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Orwellingly Yurz
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Posted - 07/14/2006 :  15:19:24  Show Profile Send Orwellingly Yurz a Private Message
"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

--- Luis Bunuel

Orwellingly Yurz

Please feel free to put a tilda over Luis' 'n."

"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith

If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan

The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me

"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty

"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde

"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus

"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus

"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde

dglas
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Canada
397 Posts

Posted - 07/14/2006 :  15:36:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dglas a Private Message
Somewhere between miles and centigrade lie referents, the only things that ground our metaphors, despite the fact that people keep trying to obfuscate or abandon them altogether.

In the words of Penn Jillette, "Sweet Evil Jesus! What???"

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- dglas (In the hell of 1000 unresolved subplots...)
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The Presupposition of Intrinsic Evil
+ A Self-Justificatory Framework
= The "Heart of Darkness"
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Edited by - dglas on 07/14/2006 15:37:17
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Chippewa
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USA
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Posted - 07/14/2006 :  15:56:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Chippewa's Homepage Send Chippewa a Private Message
"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!"

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GeeMack
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USA
1093 Posts

Posted - 07/14/2006 :  16:21:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send GeeMack a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Orwellingly Yurz...

Please feel free to put a tilda over Luis' 'n."
Luis Buñuel
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 07/14/2006 :  16:42:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
I'd have to first be able to understand the quote before I could give my opinion as to its veracity. I can't make heads or tails out of that one.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/14/2006 :  19:40:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Looking up other quotes by the guy doesn't much help.

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Why not question something for a change?
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dglas
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Canada
397 Posts

Posted - 07/14/2006 :  20:43:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send dglas a Private Message
Oh, I dunno. This quote explains much:

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”


I don't see any method at all, sir.
(Quick! What movie was that from?)

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- dglas (In the hell of 1000 unresolved subplots...)
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The Presupposition of Intrinsic Evil
+ A Self-Justificatory Framework
= The "Heart of Darkness"
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Edited by - dglas on 07/14/2006 20:44:54
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

USA
4574 Posts

Posted - 07/14/2006 :  21:01:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by dglas
I don't see any method at all, sir.
(Quick! What movie was that from?)
My favorite movie of all time Apocalypse Now.

You know, for some reason I have a feeling much of the meaning of these quotes is being garbled in translation.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
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Siberia
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Brazil
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Posted - 07/15/2006 :  07:43:57   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by H. Humbert

quote:
Originally posted by dglas
I don't see any method at all, sir.
(Quick! What movie was that from?)
My favorite movie of all time Apocalypse Now.

You know, for some reason I have a feeling much of the meaning of these quotes is being garbled in translation.


Or maybe it was just thought up to sound all mystical and senseless.

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Chippewa
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USA
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Posted - 07/15/2006 :  11:30:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Chippewa's Homepage Send Chippewa a Private Message
Luis Bunuel was also a surrealist film maker and involved in the dada art movement, so the quote could itself be a work of art.

Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.

"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.)
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marfknox
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Posted - 07/16/2006 :  21:09:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message
It might make sense in its original context, but outside of it the quote just doesn't make sense.

"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong

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