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ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
edited May 2010 in Social Entropy++
a thread for your favorite quotes

such as one of mine,
Kurt Vonnegut wrote:
If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

now it's your turn!

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    "Its either mean or its arbitrary and either way I've got the heebie jeebies."

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I like Claudius the cripple, he is my favorite roman

    "No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. "

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    "(Well, we all have something

    against our crooked selves.)"

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but it dies in the process.

    Munkus Beaver on
    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Mark Twain wrote:
    There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
    William Blake wrote:
    It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
    Proverbs 24:17 wrote:
    Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.

    Henroid on
  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2010
    what do you say, for instance, about a generation who has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? if making love might be fatal and if a cool summer breeze can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison scum right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except tv and relentless masturbation.

    it's a strange world. some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

    Edcrab on
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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    People quite Mark Twain when they've nothing good to say themselves

    ascot on
  • SvidrigailovSvidrigailov Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    See sig:

    Svidrigailov on
    Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer, although each observer gains a partial superiority of insight from the peculiar position in which he stands. It is enough to ask of each of us that he should be faithful to his own opportunities and make the most of his own blessings, without presuming to regulate the rest of the vast field.
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    ascot wrote: »
    People quite Mark Twain when they've nothing good to say themselves

    I knew this was coming. :o

    Henroid on
  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Edcrab wrote: »
    Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

    That's Terry Pratchett? :D

    Liiya on
  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Henroid wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    People quite Mark Twain when they've nothing good to say themselves

    I knew this was coming. :o

    You can tell it's not a real quote because it had a typo

    :x

    ascot on
  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Look how Greenzo's testing! They love him in every demographic! Colored people, broads, fairies, commies... Gosh, we gotta update these forms.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my facilities are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened.

    Faricazy on
  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    All seems infected that the infected spy
    as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye

    Olivaw on
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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Liiya wrote: »
    Edcrab wrote: »
    Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

    That's Terry Pratchett? :D

    :^:

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Tell my tale to those who ask it. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.

    Antimatter on
  • XyyzXyyz Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

    Xyyz on
  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    You accuse me of being a madman. What right have you to judge what is sane and what is not?
    I have fought with the shadows on the edge of your vision.
    I have seen the faces that laugh at you in your nightmares.
    I have smelt the foetid breath that issues from the mouth of hell itself.
    I have heard the silent voices that make your spine tingle with dread.
    I have entered the realms between worlds where there is no time or place.
    I have clashed with creatures the sight of which would sear your soul to the core.
    I have bested horrors that chill with a gaze and tempt unreasoning terror.
    I have faced death eye to eye and blade to blade.
    I have stared into the eyes of insanity and met their all-consuming stare.
    I have done all of this for you, for your protection, and the guarantee of a future for mankind.
    And yet you accuse me of being a madman, you who have never had your sanity tested so sorely.
    What right have you to call me a heretic and a blasphemer, who have not heard the whisper of dark gods in your ear?
    You are weak. Vulnerable. Human in your frailty. I am strong and yet still you judge me.
    And yet you still judge me for my sins, you who art most sinful to the heart?
    Only the insane have strength enough to prosper; only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading.

    Liiya on
  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    And that's how she got to the same party as me. Oh shit. I skipped something. Damn it. This whole robot bit. I made a big deal, then I like totally forgot. Fuck, this is bad narrating. Like my dad telling a joke. "Oh, wait back up. I forgot to tell you the cowboy rode a blue horse." Fuck. Anyway, I don't know if you want to see it now, but here's the fucking robot stuff for your viewing pleasure. Can I say "fuck" more?

    Henroid on
  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Be excellent to each other

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    You remember the one I said that got away, yeah well that one was her. It all came flooding back how I was the one she confided in, the one she trusted, meanwhile she was doing every other guy in school. It was the first time I felt it, how pitying someone and wanting to fuck them can get all tangled up in your head... overwhelming sadness while having a rodney. Is that sick? Hm yeah, I think that's sick...

    Henroid on
  • Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
    Isaac Asimov

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    George Carlin wrote:
    Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    What is victory, then, if one hasn't suffered?

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  • celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    "The way to Tara is via Holyhead."
    --James Joyce

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  • DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
    - Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    "It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
    - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

    "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."
    - Bertrand Russell

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  • AvrahamAvraham Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    "Your brain likes to rationalize your actions to seem consistent with the person you believe you are." - Scott Adams

    "My client of choice is AIM, which I gravitate towards over its more practical competitors due to its rich featureset of me being too lazy to try anything else." - Andrew Hussie

    from a school friend on facebook:

    Jay: "when i was little i'm pretty sure the only problem in Israel i was aware of was that they didn't have enough trees"

    Avraham on
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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Mediocrity deserves applause! Let's all find a Ford Focus and clap around it!

    Jordyn on
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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hunter S. Thompson wrote:
    A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads... and they are going to stay that way... Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life. A toad who believes he got a raw deal before he even knew who was dealing will usually be sympathetic to the mean, vindictive ignorance that colors the Hell's Angels' view of humanity. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

    Pony on
  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    i borrowed good omens from the library

    i have until the 24th to read it and 2 other 500-ish page novels

    Raneados on
  • XyyzXyyz Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

    I love that one.

    Xyyz on
  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    George Carlin wrote:
    I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

    Kuribo's Shoe on
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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Robert Downey Jr. on acting wrote:
    I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

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  • DarricDarric Santa MonicaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Raneados wrote: »
    i borrowed good omens from the library

    i have until the 24th to read it and 2 other 500-ish page novels

    It's far more important you read Good Omens than whatever those other two are!

    I hate those other two.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    George Carlin wrote:
    I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Darric wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    i borrowed good omens from the library

    i have until the 24th to read it and 2 other 500-ish page novels

    It's far more important you read Good Omens than whatever those other two are!

    I hate those other two.

    sherlock holmes collections

    after this one story I'll switch to good omens

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    shoe you got an axe to grind on religion or something lately or what

    Pony on
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