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Commander Xerxes Thamian Meridian Posted Jan 16, 2004
Well thats good for you creachy
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russianboy Posted May 22, 2004
"The meaning of life is to find that meaning."
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Commander Xerxes Thamian Meridian Posted May 27, 2004
But that would mean that you've already found it and here for your life is now meaningless because you've found the meaning.
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The Professor Posted May 30, 2004
or you surpass the last point which our feeble minds can comprehend
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stealthwing Posted Jul 27, 2004
unfortunately foolish people can cause as much damage as those who do evil deliberately
"Rot at the core of an apple spreads outward."
i'm not a lunatic! just not very good at being bored.
"Is man merely a blunder of God's, or God merely a blunder of man's?" -Friedrich Nietzsche
religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "i am not the kind of person i want to be." it must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied
"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted
Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.
A man swears to keep from crying, a woman cries to keep from swearing. Both are sound psychology. Saftey valves - means of blowing off excess pressure that would otherwise blow fuses or burn out tubes.
a process cannot be understood by stopping it. understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
if wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets
the mind commands the body and it obeys. the mind orders itself and meets resistance
any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. from the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
a true friend stabs you in the front
paradise on my right, hell on my left and the angel of death behind
a stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both
If you are traveling in a car at the speed of light and you turn on your head lights...do they do anything? -Steven Wright
Give a man a fire, keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.
a name implies legitimacy; in another sense, it also implies that there is something else that the named object is being contrasted with and discerned from.
-stealthwing
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Yelbakk Posted Aug 30, 2004
Two wrongs may not make one right, but two right turns will take you back the way you came.
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Ancient Brit Posted Aug 30, 2004
Confusious he say, if man makes two good right turns in search of origin, he must then make good rightabout turn to find way forward.
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MasterJJmasteR Posted Nov 2, 2004
death comes to us all; so does that mean that we are all living?
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Yelbakk Posted Nov 2, 2004
It's better to have loved and lost than to have never lost, at all.
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jonathan030781 Posted Dec 20, 2004
I am 7 the root of 42, I am therefore it is.
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Yelbakk Posted Mar 21, 2005
A waiter asked Descartes whether he wanted something to drink. "I think not," replied the philosopher and disappeared.
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Yelbakk Posted Dec 22, 2005
Though *that* would be a great philosophical quote to use at any (im-)possible time: "Did I say Greek?"
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