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If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

~George Orwell

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

Terror

Pain is the best teacher

mystmarimatt

"If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane."

- Eric Bogosian

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Words of Wisdom:

If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane.

uncle phil

Man is the only animal that makes promises and fulfills threats...

-Nietzsche

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Supple Cow

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.

~Jules Renard

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

Xero

pulp fiction is a great movie

Lasereth

If you don't get your hopes up, you're never disappointed.

-Lasereth

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"A Darwinian attacks his theory, seeking to find flaws. An ID believer defends his theory, seeking to conceal flaws." -Roger Ebert

Peat

If life is a journey, then your instincts are your map.

-peat

Supple Cow

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

~George H. Lorimer, editor (1868-1937)

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

nukeu666

life is better in the dark

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Why did the Comp. Engineer get X-mas and Halloween mixed up?
Because Oct(31) == Dec(25)

Supple Cow

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

~Aristotle

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

ARTelevision

"You are what you think about all day long"

-fortune cookie (no lie)

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I find it very meaningful...

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Carno

"Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner."

On the same idea, my Mom always told me that when you hate a person you are putting yourself in a kind of bondage, and they then have some control over you. Keeping yourself free of hate and other forms of bondage allows you to live your life the way you want to live it.

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boatin

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I find self-control to be the hardest to achieve, by far, of those three. But I wonder if self-knowledge were the one that I really lacked, would I know?

Sweetpea

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." ~ Rilke

spring is here and it's a time of renewal for both us and the earth.

sweetpea

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"I am the Type of Person Who Can Get Away With A lot, Simply Because I Don't Ask Permission for the Privilege of Being Myself"

Paq

"if you can get past your next breath, you'll be immortal"

it's a nice way for me to remember to take every breath as they come, enjoy every moment you can, and always try to make the next breath better than the one before it.

Beyond that, and you enter too many variables into the equation.

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Live.

Chris

ARTelevision

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If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm."

Norman Vincent Peale

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I sense I am on the right track with things as I understand them to be when I am seeing myself as responsible for what happens to me...

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Sweetpea

"Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Each of us has been places in our lives and felt things that may not be obvious right away.

sweetpea

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viejo gringo

"I can fix everything but a broken heart..."

..my DAD

ARTelevision

"If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm."

Norman Vincent Peale

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noodle

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.


Rudyard Kipling

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taboo

it's so hard to understand the fight between instinct and logic...

Sweetpea

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. " ~ Rilke

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mixedmedia

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. - Pema Chodron

ARTelevision

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

Sophocles

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Supple Cow

"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."

Moses ben Maimon
philosopher (1135-1204)

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

BigBen

"People need to quote me more often."

-BigBen, modern philosopher and smartass; TFP, 2006

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3.141592654
Hey, if you are impressed with my memorizing pi to 10 digits, you should see the size of my penis.

Sweetpea

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. "
May Sarton

sweetpea

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Supple Cow

"The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread."

Rumi
poet and mystic (1207-1273)

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

Elphaba

"People need to quote me more often."

-BigBen, modern philosopher and smartass; TFP, 2006

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"We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

Howard Zinn
Historian

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Sweetpea

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke

sweetpea

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mixedmedia

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” - Alan Watts

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"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

Amelia Earhart

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shesus

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

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Whatever did happen to your soul?
I heard you sold it

Choose Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company

Cynthetiq

Listen to your feelings. They tell you when you need to take care of yourself, like finding a friend if you feel lonely, crying if you feel sad, singing and smiling if you feel happy, and acting frisky if you feel good.
--Pat Palmer

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I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.

Sweetpea

"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. " ~May Sarton

sweetpea

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mixedmedia

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. - Dorothy Parker

ARTelevision

"Choose well: Your choice is brief and yet endless."

Ella Winter (1898-1980)
Journalist

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Sweetpea

"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. "
~ May Sarton

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