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Post by Nightspade on Jun 9, 2009 16:04:47 GMT -5
Lt. Commander Data: I have been reviewing the history of armed rebellion. And it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, it can be. But I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows from the barrel of a gun.
-Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Post by mtkau on Jun 10, 2009 9:51:06 GMT -5
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that "violence never solves anything" I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it.
The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.) - Starship Troopers
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Post by ShadigoIzayoi on Jun 10, 2009 10:58:56 GMT -5
"Chilling flames engulf the entire world! Pitch-dark flower... set into bloom! Synchro summon! Appear now, Black Rose Dragon!" ~ Aki Izayoi, Synchro Summoning Black Rose Dragon
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Post by KPforever on Jun 13, 2009 19:25:39 GMT -5
"The only thing worse than taxation without representation, is taxation with representation"
- Rush Limbaugh
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Post by Luke Danger on Jun 13, 2009 19:30:42 GMT -5
"The biggest weakness of Democracy? A five minute chat with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
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Post by Nightspade on Jun 14, 2009 2:03:16 GMT -5
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
--Hermann Goering.
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Post by Luke Danger on Jun 16, 2009 14:57:35 GMT -5
"Look, if I picked up a sword right now, Ron, and ran you through with it, I wouldn't damage your soul at all." "Which would be a real comfort to me, I'm sure!"
- Herminone Granger and Ron Weasly discussing Horcruxes. From: Harry Potter and the Death Hallows, by J.K. Rowling Chapter Six: The Ghoul in Pajamas Page 104, paragraph 6 and 7
One of the best lines ever, IMO
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Post by KPforever on Jun 18, 2009 16:24:07 GMT -5
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free".
- Ronald Reagan
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Post by manicspike on Jun 22, 2009 0:57:27 GMT -5
HOW'S THAT TASTE DETROIT!? HOW'S YOUR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE!?
Scott Ferrall calling the Penguins winning the Stanley Cup.
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Post by Nightspade on Jun 22, 2009 14:14:47 GMT -5
"Everyone dies. You can't stop it. You can't run away from it. Let me tell you something... Don't... Don't waste the life you have left fighting. I've never thought of you... As a son. But I've always respected you as a soldier. And... As a man. If you'd been in my place back then... Maybe you wouldn't have made the same mistakes that I did. Ever since the day I killed The Boss... With my own hands... I... Was already dead.
"Boss... You were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... The way it is. It's about respecting the will of others... And believing in your own. Isn't that... What you fought for? At last... I understand the meaning behind what you did. At last... I understand the truth behind your courage.
"It's almost time for me to go. And with me... The last ember of this fruitless war dies out. And at last those old evils will be gone. Once the source of evil returns to zero... A new one... A new future... Will be born. That new world... Is yours to live in. Not as a snake... But... As a man. Know this... Zero and I... Liquid and Solidus... We all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty. We fought to free ourselves from nations... And systems... And norms, and ages. But no matter how hard we tried, the only liberty we found... Was on the inside... Trapped within those limits. The Boss and I may have chosen different paths... But in the end, we were both trapped inside the same cage... Liberty. But you... You have been given freedom. Freedom to be... Outside. You are nobody's tool now... No one's toy. You are no longer a prisoner of fate. You are no longer a seed of war. It's time for you to see the outside world with your own eyes. Your body... And your soul... Are your own.
"Forget about us. Live... For yourself. And find... A new lease on life. Boss... You only need one snake. No... The world would be better off without snakes.
"This is good... Isn't it?''
The Final words of Big Boss, MGS4: Guns of the Patriots.
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Post by KPforever on Jun 23, 2009 15:01:24 GMT -5
"Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The World is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan PRESS ON! Has solved, and will always solve the problems of the Human Race"
- Calvin Coolidge
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Jun 25, 2009 20:52:57 GMT -5
Thought/Quote of the day: "Difficult to see. Always in motion the future." -- Yoda, Star Wars Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back
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Post by Luke Danger on Jun 27, 2009 8:44:16 GMT -5
Hobbie: "You lied to me." Wedge: "I did. With my brilliant achievements in the diplomatic profession has come the realization that lies can be powerful motivators." Hobbie: "My faith is shattered." Wedge: "You knew, when I said we needed four sets of women's clothing, that we were going to end up in them. You knew. So any hopes you had to the contrary were just self-delusion." Hobbie: "I understand that. But I'd rather blame you than me." — Wedge Antilles and Derek Klivian
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Post by KPforever on Jun 27, 2009 23:27:55 GMT -5
"The politicians always leave us with another war to fight."
- George S. Patton
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Post by Nightspade on Jun 28, 2009 10:28:53 GMT -5
Rose: We've always kept records of our lives. Through words, pictures, symbols... from tablets to books... Colonel: But not all the information was inherited by later generations. A small percentage of the whole was selected and processed, then passed on. Not unlike genes, really. Rose: That's what history is, Jack. Colonel: But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Colonel: The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you. Rose: Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. Colonel: Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Rose: Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing. Colonel: Be nice to other people. Rose: But beat out the competition! Colonel: "You're special." "Believe in yourself and you will succeed." Rose: But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed... Colonel: You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Rose: Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth." Colonel: And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
The Patriot AI JD, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
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Post by Luke Danger on Jun 28, 2009 20:43:54 GMT -5
"You know, when I fought against the Great Pit Feind Agulag, he used his power to open a chasam between us and laughed, saying he was unbeatable... right before he slipped and fell in himself."
- Valen Shadowbreath in Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark
[Posters Note for those who give a d@mn: Augulag is a mistyping/psudoname for the devil in question being fought, as I can't check or recall the exact name]
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Post by Luke Danger on Jun 30, 2009 22:09:52 GMT -5
"...my rough, unlettered, and infinitely more admirable brother." —Albus Dumbledore on Aberforth
From Harry Potter and the Deathy Hollows
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Post by ninjanaco on Jul 10, 2009 12:21:43 GMT -5
"Dr. Edward L. Keyes advocates the teaching of sex-hygiene to children, because he thinks it is the kind of information that children are eagerly seeking. 'What is this topic,' he asks, that all these little ones are questioning over, mulling over, fidgeting over, imagining over, worrying over? Ask your own memories.'
"I do ask my memory in vain for the answer Dr. Keyes anticipates. A child's life is so full, and everything that enters it seems of supreme importance. I fidgeted over my hair, which would not curl. I worried over my examples, which never came out right. I mulled (though unacquainted with the word) over every piece of sewing put into my incapable fingers, which could not be trained to hold a needle. I imagined I was stolen by brigands, and became by virtue of beauty and intelligence spouse of a patriotic outlaw in a frontierless land. I asked artless questions which brought me into discredit with my teachers, as, for example, who 'massacred' St. Bartholomew. But vital facts, the great laws of propagation, were matters of but casual concern, crowded out of my life, and out of my companions lives (in a convent boarding-school) by the more stirring happenings of every day. How could we fidget over obstetrics when we were learning to skate, and our very dreams were a medley of ice and bumps? How could we worry over 'natural laws' in the face of a tyrannical interdict which lessened our chances of breaking our necks by forbidding us to coast down a hill covered with trees? The children to be pitied, the children whose minds become infected with unwholesome curiosity, are those who lack cheerful recreation, religious teaching, and the fine corrective of work. A playground or a swimming-pool will do more to keep them mentally and morally sound than scores of lectures upon sex-hygiene." — Agnes Repplier, "The Repeal of Reticence" (1913)
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Jul 15, 2009 7:57:34 GMT -5
"Are you intending to let him kill you?" "Certainly not. You must kill me." "...Would you like me to do it now? Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?"
-- Severus Snape and Professor Dumbledore, Chapter 33: The Prince's Tale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
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Post by Luke Danger on Jul 15, 2009 13:25:26 GMT -5
"Harry, the time for Disarming is past!"
- Remus Lupin to Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
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