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a little something I found, for those who may be interested

21 precepts of the lone warrior
-miyamoto musashi's book of the 5 rings

1. "Accept everything just the way it is."
2. "Do not seek pleasure for its own sake."
3. "Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling."
4. "Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."
5. "Be detached from desire your whole life long."
6. "Do not regret what you have done."
7. "Never be jealous."
8. "Never let yourself be saddened by a separation."
9. "Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others."
10. "Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love."
11. "In all things have no preferences."
12. "Be indifferent to where you live."
13. "Do not pursue the taste of good food."
14. "Do no hold on to possessions you no longer need."
15. "Do not act following customary beliefs."
16. "Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful."
17. "Do not fear death."
18. "Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age."
19. "Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help."
20. "You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour."
21. "Never stray from the Way."

10 Laws of Murphy: <span style='color:white'>(who the fucking shit is he?)</span>



1
Nothing is as easy as it looks.


2
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.


3
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.


4
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.


5
Two wrongs are only the beginning.


6
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in w/c a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.


7
Nothing is as easy as it looks. (again)


8
Every solution breeds new problems..


9
If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then..


10
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.





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Wait, forgot to paste this:

Exceptions prove the rule ... and wreck the budget.
Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Trust everybody ... then cut the cards.
Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
Everything takes longer than you think..
Two wrongs are only the beginning.

those quotes from people from WWII count here??? I have a whole book...

two of my fave quotes
1. two each there own
2. time shall endure no lie

What was it again?
'An honest man makes the best liar.'

...something from Socrates: true wise men know that they are not wise.

and here's a whole slew of quotes from a bunch of people.its mainly about equality but a good number of them are really good.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism. -Gloria Steinem

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. - Jane Adams


The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.- Thomas Jefferson

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill


I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.- Martin Luther King, Jr


Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.- Eugene V. Debs


"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes." John Donne

"Before God we are equally wise--and equally foolish." Albert Einstein

"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." Albert Einstein ---> he probably got this from marriage.


“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”

Bob Dylan

“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”

George Orwell

"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude."

Friedrich August von Hayek

"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small." Dr. Samuel Johnson

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

Mahatma Gandhi sorry for the journalist out there but Im really wih him on this one

“Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression”

Dick Feagler

“We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.”

Eva Burrows

"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership." Ann Landers

"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." Niccolo Machiavelli

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today." Malcolm X


"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


C. S. Lewis:

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Confucius:

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul? - Matthew 16:26 I believe.

"Did someone say pr0n?!" - Clonezero

"Did someone say pr0n?!" - World Super Police Chief.

bakit pron???

To avoid using the word "PORN" directly.


"There are no girls in the internet."

"FOR RENT: CONDOM"
- Ad in Jakarta Post, should have read Condo

I dunno whether to create a new thread for this one. Ehh...

Albert Einstein Wrote:Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

still Albert Einstein Wrote:1. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

2. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

3. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

4. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

5. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

6. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

7. When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

8. In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

9. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

10. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Damn at #4. It's all about burning the sources, plagiarists! )

In fact, upon rereading, these are some pretty powerful reminders.

Grimlok Wrote:

still Albert Einstein Wrote:4. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

9. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

#4 + #9 = Master plagiarist.

Actually, those two can be applied in almost any field. Superb.



Now for some words of wisdom...

Mr. Megs Arevalo Wrote:No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, you must turn back.

Sir Arevalo was my Filipino teacher back in High School. That's probably the best thing he ever taught us in class.

"Pain is your friend. It lets you know you're still alive" - U.S. Navy SEALs

"Speed is my armor." - Old martial arts saying

Protip: Follow the arrows.
I didn't know where to put this it just looked too awesome to pass up.

I hate posers. Joining an anti-trend just to be different. Fortunately I haven't met anyone here who's like that.