Quote Digest

[Licawolf]

I was hearing JK rowling's Harvard commencement speech. Very inspiring, I could very well have quoted the whole speech xD

There is an expiration date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.

[tushantin]

Dammit! I agree with everyone of them (or mostly because they are so conveniently phrased)! But these, especially deserve to be re-quoted.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.

Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.

[Lord J Esq]

Nissa will save the elves, but only those who have proved their worth.

Magic card flavor text is occasionally epic.

[Kodokami]

Magic card flavor text is occasionally epic.

Ha. You're right. The subtle humor of the flavor text on "Enormous Baloth" and "Spined Wurm" always gave me amusement.

[tushantin]

While watching some science videos at work I came about some comments:

Video Topic: What Is The Universe Expanding Into

Comment: It is expanding into a dick joke.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It was an innocent joke, and yet it brings so much about humanity in mind.

[FaustWolf]

Hahahaha, that latest spam bot. What a doozy.

The warrior finds a liquor industry within him....
He does not succumb to outside liquors and drugs.
Taking the inside liquors, he remains ever tranquilized and equipoise

See, now? Pay attention to your inner liquor industry, and all will be well. Fine advice for the modern era!

[Sajainta]

And what liquor has ever made anyone tranquil and balanced?  Any liquor makes me super clumsy and super loud so I assume any "inner liquor" would do the same thing.

[tushantin]

That's the most...poetic spam... I've ever read! (wipes tears)

[tushantin]

Some might agree, some might not. But here goes anywhos.

But as for the bad shit, there has to come a point where you realize the same thing I've touched on over and over again in this article: As an adult, you are now part of the world and you do have some power to change it. As a kid, you didn't have the power to change shit.
The reason you need to live in a world with all of this shitty news is because that world needs you to help fix it. The reason you can bring a child into this life is because when you pass on your morals and beliefs to them, that's one more soldier on the field to fight for the good side.


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Life gets better because you're going to make it better. Because you'll have the power and the freedom to make it better.

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Cracked articles are frequently trolled on by thousands with extra free time. What's funny is that this article in particular has positive comments in majority.  Haven't seen a single negative comment on it yet. No matter what a depressing dude John Cheese might be, he's still in the springtime of his youth, doing his best to make the world a better place.

[tushantin]

The following are quotes from the movie Kurbaan (Sacrificed), an Indo-American Political Thriller that bothers to understand why people stoop to terrorism, in turn asking the right questions and opening various eyes. Selfishness and discrimination from one side breeds hate, in turn causing losses to the opposing side, leaving a gash in an innocent soul. This despair and misery causes anger that no amount of money can fix. The heart is empty, their blood is cold and they become lost souls. Jihad is only a weapon the use, deluding themselves merely to satisfy their own vengeance.

And you kill, causing more losses, and the opposing side becomes the same monster you have become. Never forget: what we need most is not war, not money, but humanity and understanding.

Children die everyday in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, if only to satisfy the White-People's thirst for oil. But don't worry; at least your child is destined to be a martyr here.

Heh, kill me. You people enjoy killing, don't you? Go on. Pull the trigger and shoot me, but don't for one fucking moment think that Allah wants this! Innocent people don't suffer at Allah's will. When a bomb explodes it is only the innocent that perish.

[Sajainta]

An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.  An atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said.  An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.  He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

[tushantin]

An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.  An atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said.  An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.  He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

That's the best Atheism quote I've read so far! And I love the positiveness that emanates from it.

But why settle for one when you can have the best of both worlds? A Church feeds and provides education to the poor and needy. A temple is a home of not only God, but also the homeless, those shunned by society. A single prayer gives you the courage to tackle impossible odds. A truly religious man also wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, and war eliminated. Religion forwards ethics to make humanity better.

And I personally believe that both beliefs can co-exist peacefully. 

[tushantin]

Been watching Tarak Mehta's Oolta Chashma, a highly philosophical comedy based on an old novel. The arc was a morbid one, exploring loneliness and the depth of human mind. There's a quote I found used by a journalist character who's constant catchphrase describes him Shaking The Heavens.

When you have respect in your heart, you will see God even in stone; and when you don't have that respect, every idol or statue is but a lifeless rock.

The arc was hardly about religion, though (because atheism isn't widespread in our culture, even though freedom of belief is); it was actually about the human mind and how we perceive people and substances, and the harsh realities of those without families, those constantly struggling with their own loneliness and keeping with society's pace.

I wouldn't spoil things for anyone though.   Though the whole episode was... heart-wrenching. So here's something to remember: cherish what you have and who you have. Never let them go lest you regret it later.

[tushantin]

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.

[tushantin]

Yes, we're mad! Though hardly any worse than this world that you call normal, where you're fined for breaking the speed limit but not for breaking someone's heart, and where you're charged guilty for breaking someone's head but not for breaking someone's trust.