X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=ea0f523c3b83b4a36ce6ccaad439dd2a89eb5688;hb=4fbccd1d8107af69a072598d46e9ed63224faf73;hp=124b90bdf6644f0aeb2820036a2aceac06c9651a;hpb=5aaddd7740dcbc88eeaab640a0749c31f96b41cf;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 124b90b..ea0f523 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune cookie. -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html % -Three little words. (In descending order of importance.) -I -love -you - -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php +Three little words. (In order of importance.) + █████ + █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘ + █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you + █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘ + █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words" % N: Why should I believe that?" B: Because it's a fact." @@ -257,13 +258,14 @@ sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen % Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired -signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are -not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is -not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, -the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a -way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is -humanity hanging on a cross of iron. - -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 +signifies [...] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those +who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending +money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of +its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] This is not a way of +life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it +is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] [I]s there no other +way the world may live? + -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 % A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. @@ -1011,3 +1013,21 @@ I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295 +% +What prison taught me was that some people are born into a life where +they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal +tragedy on an almost daily basis. [...] I don't think you get +enlightenment after something like that. I think all anyone really +wants, if they're honest with themselves, is a quiet, easy life +surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is conceit[ed]. + -- OP from 99chan +% +Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon +partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately +purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise. +% +The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with +freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With +due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental +agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective. + -- Gary Fielder in Gary Fielder vs Janet Napolitano et al.