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Post by juancarlos on Jan 17, 2008 5:32:25 GMT -5
"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill will, and selfishness - all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother; therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man's two hands... To obstruct each other is against Nature's law—and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction?" - Marcus Aurelius But my lord Marcus Aurelius, you haven't been on a Chicago freeway.
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jan 17, 2008 12:59:28 GMT -5
"Are you tired of having strangers coming into your home spraying poison around your children and animals"?
-Riddex commercial
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Post by I Am X-Ray on Jan 17, 2008 22:19:07 GMT -5
Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.
~Author Unknown
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jan 18, 2008 0:01:23 GMT -5
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Post by halfbreed on Jan 21, 2008 10:10:53 GMT -5
dun matter if you're on the right track, sit there and you'll still get run over.
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Post by I Am X-Ray on Jan 22, 2008 17:22:22 GMT -5
"s*** Happens. When you party Naked."
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jan 23, 2008 0:28:34 GMT -5
"So that means that she definitely puts out!" -My response to my friend telling me that his hot aunt has a 10 year old
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Post by waywardwolf on Jan 23, 2008 6:26:56 GMT -5
"I ain' no physicist, but I knows what matters," Popeye
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Post by long on Jan 23, 2008 13:35:08 GMT -5
"A man may have a great suite of attendants, a beautiful palace, great influence and a large income. All that may surround him, but is not in him... Measure his height with his stilts off: let him lay aside his wealth and his decorations and show himself to us naked... What sort of soul does he have? Is his soul a beautiful one, able, happily endowed with all her functions? Are her riches her own or are they borrowed? Has luck had anything to do with it?... That is what we need to know; that is what the immense distances between us men should be judged by."
- Michel de Montaigne
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Post by long on Jan 24, 2008 17:47:22 GMT -5
"When you and I.. realize how many innocent beasts have had to suffer in cattle-cars and slaughter-pens and lay down their lives so that we might grow up, all fattened and clad, to sit here together in comfort and carry on this discourse, it does, indeed, put our relation to the Universe in a more solemn light... Are we not bound to do some self-denying service with our lives in return for all those lives upon which ours are built?"
- William James
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Post by waywardwolf on Jan 24, 2008 21:04:16 GMT -5
"Well, I don't need anybody, because I learned, I learned to be alone Well, I said anywhere, anywhere, anywhere I lay my head, boys Well, I gonna call my home"
- Tom Waits
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Post by SecretAsianMan on Jan 25, 2008 19:29:01 GMT -5
"In the course of your career, you should be concerned about one thing only: the person who writes your annual review."
- My former boss
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jan 26, 2008 2:55:40 GMT -5
"Sleep, those little slices of death. How I loathe them."
-Edgar Allen Poe
I saw that quote at the beginning of Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and just felt that I've never seen a quotation that I've related to more.
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Post by long on Jan 26, 2008 5:23:43 GMT -5
Ah, the quintessential “Renaissance man” and greatest man of letters in his day. Terrific quote by this pioneering, introspective essayist. I actually just got the quote from another book but now I'm convinced that I have to read him. I'll admit, I hadn't heard of him before yesterday. Well, the finest English teacher I ever had in secondary school (and one of the kindest people I ever knew) introduced me to Montaigne's works nearly 15 years ago. (One of my life's deepest regrets is that I never got the chance to express my gratitude to him following my graduation -- he died shortly before our 10-year class reunion: www.exeter.edu/libraries/4513_4736.aspx.) He really had us develop a solid foundation in Montaigne, Bacon, Machiavelli, etc. before moving on to Shakespeare. I can't believe that so many people skip the other great Renaissance works before delving into W.S. Your schooling puts mine to shame and at the time my HS was ranked the #1 public school in the nation. I've said it before, I'm jealous.
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Post by ChickenSoda on Jan 29, 2008 1:15:25 GMT -5
" dimt evert dall in lovfe ik thew emd its not woeth.it" -An intoxicated friend
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