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"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit."
In the August 1993 issue of the Army's Preventative Maintenance Monthly magazine

when he was in vietnam, an army chaplain told my older brother, "you can't expect justice from any organization whose sole purpose, is to commit mass murder."

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
William Shakespeare

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Bob Wells

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
John Gilmore

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Elvis Costello

To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
- Gilda Radner

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
- Ellen DeGeneres

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.
- Will Rogers

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

"To sleep, perchance to dream-
ay, there's the rub."
Hamlet (III, i, 65-68)

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer,
Like the Cover of an old Book,
Its Contents torn out,
And stript of its Lettering & Gilding,
Lies here, Food for Worms.
But the work shall not be lost;
For it will, as he believed, appear once more
In a new and more elegant Edition
Corrected and improved
By the Author.

"Laughter is an instant vacation." -Milton Berle

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person." -Audrey Hepburn

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. -- L. Ron Hubbard Technique 88

The quote's by Hayao Miyazaki, but I like the way its presented in the series of gif's below.

"I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”

http://spellthief.tumblr.com/post/75741566072/if-im-able-to-then-perhaps-ill-be-closer-to

He‘s not perfect. You aren‘t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn‘t going to quote poetry, he‘s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don‘t hurt him, don‘t change him, and don‘t expect for more than he can give.
-Bob Marley

Paraphrase / approximations / quotes

"I see nothing defeatist in being sane" Philip Larkin

"Depression to me is what daffodils were to Wordsworth" Larkin

"The basis of literary friendship is stirring the poison bowl" Wilde

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” Milton

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. -Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890)

" . . . strong weakness for oxymoron." Beckett

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S Thompson

It's not my duty to teach others, it's their duty to learn from me.

“Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena. My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.” - Nikola Tesla

"No man with a good car needs to be justified!" - Hazel Motes in Wise Blood

Einstein once said that his second greatest idea after relativity, was to throw an egg into the soup so he could have a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.