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"What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness. Not contentedness but more power; not peace but war; not virtue but fitness. The weak and the failures shall perish: first principle of our love of man. And they shall even be given every possible assistance. What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche ~ I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's
--William Blake ~ Lead and they will follow. ~ I'm so full of myself I could shit a clone. ~ Abstainer, n.: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" ~ Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. ~Remember: It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. ~Never explain, never apologize. ~ I have learned silence from the talkative. ~ VicViper: My last girlfriend was cute, but then I found out she was a ROM, so I had to dump her. ~ Fry [hesitantly]: "I'm having one of those, uh, things... like a headache with pictures..."
Leela: "You mean an idea?"
Fry: Yeah!
~ I don't sympathize with whack hoes or wimpy guys ~ You wonder why I gotta gun? So I can get down for mine.
--50 Cent ~ The more incompetent someone is in a particular area, the less qualified that person is to assess anyone's skill in that space, including their own. When one fails to recognise that he or she has performed poorly, the individual is left assuming that they have performed well. As a result, the incompetent will tend to grossly overestimate their skills and abilities. ~ Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out? ~ teddy: bryno, thats the dumbest thing i've ever read, and i've read the patriot act... ~ "Religion is the opiate of the masses." --Karl Marx
"Winners don't do drugs." --FBI (bash quote #351086)
~ Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce
~ Religious followers must invest now with their blood and sweat, with their big payoff not due until the after-life. Postmortal rewards cost theologians nothing -- I'll match your heavenly choir and raise you 72 virgins. ~ Monica Lewenski had more President in her than George Bush ever will. ~ "The best argument against democracy is a five minute chat with the average voter" ~ Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. ~ They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore. ~ The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." ~ You probably wouldn't worry about what people
think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
-- Olin Miller ~ Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ~One day while walking through the wilderness a man stumbled upon a vicious tiger. He ran but soon came to the edge of a high cliff. Desperate to save himself, he climbed down a vine and dangled over the fatal precipice. As he hung there, two mice appeared from a hole in the cliff and began gnawing on the vine. Suddenly, he noticed on the vine a plump wild strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth. It was incredibly delicious! ~ Nothing great was ever accomplished by the timid. ~ Progress (n.): The process through which the Internet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.~ Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you until your life has illustrated it.
-- John Keats ~"In law school, the rule of thumb for litigation was essentially this: if it moves: sue it. If it doesn't move: move it and then sue it." ~ Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. --Anonymous ~ mav: I've always wanted to change my legal name to ;DROP DATABASE; and see what kind of havoc ensues... ~ The reward of a thing well done is to have done it ~Better hope you get what you want before you stop wanting it. ~ Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan ~ Power, n.: The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. ~ "I am a 5th century Chinese monk with a cock the size of a small child. I have three women that carry it behind me. I am only aroused sexually by the scent of tree bark. You are a ballerina from the 1800s. Your name is Veruca Helinabald. We are on a Spanish ship in the middle of the pacific ocean. We are about to sit down to dinner... with the captain."