Oct 13, 2009 00:56
(Yes, when I post for the first time in nearly two years, it's about this Yukkuri crap -- what can I say?)
"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders--what would you tell him to do?"
"I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him?"
"Take it easy!!!"
(no apologies Ayn Rand)
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Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? - in ancient astronauts? - in the Bermuda triangle? - in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
"Yes", I said. "I believe in taking it easy!!!"
(apologies Issac Asimov)
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Interviewer: Is studying computer science the best way to prepare to be a programmer? Bill Gates: No. the best way to prepare is to take it easy!!!
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Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of taking it easy!!!
(apologies Tim Berners-Lee)
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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then you take it easy!!!
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All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you take it easy!!! By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.