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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!
spectral electricity is pulsing through this room
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.
The strip searches more than make up for it...
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
-Mark Russell
Nothing If Not Inconsistent
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.
resonating rubs at compliance
'Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.'
- Quentin Crisp
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"The stomach rules the head."
-Russian Proverb
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"A friend by your side can keepyou warmer than the richest furs."
-Anonymous
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"He that watereth shall be watered also himself."
-Proverbs 11:25
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Hari Georgeson
"Sunrise doesn't last all morning."
– George Harrison
Taint
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 >.
Only sheep need a shepherd
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
taints are quaint....
"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
The Human Route
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?
Bokonon's Fifty-third Calypso
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
Happy Birthday to...
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
blood from the air
'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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"Make it a rule never to give a child a bookyou would not read yourself."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, andimpossible to forget."
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St. Francis (the saint, not the SF hotel!)
Francis of Assisi said: Always preach the Gospel; Use words if you have to.
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
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
how very resourceful of everyone...
'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
Thanks for the prayer from St. Francis, Mike
The sentient he expresses is something I always aspire to but fail miserably at.
" 'Normal' is a cycle on a washing machine."
-From the film, Neurotypical, an indie film about autism from the perspective of people with autism.
All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
- Regina Brett, from her "45 lessons that life taught me"
"Leafs suck Dad....they REALLY suck!"
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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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways thatwon't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together withgood intentions."
-Augusten Burroughs
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"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
-Matthew 5:48
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"Pure soul love loves because it is love, and must love."
-Christian D. Larson
from
Pathway of Roses
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"I love you more than words can tell..."
-Robert Hunter
Our Excellency
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He leads me beside the still waters.
-Psalm 23:2
where the corpses are turning
'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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"To be yourself in a world that isconstantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"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."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Augst 14, 1936
"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.
and then there's George's theory of war....
"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
George Carlin
An interesting, irreverent wit who almost drove himself over the edge. Owed a lot to Lenny Bruce...
politics 101...
"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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"It is a mark of an educated mindto be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
-Aristotle
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"A good friend is good medicine."
-many
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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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"I thank my God upon every remembrance of
you."
-Philippians 1:3
(Who's on your list?)
prima facie
'Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.'
- Ernst Gombrich