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“Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.” The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov
"Saving fish from drowning." - Amy Tan
“Smiling with no reason is a sign of stupidity.” - Russian proverb
Unused:
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." - Eckhart Tolle
"Whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill
Expressions that were once literal but now are not:
Hang up on [someone].
Cautious optimism
amortize your thighs
"That's a real knee-slapper"
"you can't spell empathetic without pathetic" - SM
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." - Harry S. Truman
Unsupervised assembly
Ten to the dozen - rapidly hurriedly, energetically
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades." - Timbuk 3
Fresh fish flesh
"You don't fit my narrative."
litany of errors
Filthy casual
Clerical error
ethically ambiguous
"This is going to take forever!"
"I don't care if it takes you into the heat death of the universe. You will finish it."
broadcast a projectile
throwing shade
put your back into it
hay day
idle hands do the devil's work
"History is written by the victors." - Winston Churchill
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space. - Stephen Hunt
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain.
"I do not like that man. I must get to know him better." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth." - Thomas Fuller
"I cannot remember the books as I have read any more than the meals I have eaten. Even so, they have made me." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." - John Milton
"The things we are drawn to that are perhaps not in our better interests."
"meditate or whatever and that kind of shit" - Annie Chou
"He enjoys gossiping way more than I enjoy my stuff being gossiped about." - Annie Chou
"he has every quality of humanity except imperfection." - Jeremy Denk
"I normally like coffee like my soul, black and bitter, but today my coffee is light brown because I put in a little bit of honey and creamer. No, its actually dark brown. Light brown is too optimistic." - Annie Chou
"One day you will walk on horizons that I have never seen."
The struggle is real.
You are the fly in my ointment.
"It's all ogre now." (Youtube)
"The unexamined life is not worth living... Do you think you know yourself, merely because you know your own name?" - Socrates
"Don't leave your hair in pigtails if you don't want people tugging on them." - Chinese proverb
It's not that bad things happen to good people, it's that bad things make people good.
"...with the predatory efficiency of a lifetime bachelor." The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
"At high enough temperatures, particles have so much energy that whenever they collide many different particle/antiparticle pairs would be produced - and although some of these particles would annihilate on hitting antiparticles, they would be produced more rapidly than they could annihilate." - A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
"Patience is just another word for getting old." - Fireworks by The Whitest Boy Alive
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest – whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories – comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"The numbers of different neurons interacting within each miniscule portion of the cortex is greater than the total number of different neurons in many behaving animals. Some may therefore read this work as a cautionary tale that the task is impossible. Our view is more sanguine; in the nascent field of connectomics there is no reason to stop doing it until the results are boring." - Narayanan Kasthuri et al.
Successful, easy-going, female. Pick two. -Annie Chou
Trying to have a conversation in the white noise of a waterfall
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Well-rounded people discuss all three. - Annie Chou
Childishness comes as easily to a full-grown man as it does to a child. -Isaac Asimov
The carelessness of your predecessors does not absolve your responsibilities.
It's better to empower the capable than to have patience for the apathetic.
As a member of the choir, I grow tired of your preaching. (aka "You're an oblivious dumbass, shut the fuck up")
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. - Theodor Seuss Geisel
airbag landing
que malo - how bad
quemalo - burn it
"The silence was deafening."
“Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands, and that made all the difference.” -Foundation’s Edge, Isaac Asimov
“It seems to me… that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.” Foundation’s Edge, Isaac Asimov
“Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where it is going” - Edward R. Harrison
“By the age of 40, you have probably mined the purest veins of this precious lode; after that, continued creativity is a matter of sifting the leavings.” - John Updike
“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” – Mario Savio
You can't win if you don't play.
"Billy turned on the Magic Fingers, and he was jiggled as he wept." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." - Thucydides
Let's build a new world
Let's save the world
Let's fix the world
Let's prevent the end of the world
Let's stop the end of the world
dilapidated lapidary lapidate
depilatory pilatory
Like a pro swimmer, can't wait to see you do the breast stroke.
If you're going through hell, keep going -Winston Churchill
Therein rests the resident evil.
We do it for love; we're paid in love, and the pay is good. - Warner H. Brown, Jr.
"You'd better make yourself scarce"
"Buck up, young buck."
Turn the beat around, dispense some indiscriminate justice
burden of propriety
Less is more
Strike the water
This is a place that God, if he exists, has completely forsaken.
I don't want to paint the past with rose-tinted glasses
Every day I'm less of of a person than I was
Mammary jammer
"Ever heard of the golden rule? He who has the gold makes the rules."
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life" -Winston Churchill
"How lucky am I, to have something that makes saying goodbye hard" -Winnie the Pooh
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much" -Oscar Wilde
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say" -Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
"Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" -Mark Twain
"You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at" - Tina Fey
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go" -Dr. Suess
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." -Chinese proverb
Tenderheart
This is peoples? -Jingwen Yin
An apple a day keeps the doctorate at bay. -Jingwen Yin
I can hear the voice of the bottles. -Jingwen Yin
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -John Shedd
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." -Mark Twain
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." -Gandhi
"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour"
"If tetris has taught me anything it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear"
Write drunk, edit sober -Ernest Hemmingway
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity" -Einstein
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone -Picasso
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses" -Henry Ford
Find what you love and let it kill you -Charles Bukowski
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why -Mark Twain
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. -Bob Marley
observation and experience, and placed it on a rock in space.
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Dylan Thomas
"My days!"
"Spit it out, Boomhower!"
"in order to secure your escape I had to make you and everyone believe that I hated you."
"The loneliest people can be the kindest. The saddest people sometimes smile the brightest. The most damaged people are filled with wisdom. All because they do not wish the pain they’ve endured on another soul." - Timothy Delvecc
Reticulating splines...
"Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Meade
"Necessity knows no law."
— Arnold Schönberg
There is no such thing as normality and insanity - life is just one big Gaussian bell curve and at the very peak is insignificance and mediocrity. - Annie Chou
A few bricks shy of a load.
A few beers short of a six-pack.
A few sandwiches short of a picnic.
The lights are on, but nobody's home.
Half a bubble off plumb.
She's not firing on all cylinders
As smart as a box of rocks.
Dumber than a bag of hammers.
Couldn't find his way out of a paper bag.
Not playing with a full deck
Sharp as a marble
A pacifist out of necessity in a battle of wits.
A room temperature IQ.
not the sharpest apple in the barrel
Your leavened Christ has risen.
What is this? Metastaseeds in the body of Christ?
Cautiously optimistic
A shadow in the sun.
Witching well
Hegemony Christmas!
Maybe this is as good as it doesn't get.
"Have a great afternoon!"
"You go right ahead and do the same."
Capture the spirit of building for fun. Then building becomes play, and is good. Keep playing.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” ― Henry Ford
I will not surrender; I go down with this ship.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Life is a purification process.
It's elephants/turtles all the way down.
Even artists need to spend some time swinging the hammer.
Stumbled acron. Across/upon.
"Breed crows and lose your cornrows."
"Just jabbering on, trying to keep the conversation alive."
"When it comes to killing time, I'm a mass murderer."
Hemorrhaging fuel
"Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose." - Adrian Carton de Wiart
In an effort to make conditions slightly less unbearable...
compromised integrity
Curing cancer one breast at a time.
Reckless abandon
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
These guys with the guise of gaia.
Heed the shot across the bow.
What a pain in the Jesus.
Do unto others what has been done to me. - Tool
He doesn't afraid of anything.
That would be super dope, you'd be my heroine.
Jose, hose B.
I am assuming direct control. - Mass Effect 2
Maybe you're alone for a reason. You're the reason. - 10 Years
When I was a colored boy...
The tools you choose to use are simply extensions of yourself.
Look out engaged ladies and grooms, I'm a debriding agent - H2O2
This makes mashed-potato sense to me.
In order to really get comfortable with it and figure it out, you have to be willing to play around with it a little bit.
I will plant a tree in your name.
Water under the bridge.
How long?
Not long, 'cause what you reap is what you sow. - Rage Against the Machine
"the modern equivalent of a temple of Zeus beside the Aegean" - David M. Oshinsky
Do not despair, repair!
It is dead silent, apart from your breathing.
Though times have changed, the question remains the same: ___
There is no feeling more pleasant, no drug more addictive, than setting foot on virgin soil. - Edward O. Wilson
I often find myself staring out a two-way mirror.
I’m looking out a two-way mirror.
I've come full circle, a whole life wasted. - Static-X
I haven’t heard or seen a sterile Gibson Stratocaster in years!
Enough to feed a small village.
More legs than any living creature would ever need. - Peter Cutler
Stop the zombies!
Fast, cheap, good; choose two.
We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Decorated war criminal.
Come back stronger than a powered up pacman. - Kaiser Chiefs
Oh my god I can’t believe it, I’ve never been this far away from home! - Kaiser Chiefs
People tend to take what I say seriously.
Making fun of people allows you to grow closer to them.
Making fun of people who take you seriously is bad news, people get hurt.
To be respected, or to be loved?
Being happy is to feel nothing.
You too will leave this village sometime, young yeastbud.
You can't just change a person, you have to change the environment.
Eve would revert to a rib. - Vladīmir Vladimirovich Nabokov
I would have to live in the absence of you and that would suck.
Dropping what I have wherever I am today. - Mr. Dave
The only thing that grows is history
______
Find the infinite
Become the infinite
Create the infinite
Drops of the infinite
Tasting the infinite
______ ^^This sounds like a futuristic and more disturbing version of Skittles
Plants are greedy
What are you searching for?
There's always a first time .
The best things in life aren't things.
I'd rather open Colorado.
Feeling lonely even when you are with people.
Have you two merged files? - John Stoner
We never invented scientific weapons after the barbaric age, what’s the point?
I don’t feel so insecure anymore.
Ugly people breed with ugly people.
“Nothing’s gonna change my world…” as though that’s a good thing.
In this world there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. Its’ important to combine the two in just the right amount. - Haruki Murakami
If there’s no ethically correct solution, act irrationally. - Sergei Lukyanenko
It doesn’t really make sense to refuse life-saving treatment because the injections hurt. - Sergei Lukyanenko
Don't reinvent the wheel.
A microwave is not an autoclave.
Me and my true love… can always meet again at the lovely lovely bank of Lock Lomond.
Gravity is just matter exclusion.
This suggests that…
Nothing is permanent, we use things up.
Complicity equates guilt.
"Atom of Choice"
Immune to cloves.
The silence was deafening.
5 o’clock shadow
What are those short stalks of grain or hay left in a field after the crop has been harvested called?
Use the system instead of fighting against it .
Sometimes you can found.
If a king rules a kingdom, what does a khan rule? - Patrick Steigler
You're cruising for a beating.
Diseasses
If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad? -Sheryl Crowe
No good deed goes unpunished.
"The public insists that City robots be built with a strong friendship circuit."
"For once he listened to <robot 1> without being annoyed. <Robot>, after all, was was a kind of relation to <robot 2>, and <robot 2> obviously wasn't a person- or thing, rather- to get annoyed with. Baley wondered how it would be on a new planet with men and robots starting even in a City culture. He considered the situation quite dispassionately."
"But why the human form?" "Because the human form is the most successful generalized form in all nature. We are not a specialized animal except for our nervous systems and a few odd items. If you want a design capable of doing a great many widely various things, all fairly well, you could do no better than to imitate the human form. Besides that, our entire technology is based on the human form. An automobile for instance, has its controls so made as to be grasped and manipulated most easily by human hands and feet of a certain size and shape, attached to the body by limbs of a certain length and joints of a certain type. Even such simple objects as chairs and tables or knives and forks are designed to meet the requirements of human measurements and manner of working. It is easier to have robots imitate the human shape than to redesign radically the very philosophy of our tools."
"Her lips moved slightly, though no sound could be heard... Throat phones that translated the small movements of the larynx into words."
"The guide rod was set for <area>. What that meant in factory terminology, Baley didn't know. He didn't have to. The rod was an inconspicuous thing which could be palmed in the hand. Its tip warmed gently when lined up in the direction for which it was set, cooled quickly when turned away. The warmth increased as the final goal was approached. To an amateur, the guide rod was almost useless, with its quick little differences of heat content, but few City dwellers were amateurs at this particular game. One of the most popular and perennial of the games of childhood was hide-and-seek through school-level corridors with the use of toy guide rods. ("Hot or Not, Let Hot-Spot Spot. Hot-Spot Guide Rods are Keen.") Baley had found his way through hundreds of massive piles by guide rod, and he could follow the shortest course with one of them in his hand as though it had been mapped out for him."
"Baley's teeth loosed their grip on his pipestem. He caught the pipe as it fell."
- Isaac Asimov, Caves of Steel
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