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[DanieI]

«Døden er løsningen på alle problemer. Ingen mann - ikke noe problem.»

«Jeg stoler ikke på noen, ikke engang meg selv.»

«En død er en tragedie, en million er en statistikk.»

«Den eneste virkelige kraften kommer ut av en lang rifle.»

 

-Josef Stalin

[DanieI]

Edit: Whoops dobbelpost

Endret 14. april 2011 av TurboLax

[handerrre]

Ganske lang:

 

Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists - although heavy on the wonder side and light on scepticism. They're curious, intellectually vigorous. Provocative and insightful questions bubble out of them. They exhibit enor­mous enthusiasm. I'm asked follow-up questions. They've never heard of the notion of a 'dumb question'.

 

But when I talk to high school seniors, I find something different. They memorize 'facts'. By and large, though, the joy of discovery, the life behind those facts, has gone out of them. They've lost much of the wonder, and gained very little scepti­cism. They're worried about asking 'dumb' questions; they're willing to accept inadequate answers; they don't pose follow-up questions; the room is awash with sidelong glances to judge, second-by-second, the approval of their peers. They come to class with their questions written out on pieces of paper, which they surreptitiously examine, waiting their turn and oblivious of what ever discussion their peers are at this moment engaged in. Something has happened between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. I'd guess that it's partly peer pressure not to excel (except in sports); partly that the society teaches short-term gratification; partly the impression that science or mathematics won't buy you a sports car; partly that so little is expected of students; and partly that there are few rewards or role models for intelligent discussion of science and technology - or even for learning for its own sake. Those few who remain interested are vilified as 'nerds' or 'geeks' or 'grinds'.

 

But there's something else: I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a dream? How deep can you dig a hole? When is the world's birthday? Why do we have toes? Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else: 'What did you expect the Moon to be, square?' Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys the grown-ups. A few more experiences like it, and another child has been lost to science. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before 6-year-olds, I can't for the life of me understand. What's wrong with admitting that we don't know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile? What's more, many of these questions go to deep issues in science, a few of which are not yet fully resolved. Why the Moon is round has to do with the fact that gravity is a central force pulling towards the middle of any world, and with how strong rocks are. Grass is green because of the pigment chlorophyll, of course - we've all had that drummed into us by high schools - but why do plants have chlorophyll? It seems foolish, since the Sun puts out its peak energy in the yellow and green part of the spectrum. Why should plants all over the world reject sunlight in its most abundant wavelengths? Maybe it's a frozen accident from the ancient history of life on Earth. But there's something we still don't understand about why grass is green.

 

There are many better responses than making the child feel that asking deep questions constitutes a social blunder. If we have an idea of the answer, we can try to explain. Even an incomplete attempt constitutes a reassurance and encouragement. If we have no idea of the answer, we can go to the encyclopedia. If we don't have an encyclopedia, we can take the child to the library. Or we might say: 'I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first person to find out.'

 

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased ques­tions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

 

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

[Alliha]

Power is nothing without control.

[Error]

Never trust a creature that can bleed for one week without dying

 

På den litt mer seriøse siden har man ett jeg liker godt fra Winston Churchill:

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

 

Og så er det et sitat fra en signatur her på forumet, som jeg liker av en eller annen grunn. Vet ikke helt hvorfor:

Contrary to popular belief, purple is not a fruit

Endret 20. mai 2011 av Error

[handerrre]

Liker det jeg har i signaturen jeg

 

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.

[kris98]

Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!

- Gunnery Sergant Hartman (Full Metal Jacket)

 

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero."

- Edward Norton (Fight Club)

 

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

 

"Lacking a Y-chromozone doesn't mean anyone wants to see you naked. Go Away."

 

"Let an earthquake crumble it. Let the fires rage. Let it burn to fuckin ash then let the waters rise and submerge this whole, rat-infested place."

- Edward Norton (25th Hour)

 

"Yeah well, legitimacy and correct punctuation might not be "street", but that's how I roll, motherfucker."

 

"Kill a man, one is a murderer; kill a million, a conqueror; kill them all, a God."

 

"When I get older... I'm gonna bone your mom, and I'm gonna have a kid just like you, and I'm gonna ruin his life."

 

"Where I come from we fuck cops in the mouth when we run out of farm animals"

 

"Your mother is so fat, the recursive function computing her mass causes a stack overflow"

 

"Are you Hitler? Cuz i feel the heat of a thousand burning Jews emanating from you."

 

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning"

 

"Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten"

 

"You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were...RRRRRRRREAL FUCKIN' high on drugs."

- Bill Hicks

 

"If I ever saw an amputee being hanged, I would just yell out letters."

 

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."

 

"You know... I happen to have a position available on my penis... Wait a second... I think I managed to screw up that joke."

- House

 

"If you're good at anticipating the human mind, you leave nothing to chance."

 

"In nature there is no good or evil, there are consequences."

 

"Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun."

 

Better to be someone for a day, than no one for a lifetime.

 

In a world of cannibals, would fetuses be human caviar?

 

Science is interesting, and if you dont agree you can fuck off.

- Richard Dawkins

 

You have enemies? Good, means you stood up for something.

 

"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

- W. L. George

 

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

- Oscar Wilde

 

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

- Jose Narosky

 

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"

- John Milton

 

"O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name."

- Alexander Pope

 

"War remains the decisive human failure."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

 

"The sinews of war are infinite money."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

"War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead."

- Ken Gillespie

 

"Politics is the womb in which war develops."

- Karl Von Clausewitz

 

"All warfare is based on deception."

- Sun Tzu

 

"One more vicotory and we are undone."

- Pyrrhus of Epirus

 

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."

- Abraham Lincoln

 

"In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments."

- Napolean Bonaparte

 

"Never do an enemy a small injury."

- Niccoló Macchiavelli

 

"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

"We make war that we may live in peace."

- Aristotle

 

"The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even

having to fight them..."

- Sun Tzu

 

"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions."

- Ulysses S. Grant

 

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may

be permitted to pursue it."

- Thomas Jefferson

 

"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the

enemy."

- George Washington

 

"The world is adangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because

of those who look on and do nothing."

- Albert Einstein

 

"Wars are poor chisels for carving our peaceful tomorrows."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as

though the absence of war was the same as peace.”

- Dorothy Thompson

 

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

 

"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."

- Croesus

 

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"War is the business of barbarians."

- Napolean Bonaparte

 

"All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them."

- Admiral Sir John Fisher

 

"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"During war, the laws are silent."

- Quintus Tullius Cicero

 

"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the

aftermath of war."

- Herbert Hoover

 

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."

- John Andrew Holmes

 

"War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares."

- John Cory

 

"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute

damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started

with."

- Lois McMaster Bujold

 

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

 

"I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war... suffer the loss of the

same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own."

- Philip Caputo

 

"Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war."

- John Greenleaf Whittier

 

"War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it causes is

beyond telling or meaning; but war was our condition and our history, the place

we had to live in."

- Martha Gelhorn

 

"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to

prevent it."

- Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick

 

"The statesman who yields to war fever... is no longer the master of policy but

the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

 

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the

most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."

- Robert Lynd

 

"What a cruel thing is war... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love

for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."

- General Robert E. Lee

 

"Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on

the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter."

- Sir Winston Churchill

 

"There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the

grave."

- John James Ingalls

 

"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truely

vanquished."

- Johan Christoph Stiller

 

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more

revolting."

- Ernest Hemingway

 

"All wars are fought for money."

- Socrates

 

"I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible

creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences

without cutting throats..."

- Benjamin Franklin

 

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may know peace."

- Thomas Paine

 

"Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards."

- E. M. Forster

 

"Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In

the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world, There the common sense

of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe And the kindly earth shall

slumber, lapt in universal law."

- Alfred Tennyson

 

When work feels overwhelming, remember that you're going to die.

 

Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes to the bone.

 

Opportunity always knocks at the least appropriate moment.

 

The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

 

Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

 

Any system or problem, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated.

 

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

 

Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least.

 

What the gods get away with, the cows don't.

 

Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood.

 

If it should exist, it doesn't.

 

If it does exist, it's out of date.

 

If you can't learn to do it well, you should learn to enjoy doing it badly.

 

Always remember to pillage before you burn.

 

It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up something from the floor while you get up.

 

If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it.

 

If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

 

A man is what ever room he is in

- Japanese Proverb

 

I've never had much use for the concept of hell, but if hell exists I'm in it.

 

*House lays his head on Cuddy's lap*

House: Huhurr... My head's on your vagina..

 

I have a life, and it only goes in one direction; forward.

 

Get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.

 

If you believe that God makes miracles, you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve.

 

Killing must serve a purpose. Otherwise, it’s just plain murder.

 

Life doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be lived.

 

I’ve lived in darkness a long time. Over the years my eyes adjusted until the dark became my world and I could see.

 

You need something under the table, I’m your guy…

That didn’t come out right.

 

"I'm talking about legitimate targets. I'm talking about people that hurt you. I'm talking about fucking violence."

[AaaC]

"It's a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown" - fra Tegan & Saras "My number"

[Hippocleides]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

 

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

[latslask]

noen sitat jeg kom på i farten, hadde opprinnlig et notbook dokument med massevis i men jeg finner det ikke igjen:(

Beklager hvis jeg gjentar noen, har ikke rukket å lese hele tråden ennå.

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains"

- Rousseau

 

"This is no time to make new enemies"

-Voltaire,upon his death bedd, after beeing asked: Do you renounce the devil?

 

"I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

- Voltaire

 

"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing"

- Sokrates

 

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

- Nietzsche

 

"The blade itself incites to deeds of violence."

-Homer

[opticus]

you know your fucked when you can see your own asshole

[Hunter147]

"Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you."

- Jeremy Clarkson

Endret 29. november 2011 av Hunter147