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"It is a long road and I have set my foot upon it, and though I race at no pace other than my own I grow weary with the days and miles, but would not count myself content if I were to rest. Better then to finish on this path, and work through the bitter stretch, and know I have accomplished something for all I've done."
"There is nothing to make you hate your own work like going back to read it again."
"Ailurophilia shares many of the same traits as an infectious disease. In time, sufferers will attempt to spread their affliction to friends, family, and acquaintances. First through cute cat pictures and, eventually, trying to palm off kittens..."
"I met a young woman once that thought if she went to heaven, tha teveryone she loved would go to heaven too - because with out them, it wouldn't be heaven. It didn't matter what they had done in their lives, it only mattered that she was a good enough person. To her, hell must have been an empty and lonely place."
"Never ask a favor unless you're willing to accept it."
"The great downfall of every religion is the acceptance by the masses. For any group of individuals, whose needs and wants are so diverse and different, the message must be so altered or watered down that the religion is either destroyed or the masses pay only lip service to its tenants, going about their daily business. Fanaticism, it must be understood, is a lonely preoccupation - and thankfully so." - Succo
"From an objective standpoint, there is nothing inherently wrong with 'aspiring porn star.' It is as viable a career objective as any, the financial and emotional awards for the most successful something often envied. It is only a subjective and cultural bias that makes my inner me frown at the phrase, quickly backed up by accounts of sex workers that were degraded, short-shifted, and exposed to disease and other professional risks. In terms of gross risks it is probably no better or worse than being a sewer worker, but I think I would still be less horrified at an aspiring sewer worker. So perhaps I need to work on my objectivity a little more." - Succo
"The greatest leap is from competent to good."
"No matter how many times I see them, knees are weird."
"Curiosity has its price. Sometimes it's a bit of blood or cash, other times a bit of innocence. Always, always a bit of time."
"A uniform is a wall. It separates those who wear it from those who do not. Inclusive, exclusive. One of us, one apart. It does not matter if you stand to protect them, because they can never really trust you, never really know you. There are only your brothers and sisters in the second skin. Then, one day, the uniform comes off. Like that, you are one of them again. The other side of the wall. Except in your head. Always in your head, a part of you will always be in that uniform."
"Obscenity is technical language. It's usage must be controlled, or else it loses its efficacy and meaning."
"Highlander is a fantastic franchise, where almost the entire fanbase agrees that the first half of the first movie actually happened."
"Human beings are not entitled to respect. They are entitled, as much as it is legally permissible, to an equal opportunity to succeed, equal participation in their government, to those rights and responsibilities that are a part of their citizenship, and the basic rights we assign all human beings without respect to citizenship. Respect is not a right, it is a privilege. It must be earned. I will treat you like a decent human being because it is the bare minimum level that all human beings deserve, irrespective of your beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, or ability. If you want me to respect you for your beliefs, you've got some things to prove."
"Every five years or so I look back at some of the shit I said and cringe."
Stage 3 of the Creative Writing Process: Cleaning the House.
"If I have to go to Wikipedia to figure out your fucking movie, you've failed."
"Beyond skill, there is mastery." - Succo
"May you get the answers you deserve, not the answers you desire." - Ancient Mathematician's Curse
"The universe cannot be perfected. It is foolish to think it may even be improved upon, from its state of nature. It is our destiny to try. Some for ourselves, some for others, some only for a dream of a better world."
"Writing is infectious. Someone reads something you wrote, and goes 'I can write that,' and does. That's marvelous."
"In that place, the definition of a gentleman was to pay for the abortion."
"Real names are for birth certificates and tombstones. Who only wears a single name during all their life?"
"Who has not grappled with the mysteries of normality? Those alien practices of the everyday, that you fear everyone knows except for you. Have you never met a man that never knew to sleep in pajamas, or a woman that ate her cornflakes with a fork?"
"Gaze not too deep in shallow pools." - Succus
"I question any religion, any system of belief, which casts doubt on real medicine. Faith is no fair substitute for knowledge or health."
"Money is a shell game with an imaginary pea. The trick is to pretend there's just one pea."
"The Matrix, Inception...you have a lot of movies out there that play with perception and reality. They are some pretty, pretty films. But the truth is, Hollywood will never release a mindfuck film to equal Videodrome. They don't have the balls."
"There's a part of music where the singer stops trying to express themselves in words, and you pass into a place where regular human language fails - and they sing screaming, wailing, moaning, howling, growling, purring, mewling. Wordless songs, but songs nonetheless. How marvelous."
"I spend a great many words very carefully not saying certain things."
"Romance-wise, my current goal is to not turn into one of those obsessive stalker-types or 'nice guy' assholes that think the deserve to get laid because they always smile and hold the door open. Actually getting laid isn't even on the map right now. Baby steps."
"If you have to ask 'Do I look like an asshole?' you already know the answer."
"Detroit is a god-forsaken urban blight on the soul of America dragging us all down to the deepest depths of Hell - but my God they have good music."
"She who gives life, is responsible for it. He who saves life, is responsible for it. You think so? How many would give to charity, if they accepted that a single donation incurred a life-long obligation? In truth we run from such responsibility. We are afraid to give too freely, because there is too great a burden. Is that not what organized charity is for? To distance us from the act of giving, and to distribute the responsibility?"
"I read stories about orcs, elves, dwarves, and dragons, and never expect to meet any in real life. My stories tell me there is nothing worth having without some challenge, hardship, or loss. You still expect that the guy you're chatting with over the internet is rich, handsome, sexy, and is going to leave his wife for you, just because you're you. Personally, I prefer my fantasy."
"A snake is still a snake after it sheds."
"Some find joy in achievement, and others in the process; these I understand well. Yet I never could conceive those who take joy in doing nothing, in accomplishing nothing, to wile away the hours and days without purpose and be content."
"Pessimism is a good indication you've been paying attention."
"Never take basic competence for granted."
"Censorship will never make the world a better place. At best, it can only make you stop and ask 'Why has this been censored?'"
"Given a set of options, and fully informed of the differences as to each, some people will by preference gravitate toward the worst option. Knowing this, is it the failing of the individual for choosing the worst of the lot, or is it the failing of the designer for not making all choices equal?"
"I do not see why there must be something sacred about sex that precludes it as a profession; certainly there are many who pursue that employment without joy, but only for the income it brings, and in that they are no different than the vast majority of the employed. For those rare few that are paid for doing what they find pleasure in - well, then your definition of 'whore' must be extended to every artist, writer, professional and tradesman that pursues their craft." -Succo, Discourses on Prostitution
"Eat rice for every meal of every day for a year. Then cease, and fast for a week, and try it again - and you will finally know the taste of rice."
"The difference between poor research and artistic license is often ill-defined, and equally as often completely absent."
"Rule 1: The Internet, and everyone on it, owe you nothing. Be grateful for what you get."
"Life is in media res." - Succo
"To have the courage of your convictions means much more than being willing to die for what you believe; you must also be willing to live by the same tenets you ascribe, to know your philosophy well enough that you know its weaknesses as well as its strengths, to answer the questions of hesitant converts and ardent detractors. And if in examining that your beliefs are false, it also means you have the strength of character to shed the errant convictions - for while some may ardently fight to support what they know to be a lie, only a coward could try to live a lie."
"There is nothing to make you hate your own work like going back to read it again."
"Ailurophilia shares many of the same traits as an infectious disease. In time, sufferers will attempt to spread their affliction to friends, family, and acquaintances. First through cute cat pictures and, eventually, trying to palm off kittens..."
"I met a young woman once that thought if she went to heaven, tha teveryone she loved would go to heaven too - because with out them, it wouldn't be heaven. It didn't matter what they had done in their lives, it only mattered that she was a good enough person. To her, hell must have been an empty and lonely place."
"Never ask a favor unless you're willing to accept it."
"The great downfall of every religion is the acceptance by the masses. For any group of individuals, whose needs and wants are so diverse and different, the message must be so altered or watered down that the religion is either destroyed or the masses pay only lip service to its tenants, going about their daily business. Fanaticism, it must be understood, is a lonely preoccupation - and thankfully so." - Succo
"From an objective standpoint, there is nothing inherently wrong with 'aspiring porn star.' It is as viable a career objective as any, the financial and emotional awards for the most successful something often envied. It is only a subjective and cultural bias that makes my inner me frown at the phrase, quickly backed up by accounts of sex workers that were degraded, short-shifted, and exposed to disease and other professional risks. In terms of gross risks it is probably no better or worse than being a sewer worker, but I think I would still be less horrified at an aspiring sewer worker. So perhaps I need to work on my objectivity a little more." - Succo
"The greatest leap is from competent to good."
"No matter how many times I see them, knees are weird."
"Curiosity has its price. Sometimes it's a bit of blood or cash, other times a bit of innocence. Always, always a bit of time."
"A uniform is a wall. It separates those who wear it from those who do not. Inclusive, exclusive. One of us, one apart. It does not matter if you stand to protect them, because they can never really trust you, never really know you. There are only your brothers and sisters in the second skin. Then, one day, the uniform comes off. Like that, you are one of them again. The other side of the wall. Except in your head. Always in your head, a part of you will always be in that uniform."
"Obscenity is technical language. It's usage must be controlled, or else it loses its efficacy and meaning."
"Highlander is a fantastic franchise, where almost the entire fanbase agrees that the first half of the first movie actually happened."
"Human beings are not entitled to respect. They are entitled, as much as it is legally permissible, to an equal opportunity to succeed, equal participation in their government, to those rights and responsibilities that are a part of their citizenship, and the basic rights we assign all human beings without respect to citizenship. Respect is not a right, it is a privilege. It must be earned. I will treat you like a decent human being because it is the bare minimum level that all human beings deserve, irrespective of your beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, or ability. If you want me to respect you for your beliefs, you've got some things to prove."
"Every five years or so I look back at some of the shit I said and cringe."
Stage 3 of the Creative Writing Process: Cleaning the House.
"If I have to go to Wikipedia to figure out your fucking movie, you've failed."
"Beyond skill, there is mastery." - Succo
"May you get the answers you deserve, not the answers you desire." - Ancient Mathematician's Curse
"The universe cannot be perfected. It is foolish to think it may even be improved upon, from its state of nature. It is our destiny to try. Some for ourselves, some for others, some only for a dream of a better world."
"Writing is infectious. Someone reads something you wrote, and goes 'I can write that,' and does. That's marvelous."
"In that place, the definition of a gentleman was to pay for the abortion."
"Real names are for birth certificates and tombstones. Who only wears a single name during all their life?"
"Who has not grappled with the mysteries of normality? Those alien practices of the everyday, that you fear everyone knows except for you. Have you never met a man that never knew to sleep in pajamas, or a woman that ate her cornflakes with a fork?"
"Gaze not too deep in shallow pools." - Succus
"I question any religion, any system of belief, which casts doubt on real medicine. Faith is no fair substitute for knowledge or health."
"Money is a shell game with an imaginary pea. The trick is to pretend there's just one pea."
"The Matrix, Inception...you have a lot of movies out there that play with perception and reality. They are some pretty, pretty films. But the truth is, Hollywood will never release a mindfuck film to equal Videodrome. They don't have the balls."
"There's a part of music where the singer stops trying to express themselves in words, and you pass into a place where regular human language fails - and they sing screaming, wailing, moaning, howling, growling, purring, mewling. Wordless songs, but songs nonetheless. How marvelous."
"I spend a great many words very carefully not saying certain things."
"Romance-wise, my current goal is to not turn into one of those obsessive stalker-types or 'nice guy' assholes that think the deserve to get laid because they always smile and hold the door open. Actually getting laid isn't even on the map right now. Baby steps."
"If you have to ask 'Do I look like an asshole?' you already know the answer."
"Detroit is a god-forsaken urban blight on the soul of America dragging us all down to the deepest depths of Hell - but my God they have good music."
"She who gives life, is responsible for it. He who saves life, is responsible for it. You think so? How many would give to charity, if they accepted that a single donation incurred a life-long obligation? In truth we run from such responsibility. We are afraid to give too freely, because there is too great a burden. Is that not what organized charity is for? To distance us from the act of giving, and to distribute the responsibility?"
"I read stories about orcs, elves, dwarves, and dragons, and never expect to meet any in real life. My stories tell me there is nothing worth having without some challenge, hardship, or loss. You still expect that the guy you're chatting with over the internet is rich, handsome, sexy, and is going to leave his wife for you, just because you're you. Personally, I prefer my fantasy."
"A snake is still a snake after it sheds."
"Some find joy in achievement, and others in the process; these I understand well. Yet I never could conceive those who take joy in doing nothing, in accomplishing nothing, to wile away the hours and days without purpose and be content."
"Pessimism is a good indication you've been paying attention."
"Never take basic competence for granted."
"Censorship will never make the world a better place. At best, it can only make you stop and ask 'Why has this been censored?'"
"Given a set of options, and fully informed of the differences as to each, some people will by preference gravitate toward the worst option. Knowing this, is it the failing of the individual for choosing the worst of the lot, or is it the failing of the designer for not making all choices equal?"
"I do not see why there must be something sacred about sex that precludes it as a profession; certainly there are many who pursue that employment without joy, but only for the income it brings, and in that they are no different than the vast majority of the employed. For those rare few that are paid for doing what they find pleasure in - well, then your definition of 'whore' must be extended to every artist, writer, professional and tradesman that pursues their craft." -Succo, Discourses on Prostitution
"Eat rice for every meal of every day for a year. Then cease, and fast for a week, and try it again - and you will finally know the taste of rice."
"The difference between poor research and artistic license is often ill-defined, and equally as often completely absent."
"Rule 1: The Internet, and everyone on it, owe you nothing. Be grateful for what you get."
"Life is in media res." - Succo
"To have the courage of your convictions means much more than being willing to die for what you believe; you must also be willing to live by the same tenets you ascribe, to know your philosophy well enough that you know its weaknesses as well as its strengths, to answer the questions of hesitant converts and ardent detractors. And if in examining that your beliefs are false, it also means you have the strength of character to shed the errant convictions - for while some may ardently fight to support what they know to be a lie, only a coward could try to live a lie."
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Re: Quotes, 2013
This is very true. If I had a time machine, I would totally use it to have conversations with myself from ten years ago.Ancient History wrote: "Every five years or so I look back at some of the shit I said and cringe."
Also, to travel a week into the future and get the winning lottery numbers.
I'd use it to go back in time and cause evil people to look utterly ridiculous - give Hitler a tiny mustache that only fits directly under his nose, convince the KKK to wear "pointy-headed ghost outfits" and such.
...oh snap!
...oh snap!
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"With the colossal mishandling of the XBone, it'd probably be more profitable for Microsoft's execs at this point if they strapped on spike gauntlets and made a video of themselves fisting eachother's assholes bloody."
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"People understand 'no pain, no gain.' Some people understand it that for any growth, any victory, any thing of value, you must suffer for it. And that if you are suffering, that it must be for a purpose. That suffering is not just a symptom of something going right, but is an absolutely necessary part of the process. Some of them even exacerbate the suffering of others, and think that by doing so they are helping. This is, to say the least, mistaken. Most people do not want to suffer, most people do not need to suffer. Suffering does not build character, it breaks people down. And when they are broken, they look up. Maybe they get help, maybe they don't. But we all cheer to see someone who has suffered raise themselves up, with or without help. We celebrate those who are made whole. We make heroes of those that overcome suffering...and villains of those who perpetuate it."
"People understand 'no pain, no gain.' Some people understand it that for any growth, any victory, any thing of value, you must suffer for it. And that if you are suffering, that it must be for a purpose. That suffering is not just a symptom of something going right, but is an absolutely necessary part of the process. Some of them even exacerbate the suffering of others, and think that by doing so they are helping. This is, to say the least, mistaken. Most people do not want to suffer, most people do not need to suffer. Suffering does not build character, it breaks people down. And when they are broken, they look up. Maybe they get help, maybe they don't. But we all cheer to see someone who has suffered raise themselves up, with or without help. We celebrate those who are made whole. We make heroes of those that overcome suffering...and villains of those who perpetuate it."
"People understand 'no pain, no gain.' Some people understand it that for any growth, any victory, any thing of value, you must suffer for it. And that if you are suffering, that it must be for a purpose. That suffering is not just a symptom of something going right, but is an absolutely necessary part of the process. Some of them even exacerbate the suffering of others, and think that by doing so they are helping. This is, to say the least, mistaken. Most people do not want to suffer, most people do not need to suffer. Suffering does not build character, it breaks people down. And when they are broken, they look up. Maybe they get help, maybe they don't. But we all cheer to see someone who has suffered raise themselves up, with or without help. We celebrate those who are made whole. We make heroes of those that overcome suffering...and villains of those who perpetuate it."
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Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
Under 100 proof, it's a solute...Koumei wrote:"Actually, as a chemist, alcohol is a solution. I mean, pure alcohol isn't, but you weren't going to drink that. Alcoholic drinks certainly are solutions."
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Pure alcohol is 200 proof (100 percent). The majority substance in a solution is the solvent and the minority or minorities are the solute. So if you have some pure alcohol (200 proof) and you add water until it is 50% water by volume (200/2 = 100 proof) then the water or the alcohol could be claimed to be the solvent or solute; add a drop more water and the alcohol becomes the solute, and vice versa.
Now, this doesn't mean that with, say poteen (80 proof) that alcohol isn't still the solvent, since it can still be the major ingredient by volume.
Now, this doesn't mean that with, say poteen (80 proof) that alcohol isn't still the solvent, since it can still be the major ingredient by volume.
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