Quote of the Day

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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe" - Frank Zappa

[Scorchio]

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

The inimitable Oscar Wilde.

[Uncle Frank]

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark Twain

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"Its not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything"
Tyler Durden

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"Today will die tomorrow" - Algernon Charles Swinburne

[Notso]

"Anger is a gift"

Zack de la Rocha

[schmittel]

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Harry Truman

[Riffmongous]

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains"

Rosa Luxemburg

[Diamonds of Frost]

This isn't a quote but a sort of poem. I can relate to it...."Frost tell me what to do"..and me with all my bits and pieces. Sure I am just like you. That's the big secret, the "fix", none of us have a fecking clue what we are at.

I get many phonecalls now. They are all alike. 'Are you Charles Bukowski, the writer?' 'Yes,' I tell them. And they tell me that they understand my writing, and some of them are writers or want to be writers and they have dull and horrible jobs and they can't face the room, the apartment, the walls that night...they want somebody to talk to, and they can't believe that I can't help them, that I don't know the words. They can't believe that often now I double up in my room, grab my gut and say 'Jesus Jesus Jesus, not again!' They can't believe that the loveless people, the streets, the loneliness, the walls are mine too. And when I hang up the phone they think I have held back my secret. I don't write out of knowledge. When the phone rings, I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this. That's why my number's listed."

[Uncle Frank]

All men are brothers. Hence war.
Simon Munnery

[knownunknown]

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

Edmund Burke

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“I’m not the kinda person to say atodaso, but you know what? Atodaso, Julian. A-fuckin-atodaso!” - Ricky Trailer Park Boys

[Uncle Frank]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King

[Wibbs]

Marcus Aurelius philosopher Emperor of Rome in the first century AD;

Don't indulge in dreams of that which you don't possess, instead count up all the blessings of what you do possess and consider how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Be tolerant of others, but strict with yourself.

The best revenge is to be not like your enemies.

Everything we hear is opinion not fact, everything we see is a perception, not the truth(oul Marc being postmodernist 2000 years too early).

His writings Meditations are remarkably valid and informative even today.

[dawg]

Marcus Aurelius philosopher Emperor of Rome in the first century AD; ...Everything we hear is opinion not fact, everything we see is a perception, not the truth(oul Marc being postmodernist 2000 years too early)....

The 'Oul Romans must have had fierce good Virtual Reality.
On the plus side, that mindset must have been a great solace when leaving the local amphitheater after a hectic afternoon watching gladiators killing each other

[seamus]

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates

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"You can't always control who walks into your life, but you can control which window you throw them out of." - Daffy Duck

[knownunknown]

"All generalizations are false, including this one."

Mark Twain

[Uncle Frank]

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
Eric Clapton

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We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable." - Prof. Peter Cochrane

[CelticRambler]

We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable." - Prof. Peter Cochrane

Variation on that theme, for which I have no original source -
The definition of an expert: someone who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows everything there is to know about feck all.

[Wibbs]

Most men are dead at 27, we just bury them at 72

Mark Twain.

[Fann Linn]

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen.

[PogMoThoin]

Homer to the aliens...."Don't eat me, I have a wife and kids, eat them!"

[Strangely Brown]

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

David Bowie