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Sunday, August 14, 2005

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My daily fortune cookie reading: "You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music."

A) I fail to see how that fits under the categoroy of fortune
B) I'm supposed to base my personality upon a craftily folded stale cookie reading? What if I don't like the arts?
C) Confucious lies.

2 Comments:

Dave said...: I pick C; 8:22 PM
Byagi said...: Confucious Lies. I love that. It needs to be used elsewhere.; 7:25 PM

: Name: Chishiki Lauren; Location: Philly, United States

If I told you I'd then have to kill you and sell your organs for beer money.Sapporo, to be exact.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
Now that I need you, you're going insane.

Everyday, sinking in the quicksand.

Time exists just on your wrist, so don't panic.

When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead; And the white knight is talking backwards; And the red queen's off with her head; Remember what the dormouse said, Feed your head, feed your head.

I'll let you be in my dreams, if I can be in yours.

Blame it on the black star, blame it on the falling sky, blame it on the satellite....

...the ocean laughs this way.

Juran que el mismo cielo, se estremecia al oir su llanto, como sufria por ella...

Oh la salvadora, oh, sweet catastrophe. Ah siren song, our captain says there's nothing wrong. As I dash my ship upon your shore, a mad, drunk, and reckless troubadour. I'm outside here hollerin' at your door, begging you for more....baby ain't we a beautiful disaster...

Who was she, to feel so free?

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.

In a funny way, she reminds you of the fall.

Blue eyes, you're the secret I keep.

Home, places we've grown, all of us are done for.

Further along we just may, but for now it's just another lonely day.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

If I told you a secret, you won't tell a soul, will you hold it and keep it alive?

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"A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war." - Einstein

"Breakfast where the news is read, television children fed, unborn living, living, dead, bullet strikes the helmet's head. And it's all over for the unknown soldier." - The Doors

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." - George McGovern

"Invisible transfers, long distance calls, Hollow laughter in marble halls, Steps have been taken, a silent uproar, Has unleashed the dogs of war. You can't stop what has begun, Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion. We all have a dark side, to say the least, And dealing in death is the nature of the beast." - Pink Floyd

"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared." - Henri Nouwen

"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." - Petrarch

"You fasten the triggers, For the others to fire, Then you set back and watch, When the death count gets higher, You hide in your mansion, As young people's blood, Flows out of their bodies, And is buried in the mud." - Dylan

“Cannot we have love instead of hate, peace instead of war?…War is on its last legs; and a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism, of liberal governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only how soon?" - Emerson

"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?" - Emperor Hirohito "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." – Nietzsche

"Men are better than their theology." - Emerson

"The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order, who observe the law when the government breaks it." - Thoreau

"To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings

"Is all that we see or seem, all but a dream within a dream?" - Poe

"But at night! Night spilled liked gasoline on my most hopeless dreams." - Leonard Cohen

"An intellectual is one whose mind watches itself." - Camus

"Perhaps the greatest sorrow is to dwell upon happiness from misery." - Dante

"All colors exist to satisfy the longing for blue." - Neruda

"I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I'll leave it up to you." - Ten Years After

"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages, it is the rule." - Nietzche

"I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream." - Van Gogh

"You killed your European son, You spit on those under twenty-one, But now your blue car’s gone, You better say so long." - Velvet Underground

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"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." - Emerson