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Savannah Nix: "Time counts and keeps countin', and we knows now finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our trek, we gotta' travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna' lead. Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we 'member who we was and where we came from... but most of all we 'members the man that finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they'll be comin' home."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

__Viktor Frankl

There are two insurmountable challenges we all face :
The first one is to live
The second one should be procrastinated until the last possible moment

- syzygyish

"Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice."
- Holbrook Jackson

"Original thought is like original sin, both happened long before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."-- Fran Liebowitz

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
- Salman Rushdie

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
J.K.


The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin


Society honours its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

"We need a miracle and he's still out here praying!"

cheech and chong : "Things are tough all over"

A few years ago, when I was caught in the middle of an argument between two friends (at this point they were both accusing each other of "stealing me off them"), my Mum said to me,
"You can't steal people, Kate".
She's amazing, she really is.

My other favourite quote is,
"Don't feel alone like the ugly duckling. You too can be a swan."
I got that from a poster at school. It made my day. I like it so much that I put it in my signature.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
W. Heisenberg

Blackadder: We told them that if the Queen was having a party, that Nursie always goes as a cow. From that moment, he was doomed. All we had to do was escape, return, and kill the cow.
Queen Elizabeth I: How could you be sure it was not Nursey?
Blackadder: Because, lady, Ludwig was a Master of Disguise. Whereas Nursie is a sad, insane old woman with a udder fixation. All we had to do was kill the one who looked like the cow.

We live in the great indoors: the vacuum cleaner grazes over the carpet, lowing, its udder a swollen wobble.

Turn the udder cheek and mooooove on!

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

I used to know this girl who went to Stepping Stones. She used to tell everybody, "It's only a problem, if you make it a problem."