EPTThe Quote Thread - Page 11
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Sbrubbles
Brazil5776 Posts
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FreshDumbledore
Austria57 Posts
recognitional I hope to acquire some day. This whole answer would end in a huge monologue of me talking bout how the humans will finally end up enlightened after billions and billions of years travelling through the universe. All that I can say right now is one of my favourite quotes though, which proves to be true in an ironical way: I know that I know nothing. | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
-Probe1 in his 1961 address to the Space United Nations | ||
Whitewing
United States7483 Posts
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Hoban
United States1600 Posts
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Vapaach
Finland994 Posts
For real though, "If you never try you never know" is my favourite. Not sure who the quote belongs to though. | ||
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McNulty
Norway184 Posts
"There's always a motherfucker tryin'a ice skate uphill." - Blade (aka Wesley Snipes) | ||
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Versioned
United Kingdom73 Posts
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Derrida
2885 Posts
Our insistence on the depth and efficacy of these controls is open to the objection that we overrate greatly the indoctrinating power of the “media,” and that by themselves the people would feel and satisfy the needs which are now imposed upon them. The objection misses the point. The preconditioning does not start with the mass production of radio and television and with the centralization of their control. The people enter this stage as preconditioned receptacles of long standing; the decisive difference is in the flattening out of the contrast (or conflict) between the given and the possible, between the satisfied and the unsatisfied needs. Here, the so-called equalization of class distinctions reveals its ideological function. If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places. if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population." Herbert Marcuse, 1964. | ||
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DrBoo
Canada1177 Posts
"So is this your first NASL?" -Lindsey Sporre | ||
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Kahuna.
Canada196 Posts
On July 12 2011 05:12 DrBoo wrote: "Excellent" "So is this your first NASL?" -Lindsey Sporre Lol, I found that hilarious too. But she's new to the scene, so it's understandable. | ||
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NemesysTV
United States1088 Posts
-Justin Bieber :3 | ||
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mengsk83
Germany519 Posts
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
On July 12 2011 01:57 Mute wrote: My favorite quote is by Neitzsche: "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." This quote is amazingly deep. It applies to so many aspects of life where you are unfairly judged by another person due to their ignorance. It also reminds me to not be too quick to judge others. Are they dancing to music that I can't hear? (figuratively). His writing is just phenomenal, particularly his way of phrasing. Here is another, which I read in a book of his for a class, but which seemed insightful: "While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed." Here, he highlights a unique aspect of Christianity, which extols meekness, humbleness, and weakness--surely shortcomings--and reinterprets these flaws as virtues. Thus, priests attempted to subvert the classic notions of strength, courage, and power, which were the privileged virtues of the dominant warring class, the knights, kings, and men; of course, this subversion merely served the interests of the decrepit priests. Whereas the morality of nobleman sought to define itself through specific strengths and conditions, the slave morality, or the morality of the priests, existed through negative definitions, and used these counterpoints to enact a distorted moral framework: hence, 'the meek shall inherit the earth,' although in reality such a characteristic is merely descriptive of infirmity, cowardice, and powerlessness. | ||
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Chargelot
2275 Posts
- Thrall | ||
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XeliN
United Kingdom1755 Posts
On July 12 2011 06:07 Chargelot wrote: The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know.' The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything. And I have prided myself on my ability to learn. - Thrall I'm pretty sure Thrall stole that from the Oracle at Delphi Edit. Also, just because I browsed up and the juxtaposition made me giggle. On July 12 2011 04:49 FreshDumbledore wrote: I hate how people choose random quotes that they choose to implement in their everyday live or something. Something like "Don't crybecause it's over, smile because it happened." I'm sorry but I.simply can't stand these. Maybe it's because I think i'm so much more intelligent than most others, and hope to envolve (evolve?) some kind of ultimate quote, which sums up all my views. Or at least the recognitional (needlessly superfluous and incorrect) I hope to acquire some day. This whole answer would end in a huge monologue of me talking bout how + Show Spoiler + my life turned upside down, an I'd like to take a minute just sit right there.... All that I can say right now is one of my favourite quotes though (superfluous), which proves to be true in an ironical(and one last for good luck...) way: I know that I know nothing. In a double irony of poetic justice I mixed up "Superfluous and Superlative" originally  | ||
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Fuckyeah
17 Posts
On July 12 2011 05:26 NemesysTV wrote: "Never say never" -Justin Bieber :3 Here's another good one: "Baby baby baby" - Justin Bieber | ||
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NemesysTV
United States1088 Posts
On July 12 2011 06:11 Fuckyeah wrote: Here's another good one: "Baby baby baby" - Justin Bieber :D | ||
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Chargelot
2275 Posts
On July 12 2011 06:10 XeliN wrote: I'm pretty sure Thrall stole that from the Oracle at Delphi Couldn't find a source of that myself. Feel free to provide one. | ||
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TheLaddergoat
United Kingdom34 Posts
I really think it sums up all that is great about the human condition as well as the juxtaposition of elongated attributives for the augmentation of my proposition | ||
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