Quote of the day...?

Granddad: Huey, say something deep.
Huey: Huh?
Granddad: I ain't got all day, boy. Be deep
Huey: (sighs) Your pain is the breaking of the shell that enclosing your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity.
(silence)
Riley: Didn't rhyme

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"Great minds think alike great thoughts"

-Attributed To The Game

It's officially the new mantra. Catch Up.

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The Greatest of all the accomplishments of the twentieth-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance." -Lewis Thomas

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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

-H.G. Wells

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Back to your regularly scheduled, only PASSIVELY aggressive, Quote of The Day:

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

-Stella Adler

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"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."**

-Noam Chomsky

NOTE: This is a classic example of an idea I've been nurturing and developing over the past couple of years, only to find it poetically and sufficiently articulated years before my birth.

**This is the reasoning behind my indignant laughter at individuals who demand that China cannot have both non-representative government and rampant capitalism. In fact, China's current political state is far more conducive to the execution of capitalism than that of the United States.

Sometimes I fear that the wool has been over the eyes of the American populous for so long that their collective ocular muscles have atrophied to a state indistinguishable from complete and perpetual blindness.

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"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night."

-Jean Baudrillard

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"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

-George Bernard Shaw

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

-Albert Einstein

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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

-John Galsworthy

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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -H.P. Lovecraft

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"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."

-Alan Gregg

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"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

-Akira Kurosawa

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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

-Bertrand Russell

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"Power is not a means; it is an end....
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself....
The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy - everything.... No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends....
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science.... There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always - do not forget this, Winston - always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless....
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

-George Orwell

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

-H. L. Mencken

Introducing: Quote Of The Day

Droppin' gems for the masses. You're welcome.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

-Desmond Tutu