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[brambedkar59]

"Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free." - Irving Layton

 

[lokamoka820]

“An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
― Noam Chomsky, Because We Say So

 

[BSONE]

“An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
― Noam Chomsky, Because We Say So

Please keep current events out of this topic. It will do no good.

 

[BSONE]

Anything written by Oscar Wilde is worthy. The bloke was a genius.

 

[rashmi]

"Lack of patience is a sign of an uneducated mind." - Rashmi

 

[brambedkar59]

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” — Hermann Hesse

 

[mlnevese]

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Terry Pratchett

 

[lokamoka820]

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
~ Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

 

[Dave Russo]

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." - Amy Carmichael

 

[lokamoka820]

"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus."
~ Turkish Proverb

 

[simmerskool]

All your base are belong to us
Zero Wing
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You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability...
Agent Smith

 

[simmerskool]

His gods were Routine and Records. He was served by mentats and prodigious filing systems. Expediency was the first word in his catechism...Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative.
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert (1969)

 

[BSONE]

"People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him"
Oscar Wilde

 

[brambedkar59]

"War is terrorism with a bigger budget."

 

[brambedkar59]

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” — Albert Camus