Cole Deschain |
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After discovering the dead body of a boy his son told him had been missing floated to the surface in an open lead:
Egasak: Oh son... Take the battery from the boat... it should be heavy enough. Tie it to him real good. I can't tell you what kind of person to be. It's your decision.
-On the Ice
David M Mallon |
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last, fragile moment."
- Centauri Emperor Turhan (Turhan Bey), Babylon 5, season 2, episode 9 ("The Coming Of Shadows," 1995)
Bitter Thorn |
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
-Justice Louis Brandeis
I'm Hiding In Your Closet |
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"I told someone, 'Want to know what its like for me to socialize? Do you play the violin? No? Good. Have any musical ability at all? No? Good. Borrow a violin and show up at a recital with it. Get on the program so you are expected to play when its your turn. (bear with me here) At a certain point, you are ushered to the stage, where you are to play a duet with a talented and accomplished player. Everyone is watching closely and your partner is counting on you. They all have expectations of what you will do, because there you are with your instrument. I dont have to tell you what happens once the piece starts.
Now imagine living in a society where everyone is expected to play the violin well and often, where life centers around it. You can learn to mimic how to carry the case and hold the instrument, but you have a tin ear and no rhythm. You can learn, at best, a few scales and a bar of something here and there, poorly. But you cannot learn to play music. And you are considered useless in that society.'"
- nowwhat, poster on aspiescentral.com, analogizing life as an autist
David M Mallon |
"I told someone, "Want to know what its like for me to socialize? Do you play the violin? No? Good. Have any musical ability at all? No? Good. Borrow a violin and show up at a recital with it. Get on the program so you are expected to play when its your turn. (bear with me here) At a certain point, you are ushered to the stage, where you are to play a duet with a talented and accomplished player. Everyone is watching closely and your partner is counting on you. They all have expectations of what you will do, because there you are with your instrument. I dont have to tell you what happens once the piece starts.
Now imagine living in a society where everyone is expected to play the violin well and often, where life centers around it. You can learn to mimic how to carry the case and hold the instrument, but you have a tin ear and no rhythm. You can learn, at best, a few scales and a bar of something here and there, poorly. But you cannot learn to play music. And you are considered useless in that society."
- nowwhat, poster on aspiescentral.com, analogizing life as an autist
Definitely going to have to borrow this analogy at some point.
Syrus Terrigan |
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“Did you hear him? He said he’s not ranting and raving, but again, what president hasn’t had to say ‘I’m not ranting and raving’? Who can forget Lincoln’s tirade at Gettysburg? Or FDR’s fireside meltdowns? And of course, Ronald Reagan famously saying, ‘Mr. Gorbachev, if you don’t tear down this f—ing wall, I’m going to lose my s—.’ ”
-- Seth Meyers, per msn.com
I couldn't help it -- I actually laughed out loud. "Fireside meltdowns", indeed.
Kjeldorn |
"I was a mere stripling at the time, but even then I was left with the sense that I could never compete, that no matter how I tried in life, I would never match up to the chandelier shagging anointed ones."
"Urgh, Surely its a rum state of affairs, when TV actively encourages you to hack yourself apart in the name of self worth. I mean hacking up a stranger - okay that I can understand, but this is just sick!"
"Balls to aspiration, it's a tosser´s mirage."
- Charlie Brooker
Syrus Terrigan |
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“Precisely because the problem is one of temperament and character, it will not get better. It will get worse, as power intoxicates Trump and those around him. It will probably end in calamity — substantial domestic protest and violence, a breakdown of international economic relationships, the collapse of major alliances, or perhaps one or more new wars (even with China) on top of the ones we already have. It will not be surprising in the slightest if his term ends not in four or in eight years, but sooner, with impeachment or removal under the 25th Amendment.”
-- Eliot Cohen, The Atlantic
“Prudence is what differentiates action from impulse and heroes from hotheads,”
-- André Comte-Sponville
David M Mallon |
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"Ah, the human spirit. She is resilient, isn't she. Here I am, a whole year later, still truckin' along like a sack of potatoes on a long open road, wishing he'd stopped for gas at the last rest stop, and then, on the Interstate 12, he gets hijacked and murdered by a bunch of Quaker ghosts that hadn't moved on from the War of 1723. F~$!, what even is my purpose."
- Jon Jafari, JonTron: Starfox Adventures: Stairfax Temperatures
The Mad Comrade |
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"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole.
Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918
"...I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men." ... "Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man's name."
"The Practicability of Equalizing Men and Women before the Law"
Senior thesis at Harvard, 1880
"Much can be done by law towards putting women on a footing of complete and entire equal rights with man - including the right to vote, the right to hold and use property, and the right to enter any profession she desires on the same terms as the man."..."Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
An Autobiography, 1913
"Working women have the same need to protection that working men have; the ballot is as necessary for one class as to the other; we do not believe that with the two sexes there is identity of function; but we do believe there should be equality of right."
Speech, National Convention of the Progressive Party, Chicago, IL, August 6, 1912
"This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country."
Memphis, TN, October 25, 1905
Teddy Roosevelt
The Mad Comrade |
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[Teddy] Roosevelt wrote to a friend that, regarding the difficult issue of race relations, “... of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.” 8th Nov 1901 letter to Albion W. Tourgee.
Additionally, Roosevelt risked outrage (and perhaps physical harm) while speaking to a heavily armed crowd in Butte, Montana during his 1903 Western tour: “I fought beside colored troops at Santiago [Cuba], and I hold that if a man is good enough to be put up and shot at then he is good enough for me to do what I can to get him a square deal.”
Perhaps his attitude is best understood in comparison to those of others in his time, who accused him of “mingling and mongrelization” of the white race; notably Democratic Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina.
<Source: Wikipedia>
The Sideromancer |
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Riker: They're locking lasers on us.
Picard: Lasers? Those can't even get through our navigational shields.
Riker: Regulations do call for a red alert.
Picard: Very well, number one, and reduce speed to half impulse.
Riker: Why?
Picard: In case we decide to surrender to them.
"His paper samurai couldn't take a fire attack, so he swapped it out. Normally, you would swap to the urchin in this situation, but he was worried about earthquakes, so he went for his mammoth instead"
-Me, when asked to explain what I was watching by a friend.
David M Mallon |
"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything."
- Xinxin Ming (Faith In Mind), attributed to Jianzhi Sengcan, Third Patriarch of Chan [Zen]
David M Mallon |
"I was asked to give the keynote, and I was told I could talk about just about anything I wanted to, except... I wasn't allowed to swear. Now, if you know me, that's kind of like telling Tim Burton to make a movie without Johnny Depp."
- Nash Bozard (producer at Channel Awesome and host of Radio Dead Air), ConBravo! 2015 keynote speech
David M Mallon |
- Sal Morelli (Robert Costanzo), City Slickers (1991)Other person - "Some people are so self-absorbed."
Cordelia - "Tell me about it! It's like this one time I hit this girl with my car, and she's all 'My leg, my leg!,' trying to make it all about her, when, clearly, this was the most traumatic moment in my life!"-Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Set |
"Focus! The projector. The camera, the flashlight, the plot. Just focus everything. Focus all of it."
- Crow T. Robot (Hampton Yount), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return: "Cry Wilderness" (2017)
Oh, Crow's awesome.
"Why did you drill a hole in the side of the ship!"
<clinging on for dear life as the ship undergoes explosive decompression>
"Well, I calculated the chances that I was doing something really stupid... And then I did it anyway!"
David M Mallon |
Crow T. Robot (Hampton Yount): "Here comes the fire department to put the avalanche out!"
Jonah Heston (Jonah Ray): "That would actually work if they used hot water."
Tom Servo (Baron Vaughn): "No, I want to change my answer! Can we make the fire trucks actually shoot fire? That would help."
*medical supplies fall out of the back of an ambulance*
Crow T. Robot: "That wasn't even caused by the avalanche, they're just completely incompetent."
Jonah Heston: "They should change the name of this movie from Avalanche to just General Catastrophe."
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return: "Avalanche" (2017)
Ed Reppert |
"Dum vivimus, vivamus" (While we live, let us live) -- Inscription on "the Lady Vivimus", Oscar "Scar" Gordon's sword in Robert Heinlein's novel Glory Road
David M Mallon |
"The act of living generates a force field, an energy. That energy surrounds us; when we die, that energy joins with all the other energy. There is a giant mass of energy in the universe that has a good side and a bad side. We are part of the Force because we generate the power that makes the Force live. When we die, we become part of that Force, so we never really die; we continue as part of the Force."
- George Lucas, during pre-production for the film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)