Haven't done something like this in awhile - just a relatively random collection of inspiring or cool images/quotes I've found, felt like sharing.


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It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories.... The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's ( Read more... )

"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." - Marcus Brigstocke

You've probably seen it, but I came across this tonight and it made me smile. ;)

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"There are some men for whom a tree has no reality until they think
of cutting it down, for whom an animal has no value until it enters 
the slaughterhouse, men who never look at anything until they 
decided to abuse it and who never even notice what they do not
want to destroy. These men can hardly know the silence of love:
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
- Thomas Jefferson

Amazingly accurate for having been said 200+ years before we entered Economic Hell.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-- Joseph Stalin
Aside from the horrifying insight this gives into the way Stalin's mind worked, this is such a perfect summary of the view of the Middle East from the nosebleed seats in America. When they occasionally highlight a specific soldier's death, you might feel a pang of ( Read more... )