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Deep quotes you heard or made up?

"In one fleeting moment from the land doth life flow
In the same fleeting moment one must live, die, and know"
~ FFXIV Answers lyrics
 
"To all of my children in whom Life flows abundant
To all of my children to whom Death hath passed his judgement
The soul yearns for honor, and the flesh the hereafter
Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after

Shining is the Land's light of justice
Ever flows the Land's well of purpose
Walk free, walk free, walk free, believe...
The Land is alive, so believe..."
~ FFXIV Answers - God's explanation of the purpose of life

"Now open your eyes while our plight is repeated
Still deaf to our cries, lost in hope we lie defeated
Our souls have been torn, and our bodies forsaken
Bearing sins of the past, for our future is taken

War born of strife, these trials persuade us not
Words without sound, these lies betray our thoughts
Mired by a plague of doubt, the Land, she mourns
Judgement binds all we hold to a memory of scorn
Tell us why, given Life, we are meant to die, helpless in our cries?"
~ FFXIV Answers - Man calling god out for her blind bullshit response
 
"If you're on the losing side, then war is an atrocity. But if you're the victor, well, in that case, war is a perfectly justifiable demonstration of your inherent superiority."
 
dartel said:
"If you're on the losing side, then war is an atrocity. But if you're the victor, well, in that case, war is a perfectly justifiable demonstration of your inherent superiority."
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There are no real winners in war, just those who have lost less. Those that believe otherwise never took part in the battle.
 
HugDoggy said:
There are no real winners in war, just those who have lost less. Those that believe otherwise never took part in the battle.
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"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

Although the quote would have been better if "The only winning move is to not play."
 
YIMBY said:
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

Although the quote would have been better if "The only winning move is to not play."
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"Shall, we, play, a, game?

"Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?"

"Wouldn't, you, prefer, a, good, game, of, chess?"

"Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War."

"Fine."
 
The next day, our three philosophers dined together and, when they had freely circulated the bottle, began, as men generally do after a good dinner, to amuse themselves, by discoursing upon the follies that disgrace, and the pestilences that destroy so large a proportion of our unfortunate species. This diversity of abominations could not fail of affording them infinite entertainment; indeed, conversation of this kind is a pleasure that cannot be enjoyed by plebeians who have never travelled out of the sound of the church-bell near which they were brought into being, and who believe that all the rest of the world is precisely constituted like Change-Alley, or White-Chapel.


-from "Lord Chesterfield's Ears", by Francois-Marie Arouet
 
"The shit you never see is the shit you're standing in."
Lawrence Block
The Triumph of Evil
 
Some of us may be in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars=oscar wilde
 
Brandy said:
Some of us may be in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars=oscar wilde
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Or Rush/Neil Peart's variation, from "The Pass", off their 1989 album "Presto":

All of us get lost in the darkness
dreamers learn to steer by the stars.
All of us do time in the gutter
dreamers turn to look at the cars.

For a rock-n-roll demigod, Neil was quite the erudite fellow. Hard to ask him now, of course, but it wouldn't surprise me even a tiny bit to find out he picked up the idea reading Oscar's works and turned it into (part of) a song. Oscar would have been right up his alley.
 
YIMBY said:
It is one of my favourite films.
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The film actually sparked the president to ask if it could really happen, after the appropriate people looked into it the president was told yes it is possible. The president was reported to say "Well don't you think we should (several expletives) fix that!" That was the start of the US government taking cyber security much more seriously. So it was a very influential movie both for it's message and for several other reasons.
 
HugDoggy said:
The film actually sparked the president to ask if it could really happen, after the appropriate people looked into it the president was told yes it is possible. The president was reported to say "Well don't you think we should (several expletives) fix that!" That was the start of the US government taking cyber security much more seriously. So it was a very influential movie both for it's message and for several other reasons.
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There was a novel in the 90s that scared Clinton so much he established a taskforce to address the possibility of a genetically engineered virus terrorist attack.

The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
 
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