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Post by acousticwolf on Jan 27, 2017 9:05:23 GMT
"The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there" - Ursula K. Le Guin
Cheers
Tony
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Post by icecreamdf on Jan 27, 2017 14:56:13 GMT
One from Star Trek that seems relevant lately.
I can't save humanity without holding onto the things that make me human.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 31, 2017 20:39:13 GMT
Benjamin Franklin We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 4, 2017 17:39:08 GMT
Ralph Waldo Emerson A Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Feb 5, 2017 2:18:21 GMT
Ralph Waldo Emerson A Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.You're putting that quote on a forum that focuses mostly on Doctor Who???
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 5, 2017 3:39:56 GMT
Garry Kasparov The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 3:42:32 GMT
Avon: "Logic says we're dead." Blake: "Logic has never defined what dead is." -- Blake's 7, "Duel".
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 5, 2017 4:00:05 GMT
"Fools rush in, where Angels fear to tread." Alexander Pope
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2017 5:44:56 GMT
Immanuel Pena: "Well, Robert... When I stopped carrying the gun, I learnt something very important. You know, the damn thing didn't give me any courage at all. On the contrary, it took it away." -- The Equalizer, "Reign of Terror".
Edit: Actually, I'm reminded of a very well-written, very quiet soliloquy from the episode in question. It's the exact reason why Pena decided to relinquish his position as head of the Cuban secret police and defect with McCall's assistance, why he's still so haunted to this day by his actions.
Immanuel Pena: "He was a simple man, he was a farmer, but little by little he started becoming a bit dangerous, so my men took hold of him -- trained interrogators -- and they couldn't get a word out of him. I took the case myself and it... It had to be one of the most terrifying experiences of my life." Robert McCall: "Why?" Pena: "This man forgave me. Day after day after day, no matter what I said, what I did to him... This man forgave me. And do you know what it means, I mean to look into the eyes of a man you are torturing and is forgiving you?" McCall: "So you killed him?" Pena: "It was an accident, but this man had destroyed me." -- The Equalizer, "Reign of Terror".
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 5, 2017 7:13:38 GMT
Some Founding Father quotes
"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." - Thomas Jefferson
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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Post by mrperson on Feb 5, 2017 21:16:19 GMT
"You come at last," she said. "I have waited too long." "It was a dark road. I have come as I could," he answered. "But you are too late," said Morwen. "They are lost." "I know it," he said. "But you are not." But Morwen said: "Almost. I am spent. I shall go with the sun. Now little time is left: if you know, tell me! How did she find him?" But Hurin did not answer, and they say beside the stone, and did not speak again; and when the sun went down Morwen sighed and clasped his hand, and was still; and Hurin knew that she had died. He looked down at her in the twilight and it seemed to him that the lines of grief and cruel hardship were smoothed away. "She was not conquered," he said; and he closed her eyes, and sat unmoving beside her as the night drew down."
The Silmarillion, "Of the Ruin of Doriath"
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Post by fingersmash on Feb 5, 2017 21:40:46 GMT
Some Hamilton quotes
“If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?” Alexander Hamilton - Aaron Burr, Sir
“And when my prayers to God were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance” Alexander Hamilton - Hurricane
“We push away what we can never understand. We push away the unimaginable” Angelica Schuyler - It's Quiet Uptown
“You forfeit all rights to my heart, You forfeit the place in our bed. You sleep in your office instead, With only the memories of when you were mine, I hope that you burn” Eliza Hamilton - Burn
"Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now." Eliza Hamilton - The Schuyler Sisters; That Would Be Enough
"Love doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints; it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep loving anyway, we laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes" Aaron Burr - Wait For it
“But when you’re gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame?” Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 5, 2017 22:30:12 GMT
Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with a more efficient means for going backwards.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 7, 2017 6:15:51 GMT
Bob Dylan Money doesn't talk, it swears.
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Post by topper on Feb 7, 2017 13:35:27 GMT
Every tic, a birth Every toc, a death And wiza woiza Every tic, a second Every toc, a Milyin years Every tic, a nothing Every toc, a something And wiza woiza
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 4:28:26 GMT
Marion Raven: "Why are men always so impressed to learn that a cat has claws?" -- "The Giuoco Piano Affair", The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 8, 2017 6:35:27 GMT
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.". George Santayana
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 12, 2017 1:23:15 GMT
Garry Kasparov Chess is the most violent of all sports. There’s no sport as competitive — as rough — as chess. The only goal in chess is to prove your superiority over the other guy, and the most important superiority, the most total one, is the superiority of the mind.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 14, 2017 23:14:51 GMT
Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Post by Timelord007 on Feb 15, 2017 7:23:47 GMT
"Tell them, tell them whoever comes I'll kill em...I'll kill em all".
John Wick from the movie John Wick Chapter 2.
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