SwearFueverybody seems to think i'm lazy, i don't mind, i think they're crazy
Aug 6, 2008 21:40 EDT
A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack
- Snoop Dogg
The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
amused
i feel like swimming in your apathy as a kind of parody
Aug 4, 2008 14:58 EDT
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly towards aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interest of the ruling class--whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual (from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune)
Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. The mentat-generalist, on the other hand, should bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. He must not cut himself off from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. He must remain capable of saying: "There's no real mystery about this at the moment. This is what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we'll correct that when we come to it." The mentat-generalist must understand that anything we can identify as our universe is merely part of larger phenomena. But the expert looks backwards; he looks into the narrow standards of his own specialty. The generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: "Now what is this thing doing?"
- The Mentat Handbook (from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune)
Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
heat
we wanna change the world, but not what holds us back
Jul 30, 2008 13:38 EDT
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Bene Gesserit Litany against Fear (from Frank Herbert's Dune)
Bush - Float
lost and confused
Time. Right.
Jul 9, 2008 23:30 EDT
All of our actions have consequences. We may not even be aware of them but, they exist never-the-less.
- Rabbi Ari
Hottest. Rabbi. Ever.
Six Feet Under - Season 2 - The Liar and The Whore
meh
Agent Mulder, help me out here, does FBI stand for Federal Bureau of Imagination?
Jul 6, 2008 23:01 EDT
It begins where it ends, in nothingness. A nightmare born from deepest fears, coming to me unguarded. Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound, touched by others but never held. On a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflected back upon me. Until at last I reach the end. Facing a truth I can no longer deny. Alone, as ever.
- Scully
X-Files - Season 5 - Emily
weird
well my reflection i don't recognize
Jul 1, 2008 19:00 EDT
When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.
- Chuck Palahniuk (excerpt from Choke)
Nine Inch Nails - The Beginning of the End
fubar
if you begin to feel overload, you will begin to feel what we are saying
Jun 29, 2008 11:19 EDT
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich
Hive - Ultrasonic Sound
hot
If only someone would declare open season on idiots
Jun 28, 2008 11:30 EDT
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook
the breeze through the alley
unsure
(hey my children) what seems important won't last forever
Jun 26, 2008 11:43 EDT
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
- Douglas Adams (excerpt from Mostly Harmless)
Filter - Cancer
heart broken
I'm usually annoying and aggressive
Jun 20, 2008 17:33 EDT
"Sometimes people are hard to take, but only because the first side they present to you is annoying or aggressive, because they're nervous. And it's only after you spend some time when you realise there's another side to them that's worth knowing."
- Ruth (Six Feet Under)
Jimi Hendrix - There Goes Easyrider and 7 Dollars
tired
everything, i love, get back from me now (everyone i love, i need you now)
Apr 4, 2008 20:19 EDT
it won't give up, it wants me dead
goddamn this noise inside my head
- Trent Reznor (The Becoming)
Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
- Jim Uhls (Fight Club)
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- Carl Jung
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
Tegan & Sara - Dark Come Soon
accomplished
