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Your Favourite Quotes and Sayings

Can I use one of my own? Bit of a helmet, I'm gonna look, but it really is my most often quoted quote, & it's got a pleasant sentiment..?

"Always try to smile through all the shite that life throws at you, & ultimately, that will be it's own reward."
 
""Following one's own lessons is the slowest way to learn"

Ajahn Chah
 
"Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare

 
inflorescence said:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
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It's mostly that verse I seem to have the big problems with. The others I'm reasonably pleased with my status (always room for improvement, mind) but the stuff in the quoted verse really is tricky for me. One day...
 
ColtDan said:
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

― Lawrence M. Krauss
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Nice.
 
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." -Andre Gide

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." -Emo Phillips

"It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude." -Zig Ziglar

"What if I had said, instead of "We shall fight on the beaches",
"Hostilities will be engaged with our adversary on the coastal perimeter"?" -Winston Churchill
 
Anarchism might be flawed but down to its roots, it's interesting stuff:

Emma Goldman (As Seen in Sons of Anarchy™) said:
“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…”
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I guess Bluelight is a free grouping of individuals =D
 
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Hardly. Rules are dictated from... I actually have no idea who wrote the rules but none of us get a say in them now so definitely not an anarchist site. I'm quite a fan of anarchism as a concept but there is really no way to make it compatible with anything larger than pretty small communities so not very practical for the modern world. Is a nice idea but in practice it would largely involve going to endless committee meetings about things you have little interest in but are important enough you'd kinda have to have a say in to make it worth the effort of being part of an anarchist community. Would be no real difference to society as it stands if you don't play an active role in aforementioned endless committee meetings and I doubt many would be up for that kinda lifestyle.
 
Very true.

Generic forum rules are so ingrained into me that it didn't even occur to me that they exist - of course I've seen the link but it never really registered.

I guess we are so used to rules in our society that we don't even notice we are forced to abide by them with little or no say on the matter. On the whole though, they are there for our benefit, so as you said, it makes little difference.

Robert Todd Caroll said:
"A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion"
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I thought this one was quite astute, if a little over-simplification of religion.
 
There's a few ridiculous saying about geese isnt there "what good for the goose is good for the Gander" and perhaps the most ridiculous saying ever about people who "wouldnt say "Boo!" to a Goose." Presumably implying that that means such person is harmless and gentle. Rather than implying the person is sane enough not to go round saying Boo to random creatures. I think i have spoken to various animals, especially dogs, they give the impression that they understand what you are talking about and will sit and listen to you for hours without ever getting bored.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
Presumably implying that that means such person is harmless and gentle. Rather than implying the person is sane enough not to go round saying Boo to random creatures.
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Love it. And I agree. =D

I can only assume that the saying derives from the fact that geese can be aggressive and obstructive bastards, especially if you happen to encounter them by a riverbank or a canal towpath, for example. In such circumstances, saying 'boo' (or maybe other choice words) in order to frighten the goose would make perfect sense.

But yeah, it's certainly an odd one.
 
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