Quote Digest

[Lord J Esq]

Hah! "Your physician today will be Dr. Guillotin. Please proceed to the Examination Room."

[Sajainta]

Patient::  0____0  "Um...on second thought...I think I'll just live with this illness."  /rushes out of hospital

[ZeaLitY]

So I'm browsing http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s2930579.htm, and I see:

Quote of the Week

"to live for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."   - Robert M. Pirsig

el oh el, what a misguided notion and weak metaphor.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

[ZeaLitY]

Your arguments have reminded me how precious the right to choose is. And because I've never been one to play it safe, I choose to try.

[tushantin]

  Faust.  Where are you damn’d?   
  Meph.  In hell.   
  Faust.  How comes it then that thou art out of hell?   
  Meph.  Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.   
Think’st thou that I who saw the face of God,           75
And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,   
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,   
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?   
O Faustus! leave these frivolous demands,   
Which strike a terror to my fainting soul.

Let me emphasize the point.

Meph.  Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.

Marlowe was rad! Haha been listening to the audio book.

[rushingwind]

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

[Sajainta]

That is not dead which can eternal vex,
And with strange aeons even death may index.

Bahahahaha.

[tushantin]

You should not become dogmatic. As the wise test gold by burning, cutting and rubbing it (on a piece of touchstone), so are you to accept my words only after examining them and not merely out of regard for me.

In an era when religions tend to divide people, with each believer quoting his own dogma or sacred scripture, the Dalai Lama is a firm believer that all the religious traditions and texts need to be 'tested'. It is why the Tibetan leader initiated a dialogue between science and spirituality last week in Delhi.

http://sify.com/news/the-gift-that-the-world-needs-from-india-a-nalanda-renaissance-news-columns-kmdpxEihfia.html

[Lord J Esq]

In an era when religions tend to divide people...

As opposed to all those other centuries. =P

[tushantin]

As opposed to all those other centuries. =P

XD Maybe, but unlike today not all religion/culture have discriminated against each other in the past. True, there were some AND they were horrible, but there have been pretty awesome influences too.

[FaustWolf]

The great and invigorating influences in...life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

Heh, I wonder how many times this has been posted in here already?

[tushantin]

Even weirder? Free will. Remember, to a neuroscientist, free will is every bit as real as the Tooth Fairy. They can watch your neurons light up at the moment you make moral decisions, can trace the exact electrochemical pathways. If there is nothing beyond the physical, then your ability to choose your actions vanishes along with God and Heaven and the angels. It was an atheist professor who told me that, in a class on ethics.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15759_10-things-christians-atheists-can-and-must-agree-on_p3.html#ixzz18gpU2Z8f

I was right all along. Heh, this brings new meaning to "Ghost in the Shell". LOL this also brings evidence to origins of originality and why derivatives and inspirations are usually way to go: we can't EVER think anything from scratch. Something or the other always influences us to do something. It's like an endless domino in our minds.

[tushantin]

Just because I love this quote so much...

(Translated) I'll put so many holes in ya that you'd be confused where to breathe from... and where to... fart from. *giggles like a school girl*

[Manly Man]

Just a few that I thought were funny from a rather entertaining book.

"Being on a boat is like being in jail, except a man in jail usually has more room, better food and commonly better company."

"Much of Man's misery may be attributed to a simple inability to remain happily alone in a room by himself."

"The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable."- Oscar's views on fox hunting

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

One of my favorites:

"Golf is a good walk, ruined."

[GenesisOne]

He who ceases to be better ceases to be good.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.