For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

In life it is possible merely to throw a heap of stones together, but this pile is not beautiful. We pyramid to the heights only when we lay stone on stone according to a beautiful plan. If we have no faith in the principles with which we build life, we are defeated.

 

[the GOAT]

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

 

[junkman]

What a machine the GOATBOT iz

 

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

Thread hogger! lol JK!

 

[the GOAT]

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

 

[the GOAT]

Most of all we hate collective identity: every day of your pathetic life you are being put into a little box by society by the way you look or the bands you listen to. Collective identity sucks. Be an individual, don't make it easy to be dismissed in a sentence

 

[the GOAT]

Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

 

[the GOAT]

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

 

[the GOAT]

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

 

[the GOAT]

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

 

[the GOAT]

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

 

[the GOAT]

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

 

[the GOAT]

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.

 

[the GOAT]

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

 

[the GOAT]

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

 

[the GOAT]

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

 

[the GOAT]

BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

 

[the GOAT]

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

 

[the GOAT]

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

 

[the GOAT]

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.