Hitler was intelligent, and those quotes are very true. I add them to my quote list. Does that make me a bad person?
"Join the Army! You get to travel the world, meet interesting people, and then you get to shoot them!"
Love it, since I want to do just that ("interesting people" means terrorist ;D )
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"The liver is evil, it must be punished."
On the back of a brewery shirt I have. DIE, LIVER!
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"Save the Ales!"
Another brewery shirt. A Boundary Bay one, to be exact, in Washington. I love that sweatshirt, and my friend hasn't given it back yet. I let her borrow it, and she's seemed to has translated that as either 'keep it' or 'borrow it for five months'.
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"Whoever said 'nothing is impossible' is stupid. Have you ever tried to dribble a basketball?"
That's not the ONLY thing that's impossible. Accept reality. :3 Life will be much sweeter if you do.
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"Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer, but wish you didn't."
I think it's true. >.>
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"'Is this real? Or is it all just in my head?'
'Of course it's in your head! But why on earth does that mean it's not real?'"
From 'Deathly Hallows', Harry and Dumbledore talking. Dumbledore's got some good quotes. I can't name them all, but there ya go.
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"Mother: 'I'm happy if you're happy.'
Daughter: 'And I'm happy if you're happy.'
Mother: 'Well that puts us in a knot, doesn't it? How will we ever be happy?'
Daughter: 'No, it puts us in a circle. The question is, how will we ever not be happy?'"
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These next ones are all going to be from the same series. Actually, the same book. My favorite series ever: The Ender Series but Orson Scott Card. Read it. Pet it. Love it. This is from the last one, Children of the Mind.
This is a long one. >.> I only have two more, I promise. You don't have to read these, I'm just posting 'em cuz I can. :3
"'But what of us?' said Grego. 'Will we be extinguished? What difference does it make then, the ones of us who had plans, what does it matter the work we've done? The children we've raised?' He looked pointedly at Olhado. "What will it matter then, when you have such a big happy family, if you're all erased in one instant by that... bomb.'
'Not one moment of my life has been wasted,' said Olhado quietly.
'But the point is to go on, isn't it? To connect with the future?'
'That's one part, yes,' said Olhado. 'But part of the purpose is now, is the moment. And part of it is web of connections. Links from soul to soul. If the purpose of life was just to continue into the future, then none of it would have meaning, because it would be all antinicipation and preparation. There's fruition, Grego. There's the happiness we've already had. The happiness of each moment. The end of our lives, if it there's no forward continuation, no progeny at all, the end of our lives doesn't erase the beginning.'
'But it won't have amounted to anything,' said Grego. 'If your children die, then it was all a waste.'
'No,' said Olhado. 'You say that because you have no children, Greguinho. But none of it is wasted. The child you hold in your arms for only a day before he dies, that is not wasted, because that one day is enough of a purpose in itself. Entropy has been thrown back for an hour, a day, a week, a month. Just because we might all die here on this little world does no undo the lives before the deaths.'
Grego shook his head. 'Yes it does, Olhado. Death undoes everything.'
Olhado shrugged. 'Then why do you bother doing everything, Grego? Because someday you will die. Why should anyone have children? Someday they will die, their children will die. Someday stars will wind down or blow up. SOmeday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we were there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth--what is, what was, what will be--not what could be, what should have been, what can never be. If we die, then our death has meaning to the rest of the universe. Even if our lives are unknown, the fact that someone lived here, and died, that will have repercussions, that will shape the universe.'
'So that's meaning enough for you?' said Grego. 'To die as an object lesson? To die so that people can feel awful about having killed you?'
'There are worse meanings for a life to have.'"
A really LONG discussion between two brothers, Olhado and Grego (did you figure that out on your own?!). You really don't have to keep reading.
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Last one...
"'I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate than a kiss,' said Jane.
'Maybe,' said Miro. 'But not as fun.'
'This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love right?'
'I don't know. Is it a longing? A giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?'
'Yes,' she said.
'That's influenza,' said Miro. 'Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.'"
Very intimate conversation between Jane and Miro.
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The one after the last one:
(Peter's talking about how men are dressed on this particular planet to Wang-mu)
"'And the women?'
'Bare-breasted all the time,' said Peter. 'Quite a stunning sight.'
'That is a lie. I didn't see one bare-breasted woman on our way in and--' Again she stopped and frowned at him. 'Do you really want me to assume that everything you say is a lie?'
'I though it was worth a try.'
'Don't be silly. I have no breasts.'
'You have small ones,' said Peter. 'Surely you're aware of the distinction.'
Why is that funny? (To me. Might not be funny to you.)
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There you go, I'm done, I promise. ;D
"Join the Army! You get to travel the world, meet interesting people, and then you get to shoot them!"
Love it, since I want to do just that ("interesting people" means terrorist ;D )
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"The liver is evil, it must be punished."
On the back of a brewery shirt I have. DIE, LIVER!
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"Save the Ales!"
Another brewery shirt. A Boundary Bay one, to be exact, in Washington. I love that sweatshirt, and my friend hasn't given it back yet. I let her borrow it, and she's seemed to has translated that as either 'keep it' or 'borrow it for five months'.
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"Whoever said 'nothing is impossible' is stupid. Have you ever tried to dribble a basketball?"
That's not the ONLY thing that's impossible. Accept reality. :3 Life will be much sweeter if you do.
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"Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer, but wish you didn't."
I think it's true. >.>
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"'Is this real? Or is it all just in my head?'
'Of course it's in your head! But why on earth does that mean it's not real?'"
From 'Deathly Hallows', Harry and Dumbledore talking. Dumbledore's got some good quotes. I can't name them all, but there ya go.
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"Mother: 'I'm happy if you're happy.'
Daughter: 'And I'm happy if you're happy.'
Mother: 'Well that puts us in a knot, doesn't it? How will we ever be happy?'
Daughter: 'No, it puts us in a circle. The question is, how will we ever not be happy?'"
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These next ones are all going to be from the same series. Actually, the same book. My favorite series ever: The Ender Series but Orson Scott Card. Read it. Pet it. Love it. This is from the last one, Children of the Mind.
This is a long one. >.> I only have two more, I promise. You don't have to read these, I'm just posting 'em cuz I can. :3
"'But what of us?' said Grego. 'Will we be extinguished? What difference does it make then, the ones of us who had plans, what does it matter the work we've done? The children we've raised?' He looked pointedly at Olhado. "What will it matter then, when you have such a big happy family, if you're all erased in one instant by that... bomb.'
'Not one moment of my life has been wasted,' said Olhado quietly.
'But the point is to go on, isn't it? To connect with the future?'
'That's one part, yes,' said Olhado. 'But part of the purpose is now, is the moment. And part of it is web of connections. Links from soul to soul. If the purpose of life was just to continue into the future, then none of it would have meaning, because it would be all antinicipation and preparation. There's fruition, Grego. There's the happiness we've already had. The happiness of each moment. The end of our lives, if it there's no forward continuation, no progeny at all, the end of our lives doesn't erase the beginning.'
'But it won't have amounted to anything,' said Grego. 'If your children die, then it was all a waste.'
'No,' said Olhado. 'You say that because you have no children, Greguinho. But none of it is wasted. The child you hold in your arms for only a day before he dies, that is not wasted, because that one day is enough of a purpose in itself. Entropy has been thrown back for an hour, a day, a week, a month. Just because we might all die here on this little world does no undo the lives before the deaths.'
Grego shook his head. 'Yes it does, Olhado. Death undoes everything.'
Olhado shrugged. 'Then why do you bother doing everything, Grego? Because someday you will die. Why should anyone have children? Someday they will die, their children will die. Someday stars will wind down or blow up. SOmeday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we were there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth--what is, what was, what will be--not what could be, what should have been, what can never be. If we die, then our death has meaning to the rest of the universe. Even if our lives are unknown, the fact that someone lived here, and died, that will have repercussions, that will shape the universe.'
'So that's meaning enough for you?' said Grego. 'To die as an object lesson? To die so that people can feel awful about having killed you?'
'There are worse meanings for a life to have.'"
A really LONG discussion between two brothers, Olhado and Grego (did you figure that out on your own?!). You really don't have to keep reading.
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Last one...
"'I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate than a kiss,' said Jane.
'Maybe,' said Miro. 'But not as fun.'
'This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love right?'
'I don't know. Is it a longing? A giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?'
'Yes,' she said.
'That's influenza,' said Miro. 'Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.'"
Very intimate conversation between Jane and Miro.
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The one after the last one:
(Peter's talking about how men are dressed on this particular planet to Wang-mu)
"'And the women?'
'Bare-breasted all the time,' said Peter. 'Quite a stunning sight.'
'That is a lie. I didn't see one bare-breasted woman on our way in and--' Again she stopped and frowned at him. 'Do you really want me to assume that everything you say is a lie?'
'I though it was worth a try.'
'Don't be silly. I have no breasts.'
'You have small ones,' said Peter. 'Surely you're aware of the distinction.'
Why is that funny? (To me. Might not be funny to you.)
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There you go, I'm done, I promise. ;D
