Friday Open Thread: Brief Quotations
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kurt Vonnegut
A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
- Tom Robbins
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
- Pablo Neruda
The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.
- Irvin Yalom
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principlesâ€
- Mahatma Gandhi
Drop your favorites in the comments along with whatever else might be on your beautiful minds.
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June 5th, 2009 at 8:51 am
People who speak in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch
-Melvin Udall
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June 5th, 2009 at 10:45 am
“And you’re shining
Like the brightest star
A transmission
On the midnight radio
And you’re spinning
Like a 45
Ballerina
Dancing to your rock and roll”
-Hedwig
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June 5th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling classâ€
-Al Capone
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June 5th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
“I drank WHAT?” – Socrates
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June 5th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
“Anybody who thinks we oeverstepped the playground perimeter of lyrical decency (or that the public has any right to demand “social responsibility” from a goddamn punk rock band) is a pure natural dolt, and should step forward and put his tongue up my ass.” – Steve Albini, from the liner notes of Big Black’s “Pig Pile” LP, 1991.
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June 5th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
Charles Bukowski
“Clarity of thought before rashness of action.”
Shockwave
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June 5th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
“I’ve gone out the window”
–Professor Levy’s Suicide note (Crimes and Misdemeanors)
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June 5th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
“But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him and his a proper security, a reasonable leisure, and a decent living throughout life is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, 1935
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June 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
“OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.”
Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar
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June 6th, 2009 at 10:45 am
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect. . . . Your silence will not protect you.”
Audre Lorde
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June 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
“Religion is the shadow cast by the universe on human intelligence.”
Victor Hugo
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June 7th, 2009 at 8:07 am
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” —Oscar Wilde
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June 8th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
This young lady has been making herself at home on our land for a few weeks. This morning, she’s decided she likes it enough to just move in. Problematic, fun and wonderful. Man I love these mountains!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13028133@N00/3608910367/
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June 19th, 2009 at 10:09 am
What if this is as good as it gets?
Melvin Udall
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June 19th, 2009 at 11:13 am
“Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City “Sailor wanna hump-hump” bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here!” –Melvin Udall as well
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