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" I am a Count, not a saint."-( from The Count of Monte Cristo)
From my favorite poet, Walt Whitman and his poem entitled Song of Myself: " You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."
From the same poem : "I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you."
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Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a night; set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
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Sorry, I wasn't aware of any 2 line rule. I thought that since I gave credit to the writer and didn't claim the work to be my own that it wouldn't be considered copyright infringement. I took one line off though.
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Plagiarism is using another's content and claiming it as your own. Copywrite infringment is using their content without permission. Fair use allows for quoting.
"Why?" Mindy to the highrise riveter, as Buttons suffers some sort of indignity.
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"If these are your positions, where are your fortifications?" a skeptical Tell asked. "Our bloody shirts are our fortifications," Shaltiel quietly replied. Impressed, Tell told his rival, "Very well, I will accept your word as an officer and a gentleman." --O Jerusalem, Collins & LaPierre
"...you go left two blocks, and there's another Detention Station, so go through the all-night shoe store to the alley, and...Or, no. It'll be blocked. This is Mrs. Krasni's day to move her pianos...." --"The Face on the Barroom Floor," Arnason & Berman
quote:Fortunately, in Call of Duty 2, one of your "allied" soldiers has been given the name of the lead designer on the game. When you need to vent your rage, you can always shoot him.
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You know, I tried to figure out which of them is saying that (so I could see whether he really had a look of terror), and I could never figure it out.
Did you already post "This is it, baby. Hold me."?
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I still don't know what TANSTAAFL is supposed to mean. Just saying. This isn't a good line or anything.
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quote:It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) were in power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise--easy to come by and satisfying as well
There is a great scene in Anna Karenina involving a man trying to determine whether a young lady will accept his proposal via a game of "secretary" or communicating in acronyms.
Oh, and here's a line:
quote: You shovel like no man I've ever met. But that does not make you a superhero.
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"When you can balance a tack hammer on your head then you can hammer attacks with balance." (OSLT)
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quote:Mr. Furious: Okay, am I the only one who finds these sayings just a little bit formulaic? "If you want to push something down, you have to pull it up. If you want to go left, you have to go right." It's...
The Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage...
Mr. Furious: ...your rage will become your master? That's what you were going to say. Right? Right?
quote:Gwen DeMarco: They're not ALL "historical documents." Surely, you don't think Gilligan's Island is a... [All the Thermians moan in despair] Mathesar: Those poor people.
quote:"Genghis Khan had this marker, but Joe Smith in the Genghis Khan army also had this Y chromosome."
Okay, maybe that is sort of arcane humor. It was in an article on Yahoo about this DNA genealogy business. It is revealed more than halfway through the article that they have no evidence of GK's actual DNA, just that there was an individual in Central Asia with 17 million descendants today and they feel GK is a likely candidate. But obviously, he got his genes from someone else and it's probable a lot of other guys did as well.
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One line that makes me blissfully happy is from Douglas Adams's unfinished work The Salmon of Doubt, in which he describes a building as "old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity."
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