“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist”~~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We never know the worth of water -'til the well is dry.~English Proverb

“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.”
― Christopher Hitchens

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support. ~Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792

and .........“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
― George Carlin

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“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

I hate being pissed off, but with you, it comes so naturally.

“The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.” ~ Rush Limbaugh

Who gossips to you........... will gossip about you.

“Give up the tyranny of female charm.”― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935 1942

“God's mercy on you degenerate swine.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.~Edward Albee

“great writers are indecent people-they live unfairly

saving the best part for paper.-good human beings save the world

so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.

if you read this after I am dead.....it means I made it.”

― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”― Andrew Carnegie

Krappen

“Crap.-It's all crap.-Living is crap.-Life has no meaning.


None. Nowhere to be found.-Crap.-Why doesn't anybody realize this?”

― K-Ske Hasegawa, Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1

Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter (from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff).

Sweet

“Ask a sage, he will explain. ->Ask a fool, he will complain.”


― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident

Still you pray, you never stray+Never taste of the fruit
+You never thought to question why...............

“Few among people are they... who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.”― Siddhārtha Gautama

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“We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much too afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

“Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Beauty fades, dumb -[stupidy] is forever.” ― Judy Sheindlin, Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever

“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YhxorQxlp0&feature=related 

“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.” ― Alvin Toffler

Got no religion, don't need no friends >Got all I want and I don't need to pretend >Don't try to reach me, 'cause I'd tear up your mind >I've seen the future and I've left it behind

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
— Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington-Gifford Lectures (1927), The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
 

“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.” ― Richard P. Feynman

 

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“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”― Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
[for his birthday today]

 

“The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.” ~Greek proverb

One who is ignorant will remain unnoticed.~Roman proverb

 

“A picture is a poem without words.”― Horace

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“...There is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ”― Titus Lucretius Carus

 

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ”― Ovid, Metamorphoses

 

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“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

 

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

 

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” ― Thomas Henry Huxley

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”― H.G. Wells

 

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

 

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

 

“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”― André Malraux