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Statistics: Posted by SunnyAutumn — March 28th, 2010, 1:19 pm
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Ralph de Bricassart: [telling the legend of the thorn bird to Meggie] There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
Young Meggie Cleary: What does it mean, Father?
Ralph de Bricassart: That the best... is bought only at the cost of great pain.
From "The Thorn Birds" 1983 TV miniseries based on the Colleen McCullough novel "The Thorn Birds".
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Quote:
Athenians: For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretences- either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us- and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, ... ... ... will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Melians: As we think, at any rate, it is expedient- we speak as we are obliged, since you enjoin us to let right alone and talk only of interest- that you should not destroy what is our common protection, the privilege of being allowed in danger to invoke what is fair and right, and even to profit by arguments not strictly valid if they can be got to pass current. And you are as much interested in this as any, as your fall would be a signal for the heaviest vengeance and an example for the world to meditate upon.
Athenians: ... ... ... of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist for ever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do.
The Melian Dialog from "The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides
Statistics: Posted by Zizi — March 25th, 2010, 6:24 am
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"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan
Statistics: Posted by Jeroen — March 25th, 2010, 6:09 am
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What an awesome website.
Statistics: Posted by Ezcal — March 25th, 2010, 2:30 am
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YEEEAAAAAHHHHH.
Statistics: Posted by J@nr0k — March 24th, 2010, 8:47 pm
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'If you ask me what I came to do in this world, As an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud' ~Emile Zola
Statistics: Posted by Simons Pure — March 24th, 2010, 2:28 pm
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Seriously though?
"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
-William Arthur Ward.
"A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway."
-Christi Mary Warner
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
-E. M. Forster
Statistics: Posted by Kikori — March 23rd, 2010, 10:43 pm
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'The are known unknowns, known knows and unknown knowns'
I mean wth.
It actually means something like: there are things we know we know, things we know we don't know, and things we don't know we don't know."
Its Rumsfeld sounding dumb (normal)
Statistics: Posted by Metternich — November 19th, 2007, 10:14 am
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Statistics: Posted by mr penguin — November 17th, 2007, 2:32 pm
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Pericles in the Periclean oration (Thucydides book 1)
Echoed by Winston Churchill:
"Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry"
Difficult to go past this Churchillian speech:
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old. "
Statistics: Posted by Tweedy — November 15th, 2007, 11:30 am
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"Just another soldier reporting sir,
I've served my time in Hell."
-Sergeant Donahue, Battle of the Bulge.
Statistics: Posted by Arthenon — November 14th, 2007, 12:55 pm
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Lolz soz i couldn't resist but now a real one is
'A crash at sea can ruin your entire day!'
No dur what a genius
'The are known unknowns, known knows and unknown knowns'
I mean wth.
Statistics: Posted by TheSniperElite — October 30th, 2007, 2:45 am
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Statistics: Posted by The123king — October 30th, 2007, 2:43 am
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