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Your Favorite Quotes..............

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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
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Edmund, Scene II ~King Lear

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Sepher- she was refering to the use of potassium nitrate in crop fields to boost fertility. If I'm not mistaken, this was used as a biomechanical weapon, (incorporated into tear gas? or something along those lines) during world war two.
 
pastelcircus said:
Sepher- she was refering to the use of potassium nitrate in crop fields to boost fertility. If I'm not mistaken, this was used as a biomechanical weapon, (incorporated into tear gas? or something along those lines) during world war two.
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Ohhhhhhhh! I googled the quote to see who she was too for some context, not come across her before. Completely missed that. She was being literal! Doh! :\

Note to self: Sepher, not everything's a metaphor you know.
Sepher replies: I think you'll find it can be. Get all multi-layered on it, hey presto, metaphor. Easy.
Sepher: I give up sometimes, I really do . . . . 8)
 
Emily Dickinson said:
Forever is composed of nows
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Jonathan Huie said:
Stop holding on to the past. Release your regrets about whatever you may have done or failed to do that turned out poorly. Forgive others for whatever they may have done or failed to do that cause you harm. Declare today to be a new beginning. Let go of the past and move on with creating a joyful new future for yourself
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
Obey the principles without being bound by them.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Real living is living for others.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

It's not the daily increase but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee
 
‎'Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned' William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697)
 
'The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.' Thomas Hobbes. Sorry for all you Rousseau fans but Hobbes was on the money with this one. Classic Rousseau quote would be 'No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.' I could bring in classical anarchist Bakunin, one of my all time favourites mainly because he and Marx hated each other. He said 'From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. (similar to Rousseau) There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.' Love to go for a pint with these three, all hell would break loose!
 
“I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never by conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”

Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

Not read the book here, never even heard of it or the author until this evening, just came across it on another forum and thought 'I am sooooo stealing that!' It contains a great deal of truth I think: a powerful code to live by made powerful by its very simplicity. Another one for the Amazon book list. :)
 
"If you fall out of that tree and break both of your legs then don't you come running to me".
As spoken to me by me mum when I was a young boy into climbing everything I possibly could.
 
^Hahaha! Standard. From 'Useful words and phrases for new mothers' pub. Faber & Faber, now in it's eleventy-millionth edition. See also 'You got cloth for ears', 'Do as I say, not as I do' and 'Whoever said life was fair?' ;)
 
Hey! I definitely had the repertoire of momisms but "do as I say, not as i do" and "don't come running to me.." weren't part of them. "who ever told you life was fair however was def one that came out of my mouth a lot. That and "If you are bored then I have a long list of things you can do. Either you think up something or I will. Your choice, but I don't want to hear any more about boredom."

And my favorite when someone expected to be waited on," As far as I know there are no royals in this family. Do it yourself." =D
 
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