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--- quotes [2020-08-12T00:03] – [Fred Hampton] NEW Teodor Väänänen
+++ quotes [2023-04-02T01:17] (current) – [Anonymous] glitter Teodor Väänänen
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 //"fainting: /v./ Mother Natures way of telling you to lie down. Which you will then do, whether you want to or not."//\\
+**---**
+//"glitter: /n./ The Herpes of the craft world."//\\
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 //"vexatious litigant: /n./ An irredeemable pest in the eyes of the court."//\\
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+//"An apple a day keeps the doctor away, if you hit him..."//\\
+**---**
+//"**NOTE!** This answer may contain traces of irony. Individuals allergic to humor are asked to ignore and scroll on."//\\
+**---**
+//"When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public."//\\
+**---**
 ===== Movies & TV Series ======
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 //“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.”//\\
 **--- Admiral Josh Painter**
+==== A Time to Kill ====
+//“I had a great summation all worked out, full of some sharp lawyering, but I'm not going to read it. I'm here to apologize. I am young, and I am inexperienced. But you cannot hold Carl Lee Hailey responsible for my shortcomings. Do you see, in all this legal maneuvering, something has gotten lost. That something is the truth. Now, it is incumbent upon us lawyers not to just talk about the truth but to actually seek it, to find it, to live it. My teacher taught me that. Let's take Dr. Bass, for example. I would have never knowingly put a convicted felon on the stand. I hope you can believe that. But what is the truth? That, that he's a disgraced liar? What if I told you that the woman he was accused of raping was 17, he was 23, that she later became his wife, bore his child and is still married to the man today? Does that make his testimony more or less true? What is it in us that seeks the truth? Is it our minds, or is it our hearts?\\
+\\
+I set out to prove a black man could receive a fair trial in the South, that we are all equal in the eyes of the law. That's not the truth 'cause the eyes of the law are human eyes, yours and mine, and until we can see each other as equals, justice is never going to be even-handed. It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices. So until that day, we have a duty under God to seek the truth - not with our eyes, and not with our minds where fear and hate turn commonality into prejudice, but with our hearts - but we don't know better.\\
+\\
+I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I want you to picture this little girl. Suddenly a truck races up. Two men jump out and grab her. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. Now they climb on. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to bear children, to have life beyond her own, they decided to use her for target practice. They start throwin' full beer cans at her. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. Then they urinate on her. Now comes the hanging. They have a rope. They tie a noose. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk, she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They don't find the ground. The hanging branch isn't strong enough. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. Pitch her over the edge. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl.\\
+\\
+Now imagine she's white.”//\\
+**--- [[https://youtu.be/s-mHf7rA5cY|Jake Tyler Brigance]]**
 ==== Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins ====
 //"Fear is just a feeling. You feel hot. You feel hungry. You feel angry. You feel afraid. Fear can never kill you."//\\
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 //"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."//
+===== Professor Ross Garnaut =====
+[[wp>Ross Garnaut]] [∗1946-07-28]
+//"If you ignore the science when building a bridge, the bridge collapses.\\
+If you ignore the science when building a plane, the plane crashes."//
 ===== Mahatma Gandhi =====
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 //“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I’m talking about the white masses, I’m talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don’t fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.”//\\
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+**--- Fred Hampton on Solidarity**
 ===== Heinrich Heine =====
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 //"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."//\\
+**--- :?:**
+//"Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it."//\\
+**--- :?:**
+//"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing."//\\
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 //"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."//
+//“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself -- a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”//
 ==== Chapterhouse: Dune ====
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 //"On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."//\\
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+//"You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism."//\\
+** --- Speech to his staff, 1966.**
 ===== Anne Lamott =====
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 He created and wrote a five-part miniseries for HBO and Sky based on the Chernobyl disaster.
-//“What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then?”//\\
+//“What is the cost of lies?\\
+It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth.\\
+The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.\\
+What can we do then?”//\\
 **-- HBO's "Chernobyl", E01 ("1:23:45")** [not attributable to [[wp>Valery_Legasov|Valery Legasov]]]
+//"We're on dangerous ground right now, because of our secrets and our lies.\\
+They're practically what define us.\\
+When the truth offends, we—we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there.\\
+But it is...still there.\\
+Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth.\\
+Sooner or later, that debt is paid."//\\
+**-- HBO's "Chernobyl", E05 ("Vichnaya Pamyat")**
 //"To be a scientist is to be naive.\\
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 **--- Babylon 5 Calendar, 1998**
 ===== Carl Sagan =====
-//"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."//
+//"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."//\\
+**---**\\
+//"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us."//
+===== Jean-Paul Sartre =====
+**[[wp>Jean-Paul_Sartre|Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre]]** (/ˈsɑːrtrə/, US also /ˈsɑːrt/;[7] French: [saʁtʁ];)
+[★1905-06-21†1980-04-15]
+was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.
+//“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”//\\
 ===== Lee Weissman ======
 //"The person who calls for hell fire on others calls for it on them-self. The extent of your mercy may be the extent of mercy extended to you."//
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 //"I swear, I am increasingly convinced that at least half of America is completely bonkers. And by bonkers I mean crazy. Looney Tunes. Starkers. The kind of bat-shit, drooling, bug-eyed, barking at the moon, piss-drinking, smeared in their own excrement, self-mutilating insanity you get from eating a steady diet of lead paint chips and snorting Tester’s Model Cement straight from the tap."//
+//"Irony jumps the tracks, careens down the embankment, crashes through a circus, hurdles over a mink farm, and plows into the river where it catches fire, rolls over, and explodes raining down burning weasels and flaming clown shrapnel across the countryside."//\\
+**-- [[https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1399142216422105101|Tweet on 2021-05-30T23:14Z]]**
+===== Yasutani Roshi =====
+//"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there."//\\
+**-- FIXME**