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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Aug 27, 2013 16:36:24 GMT -5
“I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment...” Jean-Paul Sartre, a favorite.
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Post by Fleur de la chevalerie on Sept 6, 2013 18:50:18 GMT -5
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
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Post by Defunct Fiddlesticks on Sept 6, 2013 19:22:37 GMT -5
Never change yourself for anyone just to please them. if they dont like who you are, maybe you need to change those people around you - David Jesus Torres.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong - Mahatma Gandhi.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring - Marilyn Monroe
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Sept 17, 2013 11:16:22 GMT -5
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
William Carlos Williams
September 17, 1883: Modernist poet William Carlos Williams spent his life as a doctor as well as a poet—his compatriots included Dadaists Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. Williams was born in New Jersey, 130 years ago today.
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Oct 19, 2013 9:57:06 GMT -5
Jesus promised an end to wicked people.Odin promised an end to frost giants. I don't see too many frost giants around.
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Post by Defunct Fiddlesticks on Oct 19, 2013 16:07:03 GMT -5
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
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Post by Pedantry INC on Oct 19, 2013 17:17:28 GMT -5
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
~ Marcus Aurelius.
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Post by darinder on Oct 19, 2013 20:59:35 GMT -5
A wish rather than a quote - I wish there was a way (let me know if there is) to "Like" an entire thread because this one deserves it.
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Nov 2, 2013 15:01:55 GMT -5
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Nov 5, 2013 0:19:50 GMT -5
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]? Christina de Pizan(1364-1430) The Letter of the God of Love historymedren.about.com/od/cwho/p/who_chris_pizan.htm
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Nov 24, 2013 20:40:35 GMT -5
"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything."
-Laurence Sterne
November 24, 1713: Irish writer Laurence Sterne penned the wildly popular comic serial novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and inadvertently spawned some of the first fan fiction when other writers published pamphlets that took place in the Shandean world. Sterne was born 300 years ago today.
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Jan 22, 2014 14:15:51 GMT -5
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-Sir Francis Bacon
The most valuable contribution that Sir Francis Bacon (born January 22, 1561) made to humanity is probably the popularization of the scientific method, but he was also a statesman and a writer—mid-19th-century scholars thought that he might have been the true author of Shakespeare's plays.
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Feb 11, 2014 11:48:07 GMT -5
Over the river and through the wood To grandfather's house we go
Lydia Maria Francis Child
American activist Lydia Maria Child (born February 11, 1802) may have been the first prominent abolitionist to advocate immediate emancipation without compensation to slave owners—she also wrote anti-slavery fiction. However, Child is best known for her children's poem, Over the River and Through the Wood.
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Post by The Tallest Dwarf on Feb 26, 2014 18:16:43 GMT -5
All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.
-Johnny Cash
When legendary musician Johnny Cash (born February 26, 1932) joined the Air Force, he wasn't allowed to use his birth name, J.R., so he named himself John. Based in Germany during the Korean War, Cash was a Morse Code interpreter and became the first American to know of Stalin's death.
Johnny Cash, a true American folk hero.
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Post by Defunct Fiddlesticks on Jul 26, 2014 4:59:38 GMT -5
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. - Christopher Morley
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. -Brian May
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. -Mario Balotelli
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. - Robert Downey, Jr.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien Robespierre
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Post by heartofsilver on Jul 26, 2014 20:41:02 GMT -5
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Ed Murrow
Sucking at something is the first step to becoming sorta good at something. ~Jake the Dog
You can tell Monopoly is an old game because there is a luxury tax and rich people go to jail. ~Anonymous
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Sleepless Golem, aka Kenny
If you read this, send me a love note.
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Post by Fenix on Jul 26, 2014 20:54:39 GMT -5
"You are a prisoner of your own mind."
"This world is full of monsters with friendly faces."
~ Anonymous
"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." ~Fenix Vale (Bard's College of Archeage)
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and he's not the same man." ~Heraclitus
"We have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake takes the perfect form for the maximum efficiency and effectiveness for its journey. And while the universal force of gravity gives them a shared destination, the expansive space in the air gives each snowflake the opportunity to take their own path. They are on the same journey, but each takes a different path. Along this gravity-driven journey, some snowflakes collide and damage each other, some collide and join together, some are influenced by wind... there are so many transitions and changes that take place along the journey of the snowflake. But, no matter what the transition, the snowflake always finds itself perfectly shaped for its journey. I find parallels in nature to be a beautiful reflection of grand orchestration. One of these parallels is of snowflakes and us. We, too, are all headed in the same direction. We are being driven by a universal force to the same destination. We are all individuals taking different journeys and along our journey, we sometimes bump into each other, we cross paths, we become altered... we take different physical forms. But at all times we too are 100% perfectly imperfect. At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey. I’m not perfect for your journey and you’re not perfect for my journey, but I’m perfect for my journey and you’re perfect for your journey. We’re heading to the same place, we’re taking different routes, but we’re both exactly perfect the way we are."
This last one, I cannot recall who the author was, just recall dearly the quote that was written. Something spoken deeply and meaningfully, that I keep in mind through a lot of different, hard times in my life.
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Post by Fluffy the Mad on Aug 13, 2014 20:48:01 GMT -5
"[Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man]...but only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be."
Just one of the quotes I enjoyed from Dead Poet's Society, quoted here in honor of Williams. The movies he starred in are some of my favorites. It sucks that there will never be another quite like them now.
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Post by sheisdeadly on Sept 7, 2014 19:24:44 GMT -5
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Post by DOT on Sept 7, 2014 19:29:52 GMT -5
"It's only hard when you don't know. When you know, then it's easy!" -my godmother
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Post by Defunct Fiddlesticks on Nov 2, 2014 9:01:07 GMT -5
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Post by Defunct Fiddlesticks on Nov 25, 2014 12:34:11 GMT -5
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
-William Arthur Ward
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Post by Malzaron on Nov 25, 2014 13:05:39 GMT -5
Where are my chickens?
- Gale Fryar
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docofmadness
Proven Member
a dwarf a elf and a ork walk into a bar........... wait that makes no sense
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Post by docofmadness on Nov 25, 2014 21:42:36 GMT -5
have no mind and no mind anything
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Post by darinder on Jan 6, 2015 21:40:17 GMT -5
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
-- Albert Einstein
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Post by maeglhachel on Jan 9, 2015 11:11:41 GMT -5
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
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Post by harangued on Jan 9, 2015 11:12:57 GMT -5
"For the night is dark and full of terrors."
-Batman.
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Post by DM Grizwald on Jan 9, 2015 11:23:47 GMT -5
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus Yeah but sleeping dragons are fun to tickle!!
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Post by harangued on Jan 12, 2015 16:37:58 GMT -5
"My gut is telling me that there is misfortune in our near future."
-Lando Calrissian
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Post by DM Grizwald on Jan 12, 2015 18:43:15 GMT -5
Gandalf: "Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside."
Translation: "Until at last, I wooped that bitches ass!"
My favorite line to say after wooping an enemy
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