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== Music ==
{{quote|''"All of us get lost in the darkness''
''Dreamers learn to steer by the stars''
''All of us do time in the gutters''
''Dreamers turn to look at the cars"''
|'''[[Rush]]''', ''The Pass''}}
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|Pioneer FM deejay '''Charles Laquidara.'''}}
 
{{quote|"''[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…"veterans...''
|'''A Dose of Buckley''', ''[https://adoseofbuckley.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/radio-hypocrisy/ Radio Hypocrisy]''}}
 
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|'''Rikana''', ''Mix Ore''}}
 
{{quote|''"You can't talk yourself out of loneliness, it doesn't work that way.''
''You can't be the one writing both the questions and the answers, then there's no movement! Then there's no circulation!''
''If all of your anxieties are being channeled into your work, then if the work ever fails you have no backup and you're just going to crash."''
|'''[[Author Avatar|Davey Wreden]]''' of ''[[The Stanley Parable]]'' fame, on the dialogue of one of Coda's games, ''The Beginner's Guide''}}
 
{{quote|''"Their catch phrase for EOS Online is "For the [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] that you've lost." The only thing that I have lost while testing this game is interest."''
|[http://steparu.com/reviews/mmo-rpg-reviews/1016-eos-online-review ''Steparu Review'']}}
 
{{quote|"While [[Clannad (visual novel)|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."
|'''Ad__Hominem''', ''[[Reddit]] [https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3vx6cl/so_abc_tv_show_good_game_just_did_an_episode_on/ (r/KotakuInAction, So the ABC tv show Good Game just did an episode on sex in games...)]''}}
 
{{quote|''"Who'd of thought it, huh? A bunch of small towners like us wrapped up in an adventure like this."''
|'''Olivia''', |''Minecraft: Story Mode''}}
 
{{quote|''"It's one of those games that [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|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 [http://steamcommunity.com/id/maudish/recommended/253330/ Neverending Nightmare]''}}
 
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|Randall Munroe|''[[xkcd]]'', "[https://xkcd.com/1216/ Sticks and Stones]"}}
 
{{quote|''Well, it's not like communications are difficult and being polite is never a waste of bandwidth. ''
|Florence, |''[[Freefall]]'' #[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3600/fc03557.htm 3557]}}
 
{{quote|''My job is to protect the world. Not the status quo.''
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|''[[Freefall]]'' #[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3600/fv03597.htm 3597]}}
 
{{quote|'' If microgravity caused rapid fat loss instead of muscle loss, humans would have had a vastly overfunded space program and been an interplanetary species by the 1970's.''{{sic}}|Sam Starfall, ''[[Freefall]]'' #[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3700/fv03628.htm 3628]}}
 
{{quote|'''Kengarff''': I'm sorry about Commander Teff, sir.
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|John Green|[[Crash Course (web video)]]}}
 
{{quote|''"1) Does it have bass?''
''2) Does it blow your [[Precision_F-Strike|fucking]] mind?''
''Then it's Future Bass. It's not a genre, it's a state of mind."''
|'''r/futurebass description''', ''[[Reddit]]''}}
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|'''Steve''' (a human being with empathy), ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}oXJ3FFOXvOQ Finebros React]'' (Psychicpebbles short)}}
 
{{quote|''"We're reacting to ourselves now? That's so useless and redundant.
''(happy shrug)''
'''Why didn't we think of it before?!'''"''
|'''Rafi Fine''', |''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}oXJ3FFOXvOQ Finebros React]'' (Psychicpebbles short)}}
 
{{quote|"''"[Changes in modern media, compared to old works, make] the story reflect the sensibilities of a modern audience. Fiction is [a] product of culture, and culture is a product of circumstance. Our circumstances now are not the same as they were in classical times, so neither is our culture and neither is our fiction."''
|'''MrBtongue''', |''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}jhWeBvgNnIE Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage: Genre vs. Literature]''}}
 
{{quote|"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.
Fast forward about 20 odd years and we use it to watch videos of fat men eating junk food and vomiting
|'''feedtheoctopus''', |''[[Kiwi Farms]]'' [https://kiwifarms.net/threads/joeysworldtour.23484/page-4#post-1678712 thread] about JoeysWorldTour}}
 
{{quote|''"[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'."''
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| "''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}e866rAtJvAY Drachinifel]'' on illustration from ''[[The Angel of the Revolution]]: A Tale of the Coming Terror''}}
 
{{quote|''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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|[[Anne Lamott]]'s Father's oncologist}}
 
{{quote|''"You see people, the truly ironic thing about all of this, is that going to College/University was supposed to be about expanding young minds. Helping them to broaden their own experiences and give them the best possible start in life. A new perspective; a chance to grow.''
''Now it seems to be more about hiding new experiences from them and reinforcing their own pre-conceptions. Instead of preparing them for reality, we're teaching them to be reality ignorant."''
|'''Kleyno''', ''[https://voat.co/v/politics/comments/627738/3030314 Dr. Frankenstein regrets creating his monster: Even Salon.com thinks trigger warnings have ruined college]'' ([[Voat]] thread)}}
 
{{quote|"''The aquarium was once the best way to encounter the wonders of sea life. [[Harsher in Hindsight|It has become a mere travesty, tacky and cruel.]]"''
|''Subtitle for [https://aeon.co/essays/why-it-s-time-to-put-an-end-to-the-cult-of-the-aquarium Through a Glass, Sadly]'' by '''Bernd Brunner'''}}
 
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|'''Mark Manson''', ''[http://qz.com/584298/healthy-relationship-habits-most-people-think-are-toxic/ Healthy Relationships Habits Most People Think are Toxic]'' (Quartz article)}}
 
{{quote|''"[[Banned in China|China Is Banning]] [[Erotic Eating|Erotic Banana Eating]] on Live Streams''
''But what of cucumbers?"''
|Headline and Subtitle of [http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/china-is-banning-erotic-banana-eating-on-live-streams a 2016 article] by '''Erik Shilling''' on ''Atlas Obscura''}}
 
{{quote|''"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.''
''I could not tell him to try his best, either, because the reward was the same for his best as for his worst.''
''My other son quit the team before the season ended, and the coach wanted to give him a trophy in any case. I was revolted by the idea, deeply offended.''
''They are trying to make my sons into little, weak, selfish, puling nonentities: boys who will cry if they do not get the same reward for hard work as for goofing off.''
''Boys who will grow up to think life is unfair unless they are handed everything they never earned on a silver platter. I cannot regard this attempt with anything but a deep mistrust, bordering on hatred. Who are these people, and what do they have against my boys? Why are they trying to spoil them?"''
|'''John C. Wright''', |''[http://www.scifiwright.com/2008/06/if-everyone-is-super-no-one-will-be/ If everyone is Super, no one will be]'', June 10, 2008}}
 
{{quote|"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.
Our legal system is too fucked up to even repair at this point. It's become a series of depressing stories like this highlighting how broken it is but, until people are impacted by it themselves, most are not willing to raise their voices and demand change."
|'''Bananassassin''', |''[https://voat.co/v/whatever/comments/769058 Teen Boy Will Be Charged As Adult For Having Naked Pics of a Minor: Himself]'' ([[Voat]] thread)}}
 
{{quote|''"Transcendental meditation is for human beings, and it transforms life for the good, no matter who you are or what your situation is. For instance, everybody knows education is pretty bad shape these days. There's lots of problems, even in the so-called "good" schools. Stress is hitting kids at a younger and younger age, and there's bullying, there's fights, there's legal and illegal drugs, there's bad relationships, bad grades, nobody likes to learn, there's teacher burnout, and it's kind of a mess. People have tried many things to help, but in my opinion, lots of these good things are surface cures--they don't address the torment inside the student, or the teacher, or the principal. When they get this transcendental meditation, it's a mental techique that allows them to dive deep within to the deepest level of life, which underlies all matter and mind. At the border of intellect, you transcend and experience that unbounded level of life: all positive, pure consciousness with qualities of intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy, and peace. I like to say gold flows in and garbage goes out."''
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{{quote|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]]|"[https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/what_is_leadership.pdf What Is Leadership?]", June 1965}}
 
{{quote|''"I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it."''|[[The Tragically Hip|Gord Downie]]|''The Globe and Mail'', [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/canadas-barstool-bard-has-a-lasting-legacy-of-enigmatic-erudition/article30124384/ "The Gord Downie legend: Canadiana's barstool bard has a lasting legacy of enigmatic erudition"], a year and a half before he died from the cancer that he knew he had}}
 
{{quote|[[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.
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{{quote|''BOMB THE AUDITORIUM. BOMB THE GYM. BOMB EVERYTHING SO NO ONE WANTS TO GO ANYWHERE EVER AGAIN. BOMB EVERYTHING SO OFTEN AND SO RANDOMLY THAT NO WHERE IS SAFE.''|Excerpt from former UCLA instructor Matthew C. Harris's 800 page "manifesto"}} <!-- caps, spelling, etc. in original -->
 
{{quote|''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, |[https://monsterhunternation.com/2011/01/12/correia-on-the-classics/ Correia on the Classics]}}
 
{{quote|''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.}}
 
{{quote|''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}}
 
{{quote|''Men don’t dislike your novel because it focuses on dialogue. They dislike it because your characters don’t have anything interesting to say.''|Mike Kupari in response to Ash Sakar whining about not having male readers.}}
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{{quote|''Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.''|attributed to Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay cosmetics}}
 
{{quote|''"A fresh new look!" has been the bane of Internet users since the beginning.''|Wikipedia user Ambarenya13 on Vector 2022}}
 
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