The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
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- George Carlin
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"they just rob your grave, I'd rather be alive and paid, before your number's called history's made..."
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Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them; I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- all George Carlin
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them; I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- all George Carlin
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement ... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus ... thereby it becomes its enemies.
-Philip K. Dick
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement ... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus ... thereby it becomes its enemies.
-Philip K. Dick
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For the EMPEROR!!
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped".
Elbert Hubbard.
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic, and so am I."
Both by Oscar Levant.
Elbert Hubbard.
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I am schizophrenic, and so am I."
Both by Oscar Levant.
Vladimir Nabokov - “life is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness”
“Hello, ladies, look at your man, now back to me, now back at your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped using ladies scented body wash and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re on a boat with the man your man could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love. Look again, the tickets are now diamonds. Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I’m on a horse.”
or he is a true man with a toolbox
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, send a fool to college but you can't make him think..."
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That brought this to mind for some reason: "I find you oddly cheering," Tyrion said to Bronn the sellsword. "I must be mad."
I haven't even read any of GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire books for many years now. It's amazing what can pop into one's head out of the blue... (No, I don't watch the TV series and never have.)
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
– Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you stop having dreams and ideals – well, you might as well stop altogether."
– Marian Anderson
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"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
– Aristotle
– Aristotle
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"The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance."
– Michael Crichton
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
– Mark Twain
– Michael Crichton
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
– Mark Twain
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"Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time. No doubt, this can be difficult for students who are accustomed to getting the answers right. No doubt, reasonable levels of confidence and emotional resilience help, but I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries."
Schwartz, Martin A.. "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." Journal of Cell Science 121.11 (2008): 1771.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.033340
Schwartz, Martin A.. "The importance of stupidity in scientific research." Journal of Cell Science 121.11 (2008): 1771.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.033340
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
– Mark Twain
– Mark Twain
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