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"Friendly fire isn't!"
With all of the time I have, I am an insult to the dead.
In context, the person is saying they feel like they are wasting their life and that innumerable people in the past would've killed to have the kind of free time or life they have.
It reminds me to be grateful for both the time I have alive and the quality of that time.
I find it extremely motivating in pursuing my various personal pursuits. I should seem like a Renaissance master to the people of the past and anything less is insulting.
Hanlon's razor is basically my religion at this point. It's just a huge part of how I see and engage with the world.
In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday
- Sun Ken Rock manga
"I don't knoooow, Margo"
In response to the classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation line: "And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?"
Don't be a dick
-Ismo Leikola, stand-up comedian
Two plus two equals five for large values of two
I think it would be this two personally.
Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you. - Confucius
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. - V
Keep moving forward
Look after your equipment and your equipment will look after you.
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Thereβs no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
Everytime you eat a steak, a hippie's hacky sack falls in the gutter.
-Patton Oswalt
"If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't fuck with them." A quote from my TI in basic from 85'.
If you get down, you can always get up again.
"these problems are the good ones to have." from an atmosphere song, where they got it form idk. but whenever im feeling like shits going south i remember this and it reminds me that its not all so bad.
βLaugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry.. and Iβll give you something to cry about you little bastard.β -Jeff Goldblum - The Great White Hype
"Why did I follow him...? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned... I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always... into the East."
- Marius, Diablo 2
We were shown an A&E biography episode on Ray Crock my freshman year of high school for career class and they quoted the dude as saying
If my competitors were drowning in a sea of gasoline, I would throw in a lit match.
Milkshake man was ice fuckin' cold!