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01-20-2013, 03:03 AM | #1997 |
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That's the next apocalypse. When the last one failed they took back samples of what we're all reading - reasoning that that must be why we beat them - and so now they're making plans to attack us with zombies, werewolves and vampires.
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01-20-2013, 04:50 AM | #1998 |
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sometimes some places only tv at night old bad tv series from America.
old horror is great one series had martians in metal drums put there for storage disposal by military after 1st invasion drums leaked martians got out could put finger inside human skull read human memories martian finger connect with brain tissue form bridge also take human form earth saved because pure neo nazi martians came and fought first martians from drums they were not pure martian enough I moved on in work missed last episodes guess earth saved or ? Last edited by forsooth; 01-20-2013 at 04:53 AM. |
01-20-2013, 06:40 PM | #1999 |
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"So on a not unpleasant day in March, she rose in the dark in the morning, even before the day had any sort of character, to give herself plenty of time to bathe, eat, lay out money for the bus, dress, listen to the spirituals on the radio. She was eighty-six years old, and had learned that life was all chaos and chaos even in the most innocent of moments. Offer a crust of bread to a sick bird and you often drew back a bloody finger."
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01-21-2013, 08:30 AM | #2000 |
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01-21-2013, 10:27 AM | #2001 |
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http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ apparently from O' Pioneers http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1001...esigned-to-the http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200812.O_Pioneers_ Oh and look who's rated it 5 stars, one of our favorite 'strangershere' |
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01-21-2013, 05:44 PM | #2003 |
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. - Christopher Reeve "Quotes for the Journey Through Life" - Chris Dyer |
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01-22-2013, 07:34 AM | #2005 |
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"This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft."
"Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child alright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?" "This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things." "No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?" -- Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin. |
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One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive — it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.
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