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[edit] Quotes and Randomness
Knowledge is power!
'If you tremble indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine' -Che Guevera
'Is it better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all?' I think your answer (your true answer, not just what you say) influences just about everything in your personality.
Here's a song:
'Barrels and Barrrels of
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts
Mutalated Monkey Meat
Very Bloody Birdy's Feet
All these good things
Just for me and you to eat
And I forgot my Spoo-oo-on!'
"It takes a couple seconds to say hello, but forever to say goodbye" "Even the most minute flapping of a butterfly's wings could, in time, have astronomical implications" "You can't be a vegitarian between meals. Neither can you be a pacifist between wars." God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. -Jacques Deval, writer and director "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." "Be the change you want to see in the world." -Ghandi "I'd rather regret the things I have done, then the things I have not." Lucille Ball "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." -Steve Prefontaine "I don't know what a hollaback girl is, but I want to hit Gwen Stefani with a bus." - title of a facebook group "It's like having a baby without feet." -Julie Larson "Is our children learning?" -George W. Bush "Watch out for my swinging sex chair!" -Sarah Much "Do your duty, always; but without attachment. That is how a man reaches the ultimate truth; by working without anxiety about results" Albert Einstein didn't know his phone number Weirdness is a virtue. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left. "Those who would sacrifice a little liberty for a little security deserver neither and will lose both." "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." Courage my friends, 'Tis not to late to make a better world -Thomas Clement Douglass The intelligent relationship between man and nature will arise when one stops making cost and design calculations in money, but in physical and human quantities. When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles quiver under the strain, the climb seems endless, and, suddenly,nothing will go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate -Dag Hammerskjold, Markings "Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound." "The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth" -Cheif Seattle "If the People lead, the leaders will follow" "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" -Albert Einstein
[edit] More quotes and Randomness
War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left. Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. Man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails. 7/5th of all people do not understand fractions. 43% of all statistics are worthless. You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think. "A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain." . "You never test the depth of a river with both feet." "Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand." "The believer is happy. The doubter is wise." It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. There are no short cuts to any place worth going. Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato—the best part of him is underground. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. A closed mouth gathers no feet. Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart. A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey. He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. It is never too late to be what you might have been. If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit. You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom. Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok.. Man who fart in church sit in own pew. Stand on toilet, get high on pot. Woman who dance while wearing jock strap have make believe ballroom. Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have! Man who run behind car get exhausted. Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone. Man who eat jellybean fart in technicolor. Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert. The hand that turneth the knob, opens the door.. Man who sneezes without hanky takes matters into his own hands. Man who drop watch in toilet bound to have shitty time. Man who fly plane upside down have crackup. Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Without vision, we are blind to opportunity. Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. Friendship is what binds the world together in peace, may we all become friends. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. It's a great satisfaction knowing that for a brief point in time you made a difference. In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes. Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. False hope is nicer than no hope at all. Silence is one of the most effective forms of communication. You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person. Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Patience will come to those who wait for it. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of travelling. May today be better than yesterday, but, not as good as tomorrow. "If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice". The best way to predict the future is to invent it! No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Question Authority and the Authorities will question You. A company is known by the people it keeps. A person who can't lead and won't follow makes a dandy roadblock. A morning without coffee is like something without something else. It takes one tree to make 10,000 matches, but one match to burn 10,000 trees. People who do the world's real work don't usually wear neckties. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. Mines are equal opportunity weapons. Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out. Incoming fire has the right of way. If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. A cat has nine lives.. A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. A drink precedes a story. A drowning man is not troubled by rain. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. A forest is in an acorn. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A friend's eye is a good mirror. A hen is heavy when carried far. A hungry man is an angry man. A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. A little too late, is much too late. A loan though old is not gift. A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink. A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly. A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. A teacher is better than two books. A thief believes everybody steals. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. A tree falls the way it leans. A white Christmas fills the churchyard. A wise man hears one word and understands two. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Anger can be an expensive luxury. An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue. As we live, so we learn. Better late than never. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Better wear out shoes than sheets. Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings. Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.. Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. Even a small thorn causes festering. Every cloud has a silver lining. Every dog hath its day. Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree. Evil is sooner believed than good. Feather by feather the goose can be plucked. Fortune is blind, but not invisible. Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. Haste makes waste. He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you. We've arrived, and to prove it we're here. When the cat's away the mice will play. Worrying never did anyone any good. You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Put your best foot forward. Rome wasn't built in a day. History repeats itself. It's never too late. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. Let bygones be bygones. Good things come to those who wait. "You guys line up alphabetically by height." - Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach "Permitted vehicles not allowed." - Road sign on US 27 "A bachelor's life is no life for a single man." - Samuel Goldwyn "SAFETY FIRST: Please put on your seat belt - prepare for accident." - Sign on backseat of Taxi A penny for your thoughts.
[edit] Don't Be Afraid of the Neo-Cons by Norman and Nancy Blake
"And away down yonder in the Florida sand Old Jeb Bush is a mighty man He told little brother, don't be blue For I'm a gonna hand this thing to you The churches all got on board In the Holy name of our Lord They took him for their favorite son And they sent him away to Washington Now Georgie Bush, he is the man He landed in Afghanistan We'll get Osama, was his crack And now we're stranded in Iraq He told ole' Rumsfeld on the green Now you're the best I've ever seen Just heed my words and you'll go far And help me win my daddy's war O' Cheney lives away down town By a cement bunker underground No more he'll roam Wyoming's hills Halliburton is his thrill Don't send you money to Washington To fight a war that's never done Don't play their games don't be their pawns And don't be afraid of the neo-cons Katrina blew through the town Black waters flooded all around No money to raise the levees high And so we watched New Orleans die Bill Clinton was a democrat He saved us money in his hat He fell from grace the story goes Then Georgie put us in the hole Now Casey was Cindy's son He marched away with his gun For a noble cause he heard Bush say He died in a war so far away Now Georgie is kind and meek He kissed the king upon his cheek They walked the garden hand in hand As the oil and blood dripped on the sand
And now my little song is done 'Bout the neo-cons in Washington No more I'll sing these words again You can see it all on CNN Don't send your money to Washington To fight a war that's never done Don't play their games don't be their pawns And don't be afraid of the neo-cons"
[edit] "It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them."
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright, enough rain so that you can appreciate the light. I wish you enough music to raise your spirits, enough silence so that you can hear it. I wish you enough happiness to make you glow, but enough pain to make you grow. I wish you enough intelligence to make your way, yet enough innocence to enjoy the day. I wish you enough gain so you may stay alive, and enough loss so that you will strive. I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye." I wish you enough time between so that you will cry. I wish you joy. I wish you love. I wish you peace. I wish you life I wish you sadness. I wish you pain. I wish you strife. I wish you enough.
[edit] "It takes a lot more strength and courage to be a non-violent person."
During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master. Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger. "You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!" But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved. "And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"
[edit] Nature!
Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up in his hand and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion once again and was again stung. The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?" "Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."
[edit] How to Write Good by Frank L. Visco, vice-president and senior copywriter at USAdvertising
Avoid alliteration. Always Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. Avoid clichés like the plague. Avoid ampersands & abbreviations, etc. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. Contractions aren't necessary. Foreign words and phrases are not de rigueur. One should never generalize. Never use quotations, for as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations; tell me what you know." Comparisons are as bad as clichés. Don't be redundant and try not to use more words than necessary since they tend to be superfluous. Profanity sucks. Be more or less specific. Understatement is always best. Exaggeration is millions times worse than understatement. One-word sentences? Eliminate. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. The passive voice is to be avoided. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. Who needs rhetorical questions?
