Quote of the Day - [3]

[indianacarnie]

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessings of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."

- Tacitus

 

[Arc]

Bruce Wayne: I do fear death. I fear dying here, while my city burns, and there's no one there to save it.
Blind Prisoner: Then make the climb.
Bruce Wayne: How?
Blind Prisoner: As the child did. Without the rope. Then fear will find you again.

_ A dialog from the film "The Dark Knight Rises". It inspires me a lot.

 

[A Guy]

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
~Laurence J. Peter

A Guy

 

[BrightBlessings]

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
Robert A. Heinlein

 

[A Guy]

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
~Pierre Gallois

A Guy

 

[prince dsouza]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde


{Jan & I}
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[Layback Bear]

Simplicity, curiosity, stupidity are the tools used for inventing.
Layback Bear

 

[A Guy]

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
~Ferdinand Foch

A Guy

 

[A Guy]

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
~R. Buckminster Fuller

A Guy

 

[koolkat77]

Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.

 

[indianacarnie]

"All things are subject to interpretation,whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth" - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[A Guy]

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
~Darby Conley

A Guy

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Rage deprives one of one's senses (Pesikta Zuta Va'eira 6:9).


Today I shall ...
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try to practice restraint in responding to all provocations.

 

[A Guy]

Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
~W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906

A Guy

 

[Arc]

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

_ William James.

 

[alikhan]

Men may be ruined by attempting to appear that which Nature has not intended them to be.

- Aesop's fables

 

[koolkat77]

 

[A Guy]

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
~Esther Dyson

A Guy

 

[A Guy]

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
~Wilson Mizner

A Guy

 

[Layback Bear]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
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