-Craig Foster (commentator), as Australia secured their second fifa wc finals berth in a penalty shootout vs Uruguay. JW died shortly before his "dream" was realised.
Also was once regularly pronounced in ex's global chat, for those of u old enough to remember...
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."- Sigmund Freud.
"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink from streams which we have not yet made accessible to science." -Freud
“if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”-adolf hitler
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
― C.G. Jung
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― C.G. Jung
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― C.G. Jung
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
the internet is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words
Some of my favorite quotes used in Civilization IV.
Do not throw the Arrow which will return against you. – Kurdish Proverb
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.- Turkish Proverb
You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails. – Unknown
And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. – William Shakespeare
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. – Thomas Jefferson
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. – Unknown
One doesn’t discover new lands without losing sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
It has been said that democracy is the worst kind of Government except all the others that have been tried. – Winston Churchill
Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. – Benjamin Franklin
People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black. – Henry Ford
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense. Napoleon, on Robert Fulton’s Steamship
Before that steam drill shall beat me down, I’ll die with my hammer in my hand. – From John Henry, the Steel-Driving Man
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out the window. – Steve Wozniak
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow from our children. – Native American Song
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistingiushable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke
The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. – Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
"All right, then." Roark got up, he took a long ruler from the desk, he walked to the picture. "Shall I tell you what's wrong about it?"
"It's the Parthenon!" said the Dean.
"Yes, the Parthenon!"
The ruler struck the glass over the picture.
"Look," said Roark. "The famous flutings on the famous columns---what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood--when columns were made of wood, only these aren't, they're marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?"
The Dean sat watching him curiously. Something puzzled him, not in the words, but in Roark's manner of saying them.
“Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same purpose. The purpose, the site, the material determine the shape. Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own single purpose. A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.”
"Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?"
"Yes."
"My dear fellow, who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. 1943.
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the further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it - Orwell
we sleep safe in out beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm - Orwell
