith is lost, when honour dies, the man is dead .(Whittier)
Death before dishonour. (Anon.)
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. (Plato.)
Knowledge is power. (Hobbes.)
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. (Socrates)
All for love, or the world well lost. (Dryden.)
Love wine, women and song or remain a fool all life long. (Anon.)
Love conquers all; let us too yield to love. (Virgil.)
Your not men 'til you can find your way to Sears blind folded. (Tim Allen.)
Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills. (Shakespeare, Hamlet.)
A poet is born, not made. (Anon.)
Saint: a dead sinner revised and edited. (Ambrose Bierce.)
We need breathing room. (Adolf Hitler.)
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. (Shakespeare, as quoted by General Chang in Star Trek VI.)
nuts Happens. (Anon.)
He who has no fire in himself cannot warm others. (Anon.)
They can because they think they can. (Virgil.)
Great books have changed men's lives and altered the current of history. (Anon.)
The beginnings of all things are small. (Cicero.)
Anger is only one letter short of danger. (Anon.)
Rudeness is a little person's imitation of power. (Anon.)
Love's a thing that's never out of season. (Anon.)
The only dumb question is the one that wasn't asked. (Anon.)
Instruction ends in the schoolroom -- but education ends only with life. (Publilius Syrus.)
We become what we contemplate. (Plato.)
Justifying a fault doubles it. (Anon.)
Every story has three sides: Yours, mine and the facts. (Rene Fumoleau.)
The aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think. (Anon.)
You have to be the best you can be with what you have, (Rick Hansen.)
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do during our
leisure hours determines what we are. (George Eastman.)
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. (Han Suyin.)
Large streams from little fountain flow; tall oak from little acorns grow. (David Everett.)
Few minds wear out, more rust out. (Bovee.)
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. (Kahilil Gibran.)
The thrill is not just in winning, but in the courage to join the race. (Anon.)
The smallest thing, well done becomes artistic. (William Matthews.)
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird come. (Anon.)
The more you do, the more you are. (Angie Papadakins.)
The game isn't over till it's over. (Yogi Berra.)
Love is heaven and heaven is love. (Sir Walter Scott.)
Kill a man and you are a murder, kill a thousand and you are a conqueror, kill them all and you a god. (Anon.)
Nothing worth learning can be taught. (Anon.)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills.)
Some things have to be believed to be seen. (Ralph Hodgson.)
Having a dream isn't stupid, norm. It's not having a dream that's stupid. (Cliff Claven, Cheers.)
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. (George Burns.)
I love getting mail . . . just the fact that someone licked a stamp for you is very reassuring. Thomas Magnium, Magnum P.I.)
A friend is a present you give yourself. (Anon.)
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. (Anon.)
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. (Carl Reiner.)
Humor is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge.)
As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. (Donald Trump)
You never really lose until you quit trying. (Mike Ditka.)
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. (Indira Gandhi.)
I can, therefore, I am.( Simone Weil.)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Aldous Huxley.)
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. (Goethe.)
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. (Albert Einstein)
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am Jew. (Albert Einstein.)
Ability is of little account without opportunity. (Napoleon.)
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein)
Up your shaft. (Montgomery Scott)
Gentlemen your work today has been outstanding. I am going to recommend you all for promotion...In whatever fleet we will be serving. (James T. Kirk)
We don't want to be shot down on the way to our funeral. (Pavel A. Chekov)
As I recall I opposed your enlistment in Starfleet, it is possible that judgement was incorrect. (Sarek)
When threaten , fight. (Anon. Klingon)
If it's in your way, knock it down. (B'Elanna Torres)
Great Deeds, Great songs. (Anon. Klingon)
If you must negotiate, watch your enemy's eyes. (Anon. Klingon)
Brute strength is not the most important asset in a fight. (Anon. Klingon)
Real power is in the Heart. (Lt. Worf )
There is nothing shameful in falling before a superior enemy.(Lt. Worf)
There is no honour in attacking the weak. (Lt. Worf)
There are No old warriors. (Anon. Klingon)
Fools die young!(Gowron)
Blood and water don't mix (Anon. Klingon)
A warrior does not let a friend face danger alone. (Lt. Worf)
To understand life, endure pain. (Anon. Klingon)
There is always a chance. (Lt. Worf)
If you cannot fail, then you cannot Succeed. (Lt. Worf)
May your enemies run with fear. (Capt. Kurn)
It is a good day to die. (Anon. Klingon)
May you die well. (Anon. Klingon)
No Klingon ever breaks his word. (Lt. Worf)
Stop Talking! Drink! (Lt. Cmdr. Worf)
Klingons do not surrender! (Anon. Klingon)
Fear is power (Gowron)
Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. (Anon. Klingon)
Trust, but locate the doors. (Anon. Klingon)
I Know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. (Socrates)
I am but mad north by north-west; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand saw. (Shakespeare)
'tis only noble to be good. (Tennyson)
Knowledge is power. (Thomas Hobbies)
I've got all my enemies in the cabinet where I can keep my eye on them (John Diefenbaker
If I walked on water people would say I coundn't swim. (John Turner)
Up your shaft (Scotty)
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. (John Diefenbaker)
Seek not every quality in one individual. (Confucius)
Every great achevement once seemed impossible. (unknown)
Success is important but defeats are valuable. (C. M. Jones)
Friends should be preferred to kings. (Voltaire)
Win without Boasting, Lose without excuse. (Albert Terhune)
It is much easier to be critical than correct (unknown)
Our greatist glory is not in never falling but in raising every time we fall. (Confucius)
If I try knowing there is little hope of succeeding I risk failure, not to try assures it. (anon.)
Following a precedent is an easy substitute for thinking. (Ruth Smelten)
Success is getting up just one more time than you fall down. (anon.)
Wars not make on great. (Yoda)
It's not my fault! (C-3P0, Lando Calrissian, Han Solo)
Battle is its own reward (Khi)
Houses rule but blood runs things (Khi)
I believe because it is impossible (Tertullian)
Better to build schoolrooms for"the boy" than cells and gibbets for "the man". (Eliza Cook)
Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as want of heart (Thomas Hood)
The Evil that men do lives on after them; The good is often interred with their bones (William Shakespeare)
When faith is lost, when honour dies, the man is dead. (Whittier)
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstien)
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain.)
Not even God knows what your doing! (Zeus, Diehard with Vengeance)
Are you Aiming for these people? (Zeus, Diehard with Vengeance)
No . . . Maybe that mime. (Mclean, Diehard with Vengeance)
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Post by WestRider on Aug 24, 2012 20:42:44 GMT -5
I tried Wine, Women, & Song. Found it better with Beer instead, but it doesn't sound as good.
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Post by WestRider on Aug 31, 2012 21:18:22 GMT -5
“About halfway through the album, the cow was covered in graffiti and all the plants had died. That just kind of sums up the whole album.” - Mike Offord, Producer for Yes's album Tales from Topographic Oceans
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Post by Julian Sharps on Sept 1, 2012 14:54:27 GMT -5
"So you're going to attack the enemy base? Great idea, Fox!" - General Pepper
"Hold still, and lemme shoot you!" "See my ship? Does it look okay to you!?" - Falco Lombardi
"Your carcass is mine!" - Slippy Toad
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Post by Ponen19 on Sept 1, 2012 20:37:39 GMT -5
"DO A BARREL ROLL"- Peppy Hare
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Post by Adam Selene on Sept 19, 2012 2:06:29 GMT -5
A long time ago my dad handed me a copy of 'Creatures of Light and Darkness' by Roger Zelazny. I recently got round to reading it and love this quote from it.
“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.”
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Post by dangerrod on Sept 19, 2012 6:05:45 GMT -5
"You are the universe experiencing itself"
Danger Rod
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Post by Julian Sharps on Sept 20, 2012 1:39:22 GMT -5
"General Hammond, permission to beat the crap out of this man?" - COL Jack O'Neill, Stargate SG-1
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Post by Kommissar Orren on Sept 20, 2012 9:32:30 GMT -5
"What do you think they got in that Farmhouse, sir?" "I don't know, Grimes, but it ain't candy."
From the movie I am watching: The Bridge at Remagen
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Post by Julian Sharps on Sept 21, 2012 1:10:43 GMT -5
"Know what the chain o' command is? It's a chain I'ma go get an' beat you with 'till you unnerstand who's in ruttin' command here." - Jayne Cobb, Firefly
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Post by Ponen19 on Sept 21, 2012 12:55:12 GMT -5
"Blood for the Blood God! Milk for the Khorn Flakes!" - Some guy at my game club.
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Post by Empirespy on Sept 21, 2012 15:46:03 GMT -5
"You are the universe experiencing itself" Danger Rod When I first read that, it gave me goose bumps, as did this from a similar source... "It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not WAKE UP. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren't being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to WAKE UP was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to WAKE UP. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP."
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Post by Paimon on Sept 21, 2012 15:57:53 GMT -5
I've seen that a number of times before...
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Post by Adam Selene on Nov 8, 2012 8:04:54 GMT -5
"Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for; unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when their is nothing else left to eat.Sure once in a while there's a peanut butter cup... or an english toffee. But they're gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with harden jelly and teeth shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers."
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Post by Rook on Nov 9, 2012 9:03:30 GMT -5
The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the US Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals". Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves. This ends today's lesson.
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Post by buddha on Nov 9, 2012 11:15:18 GMT -5
I respect your opinion Rook and think I understand the logic behind it, there are many families that would approach the danger of starvation without them. I think it is wrong to paint everyone with the same brush, no matter who they are.
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Post by Wraelis on Nov 9, 2012 14:46:16 GMT -5
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them" -Isaac Asimov
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Post by Rook on Nov 9, 2012 19:57:10 GMT -5
I respect your opinion Rook and think I understand the logic behind it, there are many families that would approach the danger of starvation without them. I think it is wrong to paint everyone with the same brush, no matter who they are. It was a joke. A very accurate joke backed up by reality but still a joke. I have never seen so many people unwilling to work than I have with our current president(not saying it is his fault it is just an observance). Assistance is needed sometimes. That's fine. But taking advantage of the system is not.
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Post by WestRider on Nov 9, 2012 21:44:11 GMT -5
And as I've pointed out before, the problem is not people's willingness to work. The problem is that there simply aren't anywhere near as many jobs available as there are people to do them.
And given that Bain Capital was responsible for destroying something like 17,000 jobs over the years, all I can say is Thank Freddie that Romney didn't make it.
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Post by Rook on Nov 9, 2012 23:16:37 GMT -5
And as I've pointed out before, the problem is not people's willingness to work. Totally disagree. People don't look for work because they don't need to. Therein lies the problem, they don't need to because they are being provided for from tax payers. Do this; 1)Next time someone asks you for a handout/spare change, such as homeless person, look them over and ask yourself if they could work. EVERY homeless person I've seen can work...if they want to. 2)Next time someone complains about not having a job ask them how many places they went to that day looking for work. The answer will be zero most likely because no one needs to hire someone to play Call of Duty or Halo 4. If they were TRULY looking for work they would ask you to hire them during the initial contact. Or ask you if you know anyone who is hiring. Or you wouldn't see them because they are out looking for work and can't be bother to talk to you. If I recall WestRider you have a cat, I think. If you quit feeding it do you think it would just sit around waiting until it died? No, it would leave the house and look for food. Some humans don't need to do that because of handouts. ***You know what? It isn't necessarily about 'jobs'. It's about providing for yourself. Obviously some adult people will be exempt from this, so few that to single them out would be ridiculous. There are times when assistance is needed. I'm just tired of people saying they can't find work when they aren't really looking.
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