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.
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
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+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.
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+[C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
+It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4