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Title: Great quotes
Post by: Billy Underdog on April 13, 2018, 05:06:00 AM
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

 - Henrik Ibsen
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Post by: Zzzptm on April 13, 2018, 07:00:34 AM
Just made this a smiley...

:trolls:
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Post by: Zzzptm on April 15, 2018, 09:41:17 AM
"You're on earth. There's no cure for that." - Samuel Beckett
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Post by: Thelemech on April 15, 2018, 10:04:41 AM
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
H.P. Lovecraft
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Post by: Tyr66 on April 15, 2018, 10:08:54 AM
"the right legs length is when the feet touch the ground."
Coluche.
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Post by: Typhon on April 15, 2018, 11:01:58 AM
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
H.P. Lovecraft

Nice!  :rockon:
Never heard that one before.
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Post by: Typhon on April 15, 2018, 01:02:40 PM
“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”
―Clint Eastwood
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Post by: Zzzptm on April 16, 2018, 05:49:16 PM
(https://absurdlynerdly.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/offensive.jpg?w=300)
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Post by: Vyn on April 16, 2018, 05:50:24 PM
(https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmemecrunch.com%2Fmeme%2FSX2W%2Fain-t-nobody-got-time-for-that%2Fimage.jpg%3Fw%3D480%26c%3D1&f=1)
Title: Re: Great quotes
Post by: Billy Underdog on April 25, 2018, 11:22:48 AM
I'm not Pushwagner when i'm at the toilet, i'm only Pushwagner when i create.

- Terje Brofos 1940 - 2018
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Post by: Billy Underdog on April 25, 2018, 11:25:52 AM
Don't buy Pushwagner.

- Pushwagner
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Post by: Charger on April 25, 2018, 12:58:53 PM
What's this pushwagner? Some norwegian beer made of dead goats?
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Post by: Billy Underdog on April 25, 2018, 01:07:13 PM
Kinda. He was a great artist with a very sad life, but luckily with a happy ending (for a change...).

Understand you've got nothing to live for, then make something out of it.

- Pushwagner
Title: Re: Great quotes
Post by: Billy Underdog on April 25, 2018, 02:13:20 PM
Just made this a smiley...

:trolls:

It's just sad that you with your warped understanding of the word Troll loose alot of the meaning of this great quote...

Edit: you in plural...
Title: Re: Great quotes
Post by: Zzzptm on April 26, 2018, 12:42:27 PM
Just made this a smiley...

:trolls:

It's just sad that you with your warped understanding of the word Troll loose alot of the meaning of this great quote...

Edit: you in plural...

Well, please explain.

Meanwhile, another quote:

“Norge er ikke noe godt land å ha til fedreland, navnlig ikke om vinteren.”
― Henrik Ibsen

Title: Re: Great quotes
Post by: Billy Underdog on April 26, 2018, 01:15:53 PM
“Norge er ikke noe godt land å ha til fedreland, navnlig ikke om vinteren.”
― Henrik Ibsen

Couldn't agree more...

Well, from folklore a Troll is a larger than life entity, a force of nature. It's unbeatable in any way. It's impossible to war with.

Doesn't get quite the same meaning when you just imagine someone who's going around provoking just to povoke on the internet...
Title: Re: Great quotes
Post by: Zzzptm on April 26, 2018, 01:27:17 PM
True. But Mr. Ibsen's face is perfect for someone who's dealing with the incessant trollery that happens on the 'net.

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Post by: Zzzptm on April 30, 2018, 10:07:30 AM
"Better to split a topic than to continue a discussion of Abrahamic religions in a 'Great Quotes' thread." - Zzzptm
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Post by: Thelemech on May 02, 2018, 06:28:52 AM
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb and blind.
Robert Anton Wilson

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
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Post by: Zzzptm on May 02, 2018, 09:58:28 AM
We are all mediators, translators. -- Jacques Derrida
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Post by: Vyn on May 02, 2018, 10:34:43 AM
CHONG: Who is it?
CHEECH: It's, Dave, man. Will you open up, I got the stuff with me.
CHONG: Who?
CHEECH: Dave, man. Open up.
CHONG: Dave?
CHEECH: Yeah, Dave. C'mon, man, open up, I think the cops saw me.
CHONG: Dave's not here.
CHEECH: No, man, I'm Dave, man.


--Cheech & Chong
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Post by: Zzzptm on May 02, 2018, 10:41:52 AM
CHONG: Who is it?
CHEECH: It's, Dave, man. Will you open up, I got the stuff with me.
CHONG: Who?
CHEECH: Dave, man. Open up.
CHONG: Dave?
CHEECH: Yeah, Dave. C'mon, man, open up, I think the cops saw me.
CHONG: Dave's not here.
CHEECH: No, man, I'm Dave, man.


--Cheech & Chong

The story behind that sketch makes it even more hilarious, well worth checking out.
Title: Re: Great quotes
Post by: BOGBLAST on May 03, 2018, 10:09:42 PM
"I have been having a love affair for 31 years, that love is Black Sabbath"

OID    :lol: :banana: :ninja: :wootwoot: :smug:
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Post by: Zzzptm on May 04, 2018, 08:52:07 AM
"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical." - Wittgenstein
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Post by: Axefiend on May 04, 2018, 11:58:55 AM
"You, choo choo choose me"? - Ralph Wiggum
Title: Re: Great quotes
Post by: Billy Underdog on May 04, 2018, 02:42:07 PM
"I'm a brick"
 - Ralph Wiggum
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Post by: Axefiend on May 04, 2018, 02:45:50 PM
"I'm Idaho" - Ralph Wiggum

So many:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2uHcrC2PbM
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Post by: Billy Underdog on May 09, 2018, 02:37:34 PM
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose

 - Kris Kristofferson/Janis Joplin

                   ..... for privileged people...

                                - Billy Underdog
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Post by: Zzzptm on May 09, 2018, 05:05:47 PM
"Mr. Trump's memory is fantastic. I've never come across a situation that Mr. Trump has said something that is not accurate." -- Michael D. Cohen
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Post by: Axefiend on May 27, 2018, 11:03:55 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuX8EiJ8oFA
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Post by: Charger on May 27, 2018, 12:52:47 PM
 :rofl:

Yup that's our Bill....

I'm sure if it doesn't sound or look like Hillary Bill would boink it.
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Post by: Zzzptm on May 29, 2018, 08:07:18 AM
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius
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Post by: Thelemech on May 31, 2018, 10:34:20 AM
Without music life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. Demosthenes

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Terence McKenna
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Post by: Thelemech on May 31, 2018, 10:36:03 AM
Make use of time, let not advantage slip. William Shakespeare
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Post by: Zzzptm on May 31, 2018, 11:10:43 AM
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest. - Seneca, quoting an unknown Greek author.
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Post by: Typhon on May 31, 2018, 11:19:15 AM
We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Terence McKenna

Good one, Thel.
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Post by: Axefiend on June 04, 2018, 09:59:31 AM
No time for the old in-n-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
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Post by: Zzzptm on June 04, 2018, 10:35:40 AM
Now all men suffer from ignorance of the truth; deceived by common report, they make for these ends as if they were good, and then, after having won their wish, and suffered much, they find them evil, or empty, or less important than they had expected. Most men admire that which deceives them at a distance, and by the crowd good things are supposed to be big things.

- Seneca
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Post by: Billy Underdog on June 06, 2018, 12:39:57 PM
All the Heavy Metal fans were great with a needle and thread - John Gallagher, Raven (talking about the patch jackets coming with Punk and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal)
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Post by: Zzzptm on June 14, 2018, 02:04:13 PM
-El talento no lo es todo. Lo puedes tener desde la cuna, pero es necesario aprender el oficio para ser el mejor.- Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Post by: Typhon on June 15, 2018, 08:36:26 AM
"Viagra's a great sleeping drug.   I take Viagra, and Sharon goes right to sleep." - Ozzy Osbourne
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Post by: Zzzptm on June 15, 2018, 08:38:06 AM
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." - Jesus Christ
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Post by: Axefiend on June 15, 2018, 12:03:53 PM
I had this pop into my head today when I was out cutting the lawn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6es7hPupmxs
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Post by: Billy Underdog on June 18, 2018, 11:08:15 AM
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. When a civilization begins to reinterpret its mythology in this way, the life goes out of it, temples become museums, and the link between the two perspectives becomes dissolved.

 - Joseph Campbell
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Post by: Zzzptm on June 30, 2018, 11:31:18 AM
I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who be in jail
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.

-- Oscar Wilde
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Post by: Thelemech on July 01, 2018, 09:21:11 AM
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. Aleister Crowley

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him. Aleister Crowley

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
Aleister Crowley

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Post by: Thelemech on July 01, 2018, 09:41:40 AM
We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!
H. P. Lovecraft
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Post by: Axefiend on July 12, 2018, 08:00:36 AM
"I want to see what he'll say next....."

https://youtu.be/hSFtOy9MWjg
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Post by: Zzzptm on July 14, 2018, 11:45:10 AM
Rabbi Shimon the son of Gamliel would say: By three things is the world sustained: law, truth and peace.
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Post by: Zzzptm on July 19, 2018, 06:23:17 AM
"I'm an atheist, but I still go to church. I'm not a *heathen*!" - Paula Poundstone
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Post by: Typhon on December 09, 2020, 03:13:34 PM
"Imagine flipping a coin 4,645,908 times & getting heads 52% of the time — then, at 3AM, you flip it 154,000 times & it’s 100% tails — that’s Michigan." - Lara Trump   :))
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Post by: Zzzptm on December 09, 2020, 06:34:16 PM
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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Post by: Zzzptm on October 11, 2022, 04:41:45 PM
Seng Ts’an, the Third Patriarch of Ch’an Buddhism, wrote:
 

Make a thousandth of an inch distinction,
Heaven and Earth swing apart.
If you want it to appear before your eyes,
Cherish neither for nor against.
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Post by: Vyn on October 12, 2022, 05:29:37 PM
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

Mr. Thompson did not have a very high opinion of those in the journalism profession LOL
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Post by: Charger on October 13, 2022, 05:39:09 AM
:rofl:

Well I don't think he's too far off to be honest...
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Post by: Zzzptm on October 13, 2022, 08:21:57 AM
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.”

― Mitch Ratcliffe