crapshoot

What I don't understand is say you owe a bookie some money and say said bookie shoots off one of your toes...you still owe the bookie the money. It just doesn't seem fair.

ARTelevision

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

-Donald Trump

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Supple Cow

What you get out of an experience is directly proportional to what you put in. If you're lucky, it's proportional to what you put in squared... unless what you put in was nothing.

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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

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

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IanSturgill

I was recently watching Kill Bill II when i realized something. The reason I love Tarentino movies is that he makes every single one like it will be the only movie he ever makes

LuciferJones

I truly believe this

On April 20th 2005

Bob Marley was smoking weed in heaven
not any regular "earth" weed
but Heaven Weed, the best in the universe
grown by Hippy Angels

and the Rastafarian Devils are pissed!!!!

Bob doesn't wanna pass it down to the flaming pit for 'em.

ARTelevision

"The wastebasket is a writer's best friend."
----
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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amonkie

"You teach best what you most need to learn."


Richard David Bach

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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

Supple Cow

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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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)

FngKestrel

"Good experiences come from good judgement. Good judgement comes from bad experiences. Bad experiences come from bad judgement."

roachboy

once every day there is a coming where cows are.

gertrude stein

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

ARTelevision

Supple Cow:

... the last word in mass media mind control:

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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Thanks so much for that quote. I will always recall it.

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Supple Cow

You're quite welcome, Art. In a similar vein:

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."

~Thomas Pynchon, writer

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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)

TroutKind

~ All though it's just a memory, some memories last forever ~

Neil Pert
-=RUSH=-

Supple Cow

Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

~Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

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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)

Supple Cow

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

~John Locke

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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)

Supple Cow

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

~Alan Kay

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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)

Supple Cow

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason
and imitation without benefit.

~George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

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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)

xddga

not sure if any of these were used previously, but here are my favorite:

"I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living for man" - Socrates

"Religion is opium to the people" - Karl Marx

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness" - Chuang-Tzu

"Think for yourself. Question authority. Through out human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing, fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos. [It] has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who have attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations. Informing, forming in our minds, their views of reality. To think for yourself, you must question authority, and learn how to put yourself in a state of vunerable, open mindedness, chaotic, confused, vunerabilty to inform yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority." - Beggining of Third Eye, by Tool. Off of Salival (I think that's Timothy Leary (is that the right name?))

"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't think drugs have done some good things for us, go home and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn them. You know what? The musicans who made all that great music that has inhanced your lives through out the years, [we're] real fucking high on drugs." --- "Today a young man on Acid realized that all matter is really energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we all are one concisousness and are expirencing ourselves subjectivly, there is no such thing as death, Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." - Beggining of Third Eye, by Tool. Off of Ænima.

brinkn1

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

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I'm melting down your 20 inch rims to build 5 foot plates for the shins of my 30 foot android.

eMOTIONal20

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."
- Og Mandino

I did a lot of thinking today. In a little more than a week I will basically be out on my own for good... no more summer vacations and winter breaks away from college mooching off of my dad. I'm very scared, but I have a feeling I can make it through.

I also decided that it's time to put my beliefs about the way I should be living and my views on myself to work. No more of this trying bullshit. Time to do something... for the sake of my sanity and my happiness.

"Hey! Wait! Knock me down and I'll get up again.
Oh! Pain! A remedy that can erase your sting.
I'll keep holding, and I'll keep trying.
I feel this fight, it is slowly dying now but I feel painless... " -Mae

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

Seer666

"Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loth them."
E.A. Poe

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Bad spellers of the world untie!!!

I am the one you warned me of

I seem to have misplaced the bullet with your name on it, but I have a whole box addressed to occupant.

ruggerp11

I realized today with the help of this thread that while my personal motto has always been
"do what makes you happy"
you don't necessarily need to 'do' or 'think' anything.
I love life.

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Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it.
--Mark Twain
Do What makes you happy
--Me
BUT!
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness" - Chuang-Tzu

Supple Cow

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

~Thomas Jefferson

Everyone needs to go back to basics now and then.

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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)

Supple Cow

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.

~Samuel P. Ginder, US navy captain

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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)

joecool

amateurs built the ark... professionals built the Titanic
- unknown

Minx

We have not inherited the Earth from our parents. We are borrowing it from our children.

~ Native American saying

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You've been a naughty boy....go to my room!

jaydee

don't take life too seriously ............................. nobody gets out alive anyways!

Johnny Pyro

"Death is a natural part of life."- Yoda

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"From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to eternal life. - Sheriff John Wydell

lindalove

When something goes so right, something else goes to pieces quite spectacularly.

Anyone else got a profound statement to make?

zkara

I always feel that the person who rescues you is also the one most likely to kill you.

rmarshall

Shit happens.

ruggerp11

If you wear what you're comfortable in you'll look the best.

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Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it.
--Mark Twain
Do What makes you happy
--Me
BUT!
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness" - Chuang-Tzu

sillygirl

real friends stab you from the front

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Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly-Rose Franken
....absence makes me miss him more...

shesus

When you think you have it all figured out, something happens to humble you back into human form.

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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

MoJoPokeyBlue

Find a job you like and you'll never work a day in your life.

MoJo

mystmarimatt

"I probably won't kill myself, and for all the wrong reasons."

Hunter S. Thompson

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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.

bobillydylan

If you need somebody you can trust? trust yourself!

Bob Dylan

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Yes and only if my own true love was waiting,
And i could hear her heart a softly pounding,
Yes and only if she was lying by me!
Then i would lie in my bed once again.

Supple Cow

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

~Ayn Rand

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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)

Johnny Pyro

"If you don't ask, you don't recieve."- My Papa

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"From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to eternal life. - Sheriff John Wydell