norton
March 23, 2009, 5:06pm
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind
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The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
Aristotle their proving that humans never really change…
keith303
March 27, 2009, 9:58pm
42
‘I can see clearly now, the brain has gone’. - Anon
‘Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.’. - Hubert Humphrey
‘Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten’. -Gucci Slogan
‘I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.’ -Leo Rosten
‘Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.’ -Thomas J Watson
‘Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.’ -Confucius
‘I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.’ - Thomas Jefferson
‘Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.’ - Horace
meow
March 28, 2009, 10:12am
44
“Without the bitter, the sweet ain’t as sweet.” -one of the dudes in vanilla sky
BotB
March 28, 2009, 6:48pm
45
“Sometimes it’s better to silently observe what’s been written.”
Johann
March 29, 2009, 12:29pm
46
When I was asked to make this address I wondered what I had to say to you boys who are graduating. And I think I have one thing to say. If you wish to be useful, never take a course that will silence you. Refuse to learn anything that implies collusion, whether it be a clerkship or a curacy, a legal fee or a post in a university. Retain the power of speech no matter what other power you may lose. If you can take this course, and in so far as you take it, you will bless this country. In so far as you depart from this course, you become dampers, mutes, and hooded executioners.
As a practical matter, a mere failure to speak out upon occassions where no statement is asked or expect from you, and when the utterance of an uncalled for suspicion is odious, will often hold you to a concurrence in palpable iniquity. Try to raise a voice that will be heard from here to Albany and watch what comes forward to shut off the sound. It is not a German sergeant, nor a Russian officer of the precinct. It is a note from a friend of your father’s, offering you a place at his office. This is your warning from the secret police. Why, if you any of young gentleman have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.
I have seen ten years of young men who rush out into the world with their messages, and when they find how deaf the world is, they think they must save their strength and wait. They believe that after a while they will be able to get up on some little eminence from which they can make themselves heard. “In a few years,” reasons one of them, “I shall have gained a standing, and then I shall use my powers for good.” Next year comes and with it a strange discovery. The man has lost his horizon of thought, his ambition has evaporated; he has nothing to say. I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don’t be gagged. The time of trial is always. Now is the appointed time.
– John J. Chapman, Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of Hobart College, 1900
Meconium
April 7, 2009, 12:16am
47
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.” - Dorothy Parker
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” - Hunter Thompson
