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THOUGHTS

FEAR, COURAGE & STRENGTH

"I would fear something that thinks it can destroy an armysinglehandedly much more than another army." - Marle -- "Chrono Trigger

Dimensions Ch. 36" a fanfic by Jerm

They had some guts pulling that. - Lycorne, 4:12 pm, 03.09.2001

"In order to protect the ones we love, surely that is why we came tobe born. If we don't have love, if we aren't strong, we can't learn to

be gentle." - Kris Conner

"Turn around before you fear what you've found - You're faced down, soturn around and face me now" - Crystal Star Phoenix

"If only i was 18 and had the courage of the A-team maybe then you'dbe with me."-Goldfinger. if only

She cried as she told me, so I didn't. I haven't. I can't. Someone hasto be strong. I won't put that on my mother's shoulders. She's lost

too much recently. - Lycorne, 04.01.2001

Strength is born in the deep silence of long suffering hearts; notamid joy

Don't be afraid. We're here to help you. -- The Hat of Zug©

'Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sightsthan this.' Odysseus in The Illiad

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness isto be expected only from the strong." -Leo Rosten

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the ideathat courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know

you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see itthrough no matter what.

I'm strong you know! -Iris Chateaubriand, Sakura Wars

"Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear---not the absence of fear." -Mark Twain

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

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"Often the real test of courage is not to die, but to live." -Vittorio Alfieri

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is moreimportant than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon

When you have faults do not fear to abandon them –Confusius

FRIENDS

"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate." - Murphy's Law #1024"...and sometimes the real trick is telling the difference." - Murphy's Law #1024a,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"I want to get to know them better, but i'm too afraid of being pushedaway or getting hurt, or hurting them to do anything about it."

- Lycorne, 05.01.2001

"Do you actually have fun acting so callous toward your comrades?"- Rinoa, FF8

(I don't believe in relying on others.) - Squall, FF8

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing withthe other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly

simple?" -Eugene Kennedy

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."-Elbert Hubbard

"Love is blind, but friendship... friendship is clairvoyent."- Jenni S.

Feel enthusiastic about everything.. begin to annoy friends. - The Tragically Hip

"It's that creepy little doctor..an' he's talkin' to Santa Claus!" Luse, Poison Elves (M-7)

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." -Baltasar Gracian

"Miroku, let me tell you this now... I have no intention of being your 'comrade'..."-- Inu-Yasha - Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

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"Well...I suppose it's always good to see old friends again..." Freidrich, Poison Elves (S-28)

Have no friends not equal to yourself --Confusius

Ailwon:"What the hell are you doing, rogue?"Luse:"Getting to know you, silly boy." , Poison Elves (M-14)

"Am I not detroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" -Abraham Lincoln

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend." -Anonymous

Fleece:"Wipe that frickin' smile off your face, please."Luse:"Sorry.", Poison Elves(S-26)

"Friends are as dangerous as enemies." -Unknown

Parintachin:"My Lord!! It's like, a whole new phaze of our friendship!!! I'm touched! After

three long years he trusts me!!! Mr. Badass elf himself trusts me! After beatingme , shooting me, strangl--"

Luse:"Look, Parintachin, if this is too thrilling for you, I'm sure I could bring you back toreality a little bit...by gun or knife--your choice..." , Poison Elves(S-24)

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"......Don't bother." -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Hyena:"Can we at least be friends?"Luse:"Yeah. We can at least be friends...So, does this mean we are going to get

naked? ,Poison Elves (M-12)

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take

the bus with you when the limo breaks down." -Oprah Winfrey

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"How come whenever I attempt to be social, I end up cracking someone's skull open!?!?"

Luse, Poison Elves (M-10)

FAMILY

had to hear this from... my back-stabbing bastard of an aunt - Lycorne,04.01.2001

Mommy had an eating disorder and Daddy was a drunk. -- The Hat of Zug©

"And this one is for my grandmother who said I'd never amountto anything more than a butterknife!" - DustyX

"You threatened to take my children away from me. You think I won'tkill you? Surprise." - Rann Aridorn

*grins and remembers Lina being thrown like a football.* "Go long,Grandpa!" - Thea -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"Those Sons of Chaos... they need some limelight!!!" - Phoebee Hunt -- Zelgadis on the

Mailing List

It would be a million times easier to fight a demon lord with a bamboo stick, than to cross

my sister. -Lina Inverse, Slayers Try

"Well! This is the life, isn’t it? Kicking back with family and friends over a pot of tea and a

shitload of paranoia." - Urlich, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Ooh... Well done, looks like you've remembered... your elder brother's face... " -- Sessh �EMaru

- Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Andrew: All right, what about your family?Bender: Oh mine? Its real easy.

Stupid worthless no good goddamn free loadin' son of a bitch retarded big mouthknow it all asshole jerk!

You forgot ugly lazy and disrespectful-shut up bitch! Go fix me a turkey pot pie!

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What about you dad?Fuck you.

No, dad, what about you?Fuck you.

No dad what about you?!Fuck you!

Brian: Is that for real?Bender: Want to come over sometime? -- The Breakfast Club

Now family's an institution,Probably the greatest one of allBy great I don't mean nothing

But the size of its fall.Not a friend that I hadWhen I was growing up

Had a family that was togetherAnd I saw how it messed 'em up.

Family's where it all starts,And what it all relates to,

The Hell on this earth,That we're all going through.

So mothers and fathersAnd those soon to be

Take a good look at yourselfAnd your family

'Cause family's an institutionAnd we're all institutionalized -- Kelly Thomas

Bender: Hey Sporto! You get along with your parents?Andrew: Well if I say I do, I'm an idiot, right?

Bender: You're an idiot anyway, but if you say you get along with you parents, well, you're a

liar too. -- The Breakfast Club

"What's up Inu-Yasha? Aren't you going to punish your brother, as Toutousai requested,

huh? " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

CHILDREN AND ADULTS

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Hush little baby, don't say a word. And never mind that noise youheard. It's just the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your

head. - Satraen

"How can one act their own age if they've never been their agebefore?" - Running Mirage

"You threatened to take my children away from me. You think I won'tkill you? Surprise." - Rann Aridorn

"If a person continues to see only giants, it mans he is still looking at the world through the

eyes of a child." -Anais Nim

"I wish I'd seen you as a little girl, without your armous to fend off the world...I would have

kept you underneath my wing...I would protect you from everything." -Tonic

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to

imitate them." -James Bladwin

How can a eight year old boy who can barely multiply be a threat to national security, and

they call me paranoid -- Mulder

Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die. - The Crow

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to

be wrong" -Thomas Szasz

"...And those children that you spit upon as they try to change their worlds are immune to

your consultations, They're quite aware of what they're going through." David Bowie

We are trained in this world to accept only what is rational and logical. Have you everwondered why? As children, we do not separate the possible from the impossible

which iswhy the younger a mind is the easier it is to free while a mind like yours can be very

difficult.--Morpheus, Matrix

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"A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, &

prejudice that have to be taught. And from the condition of the world we can see thatunfortunately there are some very good teachers." -Javan

"It's unavoidable... When you grow up, your heart dies." -Alyson, The Breakfast Club

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child." -Ron Wild

We gotta break these chainsFor our childrens' sake...

For the world to survive. -- Kelly Thomas

"One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to

Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no,' I said.'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think deep down, he thought it

was apretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting

pretty late."-Jack Handey

"I was just a child, but I understood..." - Shinji, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." -Dr. Seuss

WOMEN & MEN

"Never argue with a red-haired witch. It wastes your breath and onlydelays the inevitable." - the collected sayings of Wiz Zumwalt,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"What am I doing on the outside of a highrise 30 stories above theground? This is what happens when I listen to a woman." - 3x3 eyes

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be aman's last romance." -Oscar Wilde

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"She is not worth what she doth cost, the keeping."-- Troilus andCressida

"He's such a drama queen. ^.^" - WeeHoo the Light Elf -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

I can never tell what this girl is going to say next! -Kyosuke Kasuga, Kimagure Orange Road

I guess you don't care if Mokoto runs off with that demon god bimbo, do you?-Nanami Jinnai, El Hazard OAVs

The sky could fall and women would still go shopping! -Hiro Seno, The Venus Wars

Men and women... you lose if you chase. Run, run, and keep on running.What if she doesn't chase after you?

Idiot! Then you run back as fast as you can, fall on your knees and apologize!-Godai and the Cabaret guy, Maison Ikkoku

"What is it with guys and high explosives?" - Black Arachne, Beast Wars

"It says �Elt;b>SEX �Ein big letters. Men always read anything that has to do with sex."-Naga, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

Circie:"LISTEN YOU LITTLE SHIT, I'M HALF NAKED, STARVING, AND I'M IN NO MOODFOR LAME SARCASM...JUST GET ME THE HELL AWAY FROM HERE AND YOU

CAN JOKE AS MUCH AS YOU WANT...UNTIL THEN, SHUT UP!"Luse:"Crow, a female me!!" , Poison Elves(M-19)

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" -Bill Clinton

"Tomboy - all right, you call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals, tomboys win championships,

tomboys can fly. One more thing: tomboys aren't boys." -Anonymous

"Models are to be used, not believed." -H. Theil

"Jeez, man--I'd offer you a woman but I just crushed my last one!!" Parintachin, Poison Elves

(M-11)

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It just be raining black men in New York! - Men In Black

God created men first b/c you gotta have a rough draft before the masterpiece! -- Kelly

Thomas

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him *whose*?" -Don Marquis

"Men can only hurt you when you're already down" --Lesley T

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." -SorenKierkegaard

"I have such a deep admiration for guys who roll around on the floor with other guys." -Bender,

The Breakfast Club

Lieutenant: I think we can handle one little girl. I sent two units. They're bringing her downnow.

Agent Smith: No, Lieutenant, your men are dead. -- Matrix

"Whoso would be a man, must be a noncomformist." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purple Marauder:"Think of it! What has been the downfall of man time and time again?"

Luse:"Fools...such as yourself." , Poison Elves (M-4)

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."-ChineseProverb

Jace:"Dammit!--I just have this feeling!"Luse:"Stuff some snow down your pants then!" , Poison Elves(M-19)

"No woman gets my gozers." Luse, Poison Elves (M-19)

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PEOPLE IN GENERAL

Be nice to people, they out number you 6.9 billion to one. - Tokkan

"Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War.Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."-Tyler. Fight Club

Harsh worldfull of harsh people,

who don't care anymore,and don't notice they don't.

- Lycorne, 04.09.2001

"lost in the fiction of social historical preference" - Black_Crow

"You don't need a reason to help people." - Zidane from FF9

"Don't worry... No one will hold it against you for having been human"-Q. Star Trek: The Next Generation.

"Nice guys finish last."-Green Day. nice guys finish last

This morning, I am wondering what the hell got me out at a party lastnight. I don't do parties. I can barely deal with people. - Lycorne,

03.10.2001

"They say, the best men are molded out of faults; and, for the most,become much for the better for being a little bad." --Measure for

Measure

I hate the fact that you people don't salute me. -- The Hat of Zug©

Show me someone with a deep loathing for all mankind and I'll show yousomeone who works in retail. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Treat people as if they are what they ought to be, and you will helpthem to become what they are capable of being." Johann W. von Goethe

"A person is smart. People are dumb, dangerous animals and you KNOW it!" - MiB

"It's amazing how many people agree with you when you learn how to glare successfully."

- Empress Ariadne -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

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"Oh , I agree , humans are boring. He should always remain at least a Chimera." - Q99 --

Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"Tall people are so frickin' weird, you know?" - Luse, Poison Elves(S-)

"I think monsters are the most interesting people!" - Bugs Bunny

We are all actors in a play with no script, opponents caught in a game with unknown rules,

dancers moving to the tune of silence. - Silvertris

Do you really intend on becoming human? You need 30,000 people? Do you think you

can really gather that many? -Sakura Kuriyagawa, Key the Metal Idol

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the

bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen

"Do not treat your people as you treat yor artifacts. Let them go, and they will live; seal them

here, and they will die." - Urza, to Radiant -- Angelic Curator, MTG Card

"We live in a time when people seem so... empty." - Ally McBeal

"We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary

people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion

is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at TV. We are real. We laugh,

we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humor. You don't have to be afraid of us. We

don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we

give you -- to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think."-Margot Adler, on Pagans

"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand." -Unknown

"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world

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must live up to mine." -Fritz Perls

Ultimately in my stories, the most horrible creatures of all are the humans themselves." - Kei

Kusunoki

Have you ever searched for life on this planet?I've seen life on this planet, that's why I'm looking elsewhere. -- Scully and Mulder

"Im not the man who screamed to the Universe, 'Sir I do exist!' only to be answered back by

the Universe, 'But that does not instill in me a reason to care.'" -- Ken / Kaelic

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and

impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that

people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank

"You humans are so embarassing... turning every little trouble into a death scene." --Inu-Yasha - Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

Attempting to harness the engine of our own destruction... only humans are so foolish."

- Misato, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"Nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast..." - Green Day

"Humans are remarkable creatures, when pushed into a corner they acheive unimaginable

feats" - the aliens

" Inu-Yasha... You are an arsehole who is well suited to hanging out with humans. " --Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"The pure enigmatic construct of the human mind has very little to do with absolute labels.

Labeling something Evil is just another way to come to grips with the horrors that are around

us. These moral fucksticks want to blame video games, movies and our modern world for

every case of bad chemicals and miseducation. I'd say human nature is vastly improving if

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anything. The collective outrage and horror of the Colorado shooting is proof of our progress.

All you have to do is mildly study the Medieval era to be awakened at just how bad human

beings were, how commonplace the human disregard for life was. Do you think anyone terribly

minded that thousands of women has their ovaries torn from them while still living in the name

of holy persecution? Fuck no. Nobody cared because the value of human life was worth nothing.

Now it apparently has some value. Granted if it's American lives then the value might go up

a tad right? I don't see to many westerners losing sleep over the mass graves, brutal rapes and

genocide in Kosovo, do you? But I imagine that's more human nature. We tend to covet our

own. Or is it the old case as 'all Animals are equal, just some are more equal than others'.

Whatever. It's not because of evil that this shit is happening. This shit has always happened in

our history on this marble, it's more the case of reality poking it's head in the door and

saying 'remember me?' -- anon. " -- Ben

"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be." -Charles Brower

"Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them." -Epictetus TheEnchiridion

"We are the people our parents warned us about." -Jimmy Buffett

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to

classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this

planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you

humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource

is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another

organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human

beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. --Agent Smith, Matrix

"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The more I come to understand humans as induviduals, the less I understand them as a

race." -- Lycorne

"I'm surrounded by idiots!" -Scar from The Lion King

"Man is never closer to God then when he bends down to touch an animal in need" --Roary

Kennedy Smith

"To 'err' is human; to blame the next guy even more so." -Anonymous

"There is no justice among men." --Czar Nicholas II (1868-1918)

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence

which could support this." -Bertrand Russell

"One of the best ways to measure people is to watch the way they behave when something

free is offered." -Ann Landers

"A barbarian...[is one who] thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of

nature." -George Bernard Shaw in Caeser and Cleopatra

Seek first the gifts of the spirit and those of mankind may surely follow --Matthew D. O'Reilly

"Feh, Foolish Mortal, you know not with whom you deal." - Jenni Stringfellow

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it." -Samuel Butler

"The majority is simply all the fools on the same side" --Artic_Magician_Tunlor_Whek

"I don't worry about the people that don't like me, they can all go to hell!" --who hasn't?

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." -Socrates

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Never send a human to do a machine's job. --Agent Smith, Matrix

"People who've seen unicorns tend to share their traits... lonely with virtuous hearts." - Ally

McBeal

GOD, HIS WORK & FAITH

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewergod than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other

possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."-- Stephen Roberts

I'm currently in a mode of thinking where telling the gods to goscrew themselves sounds like one of my better options. - Lycorne,

04.01.2001

"...I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simplysuspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need

an interpreter." -- Nick Petreley

Greek mythology says that whom the gods would destroy, they first makemad. I'd never been sure whether 'mad' meant crazy or angry. Either

way, the gods were working on me pretty good right now. - Iniach

"The little pink dojo behind the chevron in HG is a cult. They makeblood sacrifices to their demon lord, etc., etc." - Lycorne, 05.04.2001

"The Gods touch every life differently, there for, how can we expecteveryone to share the same view of the Gods?" - Luna Faye

In the beginning,There was the One

And the One dreamed,

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And there was the LightAnd the One was the Light,And the Light was beautiful,

And the Light became the Atari.And the One spoke,

And it was the Savior.And the Savior was the Path,And the Path was the Pong,And the One liked the Pong.

ALL HAIL THE PONG!- Chi and Lycorne

"Once you met your maker you should curse yourself for your optimisticjudgement."-(some random soldier) Gundam Wing

"Damn you people who's beliefs confine my abilities..." - Lycorne,05.01.2001

"What truly supreme being is so insecure as to need, let alone demandhuman worship and subservience? Or, more to the point, what mature

adult needs deities like that in his or her life?" - Jim DeKorne

"Jesus H. frog on a pogo stick!" -Beth, Bedlam's Bard

"The most preposterous notion that homo sapiens has ever dreamed upis that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the

Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can beswayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receivethis flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to

bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and leastproductive industry in all history." - Eleri -- Zelgadis on the

Mailing List

Smashing Pumpkins Theorem 1:emptiness is loneliness

and loneliness is cleanlinessand cleanliness is godliness

and god is emptyjust like me

Smashing Pumpkins Corollary 1:Billy Corgan is God.

-- Smashing Pumpkins Fan Corrollary

Keaton always said "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser

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Soze. - Roger Kint, The Usual Suspects

"Religion is like the leaning tower of pisa, it defies the laws ofphysics and should have crumbled years ago" - Emily Simmons

"The gods forgot they made me, so I forgot them too." - David Bowie,"Seven"

Always back up data. Even Jesus saves. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Now watch closely everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god."-Lady Eboshi, Mononoke Hime

God's in a meeting, may I help you? -- The Hat of Zug©

"Always back up data. Even Jesus saves." - Hat of Zug©

With this ancient magic in my power I'll soon become god - an honor I've been denied long

enough! -Katsuhiko Jinnai, El Hazard tv

"I was walking down the street one day and I saw a man standing on the corner with his fists

raised shouting at the sky, 'I hate you! You're a terrible, awful god, and I hate you!'And I said, 'Hey!'

And he turned to me and said, 'Hey, at least I believe in him.'Sometimes in today's world its all we can do to just believe." - a pastor, Ally McBeal

They say when you talk to God, it's called prayer. When God talks to you, it's schitzophrenia.

- Fox Mulder

Make God laugh -- plan for the future. -Anonymous

"When the gods are busy elsewhere, you must make your own luck." - Teletha, Timespell

"A black hole is where God divides by zero" -Anonymous

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If an omniscient God exists, then nobody is free; and, equivalently, if anyone can perform a

free action, then God does not exist --unknown

"That would be comforting... if I had morals." - Unknown

"I am the one the only one, I am the God of Kingdom come... so just give me the prize."

-- John / Kellindil & Ken / Kaelic

"Man must not create gods. We cannot allow him such power!" - Seele, Neon GenesisEvangelion

". . . were you on this religious kick at home, or did you crack up over here?" -- M*A*S*H*

"You mean all I have to do is sit in a circle and clap my hands and I'm a goddess? Where do

I sign up?!" - Unknown

"Oh, I love God! He's so deliciously evil!" - Stewie, The Family Guy

Perhaps there isn't much difference between humans and dolls. Man creates dolls in his own

image. If god exists, its possible we're all just dolls to him. - Neon Genesis Evangelion

"Holy marketing ploys, Batman! God as a plush doll? I don't think so!" - Unknown

"Charming. Like when God told Abraham to kill Issac." - Brian, The Family Guy

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first

step." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If knowledge is power then a god am I - Batman Forever

If the good Lord had intended us to walk he wouldn't have invented roller-skates. - Willy

Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children. - The Crow

"Religion is for folks who want to avoid going to hell. Spirituality is for those who havealready been there." -Anonymous

"Religion is a death fixation..." -Tenth, Poison Elves (S-33)

The almighty says he can get me outta this, but he's pretty sure you're f*cked. - Braveheart

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Heaven isn't that far away... For me, Heaven is just on the edge of forever and tomorrow."

-- Ken / Kaelic

Luse:"Now...I'm just going to have your pet wizard pop me out of here...and we can meet later

on fairer terms as God intended..."Morachi:"'God' doesn't have a gun pointed at your head...", Poison Elves (S-26)

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." -'All the Weyrs of Pern', Anne McCaffrey

"And the lord came to me while I was in slumber and took me high into the air and he took

me to a vast farmland of the midwest as I decended I heard the cries of thousands of screams

and I asked the Angel Of The Lord what are those cries and he said those are the cries of the

carrots see for tomorrow is the harvest day for them it is the holocaust"- GabriaL_DeLioncore_of_BLackRose

BALANCE

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"True chaos is the balance between real chaos and no chaos, it is thebalance between true nature, and no nature, it is everything and

nothing co-existing in the same reality, and that is only true half thetime." - Zygos_

"Youah no a rearn focas! Youah no a rearn to massa your internal tings! Tings onry dah soul

canna touch! Youah stop rooking atah me dat way! Youah do a much bettah to rook at yourself

inna dat way! Maybe youah see youah fol what you are! Youah-- SHUT UP! Youah not even

diciprined enough to getah angly! You have no barance! Noah barance because noah focus!

Youah suchi fol blains!" Parintachin (as Mr. Moto), Poison Elves (S-14)

Mr. Moto:"Filst, we bow."Luse:"So we're fighting?"

Mr. Moto:"Hi, but"CRACK SLAM

Luse:"Hey! Mr. Moto! I dig this balance shit! I feel great! Wanna try again!?",Poison Elves (S-4)

Talon:"Where is Mr. Moto?"Luse:"Mr. Moto is dead...Fills me full of peace and hamony crap, breaks my friggin'

hand andhead, then drops dead of a heart attack.."

Talon:"And the students?"Luse:"I killed 'em to show Mr. Moto my inner disharmony.." , Poison Elves(S-3)

Your spoon does not bend because it is just that, a spoon. Mine bends because there is no

spoon, just my mind. Link yourself to the spoon. Become the spoon and bend yourself. --Boy,Matrix

STUPIDITY & FOOLS

"Applications programming is a race between software engineers, whostrive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe which strives

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to produce bigger idiots." - software engineers' saying"So far, the Universe is winning." - application programmers' saying,

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I'm brilliant but I have to do dumb and self-destructive things torelax. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Their simple minds can not seem to understand."-Everclear. normallike you

"She says that love is for fools that fall behind."-Fuel. shimmer

Been hitting the stupid pills again? -- The Hat of Zug©

"I don't know who's the bigger fool, him for leading, you forfollowing, or me for not leaving you both."--Gargoyles.

Never have so many known so little about so much. -- The Hat of Zug©

Look, Ma ... No Brains! -- The Hat of Zug©

"Only a fool thinks he has friends." Shoujo Kakumei Utena

"The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally new development." - Alfred North

Whitehead

I've been waiting for a dumb wish like this. -Megalo Dragon, Mahoujin GuruGuru

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn foolabout it. - W.C. Fields

"You know I like 'em big & stupid, but you're really pushing it." - Black Arachne, Beast Wars

"That and the fact that, as most idiots who are freakishly tall, he had this, 'I am King Doom'

Complex..." - Luse, Poison Elves(S-)

"He who hesitates is a damned fool!" -Mae West

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

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-Chinese Proverb

"Are you a fool, worm? Wake up. " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Attempting to harness the engine of our own destruction... only humans are so foolish."

- Misato, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"That and the fact that, as most idiots who are freakishly tall, he had this, 'I am King Doom.'

complex." - Luse Poison Elves(S-11)

"I NEVER say anything stupid..." - Unknown

"Feh, Foolish Mortal, you know not with whom you deal." -- Jenni Stringfellow

"Fool... Resistance is futile... " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Mr. Madison. What you've just said....is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be

considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul - Billy Madison

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad." -William

Shakespeare

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of he always declares that it is his

duty." -George Bernard Shaw

"Beware of stupid people in large numbers." -- Unknown

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. --Elbert Hubbard

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"It's better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it." -Unknown

KNOWLEDGE"i could have never imagined knowing something so firmly, in everybone in my body... and that feeling is what drives me, i need to start

acting on it.. i need to....." - Emily S., 11.12.2001

"Those who can't do teach." - article of faith among students"And vise-versa." - programmer's addendum to students' article of faith,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"It is not what people think that is important, but why they think whatthey think" - Eugene Ionesco

"I couldn't help but think. At the time I thought it was a brilliantstatement. I knew it wasn't quite that simple, nothing ever is. But I

thought it was mostly right." - Lycorne, 06.07.2001

"Cherish what you -are-, here and now, not what you were, or what youmight be in the future. Be yourself. Learn what that means." - Miach

Windtree

I'm brilliant but I have to do dumb and self-destructive things torelax. -- The Hat of Zug©

"You raise excellent points. I knew someone would catch me on that."- Lycorne, 06.20.2001

"I do do look up at the stars and KNOW that I do not belong on Earth.I KNOW that this is not the form I am supposed to be wearing. I KNOW

I'm supposed to be somewhere else. And I have considered correcting theerror, except I know the error would only begin again because things

are destined to be like that." - Lycorne, 04.29.2001

"We don't know until we try, and those who never try will neverknow" - Laguna, FF8

"I am so awesome, genius, I tell ya!" - Laguna, FF8

"I have to admit, I really am a genius!" - Laguna, FF8

"A person is smart. People are dumb, dangerous animals and you KNOW it!" - MiB

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"I'm not real smart but I can lift heavy things."--good motto for Gourry - Thea -- Zelgadis on

the Mailing List

Someday I will make you understand my music. Definately. -Nekki Basara, Macross 7 TV

Hey! Don't you know the rules? When heroes transform, ride in their machine, or stand in

their main pose, no one should attack them! -Da Cider, Vs Knight Lamune and 40 Fire

There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant

"When Urza asked the viashino what it did, they answered: 'It hums.'" - Thran Turbine,MTG Card

"I don't have the confidence to explain it to you so that you'd understand..." --Yotsuya-san,

Maison Ikkoku

"You only know what I allow u to know." - Unknown

"Oh great. 'A Learning Experience.' The traditional three-word preamble to a burial.Terrific." - Joe, The Chrome Borne by Mercades Lackey & Larry Dixon

"Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes.(tranaslation: If you can read this you're overeducated.)" -unknown

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and

does not stop until you get to the office." -Robert Frost

"Knowledge is power, power leads to destruction." - Ben-saki

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." -Chinese Proverb

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." -Sir Frederick G. Banting

"To look is one thing,

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to see what you look at is another,to understand what you see is a third,

to learn from what you understand is still something else;to act on what you learn is all that matters."-Taoist Saying

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights but this flash is everything." -Henri Poincare

"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." -Bob Edwards

"Technology makes us weak, if we learn from history, why haven't we learned anything?"- Ben-saki

"Es ist nicht genug zu wissen man muss auch anwenden. Es ist nicht genug zu wollen man

muss auch tun.TRANSLATION: It is not enough to have knowledge, one must apply it. It is not enough

tohave wishes, one must also accomplish." -Goethe

"There never was a genius without a tincture of madness." -Aristotle

"To know and to act are one and the same." -Samurai Proverb

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius! - Young

Frankenstein

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." -LudwigWittgenstein

"One of the amazing abilities of man is to learn from his past mistakes, but what is even more

amazing is how often he chooses not to" -Unknown

"All I need now is intellectual intercourse." -Alanis Morissette

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." -David Russell

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"Now I know." -Aidan Chambers

A lesson learned is knowledge earned --unknown

"Education is that which allows you to get into more intelligent trouble." -Anonymous

"Education is not what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner

"If you wish your merit to be known, aknowledge that of other people." -Oriental Saying

"Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers." -James Thurber

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought wihtout accepting it."

-Aristotle

"Whatever door in my mind you opened, I want you to close it!" - Stir of Echoes

WISDOM"If you eat a live toad in the morning, nothing worse will happen all

day long." - California saying"To you or the toad." - Niven's restatement of California saying

"--well, most of the time anyway..." - programer's caveat to Niven'srestatement of California saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Whenever you use a jump, be sure of your destination address."- programmer's saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Always secure your files, you never know who's lurking about."- programmer's saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Never argue with a red-haired witch. It wastes your breath and onlydelays the inevitable." - the collected sayings of Wiz Zumwalt,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

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"For those who have seen the WayThe High minded practice it;

The Moderate minded try it every now and then;and the Small minded laugh at it;

If they did not laugh, it would not be the way."- Lao-Tse, one of the authors of the I Ching

It's called thinking. You should try it sometime. -- The Hat of Zug©

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if theaudience is deaf." -Walter Lippman

"For wise men, folly fallen, quite taint their wit." -WilliamShakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regainconsciousness" -Ray Bradburn

Wars take many lives away. Humans never forget the grief, but they also never stop the

fighting. Streams of blood and tears are only an ornament for their destructive ritual.-Duo Maxwell, Gundam Wing

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it

is a palliative rather than a remedy. - Peter De Vries

"The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise." -Lao-tse, Tao Te Ching

"I'm not saying that I don't still have all the answers; they might just not all be accurate."

- Ally McBeal

"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intellgently" -Anonymous

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child." -Ron Wild

Everyone falls the first time. If you never know failure, how can you know success?--Morpheus, Matrix

"Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles." -Arabian Proverb

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"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so." -Lord Chesterfeild

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka and theChocolate Factory

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn from the experience of others?" -Voltaire

"Confucius say it is unwise fah rittle elf to mock ninja masta's rimited glasp of lound-eye talk!

Acturry, Mr. Moto say that! Wah-haw! Mr. Moto much humor! Wah-ha-ha-haw!" Mr. Moto,

Poison Elves(S-4)

"Wisdom is easy to find, what's rare is to find a man who uses it" -Bane SwordStryke

Saturday, March 24, 1984.Shermer High School,

Shermer, Illinois, 60062.Dear Mr. Vernon:

We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, and what we did was wrong, but we think you're crazy

to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, you see us as: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a

criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7' clock this morning. We were brainwashed.

- The Breakfast Club

FREEDOM

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"It's only after you've lost everythingthat you're free to do anything."

"When I think of myself, crawling under your feet, when I had to lift afinger to be as good as you are....I could just kick myself."

--Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw

Optimus: "All sensient beings have the right to freedom!"Megatron: "Then keep them out of my way!" - Beast Wars

If an omniscient God exists, then nobody is free; and, equivalently, if anyone can perform a

free action, then God does not exist --unknown

"Freedom is the ability to have or to *not have* what you want without closing your heart."

-Stephen Levine

"Freedom only exists if you make use of it." - Lycorne

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." -John Diefenbaker

Free from what? --Neo, Matrix

PEACEWhat truely is peace? Is there really a definition? And if there is not, why does the

wordpeace exist in our day and age?--Lesley T

now he is put to peace by watching her dream - Covin

"Unity is plural and, at minumum, two." -R. Buckminster Fuller

"PLUR -- Peace Love Unity and Respect" --Kelly Thomas

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"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity." -Anonymous

TRUST"It seems our captain has pieced this one out already...guess we can all go home and

sleep...uh...as if I TRUST this dolt to find his crotch with his head already up his ass..." Vido,

PoisonElves (S-18)

Hey, you never flashy thingied me, right? - Men In Black

TRUTH"I knew it was going to cost me my head and also my swivel chair, but

I thought: What the hell--better men than I have risked their headsand their swivel chairs for truth and justice." -- James P. Cannon

I was afraid that it would be true though... - Lycorne, 03.10.2001

"The mind must be broken up into a form of insanity in order for it toperceive Truth." ~ Aleister Crowley

The Above is but an aspect of my limited truth, and perspective of mycurrent time/space/reality. This is only my truth, it needs not to be

anyone elses. May you find what you seek. -Zygos

"There are two sides to every extreme, two faces to each coin."- Lycorne, 06.20.2001

"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy- anddull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

- Eleri -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those whodo not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." -William

Blake

"You're welcome to believe that the world is a nice, logical, rational, safe place... You'll be

wrong, but that hasn't stopped anyone else who thinks the same way." - Dierdre, Otherworld

by Mercades Lackey and Holly Lisle

You are so certain this is the true reality. What if it is in your dreams that you really see

the truth..? - Silvertris

I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it. - Groucho Marx

"Perception is more pleasing than truth." - Erase, MTG Card

"What is truth? Pick the story you want to be true." - Ferio, Magic Knight Rayearth

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the

truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling." -Robert M. Pirsig

Truth is counterfeit. - JQ

No one could be told the answer to that question. That they had to see it, to believe it... no one should look for the answer unless they have to because once you see it,

everything changes. Your life and the world you live in will never be the same. It's as if you wake up one morning and the sky is falling. The truth is out there... It's looking for

you and it will find you, if you want it to. --Trinity, Matrix

"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after" -Slovenian Proverb

"That is the truth, basically..." - Xellos, 'Slayers'

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." -Leo Tolstoy

Ray: Everything was fine until the grid was shut down by dickless here.Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!

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Mayor: Is this true?Peter: Yes sir, it's true. This man has no dick. -- Ghostbusters

Do you want to know what it is, Neo? It's that feeling you have had all your life. That feeling

that something was wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a

splinter in your mind, driving you mad, driving you to me. But what is it? The Matrix iseverywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it out your window,

oron your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes.

It isthe world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

--Morpheus, Matrix

"It takes two to speak the truth--one to utter it and another to understand." -Kahlil Gibran

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: (1) not going all the way,

and (2) not starting." -Buddha

Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run from those who have found it.- Vaclav Havel

"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou 'canst not then be false to any man." -William Shakespeare

Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts. - Mary Poppins

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." -Sir Winston Churchill

LIES"Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say

that I have no grasp of it whatsoever." -Baron Munchausen

"Liar! You promised you wouldn't die!" -Sailor Mars, Sailor Moon R

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"What happened to all that accepting me for what I am hogwash you were spouting back

at the inn this morning?" - Xellos, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be." -Kurt Vonnegut

"Maybe pawn's worth is measured in how well he can fool everyone into believing he is

nothing more than that. A pawn. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing a

skeptical world that he didn't exist." -- John / Kellindil

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"People lie from fear..." -Tenth, Poison Elves (S-33)

All lies lead to the truth. -- X-Files

Miroku:"My name is Miroku. I use my spiritual gifts to help the needy."Inu-Yasha:"A monk who helps the needy?! Save it for the fools, theif!"

-- Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

"That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods---we often fool ourselves and create

misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true." -David D. Burns, M.D.

WORDSHis words rang empty for me. - Lycorne, 04.18.2001

"Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the otherhalf might reach you." - Kahlil Gibran

Knight in Shining Armor: noun, English, meaning "canned Ham" - Keyral

"Bouquet of clumsy words, a simple melody"-Blink 182. going away tocollege

Line Dancing: See what happens when cousins breed. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

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-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

"That's all I have... eep... i think I went a little overboard!!!gomen!!!" - Mezan -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"The answer to your first question is shaddap." - anon

Just saying `no' prevents teenage pregnancy the way "Have a nice day"cures chronic depression.

"Think of stuff before you say it, especially at first." - Ms Lebedeff(a drama teacher...) - Thea -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater thana 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

Mahatma Ghandi

We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing. When it's said and done we haven't told you a thing. We all know that crap is king. Give us dirty laundry. - "Dirty Laundry",

Don Henley

"Oh great. 'A Learning Experience.' The traditional three-word preamble to a burial.Terrific." - Joe, The Chrome Borne by Mercades Lackey & Larry Dixon

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks it." -Arab Proverb

"You think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language." - Bender, The Breakfast Club

"A synonym is a word you use in place of one you can't spell." -Anonymous

"Actions speak louder than words." -Unknown

"Never speak more clearly than you think." -Jeremy Bernstein

"Better to break your word than do worse in keeping it." -Anonymous

"Among my most prized possessions are the words I have never spoken." -Orson Rega Card

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that

what you heard is not what I meant." -Robert McCloskey

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks." -Arabian Proverb

"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution." -Wernher von Braun

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"Words - do innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good

and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." -Nathaniel Hawthorne

OXYMORONS & METAPHORS"like the butterfly, dancing in the sky, like the water's faint scent

from the moon." - Alchino

"post hoc, ergo propter hoc.""after this, therefore because of this." - The Norton Sampler

Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes you're the bug. -- The Hatof Zug©

"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention."

"There are three types of obstacles in the world- big rocks, less bigrocks, and not-very-big-at-all rocks." -my friend Benton - Thea --

Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"Softly, he said, I will mangle your mind." - _Velvet Goldmine_

"He was elegance, walking hand in hand with a lie." - _Velvet Goldmine_

"It's funny, how beautiful people look when they're walking out thedoor." - _Velvet Goldmine_

"About as subtle as a load of bricks dropped from the second storywindow..." -another random fic...

"You're skating the edge. I AM the edge." - Thea -- Zelgadis on theMailing List

"It's like killing two pigs with one stone!" - Laguna, FF8

"Get asides aside" -- Ms Lebedeff (a drama teacher...) - Thea --Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"So now I’m an adjective" - Xellos, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses --Ovid

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!" -Muhamid Ali

Everything that decieves also enchants --Plato

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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."-ChineseProverb

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

-Shakespeare

"Be like the nature of water: soft as air, but able to penetrate a rock." -Bruce Lee-

"Those who are possessed by nothing, possess everything."-Osensei Morihei Ueshiba(Founder of Aikido)

"The webs of our life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together." -Shakespeare

"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality." -Bruce Lee-

"What's done cannot be undone." -Lady Macbeth 'MacBeth'

"People who talk in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch." - As Good As It Gets

WORRIESI guess you don't care if Mokoto runs off with that demon god bimbo, do you? -Nanami

Jinnai, El Hazard OAVs

"Thank you for flying Tokyo Airlines. And again, we apologize for the pilot stepping out for

popcorn during the in-flight movie. Have a nice day." - Digimon

"...you have nothing to worry about...until the bullet hits you." Luse, Poison Elves(M-11)

"I only know of two ways to relieve stress...you ain't pretty enough for the first." , Poison

Elves (M-11)

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How can a eight year old boy who can barely multiply be a threat to national security, and

they call me paranoid -- Mulder

"Don't worry. It all ends today" -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Nowhere can a secret keep always secret, dark and deep, half so well as in the past, buried deep, to the last, to last. Keep it in your own dark heart, otherwise the rumors start. After many years have buried secrets over which you worried, no confidant can

then betray all the words you did not say. Only then can you exhume secrets safe within the tomb of memory, or memory, within the tomb of memory --Unknown

EXCUSES, EXCUSES"I'm not paranoid... I just don't like taking chances." -Chris

"Damn you people who's beliefs confine my abilities..." - Lycorne,05.01.2001

Just because no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.-- The Hat of Zug©

"It's a self-sustaining barrier produced by a reticulation of theoriginal power input. Because of the rotation effect, most physical

substances cannot pass through the shield in either direction."-Telemain, The Enchanted Forest Chronicals

"Now just because someone sees.. two naked people asleep in bedtogether.. it doesn't necessarily prove sex was involved. It does

however make for a very strong case." - _Velvet Goldmine_

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. -

Frank Lloyd Wright

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes." - 'Hitch Hiker's

Guide to the Galaxy: part III: Life, The Universe and Everything

Daniels: "P-Please! I-I'm unarmed! I have a wife...kids..."Luse: "'My mother needs me...one of my kids is retarded...I meant no harm... I'm a

man of God...I can pay you--any amount you want...I'm too young to die'...I've heard them all, Pig...Now, say goodnight to the sandman!" , Poison Elves(S-19)

"I don't think I belong in here." - Claire, The Breakfast Club

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"Gentlemen...I think I just messed myself." Vido, Poison Elves (S-18)

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." -Aesop

"I really gotta grow some eyes in the back of my head..." Luse, Poison Elves (S-12)

"Sorry about your legs, by the way...if you think I care, I don't. As far as I'm concerned, you

should have moved them before my sword...Ah!...Before my sword decided to occupy the

same space as they..." Luse, Poison Elves (S-17)

TWISTS & TURNS

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is theopportunity to do it again." - programmers' saying, The Wiz Biz

by Rick Cook

"You can't unscramble an egg." - old saying"You can if you're powerful enough." - the collected sayings of Wiz Zumwalt,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with asoldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch, and a user with

an idea." - computer saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

New clinical studies refute my existence. -- The Hat of Zug©

Line Dancing: See what happens when cousins breed. -- The Hat of Zug©

"You're always getting little pieces to the the big puzzle, and by thetime you can put it all together, it's too late. She continued to say

that it was so great that everything was coming together so well thelast couple of days. I had to agree with her a lot of stuff seems to

be coming together recently.I added, "Makes you wonder if it's really too late and we just don't

know it yet."" - Randi & Lycorne, 06.15.2001

Just think: I'm the one preparing your food. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Waspinator just minding own business when, WHAM! stasis pod right up the wazoo!"- Waspinator, Beast Wars

"When all else fails, follow directions. (Until then...)" -Anonymous

"If they give you lined paper, write the other way." -Anonymous

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"We have your balloons punk!" -David Letterman

If I hear 'Silent Night' one more time, I'm taking hostages. -- Scully

"A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold

the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say. 'That's dynamite, baby.'" -Jack Handey

"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll loook like a

dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy." -Anonymous

"Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and

freak everybody out." -Jack Handey

"Senators dye their graying hair black and wear trenchcoats all the time, but no one ever says

anything to them."-- Emily Simmons

"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But

then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny." -Anonymous

"He wasn't claustrophobic, but he has a logical and healthy fear of being confined in an extremely cramped place ninety feet below the ice, in the arctic wilderness, while surrounded by fifty-eight enormous packages of explosives that were ticking rapidly

toward detonation.He was funny that way." -Dwean Koontz

Ya know, my father used to say, every man's got a devil. And you can't rest until you find him...

but if it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face. - The Crow

I have something to give you. I don't want it anymore. Thirty hours of pain all at once, all for you. - The Crow

"I bet the main reason the police keep people away form a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody

comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!" -Jack Handey

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"Don't let everyday life get to you. I say take a commonly used expression and act it out. Today's Phrase: 'Abuse The Copy Machine.' Drop what you're doing and have at

it." - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

"If you're in war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while

they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them." -Anonymous

"If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and your friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming." -

Anonymous

"If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away." -Jack Handey

"If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer?" -Unknown

"Why do kamikazi pilots wear helmets?" -Unknown

"Pretty happy with where you are in life? Do the contents of your wallet define you? Are you as cool as those dancers on televison because you wear the same khakis? If

so, keep it up; it seems everything is working out great for you." - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

"Why do they bother sterilizing the needles for lethal injections?" -Unknown

If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one is around, does it make a noise? --unknown

"If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too because, come on, life is funny." -Anonymous

"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The Moral: when you're full of bull, keep

your mouth shut." -Unknown

"Why yes--a bulletproof vest." -James Rodges' final request before the firing squad

"One good turn gets most of the blankets." -Anonymous

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"There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't." -Anonymous

"Arguing with a stubborn person is much like mud wrestling with a pig. Pretty soon you realize

the pig likes it." -Unknown

"A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it."-Anonymous

"Today, a question. Which is more noble? Allowing a pair of pandas to live off the land knowing

that they will never procreate and their species will go extinct or 'rescuing' the pandas and

forcing copulation for a steady wave of camera toting tourists?" - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

"A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that

nothing can be done." -Anonymous

"A computer is almost human - - except it doesn't blame it's mistakes on another computer."

-Anonymous

"A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be." -Anonymous

"America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote." -Anonymous

"An adolescent is a person who acts like a baby when not treated like an adult." -Anonymous

"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." -Anonymous

"You're just playing the hero for the five o' clock news blip." - Batman Beyond

MAGIC

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"Magic is real--unless declared integer." - from the collected sayingsof Wiz Zumwalt, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."- Clarke's Law

"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."- Murphy's reformulation of Clarke's Law

"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a riggeddemonstration." - programmers' restatement of Murphy's reformulation of

Clarke's Law, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Alcohol used to suppress my magic. Since my awakening, all it does issuppress the human inside..." - Laton

"Will there ever be an age without a war...? The ignorant ones alwaysstrive for power, never realizing that what lies beyond is despair...

But maybe they will bring with them hope, and show us a new way oflife... God bless the visitors from the land of dreams and magic..."

- Final Fantasy 9

When your on the sixth floor of a building and there are no treesexcept across the road, then you hear tapping on your window after

having bad vibes all night, upping your shields seems like a goodidea. - Lycorne, 04.08.2001

We watch from the shadows, and we are always there. - Aiaquel

"If we put all the people who not just believe but know that magic isreal, would magic become something stronger and more potent because

there was no one to not believe in it?" - Lycorne, 05.01.2001

"Why couldn't things be simple, like in one of those awful Role Adventure Escape books?

Just find the Magic Talisman and poof, all the crayon-box dragons would roll over on their

backs..." - Eric, Bedlam's Bard by Mercades Lackey and Ellen Guon

With this ancient magic in my power I'll soon become god - an honor I've been denied long enough! -Katsuhiko Jinnai, El Hazard tv

"Eye of twilight, give us sight./Take our offer, give us might./Make our power tears of night." - MTG Card

"And now for my next trick I will talk in spooky half-references! Sound so mystical! OOOOOOO!" Luse, Poison Elves(S-22)

"Magic, do what you will... Magic, do as you will!" -- Schmendrick, The Last Unicorn

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"The man's switch got flipped, he's a reciever now..." - Stir of Echoes

"Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble" -The Witches 'MacBeth'

Hyena:"Ask me one more question and...I fry your partner."Guard:"Excuse me?"

*FZZZZZT!* , Poison Elves (S-20)

"You don't believe in ghosts?""This surprises you?" -- Mulder & Scully

Hyena:"This is a place of magic! There will be no steel crossed in my halls."Luse:"All right. Well, watch as my fists dance magically on his face...." , Poison Elves

(M-12)

"Shit on a pixie!" Tenth, Poison Elves(S-22)

PLANS"You can always tell a really good idea by the enemies it makes."

- programmers' axiom, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Never give a sucker an even break." - W.C. Fields"Especially not if he's a big, mean sucker." - the collected sayings

of Wiz Zumwalt, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"You can't do just one thing." - Campbell's Law of everything,The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins toresemble a nail." -- Abraham Maslow

Currently dashing the hopes of my parents. -- The Hat of Zug©

All things begin in chaos. As do they end. - Elemental-Chaos

"Wasting another night on planning my revenge."-Foo Fighters. monkeywrench

Just smile and slowly back away. -- The Hat of Zug©

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"And i'm so confused about what to do. sometimes i want to throw itall away."-Goldfinger. superman

If at first you don't succeed, try pushing the "ON" button. -- The Hatof Zug©

"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."- Eleri -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"NO one expects a horde of angry banana slugs on pogo sticks!" - XanyKaos

"Standing around is _not_ a good defensive tactic." - D'Mer, _A DistantSoil_ (Issue 16) by Colleen Doran.

Don't make me use my charm and charisma. -- The Hat of Zug©

If you think there's a solution you're part of the problem. -- The Hatof Zug©

"Reality check time people!!! Here's a whole ROLL of quarters, there'sa clue machine, GO BUY SOME!!!" -Mercedes Lackey, The Last Straw

"Once we are through taking this world for our own I'll make inquiriesabout your blatant act of insubordination." -Prince Diamond, Sailor

Moon

I collect Beanie Babie..........heads. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Chasing psychos around on the docks is my job, not yours!" -Tamura,Please Save My Earth

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons for thou art crunchy and goodwith catsup."--Anon

"We're going back darling, all of us together, into the future!"-Mokuren, Please Save My Earth

"Close your eyes- maybe he won't see us!" -Care Bears

"No more poems from here to the nearest star." -Jan Clause

"See Tokyo Tower, over there, across the water? Well, get it for me!"-Rin, Please Save My Earth

"Curse you... I'd beat you if it weren't my bedtime!" - Thea --Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"Now from this point on, things get a little bit confusing." - Arnold Rimmer

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Non illegitimi carborundum est. (Don't let the bastards grind you down.)

"I think I’ll return to... lurking." - WeeHoo the Light Elf -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"Ever notice that 'What the hell' is always the right decision?" - Marilyn Monroe

You were wrong. The way you did it was a terrible mistake... A terrible, fatal mistake... One

we both made. -Myung Fang Lone, Macross Plus

I think by tomorrow I'll have turned into a white cat. -Jiji, Kiki's Delivery Service

First, I'm going to have this curse removed, second I'm going to get back at my master, and

then maybe I'll conquer the world. -Ihrie, Ruin Explorers

My goal is to kill all the ugly, gorilla-looking guys like you. -Dark Schneider, Bastard!

Even if I can't use my five senses, I have another sense, that is common sense. -X, Bt'X

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path choose the walker?" - The Book of the Dead,

Sabriel by Garth Nix

If one...just one more weird thing happens this month...I'm going to go completely bat shit.

- Lusipher, Poison Elves

"Nobody is allowed to hit me! Except for that wall..." - Unknown

"Twenty-six armed guards jump her out of nowhere and she just trots off!?!? SHIT! SHIT!

SHIT!" Vido, Poison Elves (S-25)

"Boldness in execution is nearly always necessary. But in planning and fitting out expeditions

or detachments; great circumspection is a virtue." -General Winfield Scott

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"OH GEE--YOU FOUND ME OUT!!! THIS IS ALL PART OF MY BIG 'OL MASTER SCHEME! THE

REAL GENIUS IS WHEN HE BLOWS MY HEAD OFF! YEAH! THAT'S IT!" Fleece, Poison Elves(S-26)

"March, my minions!" - Unknown

"I don't ask for much . . . Just make me Emperor of the Known Universe and All Adjoining

Territories." - Bobby R. S.

F:"This is what we gotta do--we keep our jobs, no cops find us, and Luse doesn't whack us...B:"Hrar?"

F:"I got no friggin' clue!" ...Wait!...I know!"B:"Hrar?"

F:"We hide!" Freidrich & Balinarch, Poison Elves (S-28)

"We shall part here. Henceforth... I must forge on alone." - Miroku, Inu-Yasha by RumikoTakashi

Let me give you a piece of advice. Between you and me, if Morpheus says you can fly, I

wouldn't go jumping out any windows to find out if he's right. Understand? --Cypher, Matrix

T: "Crow! He's going to get away!"M: "Didn't you find my gun?"

T: "You never asked me to get your gun!" Moriachi & Talon, Poison Elves(S-26)

"I'm really glad I visited the bathroom before leaving...!" Luse, Poison Elves (S-24)

"OOPS! Little continuity error!...I've lost a lot of blood here...think I'll pass out."Moriachi, Poison Elves (S-26)

Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up, it'll be anarchy! - The

Breakfast Club

"Yeah...and I'm sure if I'm pronounced "innocent" I'll live a long and happy life after all of

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this... right?" Luse, Poison Elves (S-24)

AWARDS"Crow on a stick, Jace--you lived through a scrap with this little wolverine shithead?

First the dame, nowthis? You'll have so many medals you'll be declared a new mineral." Vido, Poison

Elves (S-31)

FUN 'N' GAMES"Customer support is an art, not a science." - marketing saying"So are most other forms of torture." - programmers' response,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

Lycorne: "Can I plant flowers in the cliff face?"Dungeon Master: "Wha-!"

DarkFyre: "Do you have any flowers?"Lycorne: "I'll go pick some, we're on the edge of a forest right?"

Dungeon Master: "Why?"Lycorne: "I'm a happy little elf that goes skipping through the

forest singing songs and planting flowers, right?"- Lycorne playing D&D for the first time, with her little brother as DM

"Oh you'd like me to connect the dots for you. Lead you from A to B toC... How boring!"-Q.

Parintachin:"Hey! Call me Twinkle!" Wanna go frolic and sing songs?"Luse's Gun: BLAM , Poison Elves (S-14)

"Why, up till now, you've been Mister Elf, singing and squating on mushrooms." Morachi,

Poison Elves (S-2)

"Never play another person's game. Play your own." -Andrew Salter

"And Bingo was his name-o" Luse, Poison Elves (S-23)

"Crow! What am I running here, a frat house?" Morachi, Poison Elves (S-6)

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

"Sleep? Isn't that a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine?"- programmers' saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Good client relations are the key to a successful project."

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- consultants' saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

Ward: "It...wa...fu...you..."Laguna: "Say again?"

Ward: "It...was...fun...you...guys...La..guna...Ki...ros...It...was...fun..."

-- FF8

"No, we're not people from the demon world!" -Hitomi Kanzaki, TheVision of Escaflowne

Could I possibly have any worse luck? The day I came to see the school, I was almost hit by a car right outside the gates. That huge blizzard stopped all the trains the day

of the entrance exam. A post office slip-up delayed my acceptance letter. And to top it all off, I was hospitalized the day before opening ceremonies. -Hasukawa Kazuya,

Here is Greenwood

I have a very bad feeling about this. - Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, C3PO

"Dammit! Will you talk to me?!" Jace, Poison Elves (S-30)

"Now, please erase me, otherwise you will be erased. The living thing that escapes the time of annihilation and obtains the future is only one. And, you are not the one that

must die. You need the future. Thank you. I am glad to have known you." - Kaoru Nagisa, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"The last thing I said was, 'It wouldn't kill you to be nice'... but i guess it did, 'cause she died."

- Eric, The 70's Show

Some Guy:"You just shot an unarmed man in the back!"Luse:"And...your point being...?" Poison Elves (S-27)

"What did you wish you'd done before you died? Paint a self-portrait? Build a house? Don't wait until its too late. Do it now. Otherwise your last thought on this planet will

be regret." - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

"WHA-! Y-!? YOU ARE SO BUSTED! YOU GOTTA BE AN IDIOT WALTZING IN HERE!! YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! DROP YOUR WEAPONS RIGHT NOW AND PLACE YOUR HANDS

BEHIND--" GUN : *click*"--your back..." Duke, Poison Elves(S-27)

"Just pour it into my mouth..." - Unknown

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"I mean, come on. It's not like they would dare come after ALL of us!" Vido, Poison Elves(S-27)

SOLVING PROBLEMS

"At some point in the project you're going to have to break down andfinally define the problem." - programmers' saying,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Putting twice as many programmers on a project that is late will makeit twice as late." - Brooks' law of programming projects,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"You can always tell a really good idea by the enemies it makes."- programmers' axiom, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"A jump gone awry is one of the hardest bugs to locate." - programmers'saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"You never find out the whole story until after you've signed thecontract." - programmers' saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins toresemble a nail." -- Abraham Maslow

I'm already visualizing you with duct tape over your mouth. -- The Hatof Zug©

"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors- andmiss." - Eleri -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and goodsense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

"We are not having this conversation." - Urlich, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Will somebody please get this big, walking carpet out of my way?" - Princess Leia in Star Wars

"We are about to 'work this out'." Luse, Poison Elves (S-31)

"One second, martha, and this punk will regret the day he was born....yessiree.....LET'S GET

'IM, MARTHA!" Old Man, Poison Elves (S-30)

Luse:"Now...I'm just going to have your pet wizard pop me out of here...and we can meet later

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on fairer terms as God intended..."Morachi:"'God' doesn't have a gun pointed at your head...", Poison Elves (S-26)

Luse:"Hangover, huh? Want something to take care of it?"Partier:"Oh, God...Yeah, Dude."

Luse:"Hereyago, 'Dude'."*BLAM* , Poison Elves(S-1)

Parintachin:"What is this? Huh? A knife!? After all I've done for you, Luse, I don't expect

flowers, but a knife!?!"Luse:"Shut up!!! Now I need to know what a--"

Parintachin:"Oh sure...they all do it, you big bad Moorcock wannabees, wave a knife, 'cut theshit'..."

Luse:"Parinta--"Parintachin:"Our tragic qausi-hero is at yet another crossroad where life meets death

so whatdoes he do?! Big surprise! Out with a knife..." , Poison Elves(M-16)

"Alright, I'm going to think of a purpose that endangers neither society nor myself...I'VE GOT

ONE!! I'VE GOT IT!! AYOOAH!!! I'm going to Mandratha and getting a tattoo!!!" Luse, Poison

Elves (M-16)

SADDNESS, ANGER & HAPPINESS

"Skits in costume contests are the work of Satan and the cause of allthe pain and suffering in the world today." -Dave Merrill

Happy Days.... Those used to happen to me, right? - Lycorne, 04.19.2001

I discovered that incessant whining helps ease the existensial pain.-- The Hat of Zug©

"All our lives get complicated. search of pleasures overrated."-Fuel.innocent

"All i'm sensing from you is anger and hatred . have you felt any otheremotions?" Troi.

"There are no other emotions."-Data. Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage."-SmashingPumpkins. bullet with butterfly wings

Life and death were to find true hapiness, is it the body who makes uswho we are, or is it what is inside? -Zygos

"I'm losing all my happiness the happiness you pinned on me my lonely

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still comforts me."-Green Day. having a blast

"But that loneliness still consumes me." - Lycorne, 06.07.2001

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."- Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel, American theologian, author and

educator

Every day, in every way, I get a little better at pissing people off.-- The Hat of Zug©

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."--The Tempest

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." - anon

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we lookso long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened

for us." -Helen Keller

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well behappy." -Cynthia Nelms

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody elseup." -Mark Twain

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

"Eternal life is the same as eternal suffering." Master of Mosquiton

"I'm completely impervious to pain. . . . . . Not my own" - Zero Mostel

Feel enthusiastic about everything.. begin to annoy friends. - The Tragically Hip

"We immortals should not waste our tears on their puny lives." - Mermaid's Scar

"When angry, count five; when very angry, swear." -Mark Twain

"WE'RE RICH! WE'RE RICH! WE'RE ROTTEN STINKING RICH!" - Luse and Jace singing,Poison Elves (M-19)

"Well, people always feel pain at the heart. The heart is easy to have a pain, that's why living

is painful. Particularly, your heart is fragile like glass." - Kaoru Nagisa, Neon Genesis Evangelion

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"The next time you feel like complaining to your chaplain or your lover about how miserable your life is, be thankful you are not cursed with the 3 terrible Karmas -

Beauty, Riches, and Fame." - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

Funny how laughter looks like crying without...the sound...Strange how raindrops taste like tears without...the pain -- Kelly Thomas

"Happiness will not come to you by love or turning to God... it's all in a pill!"- Ally McBeal

on prozac

"Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering." - Jane Roberts

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad." –William Shakespeare

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." -Banjamin Franklin

"If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."-Chinese Proverb

"You are extremely avoiding the contact of the first kind. Do you fear to feel other people? Being ignorant of others, you will never be either betrayed nor hurt, though

you'll never escape from feeling loneliness. A person cannot erase that forever... However, people can forget, and thus are able to live." - Kaoru Nagisa, Neon Genesis

Evangelion

"Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving." -Jewish Proverb

"What's she so happy about. I just asked about her appearance. " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha

by Rumiko Takahashi

"Everyone can master a grief but he who has it." -William Shakespeare

"Do not become attached to the things you like, do not become attached to the things you

dislike. Sorrow, fear and bondage come from one's likes and dislikes." -Buddha

"And laugh--But smile no more" -Edgar Allen Poe 'The Haunted Palace'

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"Beware of the fury of the patient man." -John Dryden

"Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life." -Fortune Cookie

DRUGS, ALCOHOL & THE LIKE

"I could do it if you gave me enough to drink." - Daniel/DarkFyre

"I smoke because I need something to do with my hands." - Mary (avg.college freshman), The Norton Sampler

"Alcohol used to suppress my magic. Since my awakening, all it does issuppress the human inside..." - Laton

"Simon - Drink up lad's, the revolution is paying for our drinks from now on.John - To The revolution !

O'Mally - Veve le Revolution !Mark - To whevre pays the bar tab !" - Outcast

Mommy had an eating disorder and Daddy was a drunk. -- The Hat of Zug©

Hard Rock Cafe: No drugs or nuclear weapons allowed inside. -- The Hatof Zug©

Ice... Snacks... And tons of beer. What kind of life does she lead? -Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis

Evangelion

"You know...Luse...cutting down to half a pot a day might help you ease up..." Freidrich,

Poison Elves (S-28)

"Hey! Don't smoke in your subconscious! It's bad for the ID!!!" Parintachin, Poison Elves (S-8)

"Hey, what have you been smoking, and why aren't you sharing with me!?!?" -- Adam Allen

"I will not get drunk and be rude, I will not get drunk and be rude...I will not get drunk..." Luse, Poison

Elves (M-7)

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"No, marijuana shouldn't be legal. The prices for it will go down and drug dealers will lose

their business." - Anonymous

Beer is urine. - JQ

You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever

you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how

deep the rabbit-hole goes. --Morpheus, Matrix

I know what you're thinking, 'cause I'm thinking the exact same thing. Actually, I've been

thinking it since I got here: Why, oh, Why didn't I take the BLUE pill? --Cypher, Matrix

I don't drink that much. It just appears that way. I don't swallow. - The Magic Kid

Sapphire:"You really should lay off the java before a big heist, Strider."Strider:"There lies a certain wisdom in that. Let's get back to the inn." , Poison Elves

(M-5)

Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll. Speed, weed, birth control. Life's a bitch then you die. Fuck the world let's get high. - Hippies of the 60s

Luse:"I'm gonna go get some more whiskey."Cassie:"Why don't you get some gin or something?"

Luse:"Because white alcohol is evil." , Poison Elves (S-7)

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Noich, noich, noich, smokin' weed, smokin' weed, doing coke, drinkin' beers. Pack of wraps, my brother

man. It's time to kick back, drink some beers and smoke some weed! - Clerks

Daniels:"Sir? I think it's time for your pill..."Vido:"Pill?"

Daniels:"Yessir...c'mon now...ahh there we go...better?"Vido:"mmmmmmmmm..."

Daniels:"Good?"

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Vido:"mmmmmmmmm..."Daniels:"Alrighty...now...we're going to look at a dead person..."

Vido:"mmmmmmm?"Daniels:"Yes--won't that be nice?" , Poison Elves(S-18)

Wait! Where are you going? I was gonna make expresso. - Young Frankenstein

GUNS & SWORDS'I ph33r not your faceless minions! I am your doom! Face me and feel

my sword!''... You are not worth of effort. Begone.'

'Oh crap.'- Largo an Darkly Cute, MegaTokyo

"Just for once, stop thinking with your bokken!" there, can I go homenow?" - Seph, Maison Otaku

"Remember it takes 42 muscles to smile and only 4 to pull thetrigger on a decent sniper rifle" -- (Signature on ProFTPD FTP Deamon

list about logging in as root using ProFTPD)

"My sword is crazy: "C'mon, c'mon, lets go whack somethingeeeeeeeeeevvvvvilllllllllllll....."" - DustyX

""My last owner always said I was sharp and edgy, man he was such anass." - my sword" - DustyX

HERO: "Greeting Random Citizen!"CITIZEN 1: "I've recently begun practicing the piano!"

HERO: "That's great. Which way to the treasure chest?"HERO: "Ah, just a little gold and a few potions, Ah well."

CITIZEN 2:" And then what?"CITIZEN 1: "He left with all my possessions, and he calls himself a

hero."CITIZEN 2: "And you didn't stop him because?"CITIZEN 1: "Hello! His sword is as big as me."

The real reason you can take stuff from people's houses in FinalFantasy and other video games, ADVENTURERS! #330

This one! This one! This is the one I want! It's so cute! Canal wants this big, new, shining

beam gun. -Canal, Lost Universe

"Let no child be without a sword. We will all fight, for if we fail, we will certainly all die."

- Oracle en-Vec -- Youthful Knight, MTG Card

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"This is my BOOMSTICK!!!" -Ash 'Army Of Darkness'

"Mystery can be a cloak of protection, or a gun at your head" - Jackal

You poor guys. Always confusing your pistols with your privates. - Batman Returns

"Gun Control is a steady hand." -- Unknown

"My gun is starting to speak to me...bad things happen when that happens." Luse, Poison

Elves(M-4)

"I heard the bullets whistle and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound." -

George Washington

I'm going to get my gun. Hey, you b*stard, eat me. - Men In Black

"This isn't Columbine High, we got better weapons." - Ben-saki

Neo: Are you telling me I can dodge bullets?Morpheus: No. What I'm telling you, Neo, is that when you're ready, you won't have

to. -- Matrix

"I remember a time when bullets used to kill people..." - Unknown RPer

"Good...bad...I'm the one with the gun..." -Ash 'Army Of Darkness'

Tank: Okay. Store's open. What do you need?Neo: Guns. Lots of guns. -- Matrix

"Any fool can shoot a gun, how many of you have the skill to weild a blade." -- Lycorne

"Humph, in other words... he doesn't feel like making an appropiate sword for I, Sessh �EMaru,

huh" - Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"Tenseiga, is a sword that can't kill. " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

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"That old fart... If he won't make a blade there's nothing else. I shall send Inu-Yasha and the rest... to the next life" -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"Honor is upheld by the blade." -- Lycorne

"Sorry about your legs, by the way...if you think I care, I don't. As far as I'm concerned, you should have moved them before my sword...Ah!...Before my sword

decided to occupy the same space as they..." Luse, Poison Elves (S-17)

"Just because you have Tetsusaiga... it doesn't mean a lowlife like you can master it! " --

Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"Don't worry, I struck you with the backside. Hmm, oh, it's a double-edged sword." - Zelgadis,'Slayers'

"This blunt sword is not in anyway suitable for I, Sesshoumaru. " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha

by Rumiko Takahashi

"Well, Toutousai... Don't you think it's a pity for Tetsusaiga? All Inu-Yasha can do is wave about a sword with all his strength... It's the same whether it's a famous sword,

or a log. "-- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"Heh, Tenseiga... huh. It seems that... this sword will have it's uses. Inu-Yasha... That you were not able to kill I, Sesshoumaru, is... something you will come to regret. " --

Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"Listen, they carry a sword and I haven't been formally introduced... I get shy." -- Methos, Highlander

DREAMS, WISHES & DESTINY"the key hidden deep beneath the melancholy eyes... the "power of the

bond" that is lost within destiny." - Alchino

"Dreams of a place with better selection. Hey you, things aren't whatthey seem." - Placibo

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"the angel in heaven falls unto the earth. Perhaps it wishes to openthe box of taboos and feed it's soul with it." - Alchino

"I don't wanna be alone anymore..." - Eiko from FF9

"Nothing is realBut it's real if you want it to be

Look forward to lifeAll your life not a dream

Hello I've been waiting to meet youTurn around you will still feel

That the real is deep inside" - Crystal Star Phoenix

"I do what I want! You have problem?" - Quina from FF9

"Having sworn fealty, must I spend my life in servitude?" - Steinerfrom FF9

"I do do look up at the stars and KNOW that I do not belong on Earth.I KNOW that this is not the form I am supposed to be wearing. I KNOWI'm supposed to somewhere else. And I have considered correcting theerror, except I know the error would only begin again because things

are destined to be like that." - Lycorne, 04.29.2001

"I'm a high school student, not a dead moon woman, and my destiny is myown!" -Issei, Please Save My Earth

"...... I dreamt I was a moron." - Squall, FF8

"And though I am prepared to face my destiny, you will not find meeasy prey." - Protoss

"We wear the mask that grins and lies..it hides our face, and shadesour eyes....ah, but let the world dream otherwise, we wear the mask!"

You are so certain this is the true reality. What if it is in your dreams that you really see the truth..? - Silvertris

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path choose the walker?" - The Book of the Dead, Sabriel by Garth Nix

"Nothing is truly an accident, you know." - Melfinius, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice, not something to wish for, but to attain." -William Jennings Bryan

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." -George Bernard Shaw

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Have you ever had a dream... that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream...? How would you know the difference between the

dream world and the real world? --Morpheus, Matrix

"...they think that I'm strange...they say that I'm a dreamer...but I don't complain, though I don't have much to call my own. I know a place where I keep the best of

things. I'm not gonna wait for my piece of heaven where there's a road, it leads to the promised land. I just turn the key, the key to the kingdom." -The Kingdom

Oracle: Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but it's tricky. I'd say the bad news is, you're not the one. Still got a lot to learn. Maybe next life.

Neo: What's the good news? Oracle: Same as the bad news, you're not the one. -- Matrix

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head? - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams. - Willy Wonka and the

Chocolate Factory

"The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits its soul."-John Chiam

Morpheus: Do you believe in fate, Neo?Neo: No.

Morpheus: Why not?Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life. -- Matrix

"Don't walk ahead, I may not follow. Don't walk behind, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole

life is not a dream? --Descartes

"I believe in making the world a safe place for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex." -Jack Handey

"A dream is an answer to a quesion we haven't learned how to ask." -Mulder, 'X-Files'

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"I shall become dictator of the world!!! Then I will come back and make all of you cretins do whatever I say. If you don't....public beatings/executions shall take place." -

Angela Chow

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowliness. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

"the key hidden deep beneath the melancholy eyes... the "power of thebond" that is lost within destiny." - Alchino

"Dreams of a place with better selection. Hey you, things aren't whatthey seem." - Placibo

"the angel in heaven falls unto the earth. Perhaps it wishes to openthe box of taboos and feed it's soul with it." - Alchino

"I don't wanna be alone anymore..." - Eiko from FF9

"Nothing is realBut it's real if you want it to be

Look forward to lifeAll your life not a dream

Hello I've been waiting to meet youTurn around you will still feel

That the real is deep inside" - Crystal Star Phoenix

"I do what I want! You have problem?" - Quina from FF9

"Having sworn fealty, must I spend my life in servitude?" - Steinerfrom FF9

"I do do look up at the stars and KNOW that I do not belong on Earth.I KNOW that this is not the form I am supposed to be wearing. I KNOWI'm supposed to somewhere else. And I have considered correcting theerror, except I know the error would only begin again because things

are destined to be like that." - Lycorne, 04.29.2001

"I'm a high school student, not a dead moon woman, and my destiny is myown!" -Issei, Please Save My Earth

"...... I dreamt I was a moron." - Squall, FF8

"And though I am prepared to face my destiny, you will not find meeasy prey." - Protoss

"We wear the mask that grins and lies..it hides our face, and shadesour eyes....ah, but let the world dream otherwise, we wear the mask!"

You are so certain this is the true reality. What if it is in your dreams that you really see the

truth..? - Silvertris

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"Does the walker choose the path, or the path choose the walker?" - The Book of the Dead,

Sabriel by Garth Nix

"Nothing is truly an accident, you know." - Melfinius, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice, not something to wish for, but to attain."

-William Jennings Bryan

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and

ask why not." -George Bernard Shaw

Have you ever had a dream... that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to

wake from that dream...? How would you know the difference between the dream world and

the real world? --Morpheus, Matrix

"...they think that I'm strange...they say that I'm a dreamer...but I don't complain, though I

don't have much to call my own. I know a place where I keep the best of things. I'm not gonna

wait for my piece of heaven where there's a road, it leads to the promised land. I just turn the

key, the key to the kingdom." -The Kingdom

Oracle: Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but it's tricky. I'd say the bad news is, you're not the one.

Still got a lot to learn. Maybe next life.Neo: What's the good news?

Oracle: Same as the bad news, you're not the one. -- Matrix

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head? - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of the dreams. - Willy Wonka and the

Chocolate Factory

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"The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits its soul."-John Chiam

Morpheus: Do you believe in fate, Neo?Neo: No.

Morpheus: Why not?Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life. -- Matrix

"Don't walk ahead, I may not follow. Don't walk behind, I may not lead. Just walk beside me

and be my friend." -Albert Camus

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the

waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

--Descartes

"I believe in making the world a safe place for our children, but not our children's children,

because I don't think children should be having sex." -Jack Handey

"A dream is an answer to a quesion we haven't learned how to ask." -Mulder, 'X-Files'

"I shall become dictator of the world!!! Then I will come back and make all of you cretins do

whatever I say. If you don't....public beatings/executions shall take place." -Angela Chow

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than

by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowliness. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch

the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

REVENGE"Virtue is it's own revenge." E.Y. Harburg

I will not allow this! I will pay you back! Because forgiveness... for one like you... could

never be an option. -Achika Masaki, Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love

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And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your

nightdress. - Basil Fawlty

"I am alpha and omega; the beginning and the end. I am that which is, which was, and is

yet to come. And you will know my name... when I lay my vengance upon you!" - Megatron, Beast Wars

"No score is too small to settle." - Megatron, Beast Wars

"Revenge is a confession of pain." -Unknown

"VENGANCE? For you... Don't waste my time! You're the reason i'm in this mess in the first

place! I don't feel any urge to avenge you!!" -- Inu-Yasha - Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

Then it will happen this way: You make the kill, but your pain doesn't die with Harvey, it grows.

So you run out into the night to find another face, and another, and another, until one terrible

morning you wake up and realize that revenge has become your whole life. And you won't

know why. - Batman Forever

When one becomes like a revengeful ghost, and shows great determination, though his head

is cut off, he will not die. - Ghost Dog

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." -Unknown

VIOLENCEAku. Soku. Zan.Sin. Swift. Kill.

-- Saitoh, Rurouni Kenshin

"Hey fuckface! Look at this, I'm bleeding! Get your ass down here so Ican kill you, shithead!" - Dark Schneider - Bastard!

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"Occasionally, I get the urge to do something REALLY destructive, likevote Republican." -Hat of Zug©

Heero! Hurry, please come and kill me! -Relena Peacecraft, New Mobile War ChronicleGundam Wing

*pulls her gong out of gurney space and proceeds to WHAM Chris into small pieces* - Pea

-- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"You...struck me..." - Zellas, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." -Sir Winston Churchill

"You murdered 100,000 Iraqis to save a nickel a gallon on gas. Don't lecture me on the

articles of war" - Air Force One

"Self improvement is masturbation... self destruction is the answer..." - Tyler Durden,"Fight Club"

Nothing can beat the music of hundreds of voices screaming in unison. -- Kefka, Final Fantasy

III

"Listen, they carry a sword and I haven't been formally introduced... I get shy." -- Methos,

Highlander

"I'm not gonna kill him! I'm not gonna kill him!! I just wanna HURT him a little!!" Luse,Poison Elves (S-6)

"Guys, I'm drinking Jolt. In about 3 minutes, my reaction time is going to exceed twice that

of normal men. Steal another fry, I break your fingers." - Unknown

"If we weren't in school right now I'd waste you!" - Andrew, The Breakfast Club

Stop trying to hit me, and hit me! --Morpheus, Matrix

"What in the name of crow was I thinking!?! retire!? I can't do this-trying to live an idiot life among idiots like you is going to drive me bat shit psycho! I'm gonna get my

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swords, get my gun, put on my chain mail, and paint the walls red with you, the landlord, and your dumb pals." Luse, Poison Elves(S-1)

Christmas!?! Christmas means dinner, dinner means death! Death means carnage, Christmas Means Carnage!!! - Babe

Ya see this? It's about the size of a cigar burn wouldn't you say? Did I stutter? You see, this is what you get in my house for spilling paint in the garage. - Bender, The

Breakfast Club

Reality isn't father knows best anymore, its a kick in the face on a Saturday night with a steel toe grip kodiak work boot, a trip to the hospital bloodied and bashed,

reconstrucive surgery.... but whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger right? - The Cable Guy

You ask me one more question and I'm beating the shit out of you. - The Breakfast Club

"WAIT! I can take the sonofabitch, I know it!" Parintachin, Poison Elves (M-9)

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." -Chinese Proverb

"I should just kill her! Kill her and all her stupid namby-pamby friends, grab anything not nailed down and go...kill her twice." Luse, Poison Elves (M-7)

"I'm here to kick ass, or chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta bubble gum" -Duke Nukem

Victims... aren't we all? - The Crow

Fleece:"Hey, you better watch it...Rumor has it thieves an killers hang out here...pretty little thing like you could get hurt..."

Luse:"Eat crow, Fleece." , Poison Elves (S-6)

"We'll talk first, kill later" -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"You're that Strider, huh? Wish I could stay around to collect the reward for you...but...I GOT A DIAMOND I GOTTA SHOVE UP AN OLD MAN'S ASS!" Luse, Poison

Elves(M-6)

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"Silence!...Speak again and I'll put a thousand cuts into you that I know you can live with but be in a great deal of agony...and slice a thing or two off meanwhile..." Cassie,

PoisonElves (S-25)

"Never hit a man with glasses; hit him with your fist." -Anonymous

Luse:"I'm going to carve that twisted, idiotic little whimpshit's liver out of his throat!Purple Marauder: "Nyar..."

Luse:"However, seeing as how no twisted, idiotic, little whimpshit is around...I suppose I'll

have to settle for a purple clad idiot whimpshit!" , Poison Elves (M-11)

DEATH"Being afraid of death is more useless than being afraid of the dark.

At least in the dark, something could hit your shin." - DustyX

Life and death were to find true hapiness, is it the body who makes uswho we are, or is it what is inside? -Zygos

What if it was me in the ground?Would you be calling me crazy too?

- Lycorne, 04.18.2001

"To be forgotten is worse than death...." - Freya from FF9

"I never thought i'd die alone. i laughed the loudest who'd haveknown"-Blink 182. adam's song

(Will they... will they talk about me this way if I die too? SaySquall was this...that.. in past tense saying whatever they

want?) - Squall, FF8

"God. I'm going to die to a chorus of remarks from an elven peanutgallery!" -Eric, Bedlam's Bard

"I'll ravage you into a beautiful corpse, but if you wish, come chaseme!" -Sailor Moon R Movie

"Hey fuckface! Look at this, I'm bleeding! Get your ass down here so Ican kill you, shithead!" - Dark Schneider - Bastard!

"Liar! You promised you wouldn't die!" -Sailor Mars, Sailor Moon RMovie

Three ribs, left arm and leg broken, bruises and sprains everywhere, and you cut yourfingernails to the quick. Anyone tough as that isn't going to die. -Mitsukake, Fushigi

Yuugi

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Heero! Hurry, please come and kill me! -Relena Peacecraft, New Mobile War ChronicleGundam Wing

My goal is to kill all the ugly, gorilla-looking guys like you. -Dark Schneider, Bastard!

"Can you do it without killing them, or aren’t you talented enough for that?" - Lina Inverse,

ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Just when things are looking up... heh, heh, heh... We're all gonna die." - Rattrap, Beast Wars

"I can't help it anytime, anybody dies. I can't help it if it brings a sparkle to my eyes." - DEX

Rattrap:"We're all gonna die."Rhinox:"Yup." - Beast Wars

"At the end there's always death" -Vincent Roth Seth

"Everyman dies, not everyman really lives" -William Wallace

I'm working for the Empire. But, don't worry... I'm not going to garrote you! -- Shadow, Final

Fantasy III

You can tell if a man is well hung when you can only get one finger between the noose and

his neck - Pixie

Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die. - The Crow

Sure, they were all going to die, but they'd go out with their middle fingers upraised in the

oldest salute known to the world. - The Queen Of Swords

"You have to know, not fear, that someday you are going to die. Until you know that and

embrace that, you are useless." - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

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Anhikiahl:"Hey!! Where are you going?"Luse:"Leaving."

Anhikiahl:"Leaving?! Why in the world would you want to leave?"Luse:"Well, you killing me plays a small part in it...I came out here to release you to

seewhat'd happen...I did...I got killed...God only knows what will happen if I hang around

tochit-chat." , Poison Elves(M-13)

They're all dead. They just don't know it yet. - The Crow

In this world, there are many like me who have killed their emotions. -- Shadow,Final Fantasy III

You think a minor thing like the end of the world is gonna do me in? -- Sabin,Final Fantasy III

What fun is destruction if no 'precious' lives are lost? -- Kefka, Final Fantasy III

Killing should not be fun, it should be fulfilling. -- unknown

Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? It's the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death.

Goodbye, Mr. Anderson. --Agent Smith, Matrix

Miroku:"I do not wish to wage a pointless battle."Inu-Yasha:"Then i'll give it a point -- YOUR DEATH!"

*K-KAK*Inu-Yasha . o 0 (He parried the Tetsusaiga?! This is no ordinary monk!)

Miroku:"And if the point be YOUR death...?" -- Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

"What did you wish you'd done before you died? Paint a self-portrait? Build a house? Don't

wait until its too late. Do it now. Otherwise your last thought on this planet will be regret."

- Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." -Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"There are nine gates between life and death... I will send you beyond the Ninth Gate!!"

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-- Lycorne

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." -Stone Temple Pilots

"You humans are so embarassing... turning every little trouble into a death scene."-- Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

"That which does not kill makes you stronger." -Viktor Frankl (1905-1997)

"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared to meet me is anothermatter." -Winston Churchill

"Be happy while you're living, for you're long time dead." -Scottish Proverb

Death comes to us all, but I can make sure it comes to you a lot sooner" -Bane SwordStryke

"Please provide the date of your death." -IRS Letter

"Oh, dude...you are, like...so dead." , Poison Elves(S-23)

"In the long run we are all dead." -John Maynard Kernes

"I've been destined to live forever, although people are annihilated as the result. However,

if I am able to die... To be or not to be, that makes no difference for me. My death is the

only absolute freedom." - Kaoru Nagisa, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"Well, Jace--all this would be real nice to talk over but looks like I have to kill you fast...sorry."

Luse, Poison Elves (S-31)

As a man, casting off worn-out garments, taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, entereth into others that are new...For sure is the death

of him that is born, and sure the birth of him that is dead; therefore over the inevitable though shouldst not grieve.

--The Bhagavad Gita--

"Alright....Say goodnight to the sandman..." Luse, Poison Elves (S-31)

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Talon:"WILL SOMEONE PLEASE KILL LUSIPHUR!?"Fleece:"YOU KILL HIM!" , Poison Elves(S-26)

"Don't die until you're dead." -Unknown

Jace:"I don't like you, wizard...Don't like you at all...One of these days, I think I'll kill you..."

Tenth:"Stand in line, brother--stand in line...", Poison Elves (S-25)

Eye of the Lins guild member:"Alright men--if we all move at once..."Luse:"You all die at once." , Poison Elves(S-15)

"Dendrin, I get paid a lot of money to kill people and make it look like an accident... and

you're real close to having an accident." Luse, Poison Elves(S-9)

LIGHT & DARK

"Citronella candles may not be used in rituals. I cannotstress this enough. Pastel colored candles in the shape

of cute animals are like direct sunlight to the Powers of Darkness."--From "Tips for evil cult members" in "The Evil Henchman's Guide"

We watch from the shadows, and we are always there. - Aiaquel

"Yes, I am an agent of evil, but my duties are largely ceremonial"- Lady Nettle -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"I sense a disturbance in The Force. Well, SHIT!" - Phantom Menaceparody

"I'm not evil! I'm just misunderstood. (long pause) And evil." - Matt- Mezan -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"I have to respect that kind of deceitfulness... It has style." - Sere& Emeris, _A Distant Soil_ (Issue 24) by Colleen Doran.

"I am the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brimwith fright." -The Nightmare Before Christmas

"There's Venus, it reminds me of you.""Hmmmm...hot, poisonous and deadly? You're sweet."

-- Silverbolt & Black Arachne, Beast Wars

"Good will never defeat Evil, because Good is dumb."--Spaceballs

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"Those Sons of Chaos... they need some limelight!!!" - Phoebee Hunt -- Zelgadis on the

Mailing List

"It's my first attempt at cliched villany. How'm I doing?" - Thea -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should

fear. - Silvetris

The greatest and the smallest, light and dark, right and wrong - they all come together to

form the miracle that is life, and none can exist without the others. - Silvetris

"Those who fear the darkness have no idea what the light can do" --Katasai_Rakshasa

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." -Helen Keller

"If you're not lighting any candles, don't complain about the dark." -- Unknown

"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle."

-Robery Alden

"And we thank Thee that darkness remind us of light." -T.S. Eliot

"Compared to me... you never were any good." -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by RumikoTakahashi

So shines a good deed in a weary world. - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"I could choose to be purely good, but I will not. I could choose to be purely evil, but I will not. I will be neutral. In that way I am free to be what suits me best, and no man

can predict my actions." - Lycorne

"Thou mayest rule over sin." -John Steinbeck in East of Eden

"Did you really think you could call up the devil and ask him to behave?" -Mulder

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"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" -The Witches 'MacBeth'

"Born in lust turn to dust, born in sin come on in" -Linoge 'Storm of the Century'

"The dark is not painful, just different" --Maskus_the_Ancient_Vampire

"When choosing between two evils, I like to try the one I've never tried before." -Mae West

"Remember, inside every silver lining there's a dark cloud." -- Kelly Thomas

"I am Moochau! E-FIL genius of dur seven known vorlts." Moochau, Poison Elves(M-1)

"We strive to destroy the evil around us. Yet, we often forget that there is no light without darkness, nor darkness without light. Perhaps a plant it the best analogy. A plant realizes that too little light is deadly, but it also knows that too much light is

equally deadly. It is the balance of the two that makes the world." – Lycorne

LIFE"Life is a snowmobile racing across the tundra,then suddenly it flips

over pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come..."

"Life is a dream--that knows no shade.Life is a dream--of pain and woe.

A dream from which--we pray to wake.A dream from which--we wake and go.

Who would sleep--when the new dawn waits?Who would sleep--when the sweet winds blow?

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A dream must end--when the new day comes.This dream from which--we wake and go."

- Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords

this is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.this isn't aseminar, this isn't a weekend retreat.only after disaster can we be

resurected,only after we've lost everything are we free to do anything.I say you have to give up,I say,evolve and let the chips fall where

they may...this YOUR life -- feralguy

"Our lives to ourself are almost meaningless. The ones around us, theones we struggle to protect are all that matter to us. We know our

lives, we'd sacrifice it to keep them safe and happy from the harm westruggle to fight." - Dusty X

Maybe i'm not capable of changing the world. but i can change myselfand carve out some kind of life."-Tetsu Hayami. Blue Submarine #6

Life and death were to find true hapiness, is it the body who makes uswho we are, or is it what is inside? -Zygos

"This is as real as your so-called life gets"-Q

"All our lives get complicated. search of pleasures overrated."-Fuel.innocent

"Because if we give up life, we do not fail ourselves, we fail them.And that is inexcusable." - Lycorne, 19:50, 06.12.2001

"Goodbye to you all. your trivial lives will plague me no longer."-Ken.Digimon

"Angels, lend me your might. forget all my lives to get just oneright."-Fuel. innocent

"When life has become futile meaningless unendurable it must beallowed to end"-Quinn. Star Trek: Voyager

And so, the duck revealed the secret of life - invisible ink. - CrystalStar Phoenix

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It'swhat you do with your life that counts." -Millard Fuller

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Gandhi

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -William James

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we waitso long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis

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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: itgoes on." -Robert Frost

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished:if you're alive, it isn't." -Richard Bach

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it.Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is apromise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song,

sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it.Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life,

fight for it." - Mother Teresa

"At least he got 24 hours [to live]. The most the rest of us get is"Mind that bus!", "What bus?",*SPLAT*." - Arnold J. Rimmer, "The Last

Day" _Red Dwarf_

"Eternal life is the same as eternal suffering." Master of Mosquiton

"We live life today to make up for what we did in the past. And whatwe do now we make up for in the future." -Haruhiko, Please Save My Earth

I'm at that awkward stage between birth and death. -- The Hat of Zug©

The greatest and the smallest, light and dark, right and wrong - they all come together to form the miracle that is life, and none can exist without the others. -

Silvertris

We are all actors in a play with no script, opponents caught in a game with unknown rules, dancers moving to the tune of silence. - Silvertris

Ice... Snacks... And tons of beer. What kind of life does she lead? -Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"Life sucks so don't be fooled by location changes." -Daria, Daria

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." -George Santayana

"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards." -Kilkelard

"Life is short. Live it up." -Nikita Khrushchev

"Life sucks and then you die" -Unknown

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"Life's a bitch and then you die, so why not make it sooner than later?" -Lesley T

"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." -Van Kamm

"You may be cruel to me, and I may often despise you for it. But when it comes down to your

life or mine, I will gladly lay my life down, so that another may yet live." - Lycorne

Life is demented enough as it is. - JQ

"Silent and calm days. I did nothing but exist. It was OK with me. I had nothing to do."- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

A true traveler in Life enjoys the journey, not just the destination --Niky

"Why torture yourself when life does it for you?" -- Lauren Chartoff, "Big Girls Don't Cry They Get Even"

"Life is too important to take seriously." -Corky Siegel

"Life is not a game, no winners or losers, besides there is no reset button." - Volkswagons

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a

whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run that outright exposure. Life

is either a daring adventure, or nothing." -Helen Keller

"Hmph...This must be one of those life-laughing-at-your-expense things Luse is always going

on about..." Cassie, Poison Elves (S-25)

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -George Bernard Shaw

"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." -Lewis

Girzzard

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"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." -Louis Adamic

"Life is cruel, so fuck life, let's go burn something!" -Thom

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." -Lin Yutang

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops." -Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." -Fran Lebowitz

"Life is just one damned thing after another." -Elbert Hubbard

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is one damn thing over and over."

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Life is something that everyone should try as least once." -Micheal Moncur

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."-Mark Twain

May you live in interesting times. ~ chinese curse

"Life is a variable condition... It twists and turns and is, generally, unpredictable... You can learn as much as you think you can and still never know it all... So a true wizard's

saving grace is observing life.. more specifically, lives. But even this can become mundane when it is

realized, after long enough, everyone is the same... The only difference is the environments around us all... Reactions to these enviroments is going to vary wildly and drastically – But within the spectrum of these reactions, most are simular and

predictable..." -Tenth, Poison Elves (S-33)

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." -Christopher Morley

"Life is an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the memories of having read the reviews." -John Updike

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"A survivor must have the will to survive. He wished to die. He abandoned the will to live, And depended on false hope." - Misato, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." -Samuel Butler

BEAUTY"the angel from the moon appears...

the "inviter" that eats humans with it's charm." - Alchino

"Gadis makes Barbie look butch." -Thea -- Zelgadis On The Mailing List

Sometimes I just want to feel pretty. - Dennis Rodman

What is beauty when the world is a churning ball of hatred? --Lesley T

"The next time you feel like complaining to your chaplain or your lover about how miserable

your life is, be thankful you are not cursed with the 3 terrible Karmas - Beauty, Riches, and

Fame." - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good. - Men In Black

Have you ever stood and stared at it...? Marveled at its beauty. Its genius. Billions of people

just living out their lives... oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a

perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was adisaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we

lackedthe programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a

species,human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. --Agent Smith, Matrix

"Beauty is truth, and Truth beauty. That is all we know on earth, and all we need to know."

--Unknown

LOVE"Living with a programmer is easy. All you need is the patience of a

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saint." - programmers' wives' saying, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"Oh my hero, so far away now, will I ever see your smile. Love goesaway like night into day, it's just a fading dream. I'm the darkness,you're the stars, our love is brighter than the sun. For eternity, for

me there can be, only you my chosen one. Must I forget you, our solemnpromise, will autumn take the place of spring? What can I do, I'm lost

without you, speak to me once more." - Celes

"In order to protect the ones we love, surely that is why we came tobe born. If we don't have love, if we aren't strong, we can't learn to

be gentle." - Kris Conner

"These mating rituals you humans indulge in are really quitedisgusting" - Q

"But I want to know what love is now!" -- Terra"And no one would date an Esper, so bully to you." (some random

player's response)

"She says that love is for fools that fall behind."-Fuel. shimmer

I'm starting to really care about the people here... oh shit.. I'm introuble. - Lycorne, 04.28.2001

"Love isn't' blind; it's just deaf, dumb, and stupid."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be aman's last romance." -Oscar Wilde

"No sooner do I fall in love than everyone turns out to be a terrorist.They hide their big black machine guns where they think I can't see

them. But only one out of all of them has any chance of becoming myone true love!" -Mamono Hunter Yohko, theme song

"Love goes towards love as schoolboys from their books- love from love,towards school with heavy looks..." -William Shakespeare, Romeo and

Juliet

"And forever more, we'll hear the music play. And forever more, you'lllive inside my heart this way." - Tenchi Muyo

"Love is blind, but friendship... friendship is clairvoyent."- Jenni S.

"Chicks dig scrawny pale guys." - Thea -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

I shouldn't have a relationship with a human until I work out the onewith my cat. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Death cannot stop true love. It can only delay it for awhile." The Princess Bride

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"And forever more, we'll hear the music play. And forever more, you'll live inside my heart

this way." - Tenchi Muyo

"Oh, Dark Poison of my Heart!" -- Silverbolt, Beast Wars

"Commander, she turned me down, crushing my self esteem. Permission to throw myself off

the balcony.""Granted."

-Wes Janson and Wedge Antilles

I guess you don't care if Mokoto runs off with that demon god bimbo, do you? -Nanami Jinnai,

El Hazard OAVs

The roof that you love so much... ...has got a boyfriend -Akemi Roppongi, Maison Ikkoku

Some day you'll thank me for all this scary love. - Homer Simpson

Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.- Anonymous

"From the deepest love,comes the greatest evil." - Unknown

"Welll...I used to know a pretty gal...I loved her all I can...then one day she broke my heart

so's I said:" *BLAM BLAM BLAM* Luse, Poison Elves(S-14)

"I tell you how I feel but you don't care, I say tell me the truth, but you don't dare, you say

love is a hell you cannot bear, and I say gimme mine back and then go there for all I care."

-Fiona Apple

"If you could only see the way she loves me then maybe you would understand why I feel this

way about our love and what I must do...if you could only see how blue her eyes can be when

she says....when she says she loves me." -Tonic

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If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving

them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever. - The Crow

What is it about the wrong kind of man? In grade school it was guys with earrings. College,

motorcycles, leather jackets. Now, black rubber. - Batman Forever

"I knew I loved you before I met you..." - Savage Garden

Sweets. You couldn't ignore me if you tried. So... so. Are you guys like boyfriend-girlfriend?

Steady dates? Lovers? Come on, sporto, level with me. Do you slip her the hot beef injection?

- Bender, The Breakfast Club

Beth:"LUSIPHUR, YOU TWO-BIT GOOD FOR NOTHING, SCUMBAGGING , SHIT-FOR-BRAINS-

YOU DROP YOUR WEAPONS NOW OR THIS SONOFABITCH IS GOING TO KILL ME!ARE YOU DEAF OR SOMETHING!?! LUSIPHUR, THIS BULLSHIT COMING FROM YOU

IS JUST TYPICAL! YOU WONDER WHY YOU DON'T GET ALONG WITH ANYONE!?NOBODY LIKES YOU! SO BE A MAN FOR ONCE AND GIVE UP!!!"

Luse: "Beth, there's a belief that a man is only as good as the woman he can keep...If that's

true then I am a loser...and you...you're just a bitch."Luse's Gun: *BLAM!*, Poison Elves(S-1)

"We'll love you just the way you are...if you're perfect." -Alanis Morissette

You have been doomed since you lost the abilty to love. - Alucard

"Love lasts when the relationship comes fist." -Anonymous

"The night is my companion...solitude my guide...and I would be the one to hold you down,

kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away...my body aches to breathe your breath, your words

keep me alive." -Sarah McLachlan

"I love your smile at me, love the way your hands reach out and hold me near...I believe this

is heaven to no one else but me." -Sarah McLachlan

"Love is a frindship set on fire." -Jeremy Taylor

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"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but it's echo lasts a great deallonger." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Bye Love...Have fun torturing the human, honey--try not to be too late..." Cassie, Poison

Elves (S-17)

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

-James Baldwin

"Trapped in a material plane, she wants to fly and they think she insane, but she knows what

she knows, give that girl wings and thats all she wrote. Twilight zone, twilight zone, Im,

floating in the dark alone, and is the any love out here, let me know" - 311

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

--Robert Burton

Luse:"If I remember correctly, you think I have a crush on you too."Cassies:"No--you don't have a crush on me--you're in love with me."Luse:"Whoa! Now what number beer is that?" , Poison Elves(S-11)

You have to dance like no one is watching and love like it will never hurt --Unknown

If love is so beautiful, why must it end?-- Lesley T

NATURE"And there came a hero who said, 'Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, nor

the veryfabric of time', but he would not prevail... nor would he surrender" - Beast Wars

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your

hair." -Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

"Listen with your heart and the forest shall talk to your soul" -Cassandra Moonshadow

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"The mountains, I become a part of it...The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I

become a part of it." -Navajo Chant

"Climb the mountians and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine

flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the torms their energy,

while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." -John Muir

"In the mountain, stillness surges up, to explore its own height; In the lake, movement stands

still to contemplate its own depth." -Rabindranath Tagore

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain

or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." -John Muir

"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the

web of life; we are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves..."-Chief Seattle

"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books,

"charm", "spell", "enchantment". They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."

-G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

"This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all...On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen...and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and

animals, its rhythms, spanning theseconds and the centuries." -Aldo Leopold

"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." -Henry David

Thoreau

"It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star...It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us..." -John Ruskin

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FIGHTING / STRUGGLES"Will there ever be an age without a war...? The ignorant ones always

strive for power, never realizing that what lies beyond is despair...But maybe they will bring with them hope, and show us a new way of

life... God bless the visitors from the land of dreams and magic..."- Final Fantasy 9

"&npsb; &npsb; &npsb;None the less, there are more ways to be awarrior than following the orders of a single country. The difference,

IMHO, between a warrior and a soldier lies in the heart. A soldierfollows orders, whether to protect or destroy, live or die, on the

command, on the heart of another person. A warrior follows their ownpath and their own heart, and simply cannot afford to die." - Lycorne,

6.13.2001

"&npsb; &npsb; &npsb;Warriors are a dying breed... not because they arein the wrong time or place, but because their efforts are so isolated.

Our society dislikes disturbances, and warriors are certainly adisturbance; thus their efforts are suppressed. The result is thatindividual warriors never get the chance to join with groups of

warriors, and so they surrender all hope to what seems aninsurmountable task.

&npsb; &npsb; &npsb;There are many changes that need to be made in theworld, and many causes that need the energy and passion that warriors

bring. All that remains is for those warriors with a common vision tofind a way to unite in their struggle. That alone could revive them

from the slow death that they are suffering."- Dream Spiral

"I suppose I enjoy taking the opposite end of a discussion, no matterhow strange an angle for me. I see too many sides to everything in the

world I suppose." - Lycorne, 06.20.2001

"you can become a mercenary ... and that's where you can really letyour warrior instinct fly." - Iniach

"Our lives to ourself are almost meaningless. The ones around us, theones we struggle to protect are all that matter to us. We know our

lives, we'd sacrifice it to keep them safe and happy from the harm westruggle to fight." - Dusty X

"I embrace my lonlieness. I embrace the life/heart/soul of a warrior."- Lycorne, 06.12.2001

"You think you have it won, don't ya? You think you're really hot,don't ya? Well, I've got news, I'm not about to lose!" -- Beat This

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each oneowes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country

in which he was born." Francois Fenelon

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"Blondes might have more fun, but redhead kick more ass!" --Anon

War is Hell, unless you're 200' long and breathe fire. Then It's Fun. - Magick, a large silver dragon who spends most of his time possessing the body of a high-school

student who would otherwise be relatively normal

Hey! Don't you know the rules? When heroes transform, ride in their machine, or stand in their main pose, no one should attack them! -Da Cider, Vs Knight Lamune

and 40 Fire

I'm strong you know! -Iris Chateaubriand, Sakura Wars

I thought you'd dodge my punch! -Kaoru Kamiya, Rurouni Kenshin

There's an invariable rule in mens' battles. It states: "An ugly macho guy can never beat an intelligent, slender, popular, and handsome hero." Your death was sealed

when you appeared with that ugly face. -Dark Schneider, Bastard! Destructive God of Darkness

"Let no child be without a sword. We will all fight, for if we fail, we will certainly all die." - Oracle en-Vec -- Youthful Knight, MTG Card

Saotome School ultimate technique: Panicked flight from the enemy! -Ranma Saotome, Ranma 1/2

Wars take many lives away. Humans never forget the grief, but they also never stop the fighting. Streams of blood and tears are only an ornament for their destructive

ritual. -Duo Maxwell, Gundam Wing

I thought you'd dodge my punch! -Kaoru Kamiya, Rurouni Kenshin

There's an invariable rule in mens' battles. It states: "An ugly macho guy can never beat an intelligent, slender, popular, and handsome hero." Your death was sealed

when you appeared with that ugly face. -Dark Schneider, Bastard! Destructive God of Darkness

It would be a million times easier to fight a demon lord with a bamboo stick, than to cross my sister. -Lina Inverse, Slayers Try

"Asked how it survived a run-in with a bog imp, the pegasus just shook it's mane and burped." - Armored Pegasus, MTG Card

If I ever meet myself, I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me. - Zaphod Beeblebrox

"Can you do it without killing them, or aren’t you talented enough for that?" – Lina Inverse, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"You...struck me..." - Zellas, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Let no child be without a sword. We will all fight, for if we fail, we will certainly all die." - Oracle en-Vec -- Youthful Knight, MTG Card

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"A heavy weapon deals plenty of damage - but it does have to hit." - Off Balance, MTG Card

"Now where was I? Ahh yes, MINDLESS DESTRUCTION." - Megatron, Beast Wars

"No score is too small to settle." - Megatron, Beast Wars

"A brief stand, and no more." - Dinobot, Beast Wars

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...

when you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never." - Winston Churchill

"The time to strike is when the opportunity presents itself."-6th Code of Isshinryu Karatedo

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." -Lily Tomlin

"Never give up. When they get you down, you get back up, and you FIGHT!" -Jackal

I'll fight anyone, no matter how bad i'm beaten, I still win, knowing I tried. - Ben-saki

"You can't let them win. I've been where you are. Do what you have to, but don't give up.

YOU CAN'T LET THEM WIN." -- Lycorne

"The fastest draw is when the sword never leaves the scabbard, The strongest way to block is

never to provoke a blow, And the cleanest cut is the one withheld."-Anonymous

You see? Fighting doesn't fill the emptiness. - Terry Bogard, Fatal Fury

Warriors, Warriors we call ourselves. we fight for splendid virtue , for high endeavor, for

sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves "Warriors" --Kelly Thomas

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a

cause we believe to be just." -Abraham Lincoln

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Size doesn't matter, a fight depends on the skill of each fighter, the better or the desprate

always win. - Ben-saki

"When two tigers fight, one is surely to get maimed, and the other to die."-Gichin Funakoshi

(Father of Modern Karate)

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." -Alfred Adler

I'm trapped in your world. I want to fight my way out, but the walls are made of all the people in this place and even elves have limitations. - Lycorne

"Don't let them push you around, for every bruise they give, give them five broken bones" -Jackal

"Never put your passions before your principles, for even if you win... you lose." - DSDC Club Motto

Just because I don't like to fight doesn't mean I can't. -- Methos, Highlander

"I didn't train you this long for you to give up now! Rise u! You show them what an Outcast can do!" -Jackal

CATS & DOGSImagine the massive destruction if cats had PMS. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Dosh Mena Decrath" (Translation: Pretty Kitty Nice...) - ArchAngel

"...looked like a cat who'd not only gotten the canary and severalbowls of cream, but had also managed to finish off a few fields of

catnip in the process..." -some random fic, claim credit if it'syours!

I don't need a higher power, I have a cat. -- The Hat of Zug©

I shouldn't have a relationship with a human until I work out the onewith my cat. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Curiosity killed the cat. Satisfaction brought it back" -Anonymous

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"2000 years ago Egyptians worshipped cats as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." -Anonymous

"To please himself only, the cat purrs." -Irish Proverb

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I hope if dogs take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas." -Jack Handey

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves." -August Strindberg

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of

learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien. --Plato The Republic

WORK, LEADERS, POWER & PAYBACK

"It's never the technical stuff that gets you in trouble. It's thepersonalities and politics." - programmers' saying,

The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"You want to live in this world the way it is? No? Then do somethingabout it!" -- Celes

To err is human. To blame it on someone else shows managementpotential. -- The Hat of Zug©

"And the officials can't explain it. Can't figure out a cause for thelife of them.... That's an awfully big failure to be completely

without explination..." - Lycorne, 06.05.2001

You're agitated and confused. My work here is done. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Cuz back in school we are the leaders of it all..."-Deftones. backin school

It might look like I'm doing nothing but on a cellular level I'm reallyquite busy. -- The Hat of Zug©

I'm not lazy, I just delegate better than others. -- The Hat of Zug©

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"It's amazing the number of persons intimidated by mere competence."- anon

Just because I help myself to a little of their treasure... Now they are just never going to

leave me alone! -Lina Inverse, The Slayers

Megatron:"What possible reason could you have to disobey me? I am your master! I am yourcreator!"

Dinobot:"And I... have my honor." - Beast Wars

Let him that would move the world first move himself. --Socrates

"All I want to do is show you how utterly, utterly powerless you are against me" -Dean "Rogue" Vandahla

"From small beginnings come great things." -Dutch Proverb

"We are the Fay, the Watchers. We cannot hide ourselves -- for as Man may think to rule this world, we

must guard it against darkness." - Poison Elves(S-2)

If you're really strong, you don't have to pick on the weaker guys. - Terry Bogard, Fatal Fury

"Everything you do will come back upon you. 3-fold for the normal shit, 10-fold for the freaky shit." -

Lycorne

"I think crime pays. The hours are good, you get to travel a lot." -Woody Allen

"Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth" -Arab Proverb

If knowledge is power then a god am I - Batman Forever

All the power in the world resides in the eyes - The Crow

"We underestimate the beauty and the power of one." -Meril Bainbridge

"Cause you don't know what you have 'till your everything is gone." -Blessid Union of Souls

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; and optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

-Sir Winston Churchill

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"It is respectable to have no illusions- and safe - and profitable - and dull." -Joseph Conrad

"When we think we lead we most are led." -Byron

"To him that has, more shall be given; but from him that has not, the little that he has shall be taken

away." -Saint Matthew

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas

Edison

"Leisure time is five or six hours when you sleep at night." -Goerge Allen

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly

important." -Bertrand Russell

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -Lord Acton

"When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it." -Robert Anthony

GOVERNMENT, LAW, JUDGEMENT & RIGHTS

Why work for minimum wage when I can get a government check for beingcrazy? -- The Hat of Zug©

"And the officials can't explain it. Can't figure out a cause for thelife of them.... That's an awfully big failure to be completely

without explination..." - Lycorne, 06.05.2001

"Occasionally, I get the urge to do something REALLY destructive, likevote Republican." -Hat of Zug©

There's an invariable rule in mens' battles. It states: "An ugly macho guy can never beat an intelligent, slender, popular, and handsome hero." Your death was sealed

when you appeared with that ugly face. -Dark Schneider, Bastard! Destructive God of Darkness

"You have the right to an attorney . If you cannot afford an attorny , we will supply you with the stupidest , 1st year law student dumb-ass slacker we can find on the

continent" – Lethal Weapon 4

"Oh shit...there is no way to make this look like standard operating procedure..." Vido, Poison Elves(S-20)

"Diplomacy---the art of saying 'Nice doggie' 'til you can find a stick." -Wynn Catlin

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"We will deal with Men and their politics, their cities, but while we do, we will watch for the rise again... and when comes that time, if it comes... There will be no more

politics..." - Poison Elves(S-2)

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it --Confusius

Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun! - The Crow

If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of prospriety, they will have the sense of shame, and more over will become good --

Confusius

Morachi:"You killed The Judge!"Luse:"Consider this a mistrial...", Poison Elves (S-26)

"To have a right to do a thing is not all the same as to be right in doing it." -G.K. Chesterton

"He who doesn't defend his rights from every threat --no matter how slight-- is bound to lose them." -Lycorne

Parintachin:"O.J. verdict?"Luse:"I like orange juice, Par..."

Parintachin:"SHIT!" , Poison Elves(S-14)

You can't scare me with this gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call. --Neo, Matrix

"I plead the fifth!!" -every american citizen

"This is a violation of my constitutional rights as a citizen of the United States of America!" -every american citizen

"This is a violation of my personal rights" -every american citizen

"A little rebellion now and then is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government." -Thomas Jefferson

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QUARK: The Matrix is a euphemism for the government.SUPERASTIC: No, The Matrix is the system controlling our lives.

TIMAXE: You mean MTV.SUPERASTIC: I mean Sega.

FOS4: ALL HAIL SEGA!!! -- Matrix

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." -Aleister Crowley

TODAY, TOMMORROW AND ALL OF TIME

"Everything always takes twice as long and costs four times as much asyou planned." - programmers' axiom, The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook

"The only dependable thing about the future is uncertainty." - Amarantfrom FF9

"You're always getting little pieces to the the big puzzle, and by thetime you can put it all together, it's too late. She continued to say

that it was so great that everything was coming together so well thelast couple of days. I had to agree with her a lot of stuff seems to

be coming together recently.I added, "Makes you wonder if it's really too late and we just don't

know it yet."" - Randi & Lycorne, 06.15.2001

"Do you ever think back to another time? does it bring you so downthat you thought you lost your mind?"-Green Day. having a blast

"So here i am looking older all the time growing older all the timefeeling younger in my mind."-Goldfinger. superman

"Today I'm gonna ai yai yai yai yai sparkling!" -Dragon Ball Z

"Oh Elizabeth. Your judgement could freeze beer." - John Proctor, TheCrucible

"A DAY FOR FIRM DECISIONS!!! or is it???"

"Most people tend to drive into the future with their eyes on therear view mirror." Marshall McLuhan

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all

the friends I want to see." -John Burroughs

"Curse you... I'd beat you if it weren't my bedtime!" - Thea --Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"We live life today to make up for what we did in the past. And whatwe do now we make up for in the future." -Haruhiko, Please Save My

Earth

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What is to come is not always as great a mystery, as what has really been. - Silvertris

"Terferi is a problem student. Always late for class. No appreciation for constructive use of

time." - Barrin, progress report -- Disruptive Student, MTG Card

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow..." -Macbeth

"Life is what you make of it, so live it up today, because yesterday has passed and tomorrow may never come." -Anonymous

"We cannot make the clock's arm move backwards, but, we can make them move earlier by our hands." - Gendou Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"It times like these that make me want to carpet bomb small countries." - BJ Shropshire

"When I was young, the Dead Sea was still alive." -George Burns

"If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer." -Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

"Hey, little girl, keep dancing...hey, little girl, keep dancing alone...'cause theres not enough time in your life to stay here." -Tonic

So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"We don't appreciate the good times as much as we complain about the bad times." -Unknown

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment

wisely and earnstly." -Buddha

"I'll be here waiting for you, I'll be under your stars forever." -SP

"Carpe diem. (seize the day)" -Horace

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"An optimist stays up until midnight o see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." -Bill Vaughan

"To your coffin. May it be built of the wood of a hundred-year-old oak tree, which I shall plant tomorrow." -Irish Proverb

"Rise early. Work late. Strike oil." -J. Paul Getty

"Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow." -Anonymous

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn." -H.G.Wells

He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow --Ovid

HUH?"What in the unholy crimson underworld!?" - Daniel/DarkFyre

"Ooh. Ooh. Butter!" - Daniel/DarkFyre

"I'll glaze your donut!" - Daniel/DarkFyre & BJ/Chi

"I'll blue spruce you!" - Daniel/DarkFyre & BJ/Chi

'But master, why do you call me Grasshopper?''Because you are ugly, look like bug.' -- Taliesin_Penndraeg

Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) -- Khunmaru

Whoever said that you had to like cabbage to eat cole slaw was silly.Silly silly silly. ~~Michiru Umi, who is trying to find subliminal

messages on her dented can of Cambell's Chicken Noodle Soup. ~

"cant sleep, yaoi obsessed fangirls will eat me" - Drew

"Oooh....Soft!" - Zidane from FF9

"How do you prove that you exist? Maybe we don't exist..." - Vivi fromFF9

but it isn't pain... It's just a lack... of anything.... - Lycorne,03.13.2001

emotions seem somewhat... distant... In the past, the way thingshappened, they had to be... - Lycorne, 03.13.2001

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"Zucchini! Zucchini! Leave him alone and leave me alone and Go Away!Go Away!" -The Vision of Escaflowne (what some song Lyrics sound like...) -- Zelgadis

on the Mailing List

"You keep doing the something with your arms!" - Ms Lebedeff (a dramateacher...) - Thea -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

We're sorry, you've reached a person who has been temporarily disconnected. -- The Hat of Zug©

Got past the bouncer. -- The Hat of Zug©

HELP! I'm having an out-of-money experience. -- The Hat of Zug©

I've had so many drinks I can't remember where I parked the school bus.-- The Hat of Zug©

I was uncool before uncool was cool. -- The Hat of Zug©

My hair reflects the state of my mind. -- The Hat of Zug©

My toys! Where are my toys?? I can't do this job without my toys!! --The Hat of Zug©

"Teutonic tit willow"- Ms Lebedeff (a drama teacher...) - Thea --Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"Did you know your nose is broken?" -Savil

"Let go of your hands!" -Usagi, SMR Malaysian English dub

"Sushi now! Or rather, Sushi in the not-so-distant-future!" -Kaffeine(there's a sushi stand downtown called Sushi Now!)

"Heebee-Jeebee zone!" -Amber(one of Thea's friends) - Thea -- Zelgadison the Mailing List

"Dammit Jim, I'm not a doctor, I'm a... wait a minute!" -McCoy,-Star Trek Original Outtakes

"Guess what I've learned today!""What?"

"It's possible to quantify everything that's inside amoeba boy'shead!"

"It's possible to quantify the utter lack of anything?"-Benton, Mike, and Drac - Mezan -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"AAH!!! I've just been sucker-punched by a weasel!!!" -Laurel - Mezan-- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

Road Sign: "Caution: Falling Coconuts"

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"In those days, I wanted to be like the wind..." -Haruka, Sailor Moon S

"Therefore, thou art a sheep." -William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen ofVerona

"I am an ass, you can tell it by my long ears!" -William Shakespeare,A Comedy of Errors

Sarah: "Look! It's anime!"Benton: Twich- twich

-(I've got a friend who's mortally afraid of anime... he doesn't knowwhat he's missing!) - Mezan -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

A horned and tusked purple thing went racing along the ridge to myright pursued by a hairless orange-skinned creature with long claws and a

forked tail. Both were wailing in different keys.I nodded. It was just one damned thing after another.

- from _Trumps of Doom_ by Roger Zelazny

..... -Lain, Series Experimental Lain

"Just in time for one of those ominous silences" - Cheetor, Beast Wars

Natsuki, how long are you going to pose? -Batanen Fujioka, Hyper Police

This is not the time to be impressed, Sasami. -Aeka, Tenchi Muyo tv

Baka. -Ruri Hoshino, Martian Successor Nadesico

Vido:"Is it just me, or do you hear glass breaking too?"Soldier:"I can't hardly hear a damn thing in this helmet, sir!" Poison Elves (S-30)

"So you didn't see a unicorn. Good for you or... maybe not." - Ally McBeal

You came here because you wanted to know the answer to a hacker's question. --Trinity, Matrix

"'Pashwah' THIS you butthead!!" Luse, Poison Elves(M-7)

"Lysol kills household pests, like door-to-door salesmen and Jehovah's Witnesses..." - Unknown

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Goddamn, what I wouldn't give for a copy of that software. --Gizmo, Matrix

With all the technology that we have and we drive around in a Ford P.O.S - Men In Black

"Whatever you need: lawyer, doctor, indian chief. I've got the paperwork to cover it all."

-- Methos, Highlander

Little things used to mean so much to Shellie. I used to think they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial. - The Crow

rootless,no past,

no nationality,no alliegances,

no identity,the one who you try to ignore,

the unknown half-blood -- Unknown

Listen! You smell something? --Ray, Ghostbusters

"...Mind your own business. I don't like human food. " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko

Takahashi

"Don't buses normally stay on the pavement???" - Unknown

I love the smell of napalm in the morning -- Matt Webster

Neo: This isn't real?Morpheus: What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses,

whatyou feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals

interpretedby your brain. -- Matrix

I ain't volunteering to pick shrapnel out of your boxers. -- Ling Ling, 3x3 eyes

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"INU-YASHA SIT!" -Kagome, Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takashi

"You made me think about that disgusting Half-Youkai thing. " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by

Rumiko Takahashi

"I dunno...all these damn ears...someone's gonna get an eye put out 'r somethin'..." Fleece,

the one human amidst many elves, Poison Elves(S-11)

Screws fall out all the time, sir. it's an imperfect world. - The Breakfast Club

"Shoot! That 'Servant of Buddha' stole my bike!" -- Kagome, Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Here's a tip. Aluminum foil makes a lovely hat and it keeps out the government's mind control rays. - Detective, X-Files

I just love the smell of C-4 in the morning. -- Ling Ling, 3x3 eyes

"The smell of blood... and wolves. That little human girl... always left in that direction.." --

Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

If you had to go without your cell phone for two minutes, you would get catatonic schizophrenia. -- Scully

Does your policy include acts from extra-terrestials? -- Mulder

"Those are not good noises...those are bad noises!" Moriachi, Poison Elves

"Ha! Bob Vila you can kiss my ass!" Parintachin, Poison Elves (S-30)

"Would a needle destroy Pamela Anderson's career?" Parintachin, Poison Elves (S-24)

"Hey! Did you ever think all those Africans wouldn't be starving if Sally Struthers would quit

eating their food?" Parintachin, Poison Elves(S-8)

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*!!BLAM!!*"I'm sorry--Did I interrupt?" Luse, Poison Elves(S-27)

Inu-Yasha:"He can't of gone far! It's impossible to master that metal cart of yours quickly!!"

Kagome:"Inu-Yasha... Have you been practicing riding my bike?"Inu-Yasha:"SHUTUP!"-- Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

Luse:"My boots! I just bought these two months ago! Lookattem!!"Ailwon:"Your boots are not my concern, rogue."

Luse:"These boots concerned me fifty crowns, asshole!!!" , Poison Elves(M-14)

"Opening ceremonies can blow me." - Unknown

A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something. --Trinity,Matrix

"I should have been a garbage man, as mother always wanted." , Poison Elves(M-15)

"Must be more tired than I thought...took me a full two seconds to realize a boogeyman's

behind me..." Luse, Poison Elves(M-16)

"FORTY CLICKS INTO TAO-PANG WE FIND JOHNSON'S THE TRAITOR!!!" Old Man WithGun, Poison Elves(M-17)

"I felt safer breaking out of prison! Crow!!" Luse, Poison Elves (S-24)

Holy rusted metal, Batman! - Batman Forever

"Alright, I'm going to think of a purpose that endangers neither society nor myself...I'VE GOT

ONE!! I'VE GOT IT!! AYOOAH!!! I'm going to Mandratha and getting a tattoo!!!" -- Luse,

WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY?

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It's probably for the best. I refuse to create yet another weaknessfor myself. Caring for people... is a weakness that I will not allow

myself to have. It only puts both them and myself in danger. I won'thave it. - Lycorne, 04.28.2001

My teachers were really underpaid for what I put them through. -- TheHat of Zug©

Lighten up! We all make mistakes we pay for forever! -- The Hat of Zug©

"I simply do because I must. You can too. Someone took the knife awayfor you; you have no idea how amazing that is." - Lycorne, 04.29.2001

Hal, open the file.Hal, open the damn file, Hal.

Open it, please Hal. -- The Hat of Zug©

"Sore wa himitsu desu!" (That's a secret!) -Xellos Metallium, SlayersNext

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean orsarcastic thing." - John Erskine, American author and educator

"ps: That is not an official statement. I just found the pin hilarious,and bought it.

OH MY GOD, I WROTE A DISCLAIMER!!!pps: Ignore the disclaimer. If you want to take offense, go right

ahead." - Térence -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"You're just playing the hero for the five second news blip." - Batman Beyond

::Laugh it up, mortal:: - Icedrake, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID, . BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL. - Anonymous

"Taste is the enemy of creativity" - Pablo Picasso

"Our duty is to keep the universe thoroughly posted concerning murders and street fights, and balls, and theaters, and pack-trains, and churches, and lectures, and

schoolhouses, and city military affairs, and highway robberies, and Bible societies, and haywagons, and a thousand other things which it is in the province of local reporters to keep track of and magnify into undue importance for the instruction of the readers

of this great daily newspaper." –Mark Twain, Territorial Enterprise, Virginia City, Nevada Territory

Fortune smiles upon our first effort --Vergil

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Thou shalt recognize fortune from fate --Shay

"Living in a cookie-cutter world where being different is a sin, You don't stand out, but you don't fit in..." --Hanson, "Weird"

"In ebonics, 'We be fucked!'" --Pinball 'Con Air'

"Oh, what tangled webs we weave. When first we practice to deceive." -Sir Walter Scott

"I'm gonna go with E.) none/all of the above" - Mom

"A stumble may prevent a fall" -English Proverb

No job too big, no fee too big. --Peter, Ghostbusters

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot

"Don't cry when the sun is gone because the tears won't let you see the stars." -Violeta Parra

"You're stretchin' out your arms to something thats just not there." -Tonic

"Cause it's just another one of his Jedi mind tricks." -Poe

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, is awesomely simple, that's creativity." -Charles Mingus

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -Mark Twain

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." -Abbie Hoffman

"No one ever listened himself out of a job." -Calvin Coolidge

"If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it." -Leo Rosten

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"There is no substitute for victory." -General Douglas MacArthur

"Do. Or Don't do. There is no try." -Yoda

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -Joseph Joubert

"Common sense is not so common." -Uknown

"Silence is a test, easily misread." -Unknown

"Don't criticize what you don't understand." -Unknown

"Get it while you still can." -Janis Joplin

"The world is a comedy for those who think; a tragedy for those who feel." -Unknown

"Tears are no proof of innocense." -Kathryn Podsiadlo

"Everybody laughs in the same language." -Unknown

"When fate hands us a lemon, let's make lemonade." -Carnegie

"There is no such thing as a free lunch." -Friedman

"A masterful retreat is itself a victory." -N.V. Peale

"'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable whereas progress is a

matter of controversy." -Bertrand Russell in Sceptical Essays, 1928

"The strongest of all warriors are these two---Time and Paience." -Leo Tolstoy

"There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something." -Thomas Edison

about his laboratory

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"All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkein

"Whate'er the passion---knowledge, frame, or pelf. Not one will change his neighbour with himself." - Alexander Pope

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -Pablo Picasso

"Don't be afraid to take big steps if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -David Lloyd George

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener." -Robert Frost

"Playing on the edge means being willing to go into the unknown. It means approaching that

place where real growth occurs." -Stephen Levine in Who Dies?

"The infinately little have a pride infinitely great." -Voltaire

"Minds are like parachutes---they only function when open." -Thomas Dewar

"What i've feared, what i've known, turn the pages, turn to stone, behind the door, should I open it for you? yeah, what i've feared, what i've known, sick and tired i stand alone, could you be there, cuz i'm the one who waits for you...... or are you

unforgiven too?" - metallica

"It would be a sad error in judgement to mistake me for a corpse." -- Kane

"Fall seven times, stand-up eight." -Samurai Proverb

The point of perhaps...everything: Just because you don't believe it, or understand it, agree

with it, or even know about it....Doesn't make it not so. -- Unknown

"Give me what I want and I'll go away." -Linoge 'Storm of the Century'

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"Yes. You, Lilims, call it so. The holy region that must not be invaded by anyone. The light

of soul. You, Lilims, are aware of that. Aware that an A.T. Field is the barrier of the soul

that everyone has." - Kaoru Nagisa, Neon Genesis Evangelion

It can't rain all the time... - The Crow

A SINGLE INSULT

Drone, snail, slug, sot, ass, drunkard, churl, malt-horse, capon, idiot, patch, minion, baggage, goer-backward, cuckold, drudge, empiric, taffeta punk, scolding queen, scurvy lord, witty fool, clog, timorous thief, rude boy, caitiff, hater of love, despiteful Juno, filthy officer, jackanape with scarves, ring-carrier, hilding, bubble, hourly promise-breaker, notable coward, infinite and endless liar, coxcomb, sprat, counterfeit module, double-meaning prophesier, past-saving slave, botcher's apprentice, shrieve's fool, dumb innocent, foolish idle boy, dangerous and lascivious boy, damnable both-sides rogue, flinty Tartar, snipt-taffeta fellow, unbaked and doughy youth, red- tailed bumblebee, carbonadoed face, hideous object, common gamester, perfidious slave, equivocal companion, common customer, wrangling queen, common liar, saucy eunuch, amorous surfeiter, monstrous malefactor, strange serpent, ribaudred nag, you kite, Jack, boggler, old ruffian, triple-turn'd whore, witch, vile-lady, old dog, mechanic slave, odd worm, whore son devil, mortal wretch, venomous fool, unworthy brother, peasant, envious emulator, monster, nature's natural, cutter-off of nature's wit, cur, mannish coward, clownish fool, toad, fat and greasy citizen, roynish clown, dog-ape, compact of jars, you of basest function, rude despiser of good manners, natural philosopher, crooked-pated old cuckoldy ram, nut, dull fool, saucy lackey, fancy-monger, mannish youth, foul slut, confirmer of false reckonings, puisny tilter, noble goose, common executioner, nature's sale-work, abominable fellow, tyrant, motley-minded gentleman, ill-favored virgin, idle creature, saucy fellow, common laugher, eternal devil, fleering tell-tale, serpent's egg, old feeble carrion, shrewd contriver, carcass fit for hounds, barren-spirited fellow, jigging fool, monstrous apparition, peevish schoolboy, disguised cheater, prating mountebank, cuckold-mad, horn-mad, prating peasant, unfeeling fool, foolish gnat, hind, curtal dog, drunken slave, backfriend, shoulder-clapper, Lapland sorcerer, devil, devil's dam, fiend, doting wizard, dissembling harlot, peevish officer, unhappy strumpet, mere anatomy, mountebank, threadbare juggler, fortuneteller, fat friend, belly, rascal, dissentious rogue, quartered slave, fragment, shame of Rome, base slave, fusty plebeian, debile wretch, hereditary hangman, old crab-tree, horse-drench, kitchen malkin, vengeance proud, timepleaser, flatterer, foe to nobleness, Triton of the minnows, old goat, rotten thing, viperous traitor, general lout, common cry of curs, bastards, daw, dastard noble, carbonado, decayed dotant, varlet, foreign recreant, boy of tears, measureless liar, falsehound, basest thing, beggar, vile one, that-way-accomplished courtier, flattering rascal, depender on a thing that leans, runagate, saucy stranger, whoreson jackanapes, whoreson dog, Jackslave, banished rascal, crafty devil, unpaved eunuch, base wretch, profane fellow, precious pander, precious varlet, injurious thief, rustic mountaineer, empty purse, clotpoll, irregulous devil, sad wrack, kitchen trull, unspeaking sot, most credulous fool, egregious murderer, dullard, implorator of unholy suits, adulterate beast, garbage, wretch whose natural gifts were poor, pernicious, addicted so and so, fishmonger, satirical rogue, tedious old fool, quintessence of dust, rogue and peasant slave, dull and muddy-mottled rascal,

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pigeon-liver, whore, guilty creature, breeder of sinners, robustious, periwigpated fellow, groundling, passion's slave, galled jade, croaking raven, peacock, bosom black as death, wretched, rash, intruding fool, mildewed ear, king of shreds and patches, tardy son, sweet wag, Diana's forester, minion of the moon, Monsieur Remorse, Sir John Sack and Sugar, madcap, thou latter spring, all-hallown summer, true-bred coward, fat rogue, slovenly unhandsome corse, popinjay, forgetful man, thorn, canker, sword-and-buckler prince, wasp- stung and impatient fool, vile politician, king of smiles, fawning greyhound, cozener, man of falsehood, foot land-raker, long-staff sixpenny striker, mad mustachio purple-hued maltworm, false thief, fat-kidneyed rascal, veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth, whoreson caterpillar, fat chuff, arrant coward, shallow, cowardly hind, lack-brain, frosty-spirited rogue, pagan rascal, infidel, mad-headed ape, paraquito, loggerhead, leathern- jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch, damned brawn, shotten herring, woolsack, son of darkness, clay-brained guts, knotty-pated fool, whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch, pintpot, ticklebrain, naughty varlet, ungracious boy, tun of man, trunk of humours, bolting hutch of beastliness, swoll'n parcel of dropsies, huge bombard of sack, stuffed cloakbag of guts, roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey Iniquity, father Ruffian, Vanity in years, old white- bearded Satan, Whoremaster, natural coward without instinct, velvet guard, Sunday citizen, smiling pickthanks, base newsmonger, shallow jester, rash bavin wit, capering fool, younker, whoreson, impudent, embossed rascal, nimble-footed madcap, soused gurnet, revolted tapster, canker of a calm world and a long peace, tattered prodigal, scarecrow, mad wag, poor unminded outlaw sneaking home, chewet, fickle changeling, poor discontent, rag-of-muffin, hot termagent, blunt monster with uncounted heads, hulk, hilding fellow, dullest peasant in the camp, foolish compounded clay-man, whoreson mandrake, whoreson Achitophel, whoreson smooth-pate, hunt counter, ill angel, beastly feeder, common dog, bastardly rogue, honeyseed rogue, man-queller and woman-queller, hempseed, scullion, rampallian, fustilarian, poor mad soul, offending Adam, base tike, Iceland dog, prick-eared cur of Iceland, egregious dog, braggart vile, damned furious wight, hound of Crete, lazar kite of Cressid's kind, cunning fiend, poor miserable wretch, devil incarnate, vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, coward dog, cullion, swasher, white-livered and red-faced, prince of fiends, bastard warrior, most lofty runaway, arrant counterfeit rascal, bawd, cutpurse, gull, wretched and peevish fellow, foolish cur, valiant flea, foul and ugly witch, bad neighbour, prating coxcomb, wretched slave with a body filled and vacant mind, child of hell, superfluous lackey, hilding foe, island carrion, damned and luxurious mountain-goat, roaring devil, base pander, Jack-sauce, fellow of no merits, base Troyan, mountain-squire, squire of low degree, cutpurse of quick hand, fellow of infinite tongue, prater, effeminate prince, dastard foeman, Jack-out-of-office, lean raw-boned rascal, hare-brained slave, distrustful recreant, dunghill groom, peeled priest, usurping proditer, manifest conspirator, tawny coat, scarlet hypocrite, foe to citizens, wretched sinner, woeful man, high-minded strumpet, noisome stench, poor servitor, fiend of hell, deceitful dam, partaker of a little gain, improvident soldier, trull, silly dwarf, weak and writhled shrimp, bloodthirsty lord, riddling merchant, pernicious usurer, viperous worm, shameless courtesan, hag of all despite, base muleter, peasant footboy, miscreant, hedge-born swain, presumptuous vassal, traitorous rout, ireful bastard, giglet wench, upstart, fell banning hag, decrepit miser, base ignoble wretch, graceless, cursed drab, presumptuous dame, base and humble mind, tedious stumbling-block, contemptuous base-born callet, image of pride, false fiend, sicked spirit, meanest groom, foul offender, idle rascal, hindmost man, bedlam brainsick duchess, fraudful man, crafty murderer, uncivil kern, mean-born man, starved snake, shag-haired crafty kern, basilisk, hollow friend, loathsome leper, contumelious spirit, arrogant controller, blunt-

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witted lord ignoble in demeanor, stern untutored churl, false murd'rous coward, pernicious bloodsucker of sleeping men, fell serpent, rude unpolished hind, busy meddling fiend, obscure and lowly swain, jaded groom, base slave, hag of hell, paltry, servile, abject drudge, lowly vassal, vile benzonian, banditto slave, silken-coated slave, false caterpillars, thou serge, thou buckram lord, rude companion, burly-boned clown, audacious traitor, fell-lurking cur, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump, mad misleader, foul stigmatic, sturdy rebel, false peer, poltroon, timorous wretch, brat, she- wolf, Amazonian trull, proud insulting boy, butcher, crook-back, foul misshapen stigmatic, shameless callet, wrangling woman, homely swain, fearful-flying hare, fatal screech-owl, you chaos, unlick'd bear-whelp, murderous Machiavel, half malcontent, feigned friend, bug, quicksand of deceit, scolding crookback, wilful boy, untutord lad, misshapen Dick, bloody cannibal, devil's butcher, peevish fool, indigest deformed lump, sour annoy, butcher's cur, malicious censurer, ravenous fish, sick interpreter, weak one, giant traitor, devfl-monk, bold bad man, living murmurer, most malicious foe, dilatory sloth, hollow heart, false professor, stubborn spirit, most arch heretic, poor undeserver, proud traitor, thou scarlet sin, piece of scarlet, rank weed, lousy footboy, rude slave, fire-drake, wife of small wit, calf, cow, half-face, Sir Knob, sparrow, insolent cracker, thou unadvised scold, cank'red grandam, scroyle, jade, purpose- changer, sly divel, daily break-vow, smooth-fac'd gentleman, all- changing word, false blood, ramping fool, cold-blooded slave, recreant limb, meddling priest, arch-heretic, most sweet lout, thou odiferous stench, carrion monster, uncleanly scruples, foolish rheum, lean unwash'd artificer, dunghill, beardless boy, cock'red silken wanton, misbegotten divel, clod, vassal, idle old man, whoreson man, clotpoll, mongrel, base football player, degenerate bastard, marble-hearted fiend, detested kite, eater of broken meats, lily-livered, action-taking, glass-gazing, super- serviceable, finical rogue, one-trunk-inheriting slave, brazen- faced varlet, whoreson cullionly barbermonger, ancient ruffian, whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter, wagtail, reverent braggart, embossed carbuncle, unnatural hag, the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet, she-fox, ingrateful fox, filthy traitor, milk- livered man, moral fool, vain fool, doghearted daughter, thou side-piercing sight, simp'ring dame, rascal beadle, scurvy politician, gilded butterfly, most toad-spotted traitor, low- spirited swain, base minnow of mirth, unlettered small-knowing soul, transgressing slave, most acute juvenal, old love-monger, wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, senior-junior, giant- dwarf, Dan-Cupid, regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, liege of all loiterers and malcontents, dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces, sole imperator and great general of trotting 'paritors, pernicious and indubitate beggar, most simple clown, foolish extravagant spirit, most profane coxcomb, whoreson loggerhead, turtle, barren practiser, half-penny purse of wit, pigeon-egg of discretion, mouse, figure pedantical, some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, some mumble-news, some trencher's knight, some Dick, that smiles his cheek in years, libbard's head, pure wit, foolish mild man, cittern-head, Fortune's closestool, head of a bodkin, death's face in a ring, man replete with mocks, rebel's whore, rump-fed ronyon, rat without a tail, imperfect speaker, instrument of darkness, spongey officer, infirm of purpose, porter of Hell Gate, you equivocator, you common enemy of man, you half a soul, water-rug, demi-wolf, best o' th' cutthroats, grown serpent, horrible shadow, unreal mock'ry, magot-pie, close contriver of all harms, secret, black, and midnight hag, filthy hag, you egg, young fry of treachery, infected mind, cream-fac'd loon, lily-liver'd boy, patch, whey- face, liar, and slave, clamorous harbinger of blood and death, Hell-bound, juggling fiend, coward, cruel minister, sanctimonious pirate, Madam Mitigation, tapster, parcel-bawd, tedious fool, wicked varlet, caitiff, wicked Hannibal, death's fool, you poor worm, outward-sainted deputy, beast, faithless coward, dishonest wretch, wicked bawd, whoremaster, whoremonger, bawd-born, motion generative, superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow,

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ungenitured agent, notorious bawd, unlawful bawd, gravel heart, rude wretch, rotten medlar, virgin-violator, wicked'st caitiff on the ground, arch-villain, pernicious caitiff, blasting and scandalous breath, saucy friar, very scurvy fellow, unreverend and unhallow'd friar, goodman baldpate, fleshmonger, thou damnable fellow, giglet, bald-pated, living rascal, punk, want-wit, Sir Oracle, fool gudgeon, death's head with a bone in his mouth, dumb-show, sponge, fawning publican, evil soul, goodly apple rotten at the heart, cut-throat dog, very devil incarnate, younker, prodigal, carrion Death, gossip Report, bankrupt, wanton gambol, soft and dull-eyed fool, most impenetrable cur, bragging Jack, lewd interpreter, wit-snapper, stony adversary, inhuman wretch, brassy bosom, rough heart of flint, inexecrable dog, louse, cony- catching rascal, you Banbury cheese, mountain foreigner, latten bilbo, bully-rook, bully Hercules, base Hungarian wight, tinder- box, varlet vile, Mars of malcontents, larron, scurvy Jack- a- nape priest, greasy knight, drawling, affecting rogue, secure fool, gibbet, thou unconfinable baseness, cuckoldy rogue, mechanical salt-butter rogue, damned Epicurean rascal, Lucifer, Wittol, Cuckold, secure ass, King-Urinal, Monsieur Mock-water, scurvy Jack-dog priest, scall, scurvy, cogging companion, you little Jack-a-Lent, unwholesome humidity, gross watery pumpion, lisping hawthorn-bud, dissembling knight, dishonest rascal, foolish carrion, turd, mountain of mummy, panderly rascal, brazen-face, old, cozening queen, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon, poor unvirtuous fat knight, superstitious idle-headed eld, boor, thick-skin, muscle-shell, vile worm, hodgepudding, bag of flax, puffed man, old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails, great lubberly boy, spotted and inconstant man, jaws of darkness, waggish boy, thou lob of spirits, fat and bean-fed horse, rash wanton, progeny of evils, you hard-hearted adamant, spotted snake with double tongue, thorny hedgehog, lack-love, kill-courtesy, hempen homespun, cowardly, giantlike oxbeef, shallowest thickskin of that barren sort, thou cat, thou burr, vile thing, you juggler, you canker blossom, you thief of love, you counterfeit, you puppet, thou painted maypole, vixen, you dwarf, you minimus, of hind'ring knotgrass made, you bead, you acorn, king of shadows, you runaway, idle gaud, patched fool, dear Lady Disdain, hard heart, rare parrot-teacher, hypocrite, professed tyrant, flouting Jack, obstinate heretic, young start- up, old cuckold with horns on his head, piece of valiant dust, clod of wayward marl, Prince's jester, toothpicker, my Lady Tongue, double heart, mother of fools, contaminated stale, ill singer, foul blot, vane blown with all winds, block, wild heart, little hangman, truant, hobby-horse, scab, true drunkard, deformed thief, vile thief, One Deformed, illegitimate construction, approved wanton, common stale, most foul, thou pure impiety, foul-tainted flesh, strange sore, Count Comfect, thou naughty varlet, candle-waster, thou dissembler, dotard, braggart, milksop, scambling, outfacing, fashion-mongering boy, Calf's head, capon, woodcock, Lord Lackbeard, cursing hypocrite, shallow fool, wronger, offender, quondam carpetmonger, Don Worm, slanderous tongue, double-dealer, martyr slain in Cupid's wars, Signior Sooth, Pilch, Patch-breech, craver, rudeliest welcome to this world, poor inch of nature, roastmeat for worms, gosling, young foolish sapling, malkin, harpy, lown, peevish baggage, herb woman, thou damned door-keeper, coistrel, baboon, basest groom, fairy motion, sad fool, ancient substitute, weak slave, heartless hind, transparent heretic, man of wax, wanton light of heart, candle-holder, small, grey-coated gnat, round little worm, princox, loathed enemy, dull earth, open-arse, poperin pear, young waverer, pale hard-hearted wench, Prince of Cats, courageous captain of compliments, fashion-monger, saucy merchant, flirt-gill, skains-mate, you rat-catcher, Good King of Cats, braggart, worm's meat, wretched boy, sober-suited matron, serpent heart, beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, dove-feather'd raven, wolvish-ravening lamb, despised substance of divinest show, mistress minion you, you green-sickness carrion, you tallow-face, young baggage, disobedient wretch, mumbling fool, wretched puling fool, whining mammet, dishclout, most wicked fiend, caitiff wretch, thou

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detestable maw, thou tomb of death, fiend of hell, rotten apple, aglet-baby, old trot, woodcock, irksome bawling scold, wildcat, thou hilding of a devilish spirit, rascal fiddler, twanging Jack, craven, mad-cap ruffian, swearing Jack, greybeard, wrangling pedant, a very toad, preposterous ass, old pantaloon, pedascule, mad-brain rudesby, frantic fool, jolly surly groom, tired jade, mad master, you three-inch fool, you logger-headed and unpolished groom, you peasant swain, whoreson malt-horse drudge, heedless jolthead, unmanner'd slave, proud disdainful haggard, thou false deluding slave, thou thread, thou thimble, thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant, crack-hemp, mad ass, foul contending rebel, counter-caster, thou foul thief, thou silly gentleman, finder out of occasions, night- brawler, lewd minx, young and sweating devil, simple bawd, subtle whore, thou weed, thou public commoner, impudent strumpet, insinuating rogue, cogging, cozening slave, scurvy fellow, young quat, notable strumpet, trash, perjured woman, dolt, murderous coxcomb, puny whipster, demi-devil, Spartan dog, false trembling coward, recreant and most degenerate traitor, overwheening traitor, gilded loam, you painted clay, out-dared dastard, caitiff recreant, traitor, foul and dangerous, guilty soul, lunatic, lean-witted fool, most degenerate, a parasite, keeper- back of Death, banished traitor, caterpillar of the commonwealth, thou coward majesty, thou little better thing than earth, nimble mischance, dishonorable boy, you Pilate, thou haught, insulting man, thou ladder, unruly woman, unthrifty son, young wanton and effeminate boy, commonest creature, treacherous son, shrill- voiced supplicant, sour husband, frantic woman, hardhearted lord, jealous o'erworn widow, nighty gossip, creeping venomed thing, black magician, unmannered dog, thou dreadful minister of hell, thou lump of foul deformity, diffused infection of a man, devilish slave, hedgehog, rancorous enemy, silken, insinuating Jack, thou cacodemon, wrangling pirate, foul wrinkled witch, peevish brat, thou hateful withered hag, troubler of the world's peace, thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog, slave of nature and the son of hell, thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb, thou loathed issue of thy father's loins, thou rag of honour, bottled spider, poisonous bunch-backed toad, malapert, lunatic, simple gull, sour ferryman, foul fiend, erroneous vassal, traitor to the name of God, incapable and shallow innocent, idle weed, parlous boy, covert'st sheltered traitor, tongueless block, iron- witted fool, unrespective boy, little peevish boy, hellhound, foul defacer of God's handiwork, excellent grand tyrant of the earth, carnal cur, Hell's black intelligencer, petty rebel, relenting fool, shallow, changing woman, doubtful, hollow-hearted friend, white-livered runagate, wretched, bloody, and usurping boar, foul swine, tardy sluggard, you base foul stone falsely set, paltry fellow, milksop, overwheening rag, famished beggar, poor rat, heir of shame, perfect gallows, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog, insolent noise-maker, wide-chapp'd rascal, enemy inveterate, malignant thing, damn'd witch, blue- eyed hag, freckled whelp hag-born, dull thing, you slave, who never yields us kind answer, thou earth, thou, thou tortoise, poisonous slave, thou most lying slave, whom stripes may move, not kindness, filth as thou art, abhorred slave, thing most brutish, you hag-seed, beauty's canker, spendthrift of tongue, strange fish, holiday fool, most delicate monster, moon-calf, glass-fac'd flatterer, bawd between fold and want, fool in good clothes, thou damned baseness, thou disease of a friend, sworn rioter, most smiling, smooth, detested parasite, courteous destroyer, affable wolf, meek bear, you fool of fortune, trencher-friend, cap-and-knee slave, you vapour, minute-Jack, curl'd-pate ruffian, carper, cap of all fools alive, thou issue of a mangy dog, thou tedious rogue, thou bright defiler of Hymen's purest bed, poor fragment, slender ort, gross patchery, foulspoken coward, pretty brabble, saucy controller of private steps, unmarmerly intruder, foul adultress, fell cur of bloody kind, you stony image, cold and dumb, thou map of woe, base bondsman, joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue, hellish dog, sanguine, shallow-hearted boy, ye white-limed wall, ye alehouse painted sign, long-

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tongued babbling gossip, sly frantic wretch, incarnate devil, walleyed slave, most insatiate and luxurious woman, inhuman traitor, ravenous tiger, accursed devil, unhallowed slave, execrable wretch, breeder of dire events, sneaking fellow, porridge after meat, chaff and bran, drayman, thou bitch-wolf's son, thou mongrel beef-witted lord, toadstool, porpentine, thou loathsomest scab in Greece, cobloaf, whoreson cur, thou stool for a witch, thou sodden-witted lord, scurvy- valiant ass, thou thing of no bowels, vile owl, fusty nut with no kernel, trash, one besotted on sweet delights, gilt counterfeit, paltry, insolent fellow, great-siz'd monster of ingratitude, valiant ignorance, puling cuckold, still and dumb-discoursive devil that tempts most cunningly, theme of all our scorns, thou core of envy, thou crusty botch of nature, idol of idiot- worshippers, fragment, thou full dish of fool, thou damnable box of envy, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, thou idle immaterial skein of sleeve silk, thou green sarsenet flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou finch egg, louse of a lazar, herring without a roe, puttock, sweet sink, sweet sewer, incontinent varlet, dissembling abominable varlet, crafty swearing rascal, stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, thou boy-queller, most putified core, thou great- siz'd coward, broker-lackey, fellow o' th' strangest mind i' th' world, dry fool, mouse of virtue, thou ordinary fool, that has no more brain than a stone, pickle-herring, thou cruell'st she alive, babbling gossip, thou common recreation, time-pleaser, affectioned ass, rascally sheep-biter, metal of India, fellow of servants, not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers, gross acquaintance, gull-catcher, notable contempt, thou most excellent devil of wit, corruptor of words, dear venom, dear manikin, foul collier, firago, hyperbolical fiend, thou dishonest Satan, notable pirate, thou salt-water thief, uncivil lady, marble- breasted tyrant, you very devil incardinate, you passy mesaures pavin, ass-head, votary to fond desire, worthless post, testy babe, exceeding puppet, sourest-natured dog that lives, you very pebble stone, you kind of chameleon, notable lubber, jolt-head, illiterate loiter, thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man, you whoreson peasant, foolish lout, thou counterfeit to thy true friend, thou friend of an ill fashion, thou common friend that's without faith or love, fellow false, cold coward, dainty dominie, you most coarse frieze capacity, ye jean judgment, scornful piece, scurvy hilding, Babion with long tail and eke long tool, scorn of women, changeling, leprous witch, polled bachelor, simp'ring sire, abandoner of revels, mute contemplative, dam of horror, sow of lead, you wanton calf, flax-wench, gross lout, mindless slave, thou thing, bed-swerver, mankind witch, most intelligencing bawd, callat of boundless tongue, gross hag, boil'd brains, snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, lowborn lass, queen of curds and cream, stretch-mouthed rascal, thou fresh piece of excellent witchcraft, pedlar's excrement, old sheep- whistling rogue, needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, a living dead man, one o' th' false ones, this imperceiverant thing, a very drudge of nature's, a very drab, such a dish of skim milk, an ingrate and cankered, one not worth gooseberry, so vile a lout, son and heir of a mongrel bitch, a boil, a plague- sore, a new Gorgon, a mind diseas'd, a list of an English kersey, one that serves a bad woman, a breath thou art, an ass-head, a very valiant trencher-man, a stuffed man, a very forward March- chick, a very dull fool, merely a dumb-show, one relish'd of a base descent, the very butcher of a silk button, one half- lunatic, one full of spleen, a very monster in apparel, such a snipe, all in all spleen and nothing of a man, one light of brain, what a slug, the sweating lord, a dumb statue or breathing stone, a very shallow monster, a very weak monster, a most poor credulous monster, a puppy-headed monster, a most perfidious and drunken monster, a most scurvy monster, a most ridiculous monster, you are the wonder of a poor drunkard, a howling monster, one opposite to humanity, one whose grossness little characters sum up, a very camel, a slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint, a botchy core, a filthy piece of work, a very land-fish, languageless, a dog-fox not proved worth a blackberry, a very filthy rogue, a coward and a coistrel, a very

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renegado, a most devout coward, religious in it, one full of bread and sloth, a most unbounded tyrant, a mere dull shadow, a mere gypsy, you rabble of vile confederates, herd of boils and plagues, souls of geese, brace of unmeriting, proud, violent, testy magistrates (alias fools), tongues o' th' common mouth, petty spirits of region low, foul and pestilent congregation of vapors, some quantity of barren spectators, gentlemen of the shade, base contagious clouds, foul and ugly mists of vapours, ye fat-guts, such toasts-and-butter, discarded unjust servingmen, nest of hollow bosoms, men of grosser blood, sworn brothers in filching, men proud of destruction, barbarous people, frosty people, slanders of the age, fat-brained followers, a sort of naughty persons, a sort of tinkers, rascal people, simple men, giddy people, men of malice, wanton boys that swim on bladders, faithful friends o' th' suburbs, bastards and else, degenerate, bloody Neroes, rude multitude, summer-flies, kernes and gallowglasses, weird women, crew of wretched souls, strangely- visited people, our rarer monsters, wild and wanton herd, geminy of baboons, newts and blind-worms, crew of patches, rude mechanicals, that work for bread, a college of wit-crackers, new tuners of accent, strange flies, these pardon-me's, unconstant womankind, pictures out of doors, devils being offended, rough, rug-headed kernes which live like venom, dogs easily won to fawn on any man, Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas, noisome weeds, so dissolute a crew, kites and buzzards, a knot of damned bloodsuckers, a nest of spicery, a sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, scum of Britains and base lackey peasants, the most needless creatures living, usurer's men, you knot of mouth- friends, time's flies, general filths, fools on both sides, crows and daws, thieves unworthy of a thing so stol'n, dull and factious nobles, mutable, rank-scented meiny, vagrom men, troll- my-dames, such waterflies and dimunitives of nature, brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade, scoundrels and subtractors, fools' zanies, store of muttons, poor slight sores, some severals of headpiece extraordinary, foul-mouthed and caluminous knave, wrangling knave, poor gallant knave, shrewd knave and unhappy, poor, decayed, ingenius, foolish, rascally knave, foul knave, knaves that smell of sweat, Fortune's knave, fantastical knave, naughty knave, Sir knave, sly and constant knave, arrant knave, untaught knaves, bacon-fed knaves, gorbellied knaves, rascally yea-forsooth knave, a young knave and begging, arrant, malmsy- nose knave, the rascally, scauld, beggarly, lousy, pragging knave, scurvy, lousy knave, a counterfeit cowardly knave, crafty knaves, a subtle knave, the lying'st knave in Christendom, By holy Mary, there's knavery! lazy knaves, thou most untoward knave, my lord's knave, base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three- suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave, beastly knave, stubborn ancient knave, muddy knave, unthrifty knave, jealous rascally knave, poor cuckoldy knave, jealous wittoly knave, lousy knave, lunatic knave, shrewd and knavish sprite, a couple of as arrant knaves as any, little better than false knaves, scurvy knave, what a pestilent knave is this same, whoreson beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave, knave very voluble, a pestilent complete knave, a slipper and subtle knave, a devilish knave, most villainous knave, base notorious knave, most unjust knave, scurvy, doting, foolish knave, scurvy railing knave, a good knave, a thin-faced knave, horrible villain, villain of the earth, soulless villain, secret and villainous contriver, trusty villain, whoreson senseless villain, dissembling villain, hungry, lean-faced villain, insolent villain, all-worthy villain, thou villain base, thou double villain, geck and scorn o' th' other's villainy, smiling, damned villain, bloody, bawdy villain, remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain, stoney- hearted villain, villainous abominable misleader of youth... -- Pooky

You must give it to him for his creativity.

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"Cherish what you -are-, here and now, not what you were, or what youmight be in the future. Be yourself. Learn what that means." - Miach

Windtree

"You are not special. You are not abeautiful or unique snowflake. You arethe same decaying organic matter as

everything else."-Tyler. Fight Club

"I'm an outdated heart...A lost soul..." - Lycorne, 06.12.2001

"Someday I will be queen, but I will always be myself." - Garnet fromFF9

"I'm telling you i want to be a loser."-Treize. Gundam Wing

Just because no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.-- The Hat of Zug©

"I'm just a sucker with no self esteem"-Offspring. self esteem

"I'm not like you guys"-Blink 182. aliens exits

"I am what I am and do not regret it." - Lycorne, 05.01.2001

"I'm a monkey! No, I'm a captain! No wait, I'm a captain and amonkey!" -Captain Simian, Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys

"I don't have a problem with being chivalrous. What makes you think I have a problem with

being chivalrous?" - Urlich, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

There is no quality in others that frightens you more than the shadow of what you might have

been. - Silvertris

If I ever meet myself, I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me. - Zaphod Beeblebrox

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking so good,

either. - Scott Adams

"People tell you to be yourself...like yourself is some defined thing." -Mscl

``ich bin ein auslander.'' German for ``I am an outsider.'' - Unknown

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"I still have bad days. But that's okay. I used to have bad years." -Anonymous

"I would have made a good Pope." -Richard Nixon

"You are the same as me." - Kaoru Nagisa, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Do you now understand what it means when we say, if you're not one of us, you're one of them?

-- Morpheus, Matrix

"Maybe that's all I am... Just a pawn. But if I am, then so are you." -- John / Kellindil

"Excuse me, I think I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself." -Jewel

"I am the one the only one, I am the God of Kingdom come... so just give me the prize." -- John / Kellindil & Ken / Kaelic

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley

You shall not cry out to the universe 'I do exist!' that yeilds only silence. Rather, be so great a person that the universe asks 'Do you truly exist?' then YOU may chose

silence or speech. - Lycorne

"Don't even try to relate to me, pal--we're not from the same planet." Luse, Poison Elves (S-29)

Be one with thyself and thyself shall be at one --unknown

"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are." -Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"What am I, a PRIZE in a CEREAL BOX?!" -- Kagome, by Rumiko Takahashi

I think therefore I am --Descartes (Latin form: Cogito ergo sum)

"You were made an original, not a copy." -Unknown

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Insist upon yourself, never imitate --Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back --Mick Jagger

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." -Tallulah Bankhead

In each of us there is another whom we do not know --Carl Jung

"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do."

-Lin Yutang

"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself." -Isaac Basheis Singer

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" -Dr. Robert Scheller

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." -Jonathan Kozol

"Only the shallow know themselves." -Oscar Wilde

SANE, INSANE, like there's a difference?!?

Why work for minimum wage when I can get a government check for beingcrazy? -- The Hat of Zug©

I am Zygos, that is all you need to know. The name explains itself.-Zygos

If I seem weird think about how you seem to me. -- The Hat of Zug©

"I'm shocked he hasn't written me off as crazy and not worth talkingto already." - Lycorne, 06.11.2001

Act weird the normals are watching. -- The Hat of Zug©

"L-chan gonna stop reffering to herself in the third person now...."- Lycorne, 05.04.2001

I have a warped sense of perspective. We all have our little gifts. --

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The Hat of Zug©

"The angry boy a bit too insane. itching over a secret pain."- 3rd EyeBlind. jumper

Perhaps a tiny bit neurotic. -- The Hat of Zug©

What if it was me in the ground?Would you be calling me crazy too?

- Lycorne, 04.18.2001

Prozac... 'cause sometimes you feel like a nut... sometimes you don't.-- The Hat of Zug©

"I'm number 13.. Am I going to go mad too..?" -- Red XIII

I wouldn't want to be normal, even if I knew what it is. -- The Hat ofZug©

"Well, well. You look almost normal." - Minetti, _A Distant Soil_(Issue 2) by Colleen Doran.

"Act weird and let them wonder." -Hat of Zug©

It's better to be crazy and know it than to be sane and doubt it.-- The Hat of Zug©

I tried sanity once, but the side effects were brutal. -- The Hat ofZug©

"I'm not crazy, I've just been in a bad mood for 40 years..." -Ouiser,Steel Magnolias

"Searching for voices chasing echoes of long ago days; Spreading clearwings of things not yet seen our nights become flight..." -Please Save

My Earth, Moment's Mem'ry

"Oh, sorry. I'll put the straitjacket back on." - Thea -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

They say when you talk to God, it's called prayer. When God talks to you, it's schitzophrenia.

- Fox Mulder

If one...just one more weird thing happens this month...I'm going to go completely bat shit.

- Lusipher, Poison Elves

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There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant

"I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people. A maniac will beat 9 people to deathwith a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat 9 people to death with a steel dildo, but

he'llbe wearing a Bugs Bunny suit at the time." - DEX

"Only a madman is dead sure of his sanity." -Unknown

So it's social. Demented and sad, but social - The Breakfast Club

"Who am I to decide crazy?" - Ally McBeal

"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation." -- Mulder

"It's finally happened. You've lost your mind." -- Methos, Highlander

Thou are so... odd. -- Cyan, Final Fantasy III

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" -Niels Bohr

"I'm not scitzophrentic... I RPG!" - Unknown

"Hannibal Lecter: How did you catch me, Will?Will: You had disadvantages.

Hannibal Lecter: What disadvantages?Will: You're insane." -Manhunter

Reality is the leading cause of stress... for those in touch with it. - unknown

"You all consider me your personal sideshow freak..." - Zelgadis, 'Slayers'

It's the so-called normal guys who always let you down. Sickos never scare me. At least they're committed. - Batman Returns

"Insanity--a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." -R.D.Laing

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"The sleep of reason breeds monsters" -GOYA

"My roommate thinks I'm twisted..."'As long as it's a good twisted'"No, it's not a good twisted."

'Well, as long as you're good and twisted.'"I'm not really even good"

'As for me, I'm just bent.' - Unknown & Anonymous

Why I haven't gone stark raving mad, I know not. But sometimes I wished I had. - JQ

"IWB!!! The INSANE WATER BOYS!!!! WoO! Hell ya!!" -- Ryan 'Koochie' Ray and Eugene

'BlueJeans' Blake

"I am not weird; weird is for ameteurs. I am a registered phsycotic." --WA

"Damn white rugs! Damn psychopaths! Damn stupid ass for getting yourself into this whole stinking mess! Each time she comes home she walks right by here--right by!

And you have to go and leave a damned bloody footprint in front of her closet of goodies. It won't take a genius to put two and two together, then she seals off the

grounds and comes looking for you and maybe her skin splits and another lunatic is trying to cut you up for reasons that make no

sense at all to us in reality but are perfect for residents of crazyland..." Parintachin, Poison Elves(M-7)

Ray Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking, just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1945.

Peter Venkman: You're right, no ordinary human being would stack books like this. -- Ghostbusters

"Someone once said that those who are mentally and emotionally healthy are those who have learned when to say Yes. when to say No. and when to say Whoopee!" -

William S. Krabill M.D.

"If you must believe I am sane, keep it to yourself, or shoot me before I learn of it." -- Lycorne

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"My gun is starting to speak to me...bad things happen when that happens." Luse, Poison

Elves(M-4)

"There never was a genius without a tincture of madness." -Aristotle

Obviously she's crazy if she's screwing her shrink - The Breakfast Club

"He's just a normal person!!!" - Kagome, Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takashi

"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it." -Anonymous

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."-Mark Twain

You're just jealous because I'm a real freak and you have to wear a mask. - Batman Returns

"The issue isn't whether you're paranoid, it's whether you're paranoid enough." -Strange Days

"I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking that the state-appointed shrink is our friend." -

Anonymous

"GET THIS CRAZY-ASS ELF SHIT OFF OF ME!!" The Nick, Poison Elves(M-5)

EINSTEIN"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."

- Albert Einstein

"Einstein was a man of such intelligence he discovered a way to annihilate whole cities in the blink of an eye, credit cards are worse." Parintachin, Poison Elves (M-11)

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein

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"There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!" -Einstein

"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies." Einstein

"I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food." -Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -Einstien

"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to." -Einstein

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." -Einstein

"A theory can be proved by an experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory." -Einstein

"The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule." -Einstein

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." -Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." -Einstein

"I don't know how man will fight World War 3, but I do know how they will fight World War 4;

with sticks and stones." -Einstein

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove

how it got there." -Einstein

"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor." -Einstein

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."-Einstein

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"True art is chracterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." -Einstein

"A storm broke loose in my mind." -Einstein

"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" -Einstein

"One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -Einstein

"What really interests me is whether God has any choice in the creation of the world." Einstein

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them" -Einstein

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given" -Einstein

"It is the theory that decides what we can observe" -Einstein

"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play,

and Z keeping your mouth shut." -Einstein

"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the

former." -Einstein

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." -Einstein

"What is inconceiveable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable." -Einstein

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." -Einstein

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." -Einstein

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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." -Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices aquired by age eighteen." -Einstein

"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life." -Einstein

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -Einstein

"I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus." -Einstein

"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken

people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the

Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swissnations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to

protect Jewish lives." -Einstein

"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." -Einstein

"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity." -Einstein

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." -Einstein

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." -Einstein

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"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -Einstein

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." -Einstein

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." -Einstein

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." -Einstein

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." -Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achueved by understanding." -Einstein

"In order to form an imaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."-Einstein

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone

who's dead." -Einstein

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" -Einstein

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." -Einstein

"Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?" -Einstein

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." -Einsetin

"E=mc² (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.)" -Einstein

"Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate." -Einstein

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"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from Wonder." -Einstein

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Einstein

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes

are closed." -Albert Einstein

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." -Albert Einstein

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." -Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein

PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO SEE

"What in the unholy crimson underworld!?" - Daniel/DarkFyre

"This looks like the place where the universe goes to die." - Belinda,The Chrome Circle by Mercades Lackey

"And will they find usSearching for a place called home...

Will we find it,Can we get there on our own?

Or are we lost,Amongs these hills of rolling stone...

Will we ever,Can we find it on our own?" - Lycorne

Do I belong to some ancient race?I like to walk in ancient places.

These are the things that I can understand.- Arhúaine

"It looks sad and empty here... How odd. I always thought it lookedempty before..." - Lycorne, 04.29.2001

In a way, we all live in different universes. Remember, your universedepends on your sensations and how you classify them. - Issac Bonewits

"I know a town where people are running away from life it seems alwaysfunny. they think they are smart and down what they say. scared of a

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change existing only to bring me down."-Days of the New. the downtown

"The little pink dojo behind the chevron in HG is a cult. They makeblood sacrifices to their demon lord, etc., etc." - Lycorne, 05.04.2001

"You got a choice to leave your lonely place behind. be true toyourself now and let it go. its better than you think."-Goldfinger.

this lonely place

"You know what? I actually miss that rathole! Not just the people, Iexpected to miss my friends, but I miss the damned rathole itself.

What's wrong with me?" - Lycorne, 04.29.2001

"Where was I? Oh, yes. I'm going to hell and you're a complete wanker."--anon

The vastness of space & time and I end up here!?! -- The Hat of Zug©

I'm out of my mind at this time but go ahead and leave a message. --The Hat of Zug©

Raised in Mr. Roger's neighborhood, now living in the Twilight Zone.-- The Hat of Zug©

Life is short, take the scenic route. -- The Hat of Zug©

"It's not reality that's important, but rather how you perceivethings."

"This 'very place puts toys of desperation,Without more motive, into every brainThat looks so many fathoms to the sea

And hears it roar beneath.'" - Horatio in Hamlet

"Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more!" - Ray Charles

"Toto I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore..." - Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

"Life sucks so don't be fooled by location changes." -Daria

"Now that I'm here, where am I?" -Janis Joplin

"Heaven isn't that far away... For me, Heaven is just on the edge of forever and tomorrow."

-- Ken / Kaelic

"Wh- Who in the Seven Hells is that...?!" -- Inu-Yasha, by Rumiko Takahashi

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"You dont have to die to get to a better place, just drive 50 miles in any direction." - Hyde,

The 70's Show

Elvis is not dead, he just went home. - Men In Black

Do you think I was born yesterday? Do you think I'm gonna have you roaming these halls? -

The Breakfast Club

The Matrix. What is the Matrix? --Neo, Matrix

"You won't get away!! " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt

"All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are." -Pablo Neruda

"If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane." -Unknown

"Those who really seek the path to enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination." -Buddha

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. --Confucius

"Gee, wish you could come to RL with us..." - Unknown

"I wanna be there when I'm outta town and when your whole damn world is crashing down." -Blessid Union of Souls

"Even though we said goodbye, remember we watch the same sunset." -Anonymous

"The more I see, the more I see there is to see." -John Sebastian

If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it. - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate

Factory

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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" -Erasmus

"WHERE IN THE NINE GATES AM I!?!" -- Lycorne

"Wh- what in the seven circles of he..." -- Lycorne

"It's in such an incredible place... that even I, Sessh �EMaru failed to perceive it. " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, we dare not go a hunting, for fear of little men! You see, nobody ever goes in and nobody ever comes out! - Willy Wonka

and the Chocolate Factory

There's no earthly way of knowing... Which direction we are going... There's no knowing where we're rowing... Or which way the river's flowing. Is it raining? Is it

snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? Not a speck of light is showing so the danger must be growing. Are the fires of hell a-glowing? Yes, the danger must be growing 'Cause

the rowers keep on rowing. And they're certainly not showing any signs that they are slowing! - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Have you ever searched for life on this planet? I've seen life on this planet, that's why I'm looking elsewhere. -- Scully and Mulder

"We've got to stop meeting like this. People will talk." -- Methos, Highlander

"I spent years losing my conscience only for him to go and find it again." - Methos, Highlander

"Don't you know you're riding on a carousel that's going nowhere round and round and round...

when will it end?" -Meril Nainnridge

"You filthy damn Half-Youkai! " -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -Lao Tzu

"Whever you go, whatever you do...I will be right here waiting for you." -Richard Marx

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"Don't go where the path may lead; go where there is no path and leave a trail." -Anonymous

She turned, tumbling the information over in her mind, then said, "We're going to Hell. Come

on, get your stuff." - Shannon Flynn

"Emerald City my ass!" Poison Elves (M-6)

HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU SAY HELLO?

"Welcome to the real world. It sucks! You're gonna love it." - Monica,

FriendsAnd which teletubbie are you? -- The Hat of Zug©

"Are you locked up in a world thats been planned out for you? are youfeeling like a social tool without a use?"-Green Day

"I can't believe it! How did you survive that spell? And hey, you're clean. You mean you were

taking a bath while I was back here thinking you were dead?! This is a new dress, isn't it? Did

you go shopping, too?" - Zelgadis -- ZOTR by the Queen Of Swords

"Greetings, evildoers©!" - Térence "Weirdo, God of Insanity" -- Zelgadis on the Mailing List

"Oh, you're part of that anime cult that's around here." - Some girl that Lufia met -- Zelgadis

on the Mailing List

Are you watching anime again? -Yurika Misumaru, Martian Successor Nadesico

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. - Anonymous

"Gods, what is that awful stench?" - Melfinius, ZOTR by The Queen of Swords

"Merry Meet,Merry Part, and

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Merry Meet Again."Wiccan Greeting

"Ho there--ye who are of the wicked-minded!!!! Thou who are godless and quite mad-- prepare to be rendered!!!" Purple Marauder, Poison Elves(M-4)

"She... intends to rescue me, huh?" -- Sessh �EMaru - Inu-Yasha by Rumiko Takahashi

"You know what's funny? I was wearing this exact same shirt the first time I met this guy." Parintachin, Poison Elves (M-12)

Suddenly their came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. You heard me rapping, right? - The Crow

"LOOK TO THE SKIES IN HOMOPHOBIC FEAR AND LOATHING FOR HERE BE NO TRUER MYSTERY THAN THE PURPLE MARAUDER! NYAR! SO! IT IS THE ELF I HAVE COME TO

KNOW SO WELL BUT DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF! WHO, YEA, AFFORDED THE MARAUDER MUCH GOLD FIVE SEASONS PAST THAT I COULD INCREASE MY WARDROBE

TENFOLD! YOU HAVE CUT YOUR HAIR!" Purple Marauder, Poison Elves(S-12)

Oh, come right in. Don't let the fact that my door is closed dissuade you in any way from entering my office - Beverly Hills Cop II

Sorceress' Dog:"You seek council with the Lady Hyena?"Luse:"No...I'm a door-to-door dead monster salesman and the summer line's out..." ,

Poison Elves(M-12)

"Yeah, you ain't got nuthin' but a tootsie roll dick! Why don't you go home and jerk it around a bit?" -Some chick in 'Good Will Hunting'

I'm going to get my gun. Hey, you b*stard, eat me. - Men In Black

*!!BLAM!!*"I'm sorry--Did I interrupt?" Luse, Poison Elves(S-27)

"Thou goatish boil-brained malt-worm!" -Shakespeare

"Ho! Tis if it isn't my arch enemy--the spineless elf with no morals, no purpose, yet really great hair!" Purple Marauder, Poison Elves(M-20)

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VAMPIRE QUOTES"I am Vampire Princess Miyu, give me your blood... and I will give you any dream your

heart desires..." - Vampire Princess Miyu

"You'd better be careful. It could be dangerous to touch somebody's past." -Vampire Princess Miyu

"We are vampires, we catch people with these hands, and draw blood with these lips... Our time goes by impalpable under the shadow of the human world." -Vampire

Princess Miyu

"I drank his blood, he is mine!" -Vampire Princess Miyu

"People always talk like that... with clouded eyes and tainted lips... even though the truth is always within them" -Vampire Princess Miyu

"Nothing beautiful can last forever..." -Vampire Princess Miyu

"Is it alright, if one forgets? I don't forgive those who forget love, sadness, and anger... because I must not forget" -Vampire Princess Miyu

"Tea is always bitter... but blood is warm and sweet." -Vampire Princess Miyu

"How typical of humans... Your eyes are clouded so you cannot see...... Even though the truth is always within you..." - Vampire Princess Miyu

"Her blood coursed through my veins, sweeter than life itself, and as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me: I knew peace only when I killed, and when I heard her heart, and that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be." -Louis in Interview With

The Vampire

"Take your aesthetes tates to purer things, kill them swiftly if you will, but do it! For do not doubt you are a killer, Louis!" - Lestat in Interview With The Vampire

"God kills indiscriminately and so shall we, for no creatures under God are as non so like him as ourselves." - Lestat in Interview With The Vampire

"Evilness is not the vampire itself, but what the vampire makes of itself" --Lesley T

"Some day, you're gonna wake up extinct" --Deacon Frost 'Blade'

"Humans are our cattle" --Deacon Frost 'Blade'

"These humans have no morality, they die in war or hunger, even the innocent end up dying, so why even save them?" --Deacon Frost 'Blade'

"I am powerful, I am immortal, I can do anything, I am cursed, I am the Darkness" -Jackie Estacado.

Hmm, interesting. I've been stabbed, hung, and lost my head, but I've never been shot before. It kinda itches a little -Vampire in Brooklyn

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"I don't like being dead. It's quite annoying." -- LaCroix, Forever Knights

"They're expendable. They're lunch." -- LaCroix, Forever Knights

"I don't tan, I don't burn, I implode." -- Nick, Forever Knights

"Can there be any finer thing than this? Eternal hunger, followed by eternal pleasure." -- LaCroix, Forever Knights

First defense against evil - Open your damn eyes. -- Reese, Forever Knights

No one commands me.No man. No god. No elder. No prince.

What is the claim of age for ones who are immortal?What is a claim of power for ones who defy death?

Call your damnable hunt.We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me. -- Mark

MAHATMA GANDHIAhimsa means not to injure any creature by thought, word or deed, not even to the

supposed advantage of this creature.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realisation.

I do not envisage God other than truth and non-violence. If you have accepted the doctrine of ahimsa without a full realization of its implications, you are at liberty to

repudiate it. I believe in confessing one's mistakes and correcting them. Such confession strengthens one and purifies the soul. Ahimsa calls for the strength and

courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

I hold that the true education of the intellect can only come through a proper exercise and training of the body. But unless the development of the mind and body goes hand in hand with a corresponding awakening of the soul, the former alone would prove to

be a poor lopsided affair. By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Experience teaches that animal food is unsuited to those who would curb their passions. But it is wrong to over-estimate the importance of food in the formation of

character or in subjugating the flesh.

Brahmacharya means control of the senses in thought, word and deed.

What is brahmacharya? It is the way of life which leads us to Brahma (God).

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Search for Truth is search for God. Truth is God. God is because Truth is.

I claim no perfection for myself. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God.

The freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

A jug fills drop by drop. Buddha 

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing

remain? Buddha 

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may

wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha 

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Buddha 

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. Buddha 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the

present moment. Buddha 

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does

not obtain peace of mind. Buddha 

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha 

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. 

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Buddha 

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. Buddha 

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best

relationship. Buddha 

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at

someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha 

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do

you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha 

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate

that falls on them unless they act. Buddha 

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. Buddha 

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the

truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha 

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of

their own minds and then believe them to be true. Buddha 

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha 

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is

yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Buddha 

It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha 

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha 

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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze

of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha 

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk

the path. Buddha 

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha 

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. Buddha 

The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha 

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha 

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. Buddha 

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never

found solitary in any breast. Buddha 

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. Buddha 

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you,

depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Buddha 

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through

a sieve. Buddha 

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the

way, and not starting. Buddha 

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. Buddha 

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn

that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. Buddha 

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Buddha 

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha 

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are

idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha 

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to

him. Buddha 

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our

mind strong and clear. Buddha 

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of

abundance. Buddha 

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are

already two. Buddha 

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. Buddha 

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure,

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joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha 

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we

make the world. Buddha 

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation

between people as they pass each other in this flood? Buddha 

What we think, we become. Buddha 

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be

influenced by them for good or ill. Buddha 

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates

them, one is free of fear. Buddha 

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of

death. Buddha 

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha 

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found

anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love

and affection. Buddha 

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Buddha 

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and

affection. Buddha 

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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Bodhidharma 

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship,

and respecting yourself so you can respect others. Jena Malone 

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. Bodhidharma 

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to

live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. Isadora Duncan 

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own

mind is the Buddha. Bodhidharma 

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from

arising in either. Bodhidharma 

Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days. Todd Barry 

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep

searching outside. Bodhidharma 

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed

historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. Ed Koch 

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and

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Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon 

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America. Nguyen Cao Ky 

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart,

funny, and to kick some ass. Tia Carrere 

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. Phil Jackson 

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha. Bodhidharma 

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. Bodhidharma 

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great

speech. Dogen 

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind. Bodhidharma 

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the

Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. Walter Kaufmann 

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of

the Eastern saviour. William Kingdon Clifford 

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature. Bodhidharma 

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your

awareness, and accept what life brings. Bodhidharma 

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Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is

that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did. Josh McDowell 

Your nature is the Buddha. Bodhidharma 

Dalai Lama 

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily

lives. Dalai Lama 

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama 

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama 

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the

universe. Dalai Lama 

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. Dalai Lama 

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. Dalai Lama 

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice

compassion. Dalai Lama 

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama 

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find

we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them. Dalai Lama 

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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and

others will come. Dalai Lama 

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot

survive. Dalai Lama 

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama 

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -

or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama 

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least

don't hurt them. Dalai Lama 

Sleep is the best meditation. Dalai Lama 

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes

one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. Dalai Lama 

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama 

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. Dalai Lama 

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical

analysis. Dalai Lama 

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my

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heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama 

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated

philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama 

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other

forms of life. Dalai Lama 

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human

affection. Dalai Lama 

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Dalai Lama 

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. Dalai Lama 

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not,

there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. Dalai Lama 

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can

build a better world. Dalai Lama