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 Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:12 am
Astrix Blaire "What is history but a group of lies agreed upon?" I don't like that one at all.
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:28 pm
"I need to close my eyes for a while...Sleep is second best, next to death."
~Rezalb, Gaian and best friend
It doesn't seem like a HELPFUL quote, but it's one I've contemplated over from time to time...
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:51 pm
Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses- and not herds or
believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh- those who grave
new values on new tables.
Companions, the creator seeketh, and fellow-reapers: for
everything is ripe for the harvest with him. But he lacketh the
hundred sickles: so he plucketh the ears of corn and is vexed.
~Nietzsche
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:54 pm
Joshua_Ritter Khalida Nyoka I've thus far refrained from posting up the littany against fear.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:11 pm
Khalida Nyoka Joshua_Ritter Khalida Nyoka I've thus far refrained from posting up the littany against fear.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:12 pm
The funny thing is, a "little-death" was another way of refering to an orgasm (in real life that is).
I find that amusing. [/offtopic]
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:18 pm
Khalida Nyoka The funny thing is, a "little-death" was another way of refering to an orgasm (in real life that is). I find that amusing. [/offtopic]
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:34 pm
Yes it is.
Also:
did you know that most of Shakespeare's play titled were double entendres?
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Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:48 am
"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
I'll need a bit to remember the others...I really dig on the litany against fear, btw. I've never read "Dune", so it's a new one to me. Thanks, it's probably going on my master list of words to live by. I'm working on my fear problem at this point in my life, so well-timed, Khalida. Also, coincidentally, "Dune" just moved up quite a few notches on my "to read" list...
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:53 pm
"I am a great believer in freedom...and a great part of that is the freedom to take the consequences."
- Lord Vetinari, as written by Terry Pratchett in "Going Postal"
...At least I think I quoted it correctly. I'll have to double check when I get a few minutes to leaf through...
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Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:56 pm
"A high price.
I'd pay it gladly."
10,000 internet points to whoever figures out where this is from.
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Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:51 pm
Bolded are fairly important to me
Over the course of a while, I've found some of my old sayings i came up with to have many deeper meanings. Maybe you guys'll find some use in em.
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"I am the Dead, I am the creativity that binds together the souls of Humanity, I have not lived, I have not willed, and yet I remain the force behind what you are"
"Within the Past I see the tread of the future, edged with the dying embers of sanity"
"To be Insane is only to be completely in one's Sanity..."
"May your wildest dreams become the reality in which you thrive."
"Do I want answers to the questions I have now, or do I want to find the answers, so I can realize the questions still unknown...?"
"Funny how I always wanted to become an individual by walking down the same paths as everyone else...
And how now I am no longer an individual by going down a path never tread upon..."
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Next couple are by one of my friends,
"seperate the madness
from the genius
and you lose
half the wisdom"
"honour before glory, and love above all"
Next are all by Neil Gaiman:
"In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing"
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
“We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”
“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten”
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:35 am
Found another couple on a Warrior discussion from another forum I liked.
And if you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and precursors of such saints.
I see many soldiers; If only I saw many warriors! "Uniform" one calls what they wear; if only what it covers were not uniform!
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has before now saved the unfortunate.
"What is good?" you ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "The good is that which is both pretty and touching."
They call you heartless: but your heart is true, and I love that you are ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
Favourite lines from an old Scotsman (I believe) adress/heroic? Don't know what epic.
Next are from Battletech:
Let all warriors bear their mark proudly,
taking what pride they can in their accomplishments;
for our lives should be full of glory, but short.
On the battlefield we are alone.
True warriors do not follow paths, they make them. It is not just their desire, it is their nature.
"Ambition is the fire of the will, the spur to the horse, and the arm wielding the flashing sword."
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:20 pm
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
Desmond Tutu
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Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:31 am
Joshua_Ritter "A high price.
I'd pay it gladly."
10,000 internet points to whoever figures out where this is from. Taking a wild guess and saying it's from Equilibrium. ~~~~~ I'm not one for quotes and all - the only one I've taken to heart is the old " Don't sweat the small stuff - and it's all small stuff" one, which I thieved from the book of the same name. I'm also a stickler for this wee poem: "Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp.
Acids stain you,
Drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful -
You might as well live."And one last one, which I'm only including cause I haven't ever seen any quotations that say the same thing in prettier words: "If everyone in the world did as they thought everyone in the world would do, either we'd never go outside for fear of being trampled, or we'd just be plain trampled- diversity is everything," to paraphrase myself when someone barked "What if everyone in the world decided not to vote?" at me when I didn't vote in the Campus Union Voting Thingy.
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