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| 10 OCT 2002 at 4:59pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 5:02pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | "I'm not here, I've gone out to look for myself. If I come back before I return, please tell me to wait."
[right]-Andrea Pusillo[/right]
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 5:05pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 5:14pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
[right]-Peter T. Mcintyre[/right]
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 6:20pm |
OmniaIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 6:23pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 6:50pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Here's a nice one for us adventure peeps, don't know by who unfortunately...
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 6:57pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 7:02pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip! Uh-huh! Uh-huh!
[right]-Sesame Street[/right]
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| 10 OCT 2002 at 7:29pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 12:42am |
Cindy_KIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | "Come away oh human child
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand..."
(W.B. Yeats)
And, my all time favorite...
"the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray..."
(Robert Burns, John Steinbeck)
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 9:56am |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Of Mice and Men was quite a book. It had great characters and was a fascinating critique of capitalist society and social darwinism.
Here's one from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Humanity, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 7:20pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Here's a very important quote:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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| 11 OCT 2002 at 11:13pm |
| Deleted User | "I'm not a Malefactor, I'm a Lagomorph!"
- Max, Sam and Max Hit the Road
"We were raised on television to believe that we'd all be millionares, movie gods, rock stars, but we won't. And we're just starting to figure that out."
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
"A Witty Saying Proves Nothing"
- Voltaire
"Wow! If I wasn't so excited, I'd be confused!"
- Hamtaro
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 9:29am |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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| 12 OCT 2002 at 9:30am |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Ah, two more.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
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| 13 OCT 2002 at 6:11am |
cawtiIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | "When you get confused, listen to the music play."
--- The Grateful Dead
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| 13 OCT 2002 at 8:05am |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
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| 13 OCT 2002 at 8:45pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same.
Vincent Van Gogh
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| 13 OCT 2002 at 8:46pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I like to tell people I have the heart of a small boy. Then I say it's in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King
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| 14 OCT 2002 at 9:23pm |
ZolyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Three of my favorite ones:
"We may have days, we may have hours, but sooner or later we push up flowers."
- Membrillo to Manny in Grim Fandango
And two from The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen:
"on't play God... He always wins."
"With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince.
With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with."
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Zoltan Ormandi&&[url=http://www.adventure-hall.com]The Adventure Games Hall of Fame[/url]&&
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| 15 OCT 2002 at 3:29am |
| Deleted User | From "Clerks" by Kevin Smith:
(in regard to a Russian friend of Jay's)
Jay's Lady Friend: Can he speak English?
Jay: Yeah, but he can't not speak it like we do.
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| 15 OCT 2002 at 1:14pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My deeply held belief is that if a god anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts... if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.
Carl Sagan
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| 17 OCT 2002 at 4:11pm |
AdsoIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I'm in a Twain kind of mood today, so....
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain, 'Notebook,' 1935
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
And of course:
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain
Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.
Mark Twain
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.&&&&Sir Winston Churchill
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