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"Once more the drama begins." -
Emperor Paul Muad'dib, Dune Messiah
"Everything I found out, I want to forget." - Bourne, Bourne Identity "If I even feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast and how hard I will bring this fight to your doorstep. I'm on my own side now." - Bourne Identity "It's not a mistake. They don't make mistakes. They don't do random. There's always an objective. Always a target." - Bourne Supremacy "He is really good at staying alive, and trying to kill him and failing... just pisses him off." - Bourne Ultimatum I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear
is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I
will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past,
I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there
will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Bene Gesserit, Litany Against Fear.
Dune "Being surrounded the majority of your life with good, honest,
hard-working people can trick you into thinking that untrustworthy people can be trusted."
- X "Don't Mess With Texans." - X "It is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better." - X Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Those that cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. "A fool and his truck are soon parted." - Kevin Oliver If you keep doing what you've always been doing, you'll keep getting what you've always been getting. Only demons should fear me ... and you're not a demon, are you? - movie Frailty "When brains don't work, bullets will." - X "The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane." -- Phaedrus "In
theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is." - Jan L.A. Van De Snepscheut "Words can never express what words can never express." "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. - Richard Bach You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. - Richard Bach I know there are no life guards on the gene pool, but there ought to be at least a few sharks in the water. The only thing to ph34r is peer itself! This group is like an Escher drawing - we're all condescending, but noone is at the bottom. "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) " The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) “A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.” - Patton “By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.”. - Patton “Do more than is required of you.” - Patton “I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” - Patton “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” - Patton “You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.” - Patton "Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching." - Patton "A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it." - Patton The large print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. I have gone to look for myself, if I should return, before I get back, keep me here. If you're looking for sympathy, you better look between R and T in the dictionary. Heaven doesn't want me and hell is afraid I'll take over. The tighter you squeeze the less you have. The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. To do a certain kind of thing, you have to be a certain kind of person. When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. When you reach the top, keep climbing. If the problem has a solution, worrying is pointless, in the end the problem will be solved. If the problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it can't be solved. All know the Way, but few actually walk it. - Bodhidharma Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. - Sutta Nipata Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth. - The Dhammapada Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. - H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. A big tree attracts the axe. A fool and his money are soon parted. Actions speak louder than words. All good things must come to an end. All's fair in love and war. A penny saved is a penny earned. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies. Beggars can't be choosers. Before criticizing a man, walk a mile in his shoes. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Early bird catches the worm. Ends justify the means. Everything with time. Familiarity breeds contempt. Fortune favors the brave. Good fences make good neighbors. Idle hands are the devil's playthings. It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees. If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. If you want a thing done right, do it yourself. Ignorance is bliss. It's always darkest before the dawn Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Life's battle don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. Many hands make light work. Many a true word is spoken in jest Measure twice, cut once. Misery loves company. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Nothing to be feared in life, but understood. Once bitten, twice shy Pain is only weakness leaving the body. Pain is fear leaving the body. Pride comes before a fall. Set a thief to catch a thief. Slow and steady wins the race. The end justifies the means. The only free cheese is in the mouse trap. vino veritas... in wine, there is truth The truth is in the wine. All is learning and all is forgiven. Behind the tears, mourning has silent work to do: It binds up the torn places where love was and gives them a chance to heal. Mourning teaches us how to accept the end of love and helps us start the process of feeling whole again. Two people in love place much of themselves in each other's hands for safekeeping; that kind of interdependence is why the loss of an intimate partner entails the depressing experience of being left behind with a diminished sense of your own existence. Although friendship just after the split may offer temporary relief, it blocks the slow but necessary passage from loss to restoration of independence. If you give in to mourning, unsettling though it may be, it will eventually finish its work. Grief might be thought of as the growing pain of human development. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - Patton Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished. Never argue with an idiot. First, they drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. There are three ways to do it. The right way, the wrong way, and my way. My way is the wrong way, but faster. Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. -Ann Landers I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code. if there's one thing i really hate ...it's animosity I cant remember my earliest memory. f y cn rd ths y cn gt gd jb n cmptr prgrmng You didn't say anything to hurt me; it's what you didn't say that hurt. #99486 Apparently, idiots of that caliber still exist. I thought Darwinian evolution would've killed them off the first time they attacked the toaster with a knife for eating their bread. Once a computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me in kickboxing. U.N. nuke agency urges Iran to be 'fully transparent'. Turn Iran into glass? I live on the equator.. "the water is stuck again" I used to date a blind girl. Her name was ::.. ..:: .::. .::.. ..: .:.::. I hate gravity, it's always keepin me down. "If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall." "Don't pay interest on anything that loses value." "If you need more money, then go out and make more money." "Own your own business -- including the building it's in." ATM Machine: Feed me a stray cat. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there. - American Psycho Most people who receive something for nothing usually end up with nothing in the end. Think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. People's hearts can be like the trees. He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other - take it that such a one has attained Perfection. "Bhagavad-Gita" When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back....Ying-An. Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. ~Kahlil Gibran We can learn a lot from trees: they're always grounded but never stop reaching heavenward. ~Everett Mámor A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground." Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's where the fruit is. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. 'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' II Corinthians 5:7 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. 'The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.' Something's going on, but I'll probably never get it. Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it, in your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person. - Tom Ripley Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do, And then you meet someone special and all you want to do is to toss them the key and say; open up, step inside, but you can't, because it's dark, There's demons and if anybody saw how ugly it is. I keep wanted to do that, fling the door open just let light in and clean everything out. - Tom Ripley Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn't be done. They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear. But ... I caught a glimpse of something. I've looked for it ever since. I went around the world, searched in all the shadows. And there is something out there in the darkness, something terrifying, something that will not stop until it gets revenge... Me. It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me. - Batman Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!" Seat
belts are not as confining as wheelchairs. "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) Best file compression around: 'DEL *.*' = 100% compression In Soviet Russia... the jokes tell you! hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: n. fear of long words I
couldn't teach someone how to pour water out of a bucket with instructions
printed on the bottom. "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" -
Various The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my Inbox. We live trapped in loops. Reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last. Every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us. And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: The solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up. -xkcd.com Love is short, but forgetting is long. Deep in my heart, I'm suffering, knowing that I've lost you. On the outside, I'm living, pretending that I've forgotten you. "Whenever one's identity and social order face the possibility of destruction, there is a natural tendency to feel angry, frustrated, helpless, and/or hurt. The volatile reactions of terror, hatred, resentment, and jealousy are often experienced as emotional manifestations of these feelings." Sometimes in order to not fall apart, you have to let go of what keeps you together. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. -Kahlil Gibran It is sad because every day we spent together is slowly being replaced by everyday we spend apart. You can't leave me if i'm already gone. Power wears out those who don't have it. They
laughed at Louie Armstrong when he said he was going to the moon, and now
goth
leprechaun for halloween: all black outfit, with a grayscale rainbow, and
I used to like to go to #deaf and ask if anyone was trading MP3's. bash.org; yet more proof there are people more f*cked up than me. It feels like quitting time, and one should trust one's feelings. According to my best recollection, I don't remember. - Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may look like administering a dose, but even a dose must be worked on by the body if it is to cure. Each individual must cure his or her own ignorance. "Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." - Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drillin' rights on that man's head." - Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower discussing Bush's policies "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." - Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), "Cat's Cradle" "If you can do no good, at least do no harm." - Kurt Vonnegut(1922-2007) Who
is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living
Walking on water and developing software from a
specification are easy if both "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain "Television is called a medium since it is seldom rare or well done." "I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" Tough times don't last. Tough people do. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The game of life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. Every Scooby Doo episode could have been 1 minute long if only someone would have bought a gun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking - Stalkers may slander or defame the character of their victims which may isolate the victims and give the stalkers more control or a feeling of power. (dedicated to my stalkers) "When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves." -Eda LeShan "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt "All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone." -Bruyere "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles I know how to hurt, I know how to heal. I know what to show, And what to conceal. You will never amount to much. - Munich Schoolmaster, to Albert Einstein, age 10 When two hearts race, both win. A sharp mind can cut. - Walt Powell Bumper Sticker: Driver carries no cash. He's married. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a picture of someone saying this requires a caption. I cannot confirm or deny that the following quotes may or may not have come from www.covertcomic.com - If you show up on time for a time management course, do you even need to be there? Don't be afraid to die, and don't be afraid to live forever. If you want to soar like an eagle, then work like an ant. In some ways people are really, really different, and in other ways they're really, really alike. The brightest light won't lead you out of darkness if your eyes are closed. Any person can do well, even at things for which they have no natural aptitude, if they really make an effort. To face unpleasant truths can make you a stronger person. Sometimes it's as important to be distinctive as it is to be good. If you want to be recognized as knowledgeable, confess your ignorance. If you want to get the best assignments, be willing to do the worst assignments. If you do good work, expect to receive a good deal of criticism, and if you do great work, expect to receive a great deal of criticism. If you want to be ignored, offer to tell everybody everything that you're doing. - From a CIA Operative, he continues on: Many times at CIA I've scared away overly inquisitive people by telling them what I was doing in excruciating detail. One 'technical briefing' on the project in question, and most of the time they never bothered me again. Respect the system, be polite to the system, obey the system whenever possible, but don't automatically accept what the system tells you. Be persistent. Keep working to achieve your objective, even if you encounter obstacles. And if you discover that you can't get over an obstacle, try going around it, or through it, or under it, or back the other way, around the whole world if necessary, in order to come up behind it. Some change and become new people, while others change and increasingly become the same old person they've always been. Nothing reminds a person of their own mortality like being killed. In Korea, happiness is a hot puppy. - end of quotes that I cannot confirm or deny that may or may not have come from www.covertcomic.com "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) I'm
the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy. - Dignam, The
Departed Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. - Alfred, The Dark Knight The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules! - Joker, The Dark Knight Why so serious? - Joker, The Dark Knight Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck. - Lucius You know, I just do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon's got plans. You know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So, when I say that you and your girlfriend was nothing personal, you know that I'm telling the truth. It's the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer, you had plans, and look where that got you. I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! - Joker, The Dark Knight Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair. - Joker, The Dark Knight "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "I am become death, shatterer of worlds." - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion) "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) "Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Thomas Jones -- Start of Lincoln quotes (attributed) Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Paraphrase, Lyceum address of 1838 Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. - 1856 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- End of Lincoln quotes (attributed) I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I AM BEOWULF! There is no i in TEAMWORK. None of us is as smart as all of us. Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success. Coming together, sharing together, working together, succeeding together. A job worth doing is worth doing together. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Pace yourself...an elephant can be swallowed, one bite at a time. Better to bend than break. Fail to plan, plan to fail. As a wise man once said, you really are not paranoid if they are out to get you. Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden (Absalom and Achitophel) (1681) Genius must be born, and never can be taught. - Dryden, Epistle to Congreve, l. 60 (1693) Better one suffer, than a nation grieve. - John Dryden But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. - John Dryden Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. - Dryden She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. - Dryden, 1687 "knowledge is the gift where the more you give away, the more you get" I'd like it better if you didn't think I was stupid. - Paul Sunday If I travel all the way out there and I find that you've been lying to me, I'm going to find you and I'm going to take more than my money back. Is that all right with you? - Plainview One night, I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm going to cut your throat. - Plainview You'll see what I can do. - Plainview Plainview: You don't tell me how to raise my family. I told you not to tell me how to raise my family. Falling down an up escalator "No. I saw a hole in the Man, deep like a hunger he will never fill. It is what makes him sad and what makes him want. He will go on taking and taking, until one day the World will say, 'I am no more and I have nothing left to give." - Apocalypto You fear me? So you should. All you who are vile. Would you like to know how you will die? The sacred time is near. - Apocalypto What do ya want me to do? Die of old age? - Hub, Secondhand Lions We're fixin to die anytime, so if we kick off in the middle of the night, you're on your own - Hub, Secondhand Lions "Hell is paved with good samaritans." - William M. Holden "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "Silence is argument carried out by other means." - Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967) "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) "The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni "Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve (1670-1729) "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." - Lewis Perelman "Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency." - Lewis Perelman "Sometimes it is not enough to our best; we must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) “Someone has described a modern American as a person who drives a bank-financed car over a bond-financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his Savings and Loan financed home with installment-purchased furniture.” Debt is a form of bondage. “The borrower is servant to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7). During the time of the patriarchs, more often than not, an individual became a slave precisely because he or she was a debtor. Unfortunately, humanity hasn’t learned much, and thus not much has changed, in 4,000 years. Admittedly, we are no longer thrown into physical bondage, but too often we have become slaves to material possessions through over extension of credit. Debt shows lack of contentment. “For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. … And I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need” (Philippians 4:11, 12). Debt presumes on the future. “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appear for a little time, and then vanish away” (James 4:13–16). Avoid get-rich-quick schemes. “A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent” (Proverbs 28:20). “The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again” (Psalm 37:21). "Those blessed by the Lord shall possess the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off." (Psalms 37:22) But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity. - Psalms 37-11 The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him; but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming. - Psalms 37-12 Refrain from anger and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the Lord will possess the land. - Psalms 37-8, 9 "There is always the question. You wonder if people like you - or the inevitable disturbing question: 'Are they after something?'" - Mary Lea Johnson, Johnson & Johnson heiress "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates "Times fun when you're having flies" - Kermit the Frog "some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things" - Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize winner, credited with saving over a billion people from starvation 4,000,000 lemmings can't be wrong -Jeff Derstine | ||||||||||||||||||
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Quotes from Vanilla Sky (2001) Sofía : I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats. David : Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. Sofía : Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. Various: Open your eyes. Rebecca Dearborn : This is a revolution of the mind. Brian : Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour, and I know the sour. Rebecca Dearborn : Most of us live our whole lives... without any real adventure to call our own. Rebecca Dearborn : What is any life without the pursuit of a dream? David : I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you. Brian : You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy, who goes home alone. Sofía : But I just think good things will happen, if you are a good person with a good attitude, don't you think? Edmund : It's been a brilliant journey of self-awakening. And now you've simply got to ask yourself this: What is happiness to you, David? David : The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there? David : Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search. Quotes from Fight Club (1999) Narrator : You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? Tyler Durden : Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy sh*t we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. Tyler Durden : You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f***ing khakis. Narrator : When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake. Tyler Durden : Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Narrator : On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Tyler Durden : It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Tyler Durden : The things you own end up owning you. Narrator : A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane : Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator : You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane : Which car company do you work for? Narrator : A major one. Narrator : I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. Tyler Durden : Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Narrator : And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. Narrator : Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends. Quotes from The Godfather 1, 2, 3 Michael : My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator. Kay Adams : Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed. Michael : Oh. Who's being naive, Kay? Don Corleone : Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. Don Corleone : What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you. Michael Corleone : There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Don Lucchesi : Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. Michael Corleone : Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in. Michael Corleone : "The only wealth in this world is children. More than all the money, power on the earth." Michael Corleone : Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. Quotes from Gattaca (1997) Vincent : There's no gene for fate Vincent : You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back. Vincent : I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it. Vincent : For someone who was never meant for this world, I must admit I am having a hard time leaving it. Although they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home. Vincent : Is the only way you can succeed is to see me fail? Vincent : You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible. Vincent : It's funny, you work so hard, you do everything you can to get away from a place, and when you finally get your chance to leave, you find a reason to stay. | ||||||||||||||||||
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