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"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body..."
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"Nothing about literature can be more essential than the language it uses. A language has its own personality; implies an outook, reveals a mental activity, and has a resonance, not quite the same as any other. Not only the vocabulary - heaven can never mean quite the same as ciel - but the very shape of the syntax is sui generis." C.S. Lewis, The Discarded ImagePosts: 2849 | Registered: Feb 2002
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quote:Originally posted by Cashew: Quote: "We who are about to die salute you"- American Soldier at begining of war on terror End quote That's actually "Morituri salutant", which Roman gladiators were supposed to have said before they started killing each other.
Actually one of my best friends said that to an image of the president on the TV before he left for Iraq, thankfully he is still alive.
"Remember Red hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies"- Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
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quote:Originally posted by starLisa: "Klaatu barada nikto."
Actually I believe it was pronounced "Klaatu barada ni- *coughs heavaly*-, there, I said the magic words"- Bruce Cambell in Evil Dead
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"We drift down time clutching at straws, but good is a brick to a drowning man?" - Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: the play, not the movie.
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quote:"Sunset used to depress me. But I learned in Baffin Island, you've just got to remember the light, keep it inside you, and wait. The sun comes back every monring." --Maureen McHugh China Mountain Zhang
But... on Baffin Island, the sun *doesn't* come back every morning!
Sure it does! The mornings just tend to be very spread out.
And so as to continue things:
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." --Anais Nin
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"Why, that's the most fun I can have without being forced to cuddle afterwards!" - Dr. Cox "Il pleut du sang!" - Faust
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"I can't tell if you're a beautiful girl or just a still water that doesn't run deep." -Gene Kelly in An American in Paris
"I am writing graffiti on your body; I am drawing the story of how hard we tried." -Ani DiFranco
"In each other's shadows we grew less and less tall, til eventually our theories couldn't explain it all." -Ani DiFranco
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"A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de St-Expurey
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"Design is but a language... If you have nothing to say, it will not help you." - Bang & Olufsen
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But... on Baffin Island, the sun *doesn't* come back every morning! 
