cookie.
-- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
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-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"
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N: Why should I believe that?"
B: Because it's a fact."
-- Woody Allen
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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
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2.
-- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_
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+2: There is no out. There is only in.
+ -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)"
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+6: I'm human. I have a thousand flaws. I break down. I get up or I
+don't get up. I get lost. I make the same mistakes over and over. I
+have scars and wounds. Sometimes when I can't bear them anymore, I
+drink. You can't fix me. You can't fix any of us. You can't make us
+perfect.
+ -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_
+%
+We want 6. 6 is the 1.
+ -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_
+%
+I've had so much good luck recently I was getting sated with it. It's
+like sugar, good luck. At first it's very sweet, but after a while you
+start to think: any more of this and I shall be sick.
+ -- Adam Roberts _Yellow Blue Tibia_ p301
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+I cannot find rest
+Because I am powerless
+To amend a broken world.
+ -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295