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    It really is the sort of topic that demands a thread all to itself.
     
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    I didn't see the "other forum" qualifier the first time I read it and was like, wait, which one of us said that and how did I miss it?
     
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    All of sudden, my posts seem so prosaic.
     
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    Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency.

    - Ted Nugent

    [Cribbed from a different forum.]
     
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    Don't think. Feeeeeeel.
    - Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon
     
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    No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up.

    - Lily Tomlin
     
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    Bruce Lee’s most famous philosophical quote:

    "Be Water, My Friend.
    Empty your mind.
    Be formless, shapeless, like water.
    You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
    You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
    You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
    Now water can flow or it can crash.
    Be water, my friend."
     
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    Generally, when I put water into a teapot, it becomes tea.
     
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    Adaptation + evolution
     
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    sorcery.jpg
     
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    “It's weird not to be weird.”

    ― John Lennon
     
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    Only a few months until my blog is too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio.

    - Dan Lyke
     
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    "Oh fuck, not another elf!" --- Hugo Dyson, as JRR Tolkien was reading out his latest chapter
     
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    "The common primate practice of pseudosexual mounting of males by males to express dominance is not widespread in humans, and some have taken comfort from this fact. But the most potent form of verbal abuse in English and many other languages is “Fuck you,” with the pronoun “I” implicit at the beginning. The speaker is vividly asserting his claim to a higher status, and his contempt for those he considers subordinate. Characteristically, humans have converted a postural image into a linguistic one with barely a change in nuance. The phrase is uttered millions of times each day, all over the planet, with hardly anyone stopping to think what it means. Often, it escapes our lips unbidden. It is satisfying to say. It serves its purpose. It is a badge of the primate order, revealing something of our nature despite all our denials and pretensions."

    - Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
     
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    Holy shit, I never thought of that. The power of words.
     
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    That's an excellent book - but then, it's Sagan, so of course it is.
     
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    I'll mount a dude to make a point if I have to. Generally it's somebody I know really well, though.
     
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    I guess Sagan didn't know about prisons.
     
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    "Like inviting an abbess to supervise a brothel!"

    --- Lord Selborne, Minister of Economic Warfare and political head of the Special Operations Executive (or 'the Ministry for Ungentlemanly Warfare', or 'Churchill's secret army'), on the plan to transfer the SOE to the Foreign Office control after the war.

    Also, fun fact, Selborne replaced Sir Frank Dalton because Dalton was a bit of a commie and, on top of that, had probably been using SOE kit to wire tap his colleagues in Labour.
     
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    'A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.'

    ~ David Brinkley
     
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    That reads like Brinkley was adding post scripts to If, like that poem wasn't alarming enough already.
     
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    It is hard to determine whether the brazen brashness of the bureaucrats or toxic passivity of the public has been more shocking.

    - James Tunney
     
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    There is only a handful of what are called story and character archetypes:
    Story: rags to riches, the quest, rebirth, overcoming the difficulty, comedy, tragedy, voyage and return
    Characters: warrior, child, orphan, creator, caregiver, mentor, joker, magician, ruler, rebel, lover, seductress

    - Anon. on Slashdot
     
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    Fantasy author Sam Sykes, tweeting about toxic fandoms and toxic fans:
    “1. I love this. 2. I own this. 3. I control this. 4. I can’t control this. 5. I hate this. 6. I must destroy this.”​
     
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    Well, if you didn't before, you might after.
     

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