Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Whatever does kill me, I'll deal with when I respawn.
-Buddhist
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Similar to what I had on Facebook: Whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. Unless it makes you weaker.
(I like to cover all my bases)
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George: "Oh sir just one thing, if we should happen to tread on a mine what do we do?"
Blackadder: "Well, normal procedure lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet into the air, and scatter yourself over a wide area."
Blackadder: "Well, normal procedure lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet into the air, and scatter yourself over a wide area."
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This exhilaration is... the darling daughter of adventure, the sister of risk, and it is for her rare and always ephemeral embrace... that many men leave home.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Quite a hard read if English is not your native tongue tbh, but it has some VERY interesting points.
I only got halfway through though, and still have to pick it back up again.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Quite a hard read if English is not your native tongue tbh, but it has some VERY interesting points.
I only got halfway through though, and still have to pick it back up again.
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...I remember trying to see the expressions on the faces as we passed the occassional hitchhiker. Were they dangerous, after all? Was there something wild, something from outside my comfortable world, in those faces? It seemed doubtful-- after all, they were just standing there, doing nothing, going nowhere. Then I thought that they might be like the hawks we saw stationed at the tops of roadside trees: silent and immobile as statues, but they might fly at any moment, might be gone, might never pass this way again.
-- Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway
-- Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Along the way, in campgrounds, truck stops, bus stations and roadhouse bars, in cafes and motels, freight yards and boxcars, and hitchhiking by the side of the road, I met others of a similar bent- Americans who had abandoned sedentary civilization for nomadic life; men -and they were nearly always men- who looked at the same set of walls too long and began to climb them."
-- Richard Grant, American Nomads
-- Richard Grant, American Nomads
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Bicameral legislature, self-evident truths, neo-mausoleum architecture, atulent filibustering, pork barreling, ineffective protectionist tariffs, tobacco subsidies, Prohibition, paternalistic socialism, benign neglect, incomprehensible policies, doc-trinaire intransigence, language obfuscation, currency debauchery, unbacked fractional reserve notes, hyper-elastic debt ceilings, debt monetization, confiscatory taxes, perverse Byzantine lopsided tax codes,massive private gain at public expense, laissez-faire mercantilism, lucrative patronage, cozy cronyism, bottomless corruption, strangulating bureaucracy, comical ineptness, ippant insouciance, sullen insubordination, terminal bloat, creeping disintermediation, staggering trade deficits, voodoo economics, dollar bashing, intrusive citizen surveillance, satellite reconnaissance, calculated disinformation, shameless media hype, patriotic symbol manipulation, slush fund diversion, Senate select sub-committee investigations, lawyer-mongering, plea bargaining, subpoena quashing, pathological perjury, moral turpitude, ineffectual Presidential task forces, token civilian control of the military, forced conscription, sub-atomic tinkering, pitiful giantism, titillating indiscre-tion, stupefying horror, intermittent assassinations, lugubrious motorcades, virulent anti-communism, unenforceable loyalty oaths, manifest destiny, eminent domain, gunboat diplomacy, expeditionary brigades, insurrection squashing, gratuitous violence, gun-running, strategic incursions, surgical strikes, rural pacification, economic destabilization, blundering interdictions, horribly botched bizarre clandestine operations, official denial, mock bewilderment, outrageous interminable scandals, internecine power struggles, malignant brain tumors, bungled suicide attempts, affable doltishness, ludicrous gaffes, howlers in elementary logic, preadolescent fantasies, weepy nostalgia, technology worship, doomsday scenarios, emergency broadcast systems, self-righteous posturing, religious zealotry, institutionalized gibberish, stratospheric hyperbole, vituperative castigation, fulminating rhetoric, incoherent ranting, thundering bombast, pseudo-Evangelical blather, hair-splitting equivocation, bald-faced lying, wretched excess, moon golf, industrial disease, and bankruptcy are trade-marks of the United States Government, 1913 - 1987. All rights reserved, or you’ll hear from this week’s Attorney General, who’ll send the Feds down to slap the cuffs on you right in your office, deliberately embarrassing you in front of your own staff, just like on Wall Street.
No fooling.
- The Autodesk file (http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/)
No fooling.
- The Autodesk file (http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/)
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"The Paradox of our time:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers
Wider motorways, but narrower viewpoints
We spend more, but have less
We buy more, but enjoy less
We have bigger houses and smaller families
More conveniences, but less time
We have more degrees, but less sense
More knowledge, but less judgement
More experts, yet more problems
More medicine, but less wellness
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values
We talk too much, love too little, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We've added years to life, not life to years
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor
We conquered outer space but not inner space
We've done bigger things, but not better things
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul
We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice
We write more, but learn less
We plan more, but accomplish less
We've learned to rush, but not to wait
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion
Big men and small character
Steep profits and shallow relationships
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce
Fancier houses, but broken homes
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom
A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side
Remember to give a warm hug to the one next to you because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a thing
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it
A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again
Give time to love, give time to speak and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away"
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers
Wider motorways, but narrower viewpoints
We spend more, but have less
We buy more, but enjoy less
We have bigger houses and smaller families
More conveniences, but less time
We have more degrees, but less sense
More knowledge, but less judgement
More experts, yet more problems
More medicine, but less wellness
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values
We talk too much, love too little, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We've added years to life, not life to years
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor
We conquered outer space but not inner space
We've done bigger things, but not better things
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul
We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice
We write more, but learn less
We plan more, but accomplish less
We've learned to rush, but not to wait
We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion
Big men and small character
Steep profits and shallow relationships
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce
Fancier houses, but broken homes
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom
A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side
Remember to give a warm hug to the one next to you because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a thing
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it
A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again
Give time to love, give time to speak and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away"
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
-- Miriam Beard
-- Miriam Beard
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller
-- Helen Keller
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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
-- Albert Einstein
-- Albert Einstein
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Correct, love that one, been into westerns quite some time now 
'There will be blood' is also a good one
"Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt." Hans-Ulrich Rudel
'There will be blood' is also a good one
"Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt." Hans-Ulrich Rudel
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Yeah but as westerns go, Unforgiven is really, really up there with the best of them.
My other favourite is The Outlaw Josey Wales; it just has too many great one-liners to count.
Anderson: "You know they'll come looking for you Josey?"
Wales: *spits on the ground* "I rekon so..."
"Name's Anderson. Bloody Bill's what they call me."
"Yeah and we got a saying down here too Senator... don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."
Haha, and I also love that old woman's prejudice. She hates Wales because he's from Missouri (and they're all 'murderers of innocent men, women and children') and she always compares him to her long-lost son who she thinks is perfect.
IMO they're definitely his two best films. Gran Torino is pretty amazing too (essentially a modern-day western, with similar themes of redemption) but the last twenty minutes or so of Unforgiven are Clint's best work. Gene Hackman is amazing in that film (as he is in pretty much anything actually) and I'll never forget...
"I don't deserve to die. I was building a house."
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
"I'll see you in Hell, William Munny."
"Yer..."
*bang*
xD
My other favourite is The Outlaw Josey Wales; it just has too many great one-liners to count.
Anderson: "You know they'll come looking for you Josey?"
Wales: *spits on the ground* "I rekon so..."
"Name's Anderson. Bloody Bill's what they call me."
"Yeah and we got a saying down here too Senator... don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."
Haha, and I also love that old woman's prejudice. She hates Wales because he's from Missouri (and they're all 'murderers of innocent men, women and children') and she always compares him to her long-lost son who she thinks is perfect.
IMO they're definitely his two best films. Gran Torino is pretty amazing too (essentially a modern-day western, with similar themes of redemption) but the last twenty minutes or so of Unforgiven are Clint's best work. Gene Hackman is amazing in that film (as he is in pretty much anything actually) and I'll never forget...
"I don't deserve to die. I was building a house."
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
"I'll see you in Hell, William Munny."
"Yer..."
*bang*
xD
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