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A Quote Thread....

Camus:

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
 
“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?”

“I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is."

-Robert Plant
 
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. -- Woodrow Wilson

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend. -- Saadi

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -- Eric Hoffer

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. -- Aesop
 
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?" - Unk

"I used to be into sadism, bestiality, and necrophilia until I realized I was just beating a dead horse." - Me

"You've made your bed and now you have to eat it." - "The Sandman"

"There is a 1/12,000 probability that we are already in a virtual world similar to that of The Matrix, the probability that you will die in an airplane crash is 1/19,000." - "Guinness Book of World Video Game Records"

"To fast cars and hot women. Or is it the other way around?" - a toast I made a while back

"On a long enough time line the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." - Narrator from "Fight Club"

"That which does not kill us only delays the inevitable." - http://www.despair.com (Check website for more awesome quotes.)

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." - Tyler Durdin

"All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone;
We must speak of other matters:
You can be me when I'm gone

Flowers gathered in the evening,
Afternoon they blossom on;
Still are withered by the evening:
You can be me when I'm gone." - "The Sandman"

"Catch your breath,
Hit the wall,
Scream out loud,
As you start to crawl
Back in your cage
The only place
Where they will
Leave you alone.
'Cause the weak will
Seek the weaker til they've broken them.
Could you get it back again?
Would it be the same?
Fulfillment to their lack of strength at your expense,
Left you with no defense;
They tore it down.

(Chorus):
And I have felt the same as you,
I've felt the same as you,
I've felt the same.

Locked inside
The only place
Where you feel sheltered,
Where you feel safe.
You lost yourself
In your search to find
Something else to hide behind.

The fearful always preyed upon your confidence.
Did they see the consequence,
when they pushed you around?
The arrogant build kingdoms made of the different ones,
Breaking them 'til they've become just another crown.

(Chorus)

Refuse to feel anything at all,
Refuse to slip,
Refuse to fall.
Can't be weak,
Can't stand still,
You watch your back 'cause no one will.
You don't know why they had to go this far,
Traded your worth for these scars,
For your only company.
And don't believe the lies
That they have told to you. Not one word was true
you're alright, you're alright, you're alright.

(Chorus)" - "Simon" by Lifehouse

"Even when the last thread of hope has broken we still flap our arms in the hope that we will fly." - me
 
From "Hamlet" to "Hair" one of my favorites
What a piece of work is man
How noble in reason
How infinite in faculties
In form and moving
How express and admirable
In action how like an angel
In apprehension how like a god
The beauty of the world
The paragon of animals

I have of late
But wherefore I know not
Lost all my mirth
This goodly frame
The earth
Seems to me a sterile promontory
This most excellent canopy
The air-- look you!
This brave o'erhanging firmament
This majestical roof
Fretted with golden fire
Why it appears no other thing to me
Than a foul and pestilent congregation
Of vapors

What a piece of work is man
How noble in reason

by 'Willie the Shake'

"Experience is what enables us to recognize a mistake
when we make it again" unknown-read it on a sugar packet-probably that guy, Anonymous
 
"The finest language is mostly made up of simple, unimposing words."

"Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love."

"Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."

"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."

All by George Eliot. <3
 
keroppi, why are you so preocuppied by enemies?
do you have many? what did you do to get them?
i don't have any
maybe you should spend more time wondering about friendship instead :)

"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
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einstein would disagree
 
moi?

I would also disagree.

I think that conforming to the popular opinion, following rules as they are set for you, and generally failing to question anything that is set in front of you stumps any kind of potential for growth or imagination. Quite the opposite of creative genius.

You have to question your teachers. Challenge your superiors. Those who do not make great teachers pets. They make for great office managers.

I'm not advocating unrestrained mutiny, just outside the box thinking. Such thinking, I believe, is bogged down by too much "discipline"

While I believe your inquiry regarding my own personal opinion was made facetiously, you now have it any way.

So hmph. :p
 
"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
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What about you guys? Do you agree or disagree?
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I wrote it on a paper and looked at it in a mirror, tried to put the words in a different order, then to use the letter to make different words, and to pass the audio recording backwards...
... still can't find any hint of something i would agree with in this quote :)
 
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
~Joseph Joubert (French Essayist and moralist, 1754-1824)

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
~ Calvin Coolidge (American 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)
 
vegan said:
I wrote it on a paper and looked at it in a mirror, tried to put the words in a different order, then to use the letter to make different words, and to pass the audio recording backwards...
... still can't find any hint of something i would agree with in this quote :)
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And I totally respect your opinion v :)
 
Cease to listen and you will hear truth.
Be silent and your heart will sing.
Seek no contact and you will find union.
Be still and you will move on the tide of the spirit.
Be gentle and you will need no strength.
Be patient and you will achieve all things.
Be humble and you will remain entire.

~unknown samurai .
 
mr_p said:
~unknown samurai .
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He's not unknown anymore:

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