Quote of the day
Quote of the day
" Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."-Goethe
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"Did you know dolphins are just gay sharks?"
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Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-Tom Robbins
-Tom Robbins
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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it” - Christopher Hitchens.
Timely I believe.RIP Mr.Hitchens.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/de ... es-aged-62
"...Religion, or at least a fierce aversion to it, fuelled Hitchens's ascent towards celebrity, particularly in his adopted homeland, after the publication of God is Not Great in 2007. In it he argued that religion is "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry", notching up sales of more than 500,000 copies.
Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".
Writing in his 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, Hitchens said that he hoped and believed his "advancing age has not quite shamed my youth", disavowing the "'simple' ordinary propositions" of his younger days in favour of the maxim that "it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties".
Timely I believe.RIP Mr.Hitchens.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/de ... es-aged-62
"...Religion, or at least a fierce aversion to it, fuelled Hitchens's ascent towards celebrity, particularly in his adopted homeland, after the publication of God is Not Great in 2007. In it he argued that religion is "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry", notching up sales of more than 500,000 copies.
Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".
Writing in his 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, Hitchens said that he hoped and believed his "advancing age has not quite shamed my youth", disavowing the "'simple' ordinary propositions" of his younger days in favour of the maxim that "it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties".
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'If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.' Hunter S. Thompson
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"For this science, said the crowd, there is nothing impossible, it commands the elements, knows the language of the stars and directs the planetary courses; when it speaks, the moon falls blood-red from heaven; the dead rise in their graves and mutter ominous words, as the night wind blows through their skulls."
"The path of the Sage is called
'The Path of Illumination'
he who gives himself to this path
is like a block of wood
that gives itself to the chisel-
cut by cut it is honed to perfection"
- DDJ, Verse 27
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done." - Terry Pratchett
'The Path of Illumination'
he who gives himself to this path
is like a block of wood
that gives itself to the chisel-
cut by cut it is honed to perfection"
- DDJ, Verse 27
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done." - Terry Pratchett
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'I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.' William S. Burroughs
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You can't ''catch'' magic'' with the interpretation of magic,let alone describe the interpretation of magic.You shut up or you sing.You don't say, what I do is singing! Birds never say,what i do is singing....they just do it.
Elytis Odysseas
Elytis Odysseas
Most people fight for the possible.
I fight for the impossible!
I fight for the impossible!
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'The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.'
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
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Silence is the temple of wisdom (Γρηγόριος Ε'- Grigorios E')
Most people fight for the possible.
I fight for the impossible!
I fight for the impossible!
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"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
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"Ye look aloft when ye long for exaltation, and I look downward because I am exalted. Who among you can at the same time laugh and be exalted? He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and realities."
Zarathustra
Zarathustra
Pull your fucking head out of the clouds and remember why you are here
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
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When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi
"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia/Greece
Hypatia/Greece
Most people fight for the possible.
I fight for the impossible!
I fight for the impossible!
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato/Greece
Plato/Greece
Most people fight for the possible.
I fight for the impossible!
I fight for the impossible!
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Don't take life too seriously, nobody ever makes it out alive anyway - Bugs Bunny
Live honestly, fear nothing, (preferably get a good job) die happy.
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"Did you know dolphins are just gay sharks?"
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First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Martin Niemöller (1892 – 1984)
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Martin Niemöller (1892 – 1984)
Oh, Death, оh Death, oh Death,
Won't you spare me over til another year
But what is this, that I cant see
with ice cold hands taking hold of me
When God is gone and the Devil takes hold,
who will have mercy on your soul
Won't you spare me over til another year
But what is this, that I cant see
with ice cold hands taking hold of me
When God is gone and the Devil takes hold,
who will have mercy on your soul
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QFT.Such a powerful statement. [thumbup]First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Martin Niemöller (1892 – 1984)
"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
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Atheism is a non-prophet organization. – George Carlin.
"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
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Bore: A person who talks when you want him to listen.
(Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary,” 1911)
(Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary,” 1911)
"He lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel."
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.
Sartre speaking of Che Guevara.