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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
~Marcus Brigstocke
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Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
~Marcus Brigstocke
A Guy
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
All by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) *sorry for the multiple quotes..... but how can you pick just one from this great man?
“Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.”
― Oswald Spengler
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yes, I have a fondness for the German philosophers. And yes again I think this particular quote has much relevance for today.
The Moving Finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it.
From: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam