On Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:41:16 PM UTC-7, kenny wrote:
the causes of good and evil are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be forseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable reasons of preferance, must live and die inquiring and debating.--"Rotten wood cannot be carved, nor are dung walls plastered"-Confucius
which Slug has said is "a metaphor for that same old shit that everybody has already made songs about. Just trying to find your place within a belief and faith as well as people that you want to have sex with."(the main singer of atmosphere(the band))
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle.
Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.-Helen Keller
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.-Michel de Montaigne
"Under hurtful accusations, often lies a weak case"-(not sure of author of this)
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.-- Bertrand Russell.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."-m. scott peck.
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be. -Emerson....((okay a conflict here in my notes i am sorry, i wonder which one is right))....Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.-Rudyard Kipling
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how" (Nietzsche)
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.-- Dennis Roch
--"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth".-umberto eco
Men are like steel. when they lose their temper, they lose their worth." - Chuck Norris
All good things have costs. Many bad things have benefits.(lol this screams polotics!) "There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is"- calvin(and hobbes comics/bill watterson)
"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."-Michel de Montaigne......."He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (also found in hobbes leviathan)
Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.-raymond burr
and last but not least...."here we find ourselves, suddenl, not in a critical speculation, but in a holy place, and should go very wearily and revenatly.(no idea who said this)
i just wonder if anyone else gets a bonner from reading these???
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