February 2012
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– TS Eliot
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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
– Jesus, John 8:32
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Rusty Ryan: Are you alright?
Danny Ocean: Yeah, um, I just bit into a pepper.
Rusty Ryan: Is that… are you… are you watching Oprah? With a bottle of wine? Did you TiVo this?
Danny Ocean: I was reading the paper.
Rusty Ryan: With the sound at full volume? [They watch the show, where Oprah gives a family a new house]
Danny Ocean: It’s…not just the kids. I mean,...
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“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can...”
– Jack Handey
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“Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our...”
– Troy
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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not...”
– William Faulkner
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“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people...”
– The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...”
– A Tale of Two Cities
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January 2012
14 posts
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“I do have a test today. That wasn’t bullshit. It’s on European...”
– Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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“Messenger Boy: Are the stories true? They say your mother was an immortal...”
– Troy (2004)
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“We Haven’t Met But You’re A Great Fan Of Mine”
– Ship name, Iain M Banks, The Culture series
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“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead...”
– A Long-expected Party, Lord of the Rings
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“Un bon mot ne prouve rien”
– Voltaire
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“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I...”
– Jean-Luc Picard: Star Trek: Next Generation
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“Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. He was considered an evildoer who had dealt with a demon mankind dreaded. But thereafter men had fire to keep them warm, to cook their food, to light their caves. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had lifted darkness off the earth....
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“Dagney Taggart was nine years old when she decided that she would run the...”
– Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
December 2011
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“The role of art isn’t just to show life as it is, but to show life as it...”
– Harry Belafonte
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“A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.”
– Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
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“The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any...”
– Dinah Craik, in A Life for a Life (1859)
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“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the...”
– President Teddy Roosevelt
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“Josh: Why don’t we just give the sixty-billion to North Korea in exchange...”
– The Drop In, The West Wing
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“Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
– John Keating, Dead Poets Society
November 2011
116 posts
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