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The Dank Side of the Moon
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#2897 |
Bah, humbug!
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That's fantastic! Thanks for letting us know can start our day everyday with a bogus Chopra quotation. The quotes are randomly generated and entirely fictitious, but that doesn't stop them from being every bit as deep and meaningful as anything he has ever actually said.
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#2898 |
Wizard
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“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina |
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#2899 |
Bah, humbug!
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Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.
Ian Fleming's James Bond was a lot of things; sensitive feminist was not one of them. Here are two quotes from his first appearance in the novel Casino Royale in 1952 that would hard to imagine being written in this hopefully more enlightened age:
• As he drove, whipping the car faster and faster through the night, with the other half of his mind he cursed Vesper, and M for having sent her on the job. This was just what he had been afraid of. These blithering women who thought they could do a man’s work. Why the hell couldn’t they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men’s work to the men. • Women were for recreation. On a job, they got in the way and fogged things up with sex and hurt feelings and all the emotional baggage they carried around. — Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964); English author, journalist, and naval intelligence officer. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 01-05-2016 at 05:35 PM. |
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#2900 |
Bah, humbug!
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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code.
— Emo Philips (born Phil Soltanek, February 7, 1956 - ); American comedian. Quoted in Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear (2008) by Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman. |
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#2901 |
Wizard
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"You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace |
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#2902 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
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“... And these children
that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through...” ― David Bowie, RIP Starman! |
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Unicycle Daredevil
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Quote:
Rats are insects. Ponder on that! |
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#2904 |
Wizard
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“I'm a born librarian with a sex drive”
― David Bowie “Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.” ― David Bowie |
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#2905 |
Grand Sorcerer
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More Random Deepak...
"Intuition drives an abundance of choices" "Imagination reflects the mechanics of love" "Good health transcends subtle miracles" "Self power embraces your own abstract beauty" "Information projects onto reckless acceptance" "Perception differentiates into total success" That last one is equivalent to the worst of vacuous marketing statements for information technology products. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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And one more...
"Everything is only possible in the expansion of space time events" Tell me something I don't know. :P |
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#2907 |
Unicycle Daredevil
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Yeah, that stuff is deeeep:
"Your movement unfolds through existential force fields" May the force be with you, Sartre! |
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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot |
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost |
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#2910 |
cacoethes scribendi
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Curious quote. Reminds me of something a solicitor told us when we were doing our wills: "You're a long time looking at the lid."
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