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Post by Darko on Feb 18, 2014 23:37:03 GMT
You know what to do. ~~~~~
"The mind of Darko is inscrutable and arcane. It is not a thing to be comprehended by mere mortals." - Coolyo294 "Darko is an evil malevolent being with only good intentions." - Aegis Fate "I refuse to fly in a fugly purple shoe." - Coolyo294
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Post by Dewin on Feb 19, 2014 14:11:21 GMT
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Post by coolyo294 on Feb 19, 2014 15:54:42 GMT
"The legend of Artorias art none but a fabrication. Traversing the dark? 'Tis but a fairy tale. Have thine own respect, go not yonder knocking for nothing, I say!"
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Post by Asherian Command on Feb 20, 2014 21:44:18 GMT
Some Words of wisdom?
A man knows he is screwed when a Woman asks him for his honest opinion.
A day without sunshine is like you know.... night or the Apocalypse.
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Democracy is mob rule, but with income taxes.
Don't have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - evokes three stages of reaction in a hearer: It is completely impossible - don't waste my time. It is possible, but it is not worth doing. I said it was a good idea all along.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
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Post by Nebula on Feb 21, 2014 18:59:25 GMT
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" arose as part of a quotation by the expansively named and impressively hirsute John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
He didn't invent the idea though; quotations very like it had been uttered by several authors well before 1887. Primary amongst them was another English politician with no shortage of names - William Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, who said something similar in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"
Acton is likely to have taken his lead from the writings of the French republican poet and politician, again a generously titled individual - Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine. An English translation of Lamartine's essay France and England: a Vision of the Future was published in London in 1848 and included this text:
It is not only the slave or serf who is ameliorated in becoming free... the master himself did not gain less in every point of view,... for absolute power corrupts the best natures.
Complied by Gary Martin, a noted scholar of things quotable. So many gamers misquote this one I thought I’d put in the whole smear.
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Post by coolyo294 on Feb 23, 2014 23:17:57 GMT
"At thy twilight, old thoughts return, in great waves of nostalgia."
"Ahh, dragon slaying. Knighthood's highest calling…"
-Hawkeye Gough
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Post by Asherian Command on Feb 24, 2014 1:43:23 GMT
“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”
— Immanuel Kant
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
— Immanuel Kant
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Post by Darko on Feb 26, 2014 11:33:10 GMT
Wrex knows how to deal with fools.
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Post by Asherian Command on Feb 26, 2014 23:18:00 GMT
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo
“The heart is forever inexperienced.” — Henry David Thoreau
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Post by coolyo294 on Feb 27, 2014 2:47:16 GMT
"I have walked upon a hundred foreign worlds beneath the light of a hundred strange stars. I have slain monsters the likes of which your fullest nightmares and darkest imaginings could not produce. I have made fortunes that could purchase the world beneath your feet a dozen times. I am a visionary, a paragon of humanity, a slayer of worlds, and forger of destinies. I am a legend and you are merely a man. Who, then, are you to deny me?" -Sarvus Trask, Rogue Trader
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