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WTFZerg
United States704 Posts
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Tabularasa
Germany116 Posts
Randy Pausch: How to achieve your dreams If anyone hasn't seen it, watch it at least once. Its moving, very insightful and comes from someone who dearly wants to give some of the things he learnend in the course of this life to others. | ||
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altered
Switzerland646 Posts
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Ingwaz
Sweden70 Posts
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Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
Some really good ones among them, too. Here's another important one: If you don't want to watch all of it, at least watch 6:55 onwards + Show Spoiler + [...] Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations. Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual --is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. [...] | ||
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Ingwaz
Sweden70 Posts
On October 12 2011 23:32 Carnac wrote:+ Show Spoiler + Wow, I know most of those posted so far, one more proof that I waste too much time watching movies & browsing the web :p Some really good ones among them, too. Here's another important one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY#t=6m55 If you don't want to watch all of it, at least watch 6:55 onwards + Show Spoiler + [...] Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations. Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual --is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. [...] I recently saw Why We Fight(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436971/) and they use Eisenhower's speech about military industrial complex a lot. It is hard to believe how right he was. | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
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boon2537
United States905 Posts
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Choo
United States126 Posts
On October 12 2011 23:43 boon2537 wrote: + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUdB8gCMcXI I can't help myself I was just about to link this one -_- Edit: Here's Armageddon's instead | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
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Serelitz
Netherlands2895 Posts
+ Show Spoiler [I HAVE A DREAM] + | ||
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WTFZerg
United States704 Posts
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
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ishboh
United States954 Posts
On October 12 2011 23:56 GreEny K wrote: I can't believe that nobody has posted this, by far one of the best speeches ever. Gave me goosebumps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pHc811Ym8 that is a great monologue, however, I think that speeches are usually given to crowds, this was more like a conversation imo | ||
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ELA
Denmark4608 Posts
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0mgVitaminE
United States1278 Posts
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GreEny K
Germany7312 Posts
On October 12 2011 23:59 ishboh wrote: that is a great monologue, however, I think that speeches are usually given to crowds, this was more like a conversation imo Good point, but that is still a badass monologue... I think it deserves to be on here | ||
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TheVoice88
Norway23 Posts
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ey215
United States546 Posts
Shakespeare's Saint Crispen's Day Speech from Henry V + Show Spoiler + Enter the KING WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England. God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour As one man more methinks would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words- Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester- Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- 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 accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. | ||
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Playguuu
United States926 Posts
Can't go wrong with Marlon Brando Also Probably one of Gary Busey's best scenes (which got him nominated for best supporting actor IIRC, in an otherwise mediocre movie) | ||
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