Quae caret ora cruore nostro? It's only a flesh wound! - Monty Python "God is dead - Nietzsche. So is Nietzsche - God." A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can put it's pants on - Churchill. Cannon to the right of them/cannon to the left of them/cannon in front of them/volleyed and thundered/stormed at with shot and shell/boldy they rode and well/Into the Jaws of Death, into the Mouth of Hell, rode the six hundred - Tennyson. Good people do not need laws to tell them how to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around the laws - Plato. The difference between involvement and committment is like eggs and bacon - the chicken was involved, the pig was committed. Elaine the fair/Elaine the loveable/Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat/High in her chamber up a tower to the east/Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot - Tennyson. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? - Monty Python. Soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnik/splotilla navecky velikaya Rus!. Fortune favors the bold. Veni Vidi Vici - Caesar. What is left when honor is lost? - Publius Syrius When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains/And the women come out to cut up what remains/Just roll to your rifle, and blow out yer brains/An' go to your Gawd like a soldier!" - Kipling. And always at my back I hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near - Andrew Marvel. In vino veritas - proverb. My advice is to get married. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad wife, you'll become a philosopher - Socrates. It is always in season for old men to learn. - Aeschylus One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. - Sophocles. Fortis cadere, cedere non potest. - military proverb Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country - JFK. TANSTAAFL! - Heinlein. They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his "minimum sustenance" his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom? - Ayn Rand. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Lincoln. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. - Lincoln. Judge me by my size do you? As well you should not! For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. - Master Yoda. O wicked, blind, and mad cupidity/That in our existence spurs us so/And in the eternal steeps so bitterly! - Dante What is man that thou art mindful of him? Psalm 8:4. I know something you do not know. I am not left handed! - Inigo Montoya. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.- Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Twain David Michael Brooks, you are so stubborn! - My mother
I think that sums me up relatively well.
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