"Everybody lies... every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception."
-- Mark Twain

"Life is a shipwreck - but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats" - Voltaire

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You are standing on a 4.5 billion year old complex, self-sustaining organic spacship, which is orbiting a power source a million times larger than your ship. There are 200 billion other power sources, many of them with ships like yours, in your fleet. There are 40 other fleets in the immediate neighbourhood and your entire neighbourhood is moving at two million miles per hour towards an object 150 million light years away. Welcome to life, it's a lot more exciting when you think on larger scales.

"We must have a police state in this country or immigrants will come here and support the creation of a police state." - Ryan W. McMaken on the "pro-freedom" anti-immigration position

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"I'm just reading through your formspring here, and your responses to many questions seem to indicate that you are ready and willing to sacrifice realism/believability for the sake of (sometimes) marginal increases in gameplay quality. Why is this?"
"Because until I see gamers sincerely demanding that if they get winged in the gut with a bullet that they spend the next three hours bleeding out on the ground before permanently dying, they probably are too." - J.E. Sawyer

(There's lots more at http://www.military-quotes.com/murphy.htm.)

A more serious contribution than my last post.

Quote boxes in signatures are hideous and should be grounds for a temp ban.

"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended." -Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

August 5 is the 49th anniversary of Nelson Mandela being jailed.

This quote is making the rounds on liberal blogs lately.

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Anonymous facebooker on the "Snowmageddon" February 2010 DC snowstorm:

I do believe I suggested the current quote sometime way back when. In fact...

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It's Rogue, not Rouge!

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First I exited the Soviet Union, then all the others did.

---Viktor Suvorov/Vladimir Rezun, Soviet defector.

(сначала из Советского Союза вышел я, а потом все остальные.)

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Q: How are children made in the TNG era Federation?

A: With power couplings. To explain, you shut down the power to the lights, and then, in the darkness, you have the usual TOS era coupling.

"Conspiracy theories are popular because no matter what they posit, they are all actually comforting, because they all are models of radical simplicity." - William Gibson

"The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather to save humanity from hell." - Dag Hammarskjöld

"When there is a dispute between two small nations, the UN steps in and the dispute disappears. When there is a dispute between a small nation and a large nation, the UN steps in and the small nation disappears. When there is a dispute between two large nations, the UN disappears."

Kenneth Rogoff (calling it "an old quip" http://www.project-syndicate.org/commen ... 19/English)

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Q: How are children made in the TNG era Federation?

A: With power couplings. To explain, you shut down the power to the lights, and then, in the darkness, you have the usual TOS era coupling.

"Ronald Reagan is dead and he was a lousy President" - Kieth Olbermann

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." - William Gibson

EDIT:
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O’Rourke

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"I'm just reading through your formspring here, and your responses to many questions seem to indicate that you are ready and willing to sacrifice realism/believability for the sake of (sometimes) marginal increases in gameplay quality. Why is this?"
"Because until I see gamers sincerely demanding that if they get winged in the gut with a bullet that they spend the next three hours bleeding out on the ground before permanently dying, they probably are too." - J.E. Sawyer

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
-- Ernest Gaines

What film was Ebert reviewing when he said that 'cult' line?
I can only think context would make it even better...

Google is your friend. Though it's not really that illuminating, to be honest.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.

I was then, and am now, on a mobile device. Your link takes me to a blank page of Google. I wasn't just asking because I'm a Google-phobe.
I'll just wait until I get back to my 'puter.

I'm pretty sure Google has a mobile site (m.google.com). Or you could read DPDarkPrimus's post, which also answered your question.

Or you could stop being a cunt.

"Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa—and it's about getting a balance." –Sir Richard Branson

"I am glad to see you not so wanting in courage as in sense. But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant."
-- Myron, in The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own; for the children, and the children yet unborn."
-- Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street"

I must take issue with Dr. Freud on this one. Without civilization, there is liberty only for those strong enough to secure it for themselves.

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It's Rogue, not Rouge!

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Since the quote hasn't changed in over a week, I went out and found some good ones by Mark Twain: