Hah, I do love that episode, the second half was such a brilliant parody of the Prisoner. I've got this in a nice frame in my living room
If you've never seen the original Prisoner from 1969, you owe it to yourself to watch it. It was so predictive of the surveillance state of today. The premise for the show was what happens to spies who know too much, try to quit their jobs. The answer is they get disappeared to a really weird island and force fed lots of hallucinogenic drugs
You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that’s clear I will choose free will.
Who won and who lost is not a question. In war, no one wins or loses. There is only destruction. Only those who have never fought like to argue about who won and who lost.
~Bao Ninh, N. Vietanmese Army
(From The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick)
Who won and who lost is not a question. In war, no one wins or loses. There is only destruction. Only those who have never fought like to argue about who won and who lost.
~Bao Ninh, N. Vietanmese Army
(From The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick)
War doesn't determine who is right; war determines who is left.
(- Exact origin unknown)
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling…makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another, I’d rather not choose at all.”
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Depends on if the fairies are actually there or not. Considering this is the Hitchhiker's universe....
To make up for my posting without a quote. "No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith." R.A. Salvatore
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Depends on if the fairies are actually there or not. Considering this is the Hitchhiker's universe....
If this was the Discworld Universe not only the fairies would be there but they would be hiding, waiting to steal everything you have as soon as you get close to them...
“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you ever--Oh, wait, I'm number 5.
-- Homer Simpson
Ha ha! In your face, Number 6!
-- Homer Simpson
Yes... Well done.
-- Number 6
If you've never seen the original Prisoner from 1969, you owe it to yourself to watch it. It was so predictive of the surveillance state of today. The premise for the show was what happens to spies who know too much, try to quit their jobs. The answer is they get disappeared to a really weird island and force fed lots of hallucinogenic drugs
”You are the greatest lover I have ever had.”
“Thank you, I practice a lot when I’m alone.”
— Woody Allen, Love and Death
Ayn Rand
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
-- William James
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts
Søren Kierkegaard
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose free will.
- Neil Peart
The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.
(Origin uncertain)Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
-- Hasidic saying
-- Mabel Pines
Who won and who lost is not a question. In war, no one wins or loses. There is only destruction. Only those who have never fought like to argue about who won and who lost.
~Bao Ninh, N. Vietanmese Army
(From The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick)It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change.
-- Cervantes
War doesn't determine who is right; war determines who is left.
(- Exact origin unknown)I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert EinsteinWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell (1984)
A half truth is a whole lie.
-- Yiddish proverb
I don't believe in Astrology. I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
- Arthur C. ClarkeWe learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.
-- Grace Williams
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling…makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another, I’d rather not choose at all.”
--- Geralt of Rivia, in "Killing Monsters"
We become just by performing just actions,
temperate by performing temperate actions,
brave by performing brave actions.
-- Aristotle
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Politics is a way to gain wealth and power without merit or risk.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith."
R.A. Salvatore
-C.S. Lewis