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Post by theotherjosh on Jul 22, 2017 0:40:32 GMT
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 28, 2017 0:59:26 GMT
Arthur C. Clarke There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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It's tangerine....not orange
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Post by ljwilson on Aug 15, 2017 17:32:59 GMT
You're not drunk if you can lay on the floor without holding on - Dean Martin
I should never have swapped scotch for martini - Humphrey Bogart on his deathbed
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Post by Timelord007 on Aug 16, 2017 7:19:33 GMT
Dirty Harry : The Dead Pool. "Opinions are like a..holes everybodys got one".
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Post by Timelord007 on Aug 16, 2017 7:21:49 GMT
William Munny: Unforgiven.
Little Bill. "You just shot a unarmed man".
William Munny. "Well he should've armed himself".
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Post by Timelord007 on Aug 16, 2017 7:23:01 GMT
Walt Kowalski in Grand Torino.
"Get off my lawn".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 3:33:15 GMT
It's not a quote, per se, but having just discovered it, it's quite powerful:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2017 19:22:16 GMT
"Put money in thy purse " - Iago in Othello.. A tiny voice in my head keeps telling me this .. tempting me to buy more audios ...
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Post by theotherjosh on Sept 4, 2017 15:23:34 GMT
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
The Chance for Peace, - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Sept 4, 2017 16:14:43 GMT
Frederick Douglass- Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Post by Hieronymus on Sept 5, 2017 3:38:38 GMT
One of my favorite quotes from Dickens:
Mrs Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species.
In print or audio, few characters are so effortlessly pictured for reader as Mrs Merdle.
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Post by Hieronymus on Sept 6, 2017 1:30:13 GMT
And still one of my favorite quotes from Carl Sagan (who had a profound influence on me):
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for a thousand years. To read is to voyage through time."
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Post by theotherjosh on Nov 22, 2017 16:37:45 GMT
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
-Ira Glass
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Post by theotherjosh on Jan 23, 2018 13:23:18 GMT
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." -G.K. Chesterton
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.” ― H.L. Mencken
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” ― Bertrand Russell
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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 Jan 23, 2018 14:21:19 GMT
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.” ― H.L. Mencken Was Mencken certain about this?
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Post by theotherjosh on Jan 23, 2018 15:05:47 GMT
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.” ― H.L. Mencken Was Mencken certain about this? He did say "always" right there in his first sentence, so I'm going to say yes
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 3:22:52 GMT
A wonderful quote from the visionary writer of The Left-Hand of Darkness and Earthsea who has sadly just passed away at 88 years old. The full speech can be seen here, but this, in particular, remains one of my favourites.
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Post by theotherjosh on Jan 24, 2018 12:06:20 GMT
A wonderful quote from the visionary writer of The Left-Hand of Darkness and Earthsea who has sadly just passed away at 88 years old. The full speech can be seen here, but this, in particular, remains one of my favourites. And another from a very talented woman: "You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea."
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 30, 2018 1:10:41 GMT
Thomas S. Monson- “We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2018 1:36:09 GMT
A really, really good one from a story called All Wounds:
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