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

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daytryptr, thanks for reminding me about Wendell Barry. Here is my favorite poem of his:

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry

This poem has probably saved my life. I bet it has saved many lives.<3
 
'Trust but verify' Good old Ronald Reagan. Ok the Iran-Contra affair was a tad dodgy but this phrase he used to use a lot to wind up the Soviets, I'm thinking of getting it tattooed. Not only have a used it as headline for a piece I just wrote, I think it's good way to go about life. Don't take everything at face value, do a little digging to make sure you're not getting sold a dummy. (I'm a naturally suspicious person tbh!)
 
"When tough times roll in and everything's against me, I promise I'll give it all I've got until I'm empty, And when I see that all hope is dying, I won't stop, I promise I'll keep trying" - The ILLZ
 
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i took a shit and it got caught in my arse. after i wiped my arse a good few times i had an inch and a half worth of shit on the tissue paper - rev.ian paisely
 
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

― Statue of Liberty
 
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"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera
 
Dear Optimist and Pessimist,
While you were arguing as to whether the glass was half empty or half full, l drank it.
Thank You, The Opportunist
 
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Its all bullshit, and its bad for ya.

- George Carlin
 
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eireann said:
i took a shit and it got caught in my arse. after i wiped my arse a good few times i had an inch and a half worth of shit on the tissue paper - rev.ian paisely
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Hahahahaha! I so want this to be a real quote from the Reverend. It's on a par with some of his other pronouncements over the years for sure.

RedLeader said:
"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera
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Beautiful book, and this is so true. It's the urge to let ourselves just slip off the edge for sure.

pastelcircus said:
"We're still eating the remnants of world war two" -Vandana Shiva
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Would be more accurate if she'd said WWI here though I think? All the same war really, just happened to be a 21 year ceasefire between the two warmer phases.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau said:
"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
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And in similar vein, though too long to quote here so I shall link it instead:

The Great Money Trick from ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ by Robert Tressell

Must really get round to buying this book one of these days. On the strength of those few pages it's gonna be a great read.
 
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