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"There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third." -John F. Kennedy.

99 red balloons go by

"Patrols are back - the Zulus are gone. It's a miracle."
"If it's a miracle, Sergeant, it's a short-chamber Boxer-Henry point four-five calibre miracle."
"And a bayonet, sir - with some guts behind it."

- Colour-Sergeant Frank Bourne and Lieutenant John Chard, Zulu.

don't worry about your difficulties with mathematics: I can asure you mine are far greater.- Albert Einstein

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress,
no matter how slow."

- Plato

"Trust me, you don't want to make the whole world your enemy. But at the very least, you do have one friend in me."

- Abel Nightroad, Trinity Blood episode 2

Some of my favourites:


To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
-Oprah Winfrey

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
- Anton Chekhov, author

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- Anna Quindlen

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
-Jane Addams

To be happy, do not add to your possessions – but subtract from your desires.
-Unknown Author

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it
-Micheal Jordan

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist.
- Jack London

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
- Ivern Ball

apathy is a disease that rots the mind.


abandon all hope ye who enter here.

I find the most useful quote in the world to be:

"DON'T PANIC" - Douglas Adams

When everything fails, follow the instructions.

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"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling."
- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance."

"some how you can see right past my mask."

"The needs of the many out-weigh the needs of the few."
- Spock

"The needs of the few out-weigh the needs of the many."
-Captain Kirk.

On what it means to be a democrat...

"They've cured it so often that they've now made a profession of it. They thrive on failures, on righting wrongs, on aiding victims, and so forth. It must be understood that success in those tasks would put them out of business. No matter how many programs are set up and operating, their proponents never claim success for them. To do so would be to say the problems have been solved, meaning the programs are no longer needed. And the programs, not the problems, are their very reason for being."
- Ronald Wilson Reagan

RONALD WILSON REAGAN - 6 letters in each word = 666
Move the letters around, using each one only once, spells
"INSANE ANGLO WARLORD."
- Rainstorm5, proud Democrat since 1985

[Celebrating my 500th post - whoop-de-doo]

"If the road is easy, the destination is worthless." - Saint Sabbat - Games Workshop