19-09-2003 03:44									#1
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Aldous Huxley is the greatest author in history, or one of them


What quote from anything you've ever read, was the most powerfull thing you've ever read that appealed to you personally?

For me, its a quote from brave new world-every time I hear it is brings up tremendous emotion:

"But I like inconveniences."

"We don't" said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right, then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."

"Not to mention the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be busy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."

There was a long silence

"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said.

	19-09-2003 03:48									#2
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We all know this one:

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

	19-09-2003 03:49									#3
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great ones

can't exactly think of something myself unfortunately

	19-09-2003 03:50									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior We all know this one: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Ooooh thats a really good one too, close second.

	19-09-2003 03:51									#5
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I really like your choice as well.

	19-09-2003 05:23									#6
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Out of many, I'll go with:

Now, faith is the assurance of things hoped for.
The evidence of things not seen. --Hebrews 11:1

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"Freedom is the ability to say 2+2=4"

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quote: The evidence of things not seen

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

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one of my favorite paragraphs of all time:

quote: People say "I'm a Christian" the way certain politicians say "I have integrity," like we're all supposed to be impressed and back off and kneel down to that almighty testament to naivete and hypocrisy. When people brag that they have religious faith, I hear "stupidity". Faith is saying, "I will ignore my God-given gifts for discerning reality and instead throw my lot in with blind belief in something that was forced into my head before I could even think." [...] But hey, "You have to respect people's religion!" Why? I don't. I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.

ahhh Bill Maher from "When You Ride Alone, You Ride With bin Laden"

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To each his own, Sava. Why have blind faith in science, which has been constantly changing it's absolutes and facts for centuries? But, like I said, to each his own.

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"We who often glorify our tendency to ignore reason, installing in its place blind faith, valuing it as spiritual, are ever paying for its cost with the obscuration of our mind and destiny."

Rabindranath Tagore.

Or: The Merchant of Venice, Act Three scene one:

Shylock-

"[....] Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?
If you ***** us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

The beauty of the speech is that 'Jew' and 'Christian' are easily substituted with Hutu, Tutsi, Protestant, Catholic, Tamil, Sinhalese, and so forth.

	19-09-2003 06:24									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Verto To each his own, Sava. Why have blind faith in science, which has been constantly changing it's absolutes and facts for centuries? But, like I said, to each his own.

I don't have blind faith in science... but I respect the scientific method and the means of using data, observation, and experimentation to form theories. Frankly, I don't trust something that is set in stone. Our world and the universe is constantly changing. It's the difference between being open minded and not.

	19-09-2003 06:25									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Sava It's the difference between being open minded and not.

Yes, Bill Maher is an example to us all!

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that paragraph I quoted made more sense than Peter, Paul, Matthew, Luke... err... John... uhmm... Barry... uhmm... Bruce...

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"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" - attributed to Jesus

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quote: Originally posted by Berzerker "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" - attributed to Jesus

taken from ancient hindu scriptures...

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What a piece of work is a man; how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel; in apprehension how like a god!


And, naturally, the two quotes in my sig.

	19-09-2003 06:53									#19
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"Give 'em the cold steel boys, give 'em the cold steel!"

Aaaah, damn, you pansies wanted literature.

	19-09-2003 07:00									#20
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"Being a hero is not dying for your country...it is making some other poor dumb son of a b1tch die for his"

It ain't literature, but it should be.

	19-09-2003 07:04									#21
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From Siddhartha:

Siddhartha said nothing; his eyes gazed silently into hers.

"You have attained it?" she asked. "You have found peace?"

He smiled and placed his hand on hers.

"I see it," she said, "I see it. I too will find peace."

"You have found it," whispered Siddhartha.

Kamala gazed steadily into his eyes. She recalled wanting to go on a pilgrimage to Gautama, to see the face of the Perfect Man, to breathe his peace. And now instead she had found Siddhartha, and that was good, it was just as good as if she had seen the other. She wanted to tell him, but her tongue no longer obeyed her will. Silently she looked at him, and he saw the light fading in her eyes. When the final pain filled her eyes and broke, when the final shudder ran through her limbs, his finger closed her lids.

	19-09-2003 07:11									#22
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See my sig.

Otherwise, I say Solzhenitsyn.

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"

The Gulag Archipelago

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Random Greg Egan quotation time.

"But I didn't go spiralling down. Because there is no abyss. There is no yawning chasm waiting to swallow us up, when we learn that there is no god, that we're animals like any other animal, that the universe has no purpose, that our souls are made of the same stuff as water and sand... If you desperately passionately want to plummet into the abyss, of course it's possible -- but only if you work hard. Only if you will the entire thing into being. Only if you manufacture every last centimetre of it, on your way down."
- Greg Egan, Distress

	19-09-2003 07:19									#24
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Sava -

quote: taken from ancient hindu scriptures...

I think that was Buddha, and as Obiwan has pointed out, Buddha's version was slightly different - don't do to others what you don't want others doing to you. Jesus' version placed the emphasis on taking action towards others, not refraining from acting in certain ways.

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Well, I must credit C.S. Lewis, he says that in the Abolition of Man

	19-09-2003 07:36									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi See my sig. Otherwise, I say Solzhenitsyn.

How did I forget Solzhenitsyn? This is also a favorite quote from The Gulag Archipelago:

"What cruel and evil Saltychikha, what utterly repulsive and infamous serf-owner would have killed six peasants for their miserable little clippings of hay? If one had dared to beat them with birch switches even once, we would know about it and read about it in school and curse that name. But now, heave the corpes into the water, and pretty soon the surface is all smooth again and no one's the wiser. And one must cherish the hope that someday documents will confirm the report of my witness, who is still alive. Even if Stalin had killed no others, I believe he deserved to be drawn and quartered just for the lives of those six Tsarskoye Selo peasants!"

	19-09-2003 07:40									#27
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Consider Cripple Shu. His chin is down by his navel His shoulders stick up above his head. The bones at the base of his neck point to the sky. The five pipes of his spine are on top: his two thighs form ribs. Yet by sewing and washing he is able to fill his mouth; by shaking the fortune-telling sticks he earns enough to feed ten. When the authorities draft soldiers, a cripple can walk among them confidently flapping his sleeves; when they are conscripting work gangs, cripples are excused because of their infirmity. When the authorities give relief grain to the ailing a cripple gets three measures along with undles of firewood. Thus one whose form is crippled can nurture his body and live out the years Heaven grants him. Think that he could do if his virtue was crippled too!

the Chuang Tzu

	19-09-2003 07:58									#28
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"Countless terrible things walk the earth, but none as terrible as man." - Sophocles

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Along those lines...

"Next time on the Scary Door: A mad scientist fuses together all of the evilest animals in existence. The end product? Man." - Futurama

Heh.

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	19-09-2003 08:18									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Berzerker Sava - I think that was Buddha, and as Obiwan has pointed out, Buddha's version was slightly different - don't do to others what you don't want others doing to you. Jesus' version placed the emphasis on taking action towards others, not refraining from acting in certain ways.

Both:

The Mahabharata:

"This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee would cause thee pain."

And the Buddhist Udana-Varqa:

"Hurt not others with that which pains yourself."

It is also to be found in the Talmud:

"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law, all the rest is commentary."

and in Zoroastrianism:

"That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self."

Dadistan-i-Dinik

And in Islam:

"No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."

from the Hadiths.

The passage from the Gospel of Matthew reads:

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law of the prophets."