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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?"
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Murphy's Laws of Combat wrote:
  • Odd objects attract fire. You are odd.
  • Friendly fire isn't, suppressive fire isn't, and recoilless rifles aren't.
  • If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
  • Don't look for the bullet with your name on it. Look for the shrapnel addressed to "Occupant".
  • When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not your friend.
(There's lots more at http://www.military-quotes.com/murphy.htm.)
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A more serious contribution than my last post.
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Quote boxes in signatures are hideous and should be grounds for a temp ban.

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This quote is making the rounds on liberal blogs lately.
Family PAC Federal Vice President Sandy Rios, on Tuesday August 2nd, 2011 wrote:“Is the White House out of their mind? Does the West Wing not know what the left wing is doing? We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?”
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I do believe I suggested the current quote sometime way back when. In fact...
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(сначала из Советского Союза вышел я, а потом все остальные.)
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"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
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"The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather to save humanity from hell." - Dag Hammarskjöld
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"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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"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

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"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
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What film was Ebert reviewing when he said that 'cult' line?
I can only think context would make it even better...
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Google is your friend. Though it's not really that illuminating, to be honest.
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Darth Tedious wrote:What film was Ebert reviewing when he said that 'cult' line?
I can only think context would make it even better...
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.
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Darth Holbytlan wrote:Google is your friend. Though it's not really that illuminating, to be honest.
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. :P
I'll just wait until I get back to my 'puter.
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Darth Tedious wrote: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. :P
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.
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Or you could stop being a cunt.

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"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."
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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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Since the quote hasn't changed in over a week, I went out and found some good ones by Mark Twain:
Mark Twain wrote:
  • A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
  • A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
  • All right, then, I'll go to hell.
  • No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
  • Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
  • Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
  • The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
  • The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
  • There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
  • Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
  • Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
  • Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
  • We [Americans] have the best government that money can buy.
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