"You say it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom - when men burn a woman alive we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre - beside it my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom, and then we will follow ours."
- General Sir Charles Napier
"There is no sight as melancholy as a battle won, unless it is a battle lost"
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Welllington
"In War: Resolution
In Defeat: Defiance
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Goodwill"
- Winston Churchill
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Can't believe I'd forgotten this one, although it's been twenty years since I read the book... but I still remember reading the line:
"But I can tell you what sort of a planet it is. Like Earth, but retarded."
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"But I can tell you what sort of a planet it is. Like Earth, but retarded."
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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From Season 5 of Red vs. Blue:
Tucker's advice:
Invest in real estate
There's no such thing as a Permanent record
Always eat breakfast
All the girls on the internet are actually dudes
And you should never ever buy the extended warranty on anything ever.
Also, chicks like it when you tell them they're pretty but they also like it when you're kind of a dick to them so mix it up a bit
I got to go now. Tex needs me and Church to back her up.
Jr: Bow Chicka Honk Honk
Doc: Wow, I guess you did teach him some stuff.
Tucker: Teach? You don't teach that. That's just Genetics
Tucker's advice:
Invest in real estate
There's no such thing as a Permanent record
Always eat breakfast
All the girls on the internet are actually dudes
And you should never ever buy the extended warranty on anything ever.
Also, chicks like it when you tell them they're pretty but they also like it when you're kind of a dick to them so mix it up a bit
I got to go now. Tex needs me and Church to back her up.
Jr: Bow Chicka Honk Honk
Doc: Wow, I guess you did teach him some stuff.
Tucker: Teach? You don't teach that. That's just Genetics
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I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call people weird that are weird.-Paul McCartney
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival-Rene Dubos
Better to be without logic than without feeling.-Charlotte Bronte
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. -Lyman Beecher
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-Aristotle
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.-Abigail Van Buren
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is intelligence having fun.-Anonymous
The world of reality has limits; the world of imagination is boundless.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more you know the less you understand.-Tao Te Ching
In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few.-Shunryu Suzuki
All thruth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.-Arthur Schopenhauer
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.-Barbara Burrow
Once you have eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.-Sherlock Holmes
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.-Thomas Edison.
If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it you can become it.-William Arthur Ward
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take-choose the bolder one. W.J. Slim
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.-Anonymous
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors...but they all exist very nicely in the same box.-Anonymous
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival-Rene Dubos
Better to be without logic than without feeling.-Charlotte Bronte
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. -Lyman Beecher
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-Aristotle
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.-Abigail Van Buren
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is intelligence having fun.-Anonymous
The world of reality has limits; the world of imagination is boundless.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The more you know the less you understand.-Tao Te Ching
In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few.-Shunryu Suzuki
All thruth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.-Arthur Schopenhauer
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.-Barbara Burrow
Once you have eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.-Sherlock Holmes
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.-Thomas Edison.
If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it you can become it.-William Arthur Ward
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take-choose the bolder one. W.J. Slim
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.-Anonymous
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors...but they all exist very nicely in the same box.-Anonymous
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98% of teens listen to (c)rap. If you are part of the 2% that still listens to real music, post this on your signature.
My signature on Spacebattles and Filefront.
My signature on Spacebattles and Filefront.
There is not a problem in this world that can't be solved without the proper application of a sufficient number of thermonuclear ordnance.
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