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Posted by Tronyn [24.79.202.92] on 2012/11/26 11:56:47
Quotations to me are compressed brilliance. But we're still talking about human life and experience in some way. But anyway. The point is. If it's a paragraph, it's a paragraph. But if it has to be one continuous wall of text, then that is only genius as a whole. That's it: brilliance. Pick a unit and run it.

What I Mean Is
#1 posted by Tronyn [24.79.202.92] on 2012/11/26 11:58:45
Some genius can be recognized instantly, but my point was, whatever. Here's my opener anyway, and again I want a whole paragraph:
"He who despises himself respects himself because he despises himself."
Oscar Wilde.
#2 posted by Vondur [195.218.191.148] on 2012/11/26 12:25:56
All art is quite useless.
Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail
#3 posted by Vondur [195.218.191.148] on 2012/11/26 12:32:31
Almost every developing species had a creation myth buried somewhere in its past, even if by the time they’d become space-faring it was no more than a quaint and dusty irrelevance (though, granted, some were downright embarrassing). Talking utter drivel about thunderclouds having sex with the sun, lonely old sadists inventing something to amuse themselves with, a big fish spawning the stars, planets, moons and your own ever-so-special People – or whatever other nonsense had wandered into the most likely feverish mind of the enthusiast who had come up with the idea in the first place – at least showed you were interested in trying provide an explanation for the world around you, and so was generally held to be a promising first step towards coming up with the belief system that provably worked and genuinely did produce miracles: reason, science and technology.
RickyT23
#4 posted by RickyT23 [2.223.172.226] on 2012/11/26 13:31:45
For me the glass is always half full, probably because my glass has always been half empty.
Similitude ??
#5 posted by JPL [82.227.229.44] on 2012/11/26 13:54:13
For me the glass is always half empty, probably because my glass has always been half full.
errr.. or the opposite .... :P
Suppose
#6 posted by ijed [200.73.66.2] on 2012/11/26 13:56:10
That depends on your point of view.
#7 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:10:50
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
--Richard Feynman
#8 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:11:24
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
--T. S. Eliot
#9 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:11:53
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
--Albert Einstein
#10 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:12:19
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
-Gandhi
#11 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:12:44
Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
--Jesus of Nazareth
#12 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:13:00
Un peuple qui trafique de ses enfants est encore plus condamnable que l’acheteur: ce négoce démontre notre supériorité; ce qui se donne un maître était né pour en avoir.
--Voltaire
#13 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:13:35
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
--Leo Tolstoy
#14 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:14:11
Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli,
né lo profondo inferno li riceve,
ch'alcuna gloria i rei avrebber d'elli.
--Dante Alighieri
#15 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:14:49
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
--Aristotle
#16 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:15:06
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
--Helen Keller
#17 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:15:35
"Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate".
--Ayn Rand
#18 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:16:19
Following a dream I had three years ago, I have become deeply moved by the plight of the Tibetan people, and have been filled with a desire to help them. I also awoke from the same dream realizing that I had subconsciously gained knowledge of a deductive technique, involving mind-body coordination operating hand-in-hand with the deepest level of intuition.
--Dale Cooper
#19 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:17:09
Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed.
--William Shakespeare
#20 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:19:13
There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.
--Michel Foucault
#21 posted by czg [212.16.188.76] on 2012/11/26 14:20:18
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
--Harvey Milk
#22 posted by Spirit [194.95.77.40] on 2012/11/26 14:28:18
I AM A FAGGOT!
HUMP MY RUMP!
---czg
...
#23 posted by Vondur [195.218.191.148] on 2012/11/26 15:46:40
this clearly shows Spirit is not a reader of teh books but true interweb person...
#24 posted by jt_ [174.252.244.218] on 2012/11/26 17:40:45
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
â€” Friedrich Nietzsche
#25 posted by rebb [80.141.118.252] on 2012/11/26 19:50:22
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
#26 posted by starbuck [77.99.186.145] on 2012/11/26 21:26:25
I was so drunk, I thought I was Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
#27 posted by ZealousQuakeFan [82.16.80.21] on 2012/11/26 22:16:14
'Never tangle with anything that's got more teeth than the entire Osmond family.'
Czg
#28 posted by JPL [82.227.229.44] on 2012/11/27 16:28:31
regarding post #12: please do not use Google translate, it is awfully translated
#29 posted by Kinn [86.147.148.19] on 2012/11/27 21:53:38
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" - Sir Patrick Stewart (Star Wars: A New Hope)
Grab A Brew. Don't Cost Nothin'.
#30 posted by the silent [80.17.142.66] on 2012/11/28 09:18:03
Bluto Blutarsky.
Yeah, Stuff...
#31 posted by quakis [92.28.14.40] on 2012/11/28 12:40:25
> A true genius does not need boundaries such as 'common sense'
> "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove."
#32 posted by MadFox [84.26.175.209] on 2012/12/02 09:33:31
there's no succes like failure..,
and failure's no succes at all.
Bob Dylan.
Crap Rephrases
#33 posted by Tronyn [24.79.202.92] on 2012/12/02 10:35:19
The first man to put a fence around his tobacco field, should have been shot - Voltaire.
Not to touch the earth not to see the sun, nothing left to do but run run run - Jim Morrison
In the shadowplay acting out your own death knowing no more, as the assassins all grouped in four lines dancing on the floor, and with cold steel odour on their bodies made a move to connect, I could stare in disbelief as the crowds all left...
-Ian Curtis, aka only for Joy Division fans
Metal Quotation
#34 posted by JPL [82.234.167.238] on 2012/12/02 12:22:45
And when you kill a man, you're a murderer
Kill many, and you're a conqueror
Kill them all...Ooh...Oh you're a god!
Captive Honor - Megadeth
To secure peace is to prepare for war
Don't Tread on Me - Metallica
Give praise to Satan, he has won
Cruxifixation - Deicide
Free from my jail of flesh,
Far from my earthly trips. Disincarnate...
Free from my carnal being, Nearer the Celestial Empire.
Shaped Images Of Disincarnate Spirits - Loudblast
A man lies in the corner, covered with blood
Bloody wounds on his body, praying to his god
People pass him by, but they say
Why should we care about him? he will die today
Riot of Violence - Kreator
For more stuff please visit http://www.darklyrics.com/ ;)
Just Remembered This One Today
#35 posted by Tronyn [24.79.202.92] on 2012/12/06 06:07:04
"Death is not the end - there remains division of the estate." - Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce is so awesome. Anyone that hasn't checked out "The Devil's Dictionary" yet is missing out. "Birth - the first and worst of all accidents."
Queens Of The Stone Age
#36 posted by ijed [200.73.66.2] on 2012/12/18 18:40:15
You're solid gold, and I'll see you in hell.
Stephen King
#37 posted by ijed [200.73.66.2] on 2012/12/18 18:40:33
You must not come lightly to the blank page.
John Cleese
#38 posted by ijed [200.73.66.2] on 2012/12/18 18:43:17
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Winston Churchill
#39 posted by ijed [200.73.66.2] on 2012/12/18 18:43:59
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Iain Banks
#40 posted by ijed [200.73.66.2] on 2012/12/18 18:48:32
They speak very well of you.
They speak very well of everybody.
That so bad?
Yes. It means you can´t trust them.
#41 posted by MadFox [84.26.175.209] on 2012/12/22 08:56:14
It takes two fools at least to argue.
Chesshire ~ Alice2
Ijed
#42 posted by gb [46.142.28.43] on 2012/12/22 17:20:32
thumbs up for those except the meat one ;-)
Frank Zappa
#43 posted by the silent [80.17.142.66] on 2013/01/08 10:57:24
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
#44 posted by ZealousQuakeFan [82.16.91.127] on 2013/01/22 21:21:19
An optimist, he looks at the glass of milk and says, it is half full.
A pessimist, he looks at the glass and says, it is half empty.
I look at the glass and say it is sour.
Jacques 'Jacques' Liverot
H.L. Mencken
#45 posted by Spiney [91.177.163.50] on 2013/01/24 15:31:40
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem; neat, plausible, and wrong
Maarten Luther
#46 posted by MadFox [84.26.94.131] on 2013/03/31 19:52:43
pestis eram vivus,moriens tuas mors ero.
as long as pest was alive, your death will be dying.
...
#47 posted by Baker [69.47.162.203] on 2013/04/05 09:21:15
They say that eons ago, a superior species evolved from the apes.
Can someone please tell me where to find them?
Cuz I'm stuck hanging out with these guys.
Er... Madfox... Google Says:
#48 posted by the silent [80.17.142.66] on 2013/04/05 10:13:09
"Living, I was your plague -- dying, I shall be your death"
Silent
#49 posted by MadFox [84.26.94.131] on 2013/04/14 04:17:56
I translated as it came to me,
but google didn't read Edgar Allen Poe.
Erika Hall
#50 posted by mechtech [65.190.158.200] on 2013/04/17 17:37:04
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
William Pannapacker
#51 posted by Tronyn [24.79.126.117] on 2013/04/19 11:15:24
One probably could not devise a better system for keeping people with humanistic values away from power than by confining them to decade-long graduate programs with a long future of transient adjunct positions making less than the minimum wage.
Been watching the spurt of "So you want to be a..." youtube videos from a couple years ago lately, where people bitch about their professions. My favourite opening:
Q: I want to become an electrical engineer.
A: Are you completely insane? Have you no human soul?
Lol.
#52 posted by Willem [199.255.42.114] on 2013/04/19 12:21:10
"Ow, my sperm!"
- Fry
Huh
#53 posted by ijed [200.73.66.2] on 2013/04/19 15:59:05
"it didn't hurt that time..."
#54 posted by Tronyn [24.79.126.117] on 2013/04/23 00:39:00
“There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms part of our illusion; but let a man be much annoyed by something that others do, so that he is separated from them and has to leave them, and looks back at what they are doing, and he'll see at once all manner of whimsical absurdities that he had not noticed before.”
-Lord Dunsany
#55 posted by RickyT23 [2.124.172.55] on 2013/05/10 22:23:48
I can't change the world but I can describe the world and let them think about it
Axl Rose
Testis Unos Testis Nullos
#56 posted by MadFox [84.26.94.131] on 2013/05/11 02:48:32
no witness evidence alone
#57 posted by erc [46.197.69.124] on 2013/05/13 15:24:27
The most veritable proof for existence of intelligent life in space is the lack of contact.
-- Stanislaw Lem

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