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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #575 on: October 02, 2023, 09:37:32 AM »
"There are so many absurdities in our time that it is hard to assign first place." — Hannah Arendt

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #576 on: October 04, 2023, 12:42:26 AM »
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could. ~Louise Erdrich - The Painted Drum


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #577 on: October 17, 2023, 01:28:43 PM »
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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #578 on: October 18, 2023, 03:31:53 AM »
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #579 on: October 18, 2023, 03:35:50 AM »
"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood).

"The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm 😭 It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it.  Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever.  Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'.  What a masterpiece. What a message."

Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness.”

- James Kricked Parr

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #580 on: October 19, 2023, 01:00:47 PM »
"Sentimentality is the bank holiday of cynicism"

Oscar Wilde

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #581 on: October 29, 2023, 09:12:38 AM »
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

James Boswell

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #582 on: November 01, 2023, 08:47:09 AM »
'There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.'


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #583 on: November 02, 2023, 04:42:56 AM »
The really unforgivable acts a
re committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present — they are real.


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #584 on: November 02, 2023, 12:33:32 PM »
Hawkeye:
War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.

Father Mulcahy:
How do you figure, Hawkeye?

Hawkeye:
Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?

Father Mulcahy:
Sinners, I believe.

Hawkeye:
Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #585 on: November 09, 2023, 02:15:27 AM »
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #586 on: November 13, 2023, 12:48:12 PM »
Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #587 on: November 14, 2023, 11:08:13 PM »

He shall find no Fiend in Hell can match the fury of a disappointed Woman! - Scorned! slighted! dismissed without a parting Pang!

Colley Cibber
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #588 on: November 15, 2023, 06:48:16 PM »
A Bevan,
That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #589 on: November 19, 2023, 11:38:08 AM »
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #590 on: November 24, 2023, 03:09:24 PM »

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot



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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #591 on: December 01, 2023, 02:57:04 PM »
"I'm 19, with a wardrobe full of clothes. I've got everything to live for."

RIP John Byrne.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #592 on: December 12, 2023, 09:14:13 PM »
(From John Stuart Mill via) JeremyP
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing
"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all" - D Adams

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #593 on: December 13, 2023, 09:26:32 PM »
What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #594 on: December 16, 2023, 12:35:00 AM »
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #595 on: December 17, 2023, 02:31:44 AM »
I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #596 on: December 18, 2023, 11:49:01 AM »
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.


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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #597 on: December 19, 2023, 08:23:27 AM »
If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

Jean Genet

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #598 on: December 20, 2023, 09:39:44 AM »
Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

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Re: Quote for the Day
« Reply #599 on: December 21, 2023, 10:57:53 AM »


it is that a lot of little black marks on paper can bring a person who died nearly two hundred years ago into your room: bring him so close that you know him much better than you would have known him if you met him in the flesh. It is extraordinary and it is enlarging.


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