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#801 (permalink) |
peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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But when the night is falling
And you cannot find the light If you feel your dream is dying Hold tight You've got the music in you Don't let go You've got the music in you One dance left This world is gonna pull through Don't give up You've got a reason to live Can't forget you only get what you give New Radicals |
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I change
Location: USA
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
-Stephen Hawking
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#822 (permalink) |
Drifting
Administrator
Location: Windy City
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"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."
Lorraine Hansberry
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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna |
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#823 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Pay attention to where you are going or you will end up in Chinatown. - said after missing my bus stop and finding myself in Chinatown instead of Midtown.
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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. |
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#824 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
~Charles Evans Hughes
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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) |
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#826 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: I think my horns are coming out
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Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
-Ayn Rand
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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. |
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#827 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: I think my horns are coming out
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The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.
Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. -- Ayn Rand, "Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World," Philosophy: Who Needs It
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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. |
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#828 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key. ~Piet Hien
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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) |
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#829 (permalink) |
Super Moderator
Location: essex ma
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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph-collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and night, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
ray bradbury--the martian chronicles
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite |
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#830 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: I think my horns are coming out
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If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.
Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as "the right to enslave." -- Ayn Rand, "Man's Rights," The Virtue of Selfishness
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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. |
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#833 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: I think my horns are coming out
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A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.
-- Ayn Rand, "The Objectivist Ethics," The Virtue of Selfishness
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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. |
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#834 (permalink) |
Super Moderator
Location: essex ma
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This epochal coalescence has far-reaching consequences for the social relations of the built environment. In the first place, the market privision of 'security' generates its own paranoid demand.'Security' becomes a positional good defined by income access to private 'protective services' and membership in some hardened residential enclave or restricted suburb. As a prestige symbol--and sometimes as the decisive borderline between the merely well-off and the 'truly rich'---'security' has less to do with personal safety than with the degree of personal insulation, in residential, work, consumption and travel environments, from 'unsavory' groups and individuals, even crowds in general.
Mike Davis, City of Quartz, 224
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite |
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#835 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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"Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable."
~Paul Graham, "What You Can't Say," Hackers & Painters
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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) |
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#836 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: I think my horns are coming out
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An individualist is a man who says: "I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself."
-- Ayn Rand, "Textbook of Americanism
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Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. |
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#838 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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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) |
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