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"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
Flash Gordon. Space adventurer. Hero. Possibly the greatest quarterback the NY Jets ever had.
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
"Just think of it as evolution in action." --from Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven
"I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
-- Candidedad
"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."--The Nemedian Chronicles
(Robert E. Howard, "The Phoenix on the Sword")
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
--Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Better to sound a fool then be one.
Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on August 05, 2021, 12:35:21 AM
"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
--The Nemedian Chronicles
(Robert E. Howard, "The Phoenix on the Sword")
Dammit hell yes.
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"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left." - Alexander Pope
"When the shit has hit the fan and you are at your lowest point in life, you will be alone. There will be no help for you. No shoulder to cry on. No friend to lend a hand. So you best learn how to take care of yourself, because in the end you are all that you can ever rely on."
''I recon the easy part of this enterprise will be dying?''
"Poor devils! After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order of being. Nature had played a hellish jest on them — as it will on any others that human madness, callousness, or cruelty may hereafter dig up in that hideously dead or sleeping polar waste – and this was their tragic homecoming.
"They had not been even savages — for what indeed had they done? That awful awakening in the cold of an unknown epoch — perhaps an attack by the furry, frantically barking quadrupeds, and a dazed defense against them and the equally frantic white simians with the queer wrappings and paraphernalia ... poor Lake, poor Gedney... and poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last — what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn — whatever they had been, they were men!"
--H.P. Lovecraft, "At the Mountains of Madness"
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
-- Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
-- Attributed to Winston Churchill, but may be apocryphal
Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli