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Anime and Manga
No matter how we try to fool ourselves —Tomorrow lyrics, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!
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Stealing someone else's happiness —Tomorrow lyrics, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!
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"Constellations of stars that I am seeing for the first time… you are all only allowed to exist as objects for my conquest and rule. Just wait."
—Reinhard von Lohengramm, Legend of the Galactic Heroes
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"There is nothing more noble and beautiful than a warrior with no distractions. One could say he is the closest thing to God."
—Treize Khushrenada, Gundam Wing
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"Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire."
—Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion
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"Doctor Tenma. For you all lives are created equal, that’s why I came back to life. But you’ve finally come to realize it now, haven’t you? —Johan Liebert, Monster (manga)
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"Immortality is wasted on the young."
—Alucard, Hellsing
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"Romance [...] is flexible in that it can act as the central reason to include an array of props. Want tension? Create awkward scenarios that sprout from romance. Mind some comedy? There are countless cliché gags based on a romantic relationship. Want to keep a healthy male fan base? Add girls, some naughty camera angles, and you’ve got yourself a steady audience. —Austin, Anime: The World of Fake Romance (The Artifice)
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"Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people discovered anime through [Carl] Macek's work, including a lot of the fans who went on to found North America's anime industry. —Christopher Macdonald, CEO and editor-in-chief of Anime News Network, The 'Robotech' master
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We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood; blessed are those with a voice.
—Major Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
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I'll show you just how cruel a person can be, so long as they can excuse it as protecting the ones they love.
—Shiage Hamazura, A Certain Magical Index III episode 26
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Comic Books
No man is poor who can do what he likes to do once in a while!
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Fan Works
Marisa: Ah... Sorry for not meeting expectations. —Omoito (a Touhou doujin)
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When I write things like this I'm not advocating them. If I advocated everything I write, I wouldn't be able to write racist characters, murder or bullying – let alone all the killing my stories have. I write stories. I write conflict. I write villages destroyed by Grimm and both men and women sometimes being bastards and using their influence to make other people's lives unhappy. I've written Mercury stealing a kiss from Ruby and Cinder seducing Jaune to use as nothing more than a sex toy (in Stress Relief), and ironically people were fine with the latter but a kiss on the former is totally not okay. Anyway, me writing those things doesn't mean I go around bribing women to kiss me and then dragging innocent young men to bed. It just means I'm writing characters who aren't your typical goodies. —Coeur Al'Aran, author's note to Service with a Smile chapter 54
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Did I feel guilty about stealing an ancient heritage and taking out a patent on it? Not after I saw the company's monthly balance sheet.
—GremlinJack, A Young Girl's Delinquency Record
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Film
"It’s a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate."
—Nick Smith, Metropolitan
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"In the aftermath of violence, the distinction between hero and villain is sometimes a matter of interpretation or misinterpretation of facts. "Taxi Driver" suggests that tragic errors can be made." —Disclaimer from a TV broadcast of Taxi Driver
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Literature
The Imperial Army is withdrawing “forward” with it’s tail between its legs, as reported by the Federation media
—Rumor in the Commonwealth in Saga of Tanya the Evil LN volume 4
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment
—Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater
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"I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick."
—Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid."
—Dorothy Parker, The Lost Poems
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"For a fellow who’s not too much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion."
—Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
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Writers are among the most sensitive, most intellectually anarchic, most representative, most probing of artists. The writer's ability to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and to mystify the familiar — all this is the test of her or his power. —Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, 2019
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I'm free from pain. It's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing. —Toni Morrison, on NPR's Fresh Air, 2015
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You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself. —Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977
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My grandfather bragged all the time that he had read the Bible. And it was illegal in his life to read. Ultimately I knew that words have power. —Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, documentary, 2019
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. —Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture, 1993
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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. —Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
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If you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. —Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn't even interesting. I was more interesting than they were. And I wasn't afraid to show it. —Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, documentary, 2019
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The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status — that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me. And the benefits they bring with them, in spite of the fact that they are either dismissed or upbraided — something about their presence is constructive in the long run. Sula, for instance, was someone the other characters missed terribly when she was gone, even though she was the pariah. In Love, Junior is a poor, rootless, free-floating young woman — a survivor, a manipulator, a hungry person — but she does create a space where people can come with their better selves. —Toni Morrison, O Magazine, 2003
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This was brand-new space, and once I got there, it was like the whole world opened up, and I was never going to give that up. I felt original. I hate to admit that because it sounds so self-regarding, I didn't feel like an original human being, but the work was original. You know that feeling — that if you don't write it, it will never be written? You think, Eudora Welty can't do it, only you. —Toni Morrison, O Magazine, 2003
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Complicity in the subjugation of race and class accounts for much of the self-sabotage women are prey to, for it is straight out of that subjugation that certain female-destroying myths have come. —Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, 2019
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The mind really is a palace. Not only for its perception of symmetry and the outrageously beautiful, but also because it can invent, imagine and most importantly, it can delve. —Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations, 2019
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An instant later, I was rushing to prepare an entrenchment, practically crying. I never dreamed there might be a day a trowel would seem so important to me. —Visha's POV, Saga of Tanya the Evil
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What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything. —Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2007
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He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. —Louis Nizer[1], Between You and Me (Beechurst Press, 1948)
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Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. —Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
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Never get into a war of words with a poet, Ironbreaker. You can't win.
—Gotrek, Gotrek and Felix (Orc Slayer)
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He had put off entering the fray quite long enough. It was either fight or be cut down. And though a few minutes ago he might have thought that a mercy compared to the tedium of dwarfish conversation, he found that now his life was at risk, even Snorri’s banalities were not without charm.
—Gotrek and Felix (Giantslayer)
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A thought made him smile. Why was it that, when faced with a horde of howling orcs he wished so dearly for this life, and when faced with this life, he wished so dearly for a horde of howling orcs? A truism could have been found somewhere in that conundrum, if he had had any energy for that sort of thing anymore.
—Gotrek and Felix (Manslayer)
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The vile little profiteer, thought Felix. Was it any wonder cults like the Cleansing Flame flourished when men like Otto preyed on the poor and the unfortunate?
—Nathan Long, Gotrek and Felix (Manslayer)
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The last two men backed away from him, squeezing back through the trap and running into the darkness beyond. Felix started forward, snarling. —Nathan Long, Gotrek and Felix (Manslayer)
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There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men. They are much more wild than the wildest romances of chivalry and much more dull than the dullest religious tract. Moreover, the romances of chivalry were at least about chivalry; the religious tracts are about religion. But these things are about nothing; they are about what is called Success. One every bookstall, in every magazine, you may find works telling people how to succeed. They are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. —G. K. Chesterton, "The Fallacy of Success", All Things Considered (1909)
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People ought to think for themselves, Captain Vimes says. The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to. —Corporal Carrot, Men at Arms
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But that's the trouble with trying to apply anything remotely scientific to an art form ; statistical analysis of a field that, by its nature, has no absolutes is something like attempting chemical analysis of an emotion. It remains interesting, but not absolutely convincing! —John W. Campbell, Jr., Astounding Science Fiction, December 1949, page 92
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My emotion I well can remember —Punch, December 1st, 1920, commenting on political promises
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"If it's possible to kill a man with a device, then I've been taught how to use it."
—Ashok Vadal, Son of the Black Sword
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"If I made a list of all the men who wanted me dead for one cause or another, it would be a very long list." That wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe by the time they reached the Ice Coast he'd be finished. It would give him something to do to pass the time.
—Ashok Vadal, Son of the Black Sword
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"The more closely our own pistols resemble machine-guns, the better we like it."
—William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes, Shooting to Live
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for in judging others I must be content to be judged by all
—St. Jerome, Preface to the Vulgate Version of the New Testament, addressed to Pope Damasus, A.D. 383
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Live-Action TV
"At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross." —Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, "The First Cut Is the Deepest"
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We all know that artists are the epitome of mental health. |
"Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming." —Jamie Kellner, then-chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting, in an interview with Cableworld, April 29, 2002[2]
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"It's the people's will. I am their leader. I must follow them." —Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington), Yes Minister, "The Greasy Pole"
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And I know some people are going to say I'm only saying that to pander to Florida voters, but from a very young age, my two greatest loves were always Jews and Cuban food. —"Sarah Palin" (Tina Fey), Saturday Night Live
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Only a fool fights in a burning house.
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Music
"All of us get lost in the darkness —Rush, The Pass
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"On reflection it seems ironic and perhaps fitting that a series of musical pieces exploring themes of loss and melancholia should in themselves be impacted upon by an unexpected experience of loss ..." —An Imaginal Space, on "Loss"
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"That alert-sounding siren doesn't always have to go off at the start of a beat track; the sound of the beat nearly gives it away on its own." —CVoss on J Dilla, Rate Your Music
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No, I do not believe roses only bloom just to conceal the thorns. —Think The Adder Benign by Shai Hulud
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The girl next door, the American Dream —Shemekia Copeland, "She Don't Wear Pink"
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New Media
Imagining other dragons Edrilanish would regard as her elders feels strange. Of course, everybody was young at some point, but imaging her as anybody but the Dragon Queen is almost surreal. —nobody_here, Descendant of a Demon Lord
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Changing your mind is proof that you have one. —attributed to @elysiansuns
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Radio
"Underground radio meant something because it said something ..." —Pioneer FM deejay Charles Laquidara.
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[The Canadian radio industry] frustrates me so much. I want to see it flourish, I want to hear great material being produced by quality radio hosts, but instead it’s amateur hour all throughout the country as the corporations slash budgets and hire people fresh out of school (or who never even went to school) who aren’t ready to be in front of the mic in markets that should only be hiring seasoned veterans... —A Dose of Buckley, Radio Hypocrisy
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"The writing process... You've seen The Shining?" |
Video Games
"The truth, Walker, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not: A hero." —Spec Ops: The Line
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"You're a disgusting, MMO-addicted NEET hermit... and I'm your beloved little sister!" —Rikana, Mix Ore
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"You can't talk yourself out of loneliness, it doesn't work that way. —Davey Wreden of The Stanley Parable fame, on the dialogue of one of Coda's games, The Beginner's Guide
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Their catch phrase for EOS Online is "For the MMORPG that you've lost." The only thing that I have lost while testing this game is interest. |
While Clannad certainly has a bunch of the generic "lol Japan is perverts", I'd be hard-pressed to call it a game designed for porn. I mean, if you enjoy masturbating to your own tears, that's not the game's fault. |
Who'd of thought it, huh? A bunch of small towners like us wrapped up in an adventure like this. —Olivia, Minecraft: Story Mode
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It's one of those games that seems to do exactly what it set out to do. Neverending Nightmares does indeed trap you in a seemingly never-ending cycle of wandering halls and avoiding monsters. It just does it in a far more tedious and uninteresting way than your own mind would. —Audish, Steam review of Neverending Nightmare
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But what is video gaming if not one well-crafted delusion after another? |
Web Comics
Alexia Murtaugh: Made in good faith, that offer puts us under Samaritan clauses. BOOM. We're here legally. |
Oh no! Roy's been staggered! Or possibly stunned! Maybe dazed? Dazzled? I know it's one of the swoopy-star conditions, not one of the swirly-eye ones. |
Riff: You realize you are about a year off from that joke being topical. |
Agatha: What do you call it ... when you have to work with someone you'd be better off killing? |
In closing, social distancing works; that goes for avoiding predators as well as viruses. |
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it. —Randall Munroe, xkcd, "Sticks and Stones"
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My job is to protect the world. Not the status quo. —Serini, The Order of the Stick, "No Chance"
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Besides, I didn't get into the hero business to only right wrongs done to people who look like me. I mean, if you want to get technical, I literally did, but I branched out pretty quickly.
—Roy Greenhilt, The Order of the Stick, "I Mean, Geez"
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Still, it's a lot to ask. That's why this procedure is voluntary. —Captain Tagon, Schlock Mercenary, January 3, 2012
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Petey: If I detained and contained everyone whose choices could hurt others I would need to build a much, much larger ring of cities. |
Theo: Has the plenipotent proto-god discovered humility? |
Murtaugh: You can ruin a thing by looking at it too closely. |
It makes for a good science-fiction adventure to have the captain say something along the lines of "prime directive be damned." It makes for much better science-fiction, however, to have the captain able to say in frank honesty "I have no idea what this prime directive concept is, and it sounds like foolishness that belongs in another universe entirely. Go away. I have work to do." If you persisted in whining about native cultures, that captain would have no choice but to shoot you. —Howard Tayler, author's note to the Schlock Mercenary strip for February 5, 2002.
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Hold your breath while I peel that thing off you. <beat> It won't help, but I need a break from your voice.
—Belkar, The Order of the Stick, "Lurking Below", reacting to Vaarsuvius's Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
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Para: The view is still amazing. |
GM: Don’t sweat it, Corey. Every GM makes mistakes in their first game. |
Web Original
You took the vikings all the way to North America. Where in North America we're not quite sure, but we are pretty sure you did go there. There was some raiding, some trading, some strife with indigenous people, and then, you didn't settle the land and kill 95% of American Indians. And for that Lief Erikson: I Say Good Job. —John Green, Crash Course (web video)
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"You know, there's a really thin line between "YouTube Challenge" and "Snuff Fetish Film." —Andre the Black Nerd (Black Nerd Comedy), WORST OF 2015: Black Nerd Rants
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"'A very important message from a shark.' Somehow, I don't think these two things belong in the same sentence. —TheMysteriousMrEnter, Tentacolino Review
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"The modern information age got such a jump start from the "calculator wars" that it's bizarre that it isn't discussed in any more depth than it is." |
"Didn't they, like, put ads in a reaction video to a little girl's suicide video and a school shooting?" —Steve (a human being with empathy), Finebros React (Psychicpebbles short)
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"We're reacting to ourselves now? That's so useless and redundant. —Rafi Fine, Finebros React (Psychicpebbles short)
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"There was a point in the early 90's when people thought the internet was going to create a global forum for the spread of new ideas, that it would make national boundaries and old prejudices irrelevant. Indeed people attached an almost utopian significance to it. The global village was no longer a theory but a reality. —feedtheoctopus, Kiwi Farms thread about JoeysWorldTour
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"[LeafyIsHere]'s actually been coming out of his shell quite a bit recently [as of late 2016]. He's making more 'facecam' videos- I love that too, by the way, calling 'em 'facecam' videos. You know, for the rest of the planet who isn't afraid to show their face, we just call 'em 'videos'." —iDubbbzTV, Content Cop - Leafy
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LucasSomething: [...] [I] just love how Youtube drama has become a shounen anime where every month you discover that the villain was actually being manipulated by an even stronger villain. Leafy backstabbing Keemstar to avoid getting hate is getting him much more hating than if he sided with Keemstar. Oh the irony... —Kiwi Farms thread about LeafyIsHere
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Do you have a brain, or does that mustache go all the way to the center? |
Naturally I object to this plan on moral grounds. As in: It’s moral, therefore we shouldn’t be wasting our time with it. |
Anonymous: apollodown has hidden their mods in reaction to american politics. On a scale of beyond 10 to beyond 10, how utterly retarded is this move? — [1]
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Can you hear that? I can hear it. That's the sound of every former British service member cringing at the mere sight of this rifle and it's so loud that you can hear it over the internet. — Ian McCollum on the L85A1, Forgotten Weapons
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(though my favorite negative review is, and always will be, the guy who said the Grimnoir trilogy was just ripping off the X-Men when I had FDR try to round up over a hundred thousand people who were considered scary to put them in concentration camps. Holy crap.) — Larry Correia, "Some Reactions to Sad Puppies 2: Rainbow Puppy Lighthouse The Huggening"
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Could an AI android live forever? What, like your other IT devices? You'd be lucky if it survives until next Thursday. —Alistair Dabbs, The Register, 28 Jun 2019
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The Nuremberg defence is something typically saved until things are really bad, but in this case the PFY has decided to use it as our opening gambit. |
This article is about Eta Carinae, a luminous blue hypergiant with anomalous Fe[ii] emission spectra. For the 1998 Brad Bird film, see The Iron Giant (film). |
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. |
[A]fter all, when you really look at those happy endings, fairy tales are some of the most senselessly violent stories on the planet.
—Laura I. Miller, Bustle, "8 Wicked Women From Fairy Tales You Didn't Know"
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But one of the great things about open source is that if enough users are unhappy with some change a company makes to its software, they can just fork it and carry on.
—Liam Proven, The Register, "Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson"
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I'm not scared. Us Irish people aren't afraid of anything. Except landlords. That's the only thing we're scared of. —Mick O'Donovan, I Played Modern Sonic.exe Games
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Othais: Girl pockets are useless. [...] How do you live like this? —C&Rsenal finds the Colt 1903's "Pocket Model"'s designation a bit optimistic.
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Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
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This problem can be solved with the right amount of planning, which, as it turns out, is a shit ton of planning. —Bismuth, Mario Enters Parallel Universes
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[T]his thing which uh, is very cool and very steampunk, it's also entirely implausible. — "Drachinifel on illustration from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror
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And if you're ever in doubt about the thinking behind modern movies, simply apply Drinker's Razor: All things being equal, the dumbest explanation is usually the correct one. —Critical Drinker
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Western Animation
"Sometimes, you need to take responsibility for your own happiness. It takes a long time to realize how truly miserable you are, even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy." —Cuddlywhiskers, BoJack Horseman ("BoJack Kills")
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Welcome, workers of Nutzi Land! What a glorious privilege is yours, to be a Nutzi! To work 48 hours a day for the Fuehrer. |
Now, what's the fun in watching a kid get eaten by a monster if it's my kid? —Eda, The Owl House
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Moe: Sorry, Homer. I've been planning this vacation for years. I'm finally gonna see Easter Island. |
Other
you're a very very healthy fifty-five-year-old man, except, of course, for the brain cancer. —Anne Lamott's Father's oncologist
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The aquarium was once the best way to encounter the wonders of sea life. It has become a mere travesty, tacky and cruel. —Subtitle for Through a Glass, Sadly by Bernd Brunner
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"The truth is our standards for what a “successful relationship” should be are pretty screwed up. If a relationship ends and someone’s not dead, then we view it as a failure, regardless of the emotional or practical circumstances present in the person’s lives. And that’s kind of insane." —Mark Manson, Healthy Relationships Habits Most People Think are Toxic (Quartz article)
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"China Is Banning Erotic Banana Eating on Live Streams —Headline and Subtitle of a 2016 article by Erik Shilling on Atlas Obscura
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"My five-year-old son just got a trophy for soccer. I was as pleased as any father could be, and I pulled him on my lap, and praised him. Then I figured out everyone got a trophy. All my praise turned to lies in my mouth. I could not unsay what I had just said to a five-year-old. I could not tell him that this trophy was meaningless. —John C. Wright, If everyone is Super, no one will be, June 10, 2008
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"Kafkaesque doesn't even begin to describe how fucked up this is. Those poor kids are going to have their lives ruined because some fuckwad at the police station decided that was the only charge they could stick on them. —Bananassassin, Teen Boy Will Be Charged As Adult For Having Naked Pics of a Minor: Himself (Voat thread)
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Everybody laughs in the same language. —Anonymous
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"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain." —Helen Keller
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We see several German soldiers in a bunker, who in order to receive the American guest have borrowed old uniforms from a military museum. Their faces express at once both desperation and cheerfulness. —Das schwarze Korps (Newspaper for SS members) review of Superman comic
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For the first edition, I exchanged a few e-mails with him, directly and indirectly, and then the finished books were run past him to be approved and, as he put it, sprinkled with fairy dust. I'm happy and honoured to say that he didn't feel that they needed much from him. —Phil Masters, discussing his (minimal) interaction with Terry Pratchett while writing GURPS Discworld
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Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage —Winston Churchill, "The Coalmining Situation", Speech to the House of Commons, October 13, 1943
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"Here’s how bad [the school environment in universities has] gotten, for reals: last summer [of 2015], I agonized over whether or not to include texts about climate change in my first-year comp course. They would have fit perfectly into the unit, which was about the selective production of ignorance and the manipulation of public discourse. But I decided against including them. They forced readers to come to uncomfortable conclusions. They indicted our consumption-based lifestyles. They called out liars for lying. Lots of uncomfortable stuff. All it would take was one bougie, liberal student to get offended by them, call them triggering, and then boom, that’s it, that’s the end of me. —White Hot Harlots, A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching
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"Turning social justice into a joke, one vapid tweet at a time." |
So since it's impossible to know what the future will actually look like, that's a defense for writing nonsense. Let's apply this to other genres: "Since it's impossible to know exactly what everyday life was like in the Roman Empire, I can go ahead and write a historical novel where Romans watched Desperate Housewives." —RedImperator on StarDestroyer.Net forums.
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Most college sophomores in their first philosophy class will walk in with the argument that “it’s all relative” and that no research, argument, or discussion can alter our preconceptions. —Michael Schudson, Here’s what non-fake news looks like
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With what words, O writer, will you describe with similar perfection, the entire configuration which the drawing here does? —Leonardo da Vinci
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Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company. —René Descartes
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"As we look for new answers in the modern age, I for one prefer the tried and tested recipes, like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view; coming together to seek out the common ground; and never losing sight of the bigger picture." —Elizabeth II, in a speech marking the 100th anniversary of the Women's Institute in Sandringham, 24 January 2019
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Maybe people in America think being a 'Sir' is a big deal. But I think we should all be misters together. I think the 'Sir' thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery. And it also helps keep us 'quaint,' which I'm not a great fan of. —Albert Finney (who turned down a knighthood when it was offered to him)
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"And to those of you who do not support me, I will bear no grudge — as long as I don't know who you are." —John Crosbie, 1983
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The best antidote for fear is competence - knowing what to do. —Chris Hadfield, on Twitter, March 18, 2020
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My own conviction is that every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, "What Is Leadership?", June 1965
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Margaret Thatcher declared "there is no such thing as society." Microbes — which have killed more humans than any other force on Earth and may render us extinct yet — beg to differ. |
"MOM. There’s nothing redeeming to be said about that show. Cuties sexualizes young girls and it’s completely inappropriate." —Paula Schuck, "I Watched Netflix Movie Cuties With My Teen Daughter And She Has Four Words For It", September 28, 2020
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If art is a reflection of society, and I believe this movie is, then what’s inappropriate is us, the audience, accepting that popular culture, social media, reality shows and music all get a pass on the images and videos they share. —Paula Schuck, "I Watched Netflix Movie Cuties With My Teen Daughter And She Has Four Words For It", September 28, 2020
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Journalists may write history’s first draft, but when it comes to covering their own history, they don’t even take notes. —"How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine", Journoterrorist
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You see, college English is the only place where Freudian psychology is still legitimate. Everything has to have a deeper meaning. A book just can’t be a story. It has to be an analogy for some social commentary. And heaven help us if it wasn’t, because then all those no-talent hack English professors wouldn’t be able to write 1,000 page commentaries on what the whale in Moby Dick REALLY represented.
—Larry Correia, Correia on the Classics
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The content of the faith cannot be transmitted in a way contrary to the faith itself.
—Pope Francis, while apologizing for the church's part in the Canadian residential school system, April 1, 2022.
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In Spanish or Portuguese everything is male or female. The doorknob is male or female. Your chair is male or female. I mean, come on!
—Larry Correia on the gendered nature of Romance Languages
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Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.
—attributed to Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay cosmetics
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"A fresh new look!" has been the bane of Internet users since the beginning.
—Wikipedia user Ambarenya13 on Vector 2022
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Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations... If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out... You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself. —Mae Jemison, at the annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, 2009
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- ↑ Often Wrongfully Attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi
- ↑ Fortunately for all us potential criminals, he graciously permits bathroom breaks.