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23 days ago
Blister desired death so I'll be taking over. Proverbs 12:1 "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is STUPID."

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20 days ago
I feel like this and the render unto Caesar thing, and the my kingdom is not of this world thing, is why Christianity is such a good fit with western liberalism, constitutional republics, secular governments and all that. Probably comes from the fact that early Christians had to exist under a government that wanted no part of them. All religions leak into government, but Christianity can thrive without doing so, and a lot of other religions cannot.

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22 days ago
"Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature, and movies... what we've seen, heard, felt... anger, joy, and sorrow... these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing." - Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty Just kidding. This is the real quote.

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22 days ago

Cool! New thread!

"I have a dream."

I feel like everyone knows this quote, but in a quote thread you need it.

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20 days ago
I did that speech in elementary school. Getting the right amount of inflection and almost musical quality is tough.

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21 days ago

" 'One day, you′ll leave this world behind
So live a life you will remember
' "

   - The Nights, by The Wellermen

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6 days ago

This is Avicii you uncultured swine!

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6 days ago

Really? I didn't know that they were who made it. After listening to it, though, I still prefer The Wellerman's version.

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21 days ago
I'm reading Crime and Punishment right now and came across this little speech:

"You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account!

"Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird.

"And what are we doing now? In science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aims, liberalism, judgment, experience and everything, everything, everything, we are still in the preparatory class at school. We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to!"

*Note: "liberalism" had a very different meaning in 1860s Russia than it does in the US today, lol

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21 days ago

*Overly long pause*

"Never, ever, ever, give up."

*walks away*

-Winston Churchill

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21 days ago
@RKrallonor has a quote of his he really likes too!

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21 days ago

A quote from Winston Churchill? I think I saw the name mentioned somewhere before.

EDIT: Fun fact, I learned both of my quotes from school. It's not totally bombing my education.

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21 days ago
Here's my "favorite" quote by Winston Churchill: "I hate Indians... They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."

Great historical figures often have both wonderful and terrible aspects within them, inextricably linked, and when trying to determine their legacy, it is hard to reconcile the incredible things Churchill did with his deplorable viewpoints.

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21 days ago

I'm sorry, I don't think I understand.

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21 days ago
He hated the people of India and viewed them as subhuman. Pretty racist guy.

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20 days ago
He's considered a controversial figure these days. He was undeniably pivotal in leading the UK during WWII but also yeah, did a lot of harm in India and didn't seem to regret it. (India was under British rule at the time.)

Most historical figures are complicated that way though, humans are complex. Even Gandhi was known to be an asshole at times. (You probably don't know who Gandhi is. Relates to India though and it's a little like not knowing who Martin Luther King Jr is, so look him up: https://www.britannica.com/)

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20 days ago

Even MLK was a huge womanizer. This is definitely known.

There's been some other shit that's come out about him though, but it's one of those things where you sort of have to make your own judgment call that he was just fucking around on his wife all the time or he was approaching freak level with the sex shit.

Nowhere near Diddy level of course, but there's a bit going on that he knew about some rape shit that his fellows were involved with and not only did he not try to stop it, he was egging them on.

Is it true or is it just the FBI making up shit? Well again that's what you gotta decide, along with if something like this cancels out all the other stuff he did.

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20 days ago
Never heard anything about rape, but I think it's pretty well known by now he was screwing around.

Of course that's mostly known because the FBI was spying on him lol. My own hot take head canon at one point actually was that he might have arranged his own assassination when he realized they were about to come out with all his dirty laundry and undermine the movement, knowing a lot as he did about how public opinion worked. (Yes I know the prevailing conspiracy theory is that the government did him in, but why would they make a martyr when they had all this other info that was even better?)

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20 days ago

Basically the rape thing was another FBI spy job. Here's a bit of it.

Guess more might be mentioned of it in a couple years.

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20 days ago
They should've released that ten years ago if they wanted everyone to believe it, AI is too good now and the FBI right now is the most scuffed it's ever been.

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6 days ago
Ten years ago, no one would have thought either of those things were really possible.

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20 days ago
Slightly unrelated fun fact: Christianity existed in India before the British ever set foot on our shores. Many believe that the apostle St. Thomas first spread the word when he reached the coast of south west India. European missionaries were in turn, quite surprised when the "savages" had their own version of the Christian faith. I wonder what Churchill would think about that.

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20 days ago

"That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong

that's my quote for today. I want to do one a day, I wonder when I'll run out...

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20 days ago

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

   - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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20 days ago

     Why are people taking so many quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I know some parts are kinda good, but I'd think we'd get some more variety. Not blaming anyone of anything, don't take it the wrong way.

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20 days ago
If you read it, you'd understand.

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20 days ago

I did. Well, listened to it.

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20 days ago
Acoustic media?????? But that's really bad, or something!

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20 days ago

It's just an adiobook... I like to listen to them while I draw.

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20 days ago
Oh avo, Mizal is making a reference to this other commenter we had who used to talk about the differences in media between consuming visual media and acoustic. He was really particular about how what you read is better than what you hear. Just wanted to fill you in so you weren’t confused!

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20 days ago

Oh. And "Oh avo"? That sounds condescending but I'm sure that's unintentional.

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20 days ago
I apologize, wasn’t my intention. I sometimes type how I talk, but thank you for pointing it out. I’ll work on that!

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20 days ago
Oh RK, always apologizing.

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20 days ago
I guess I was worried I offended Avo, but I think she understood it wasn’t my intention to be condescending

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20 days ago

I'm not offended at all.

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20 days ago

No prob. When people say Oh, [insert name] it's usually in a bad way which is why I mentioned it.

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20 days ago
That's a very kind way of putting it, RK means to say he was an delusional schizo. :)

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20 days ago
Yeah, he became kind of strange in the end. Which was weird because he was making some really quality games before he had his “enlightenment phase”

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20 days ago

"When you said that you hate yourself, it made me want to tell you all the wonderful things I know about you." - Rem

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20 days ago
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
--Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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10 days ago
This is definitely a new favorite.

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20 days ago

"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died."

- George W. Cecil

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20 days ago

"if you are going through hell, keep going" Winston Churchill

I'm not a huge churchill fan or anything, it's just that most of the quotes I know come from him.

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19 days ago

“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.” - Hayao Miyazaki

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19 days ago

"If you want something done right, do it yourself." -Charles-Guillaume Étienne

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19 days ago

Well, I feel like I've exhausted The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, so time to move on to another book!

“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”

   - Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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19 days ago

I like ready player one. Is there a ready player two? I think there is.

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19 days ago

We don't talk about ready player two. What ready player two? It doesn't exist. I have no clue what you are talking about!

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19 days ago

What, is it bad?

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19 days ago

In my opinion, it is a steaming pile of... male cow excrement... compared to the original. The first book didn't need a sequel in the first place, and while a second one might have worked out if it was done well, this one was not. It's like Pacific Rim, from what little I know about the original and sequel movies.

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19 days ago

Whenever someone makes a good book and attempts a series, it always seems to go badly. Every time, as far as all the books I've read.

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18 days ago

“Akane really is a sweet girl. She’s just a violent maniac.” – Kasumi Tendo

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18 days ago

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

   - Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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18 days ago

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

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18 days ago

     "Genius is one percent inspiration; ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison

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17 days ago
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries." — France.

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16 days ago

This is such a good movie. I was watching it last night. 

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16 days ago

"Bring us... a Shrubbery!"

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15 days ago
"Humans do one thing extremely well, and that thing is meth."
--some guy on reddit that just made me laugh.

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14 days ago

That there was nothing so wrong in the world that we couldn’t sort it out by the end of a single half-hour episode (or maybe a two-parter, if it was something really serious).

   - Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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14 days ago
"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me"

-Moby Dick

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14 days ago

Somehow missed a golden quote from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so I'll put it in here to make up for the lack of a quote yesterday.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

   - Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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14 days ago

"Oh.. oh... oh dear. I think I am about to do something evil again." - Kasumi Tendo

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14 days ago

"Those that drink their pee, don't know what they're doing."

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14 days ago
"I'm just a sweet transvestite from Transexual, Translyvania." - Dr. Frank-N-Furter

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14 days ago

“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.” 

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13 days ago

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

   - Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

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13 days ago

"Your actions constitute severe violations of many local ordinances and national laws... Not to mention several international treaties and the Android Rights Act of 1978. Ever consider a career in cataclysm management? Lemme buy you a beer." - Masamichi

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13 days ago

“It could be that your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.” 

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11 days ago

Forgot to do one yesterday, so I'll post two.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

   - Oscar Levant

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

   - Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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10 days ago
Accidentally posted some quotes on the old (and gay) thread, so here's something new from my own material:

"The lineage rich in sin, shall be rich in the end. A gold crown for a gold king means a sold soul for the bards to sing."

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8 days ago

"A flaw of modern Republicanism is that decisions can't be made unless it is a matter of life and death." - Shinei Nouzen 

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7 days ago
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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7 days ago

On that note:

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

- Harvey Dent

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7 days ago

" 'You should always welcome being proven wrong,' Jason said. 'It means your understanding of the world just got a little bit better.' "

   - Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters 2

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6 days ago

Found another Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy quote!

Don't mind me, just pushing down the italics...

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

   - Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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6 days ago
"Death comes for us all, a warrior is someone who does not let that stop them from doing what must be done." -Apollyon (For Honor)

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6 days ago

"Death comes for us all, Oroku Saki, but something much worse comes for you... for when you die, it will be... (falling sound, screaming) without honor." (crushing sounds)

-Master Splinter

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5 days ago

Not entirely sure how I missed so many quotes from this book, lol.

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

   - Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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5 days ago

I forgot that part XD

Then shouldn't success be throwing yourself at faliure and missing? (Don't take this seriously, trying to fail will make you fail)

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4 days ago

Don't Panic.

   - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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4 days ago

You can't tell me what to do, I'm already panicking!

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yesterday

Missed another day, so here are two quotes again.

pushing down the italics...

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

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

   - Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
 

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16 hours ago

Italics:

Begone!

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

   - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
 

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15 hours ago

"Italics, Begon!" UD.

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4 hours ago

"I like smashing mobs. Don't quote that." BionicLMAO (that's a youtuber, a specific one of his channels)