For all you lurkers with a low post count

[wildroamer]

ALL information is GOOD!

 

[the GOAT]

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

 

[wildroamer]

That said... Whyncha shutthefuckup for a second. Maybe two.

 

[wildroamer]

It's called a "conversation"

 

[the GOAT]

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it.

 

[the GOAT]

When you finally make the ends meet, they move the ends

 

[the GOAT]

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

 

[the GOAT]

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

 

[the GOAT]

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

 

[the GOAT]

The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

 

[the GOAT]

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

 

[the GOAT]

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world: and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

 

[the GOAT]

Every new method developed by the mind, although creating a new power, also creates a new prison. We must be able to control our methods so do not enslave us.

 

[the GOAT]

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

 

[wildroamer]

An idiot and his ramblings are seldom parted.

 

[the GOAT]

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

 

[the GOAT]

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

 

[the GOAT]

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

 

[the GOAT]

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

 

[the GOAT]

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.