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Sometimes you come across a quote, a line, a statement that just nails it, at some level. Cosmic, comic, whatever. If you'd like to share it, post it here, duly credited!
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 07:11

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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 08:47

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i couldn't agree more. the next time it happens Mr. Weir, don't walk off stage. encourage others to punch the offenders in the throat. anyone talking throughout a performance is a cunt.
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 14:59

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really offends people, Lard. You've been told before.
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 03:28

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I have most certainly not been told before, my dear. Besides, they are just letters. No letters are offensive. Apart from bills. Fuck and not Cunt, eh? How quaint of you.
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 08:55

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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 09:46

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quaint early 13c., "cunning, proud, ingenious," from O.Fr. cointe "pretty, clever, knowing," from L. cognitus "known," pp. of cognoscere "get or come to know well" (see cognizance). Sense of "old-fashioned but charming" is first attested 1795, and could describe the word itself, which had become rare after c.1700 (though it soon recovered popularity in this secondary sense). Chaucer used quaint and queynte as spellings of cunt in "Canterbury Tales" (c.1386), and Andrew Marvell may be punning on it similarly in "To His Coy Mistress" (1650). "quaint." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 08 Mar. 2013. < Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quaint >.
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Submitted by marye on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 09:52

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this is not the venue for thrashes. Please stop. Thank you.
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"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas." -Emo Phillips
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 07:07

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Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed - that is human.When you are born, where do you come from? When you die, where do you go? Life is like a floating cloud which appears. Death is like a floating cloud which disappears. The floating cloud itself originally does not exist. Life and death, coming and going, are also like that. But, there is one thing which always remains clear. It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death. Then what is the one pure and clear thing?
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 20:46

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Oh, a sleeping drunkardUp in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British queen-- All fit together In the same machine. Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice-- So many different people In the same device. – Kurt Vonnegut
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Submitted by marye on Mon, 03/11/2013 - 10:48

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had a way with words...
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 03:31

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'It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more that Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.' - William S. Burroughs
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"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, andimpossible to forget." Anonymous @@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------(------@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 18:14

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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury,pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 03:09

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'There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.' - Bertrand Russell
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Submitted by PonchoBill on Sat, 03/16/2013 - 17:50

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My 8 year old son loves to give me the business whenever things are going bad for the Leafs. Right now with Winnipeg up 4-1, it's hard not to agree.
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 03:42

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'Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit - not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.' - William S. Burroughs
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"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."
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"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." -Lyndon B. Johnson
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"What we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that any attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail." – Samuel Beckett
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Submitted by Parkas4Kids on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 11:56

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"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." I first encountered a fragment of this speech--a fragment in itself of a much larger Presidential address--through the song "Honour 2003" by the band VNV Nation, and it's a powerful piece of oration. It was a long, forgotten time when the United States of America weren't foaming at the mouth to jump into another international quarrel.
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 20:53

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"War is nothing more than old men standing in fields and waving their pricks at one another. It all boils down to this: men are insecure about the size of their dicks so they have to kill one another over the idea. That's what all of that male posturing, macho, asshole, jock-bullshit is all about........dick fear. .....You don't have to be a historian or political scientist to see the bigger dick-foreign policy theory at work...What? They have bigger dicks? Bomb them!! And of course all of the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are all shaped like dicks. It's a subconscious need to project the penis into other people's affairs. It's called fucking with people!!" -George Carlin
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 16:27

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An interesting, irreverent wit who almost drove himself over the edge. Owed a lot to Lenny Bruce...
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"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident that they are acting on their own free will." - Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1945
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My brethen, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. -James, a bondservant
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"The instrument is the man,and he... the music. Like rain you cannot return to the sky." Signed with the kiss of friendship, -sherbear, xo
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Fri, 04/12/2013 - 02:49

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'Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.' - Ernst Gombrich