Quote Of The Week #55
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In the song Generation Wrekkked, on The Autobiography Of Mistachuck, the following lines are mentioned:
If I can’t change the people around me,
I change the people around me.
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Quote Of The Week #54
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I was reading some Michel de Montaigne, who quotes Ovid at some point:
Scilicet ultima semper exspectanda dies homini est;
dicique beatus ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet.
(We should all look forward to our last day;
no one can be called happy till he is dead and buried.)
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Quote Of The Week #53
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From the song “Eve of Destruction”, originally written by P.F. Sloan, and performed by various artists such as Barry Macquire and, more recently, Public Enemy:
Yeah, my blood’s so mad, feels like coagulatin’,
I’m sittin’ here, just contemplatin’,
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don’t pass legislation,
and marches alone can’t bring integration,
when human [...]
Quote Of The Week #52
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ReMo, in his song “We know”, notes the following:
CIA, FBI,
Got the world terrorised.
Your lies don’t justify
Globalised homicide.
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Quote Of The Week #51
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Boots Riley — you know, from the hip-hop duo The Coup — has once commented, that:
I am a communist. I have been a communist/socialist since I was 14 years old. I think that people should have democratic control over the profits that they produce. It is not real democracy until you have that. And [...]
Quote Of The Week #50
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From the song “Fight Until The End” by Sabac and featuring Immortal Technique — I quote the following lines:
Sometimes you gotta grab steel, blast, peal
Before they sentence you and serve your last meal.
I know fightin’ back is easier said then actin’,
Let’s start movin’ forward and stop steppin’ backwards.
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Quote Of The Week #49
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Again, it has been an awful long while since the last post and maybe I ought to rename this to ”Quote of the Month” (but then, in a couple of months I’d might have to rename it back)…
So anyway, until I do return to the usual programming, today I wanted to share this one, an [...]
Quote Of The Week #48
Marcus Brigstocke once said (and this is a pretty well-known quote I believe),
“If Pacman had affected us as kids we’d be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.”
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Quote Of The Week #47
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This week, I’m passing the mic to The Coup and dead prez, in the excellent tune “Get Up”, from The Coup’s album “Party Music” (which I wouldn’t have discovered if it wasn’t for Sean at connecting*the*dots):
You got to get up right now,
Turn the system upside down.
You’re supposed to be fed up by now,
Turn the system [...]
Quote Of The Week #46
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While trying to play catch-up to some over-due reading I caught this post at connecting*the*dots in which I noticed Sean was quoting DeNiro who was playing Harry Tuttle in the movie Brazil — a pretty good movie I must add:
We’re all in it together.
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Quote Of The Week #45
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The character Benoit, the fictional serial killer followed by a camera-team, in the French film C’est arrive pres de chez vouz, recites the following poem:
Pigeon, winged cloak of grey,
In the city’s hellish maw,
One glance and you fly away,
Your grace holds me in awe.
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Quote Of The Week #44
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Dr. David Bruce Banner, incredibly played by the late Bill Bixby in the Incredible Hulk-series, says the following in the episode Married (this story, I believe, is actually an old Buddhist wisdom):
I once heard a story about a man being chased by a tiger. He came to a cliff. He fell, but he grabbed a [...]
Quote Of The Week #43
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Chuck D, as quoted in the song Can’t Hold Us Back, referring to todays music industry:
Clear the madness, and put the message in.
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Quote Of The Week #42
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William of Occam, the English philosopher known for stating that, if you have multiple theories explaining a phenomenon the simplest solution with the least assumptions has to be the best one. It was only in 1852 that a Sir William Rowan Hamilton first used the term Occam’s Razor to refer to this principle.
The original line [...]
Quote Of The Week #41
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This time, I’m quoting Paul Simon’s the Boy in the Bubble. I was listening to it the other day and realised I never understood the song better than I did then.
These are the days of miracle and wonder — this is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slow-mo, the way we [...]
Quote Of The Week #40
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Mestrius Plutarchus, the Greek historian and writer, wrote in his essay On Superstition, that…
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Quote Of The Week #39
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Mahatma Gandhi, the guy who ‘invented’ resistance through civil disobedience, has once noted:
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Quote Of The Week #38
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman philosopher and orator, wrote in his De Legibus, part III:
Ollis salus populi suprema lex esto.
That the people’s good is the highest law.
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Quote Of The Week #38 #37
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Just caught this logging in, by Plato:
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Update: Woops, seems I wasn’t fully awake this morning — this is supposed to be quote #37.
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Quote Of The Week #36
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I was listening to this Everlast tune called Today (Watch Me Shine) noticing the following lines:
You can’t always get the things you want, love.
Get what you deserve or maybe what you need.
Incidentally, I think the “Whitey Ford Sings The Blues” album is one of his better albums, in that particular style…
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Quote Of the Week #35
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So it is Tuesday as I type this — I was just reading this post and comments on connecting*the*dots noticing a part of Steve Martin’s Non-Conformist Oath (not even being sure if the guy that posted it was actually aware of that fact).
Anyway, reading that line really brought some memories back from the early eighties…. [...]
Quote Of The Week #34
I was listening some old-school music the other day (because I love to reminisce) and couldn’t resist using it as this weeks QOTW…It was Ice-T’s Power album, the song Radio Suckers I was listening to, hearing the following line again (which doesn’t even apply to rap-music only):
We shouldn’t sell out,we should just yell out
And get [...]
Quote Of The Week #33
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This week, Gustav Landauer gets a mention. In his life, he translated Shakespeare’s works into German — but he’s better know for his own anarchist writings. In one of these, Die Revolution, he wrote:
The State is a condition, a certain relationship among human beings, a mode of behavior, we destroy it by contracting other relationships, [...]
Quote Of The Week #32
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I don’t know where I picked it up and who said it first, nor did a quick Google give any suggestion as to who might have…. Anyway, here goes:
Well, anarchy is better than no system at all.
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Quote Of The Week #31
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So I was watching the Richard Pryor 1979 Long Beach, California show that aired on the BBC earlier this month last night and I was laughing my ass off — he had me in some serious stitches, man. I once again realised it’s damn sad he passed away. But hey, death is just a part [...]
Quote Of The Week #30
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Lately, I’ve been using the UNIX fortune command to populate a test-database of a product I’m working on. Not only does that give you some nice random data to work with; but you learn some stuff along the road as well.
For instance, the one that I ran across yesterday, by Wolfgang Pauli which I [...]
Quote Of The Week #29
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I was reading about Spinoza the other day, and I noticed the following quote; a line which he wrote in his piece Ethics;
If a triangle could speak it would say that God is eminently triangular.
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Quote Of The Week #28
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Terry Pratchett, the author renowned for the Discworld series, once has said the following:
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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Quote Of The Week #27
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In the movie Dogville, Grace (played by Nicole Kidman), says the following;
We all have the right to make the most of our life.
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Quote Of The Week #26
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Things seem quiet on the front — and I almost forgot todays’ QOTW. Anyways, this week, Karl Marx gets some time in the spotlights, having once said the following:
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
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Quote Of The Week #25
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Aesopus (or Aesop / Æsop), the ancient Greek writer, famous for his fables, has said many wise things therein. One of these is this weeks’ quote, coming from the short Bundle of Sticks:
Union gives strength.
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Quote Of The Week #24
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While reading this crazy story, I noticed the following signature which I find, well, thought-provoking. Apparently the quote, originally, is from some guy called Stephen Roberts:
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will [...]
Quote Of The Week #23
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I was listening to Paris the other day, namely the song `The devil made me do it‘, when I heard the line that has inspired me for years now (actually, every time I hear these words they give me the goose-bumps).
Ya can’t be intrigued by the leads a pig lead
Unless you don’t give a fuck [...]
Quote Of The Week #22
For this 22nd Quote Of The Week, we’ll focus on Emiliano Zapata, who once said (or rather, wrote, in a letter to Pancho Villa):
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
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Quote Of The Week #21
Usually, the Quote Of The Week section is ‘reserved’ for quotes from famous and/or historical characters, fictional or real. This week, however, I’m making an exception to this.
Last weekend while installing some new hardware in my home-network, innocent to terms like ‘proprietary API‘ or ‘vendor lock-in‘, my girlfriend made the following remark noticing that, as [...]
Quote Of The Week #20
Alexander the Great is attributed to once have said the following:
I would not fear a pack of lions led by a sheep,
but I would always fear a flock of sheep led by a lion.
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Quote Of The Week #19
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Aristotle, in his Ethics, quotes the poet Hesiod;
He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things;
Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion;
But whose neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another
Layeth it to heart — he is a useless man.
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Quote Of The Week #18
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I was playing Mortal Kombat the other day, in which I noticed the following line:
There is no knowledge that is not power.
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Quote Of The Week #17
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Today, Mahatma Ghandi says the following:
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Quote Of The Week #16
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Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Practical Reason, wrote the following.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Quote Of The Week #15
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When logging into some server at work yesterday, the good old fortune-program threw this quote by the comedian Jim Samuels at me. An analogy that I found, at the least, mildly amusing:
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.
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Quote Of The Week #14
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Oh, the ancient and wise Greeks. Every time I read what these guys wrote thousands of years ago — I’m amazed at their insight. And every time I read another compellingly timeless and spot-on observation, I’m likened to indeed think that, the more stuff changes, the more it stays the same. If time travel was [...]
Quote Of The Week #13
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William Shakespeare, in his Merchant of Venice, wrote the following:
How far that little candle throws its beams; so shines a good deed in a naughty world.
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Quote Of The Week #12
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This week, I’m keeping it ancient and Greek. This being the Spring and the Summer coming and all, I always am amazed at the beauty of Nature. As was Aristotle, who once said:
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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Quote Of The Week #11
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This week I’m focussing on Diogenes of Sinope, one of the first cynics known in history.
Although no writings survived — stories have: one of these is that when Alexander the Great saw the man going through a pile of (human) bones, Diogenes explained to Alexander what he was doing:
I’m searching for the bones of [...]
Quote Of The Week #10
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This week, a quote is getting highlighted not for being significantly profound or anything, rather though because, in todays times, it may induce thought.
Wir haben es nicht gewußt.(tr: We didn’t know.)
I really shouldn’t have to — but to put the above into context for some of the ignorant readers out there — that is what [...]
Quote Of The Week #9
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This quote I found while browsing around the An Inconvenient Truth-site, a movie about the effects humanity has had on the environment and what possibly can be done to save it.
The American author Upton Sinclair once has said, that:
It’s hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding [...]
Quote Of The Week #8
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Socrates, although not leaving any writings of his own, can be attributed the following saying, as this was written down by Plato — his student:
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Quote Of The Week #7
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This week, Aristotle says the following:
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life— knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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Quote Of The Week #6
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This week, the following quote from Busta Rhymes’s Extinction Level Event album is featured. I don’t know who is the actual speaker, though.
While looking for the exact lyrics, I incidentally found out it’s actually one sentence, and nominated it for this weeks QOTW.
When asked by his children what’s it gonna be like in the year [...]
Quote Of The Week #5
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Today, it is Albert Einstein’s turn to, once again, be quoted saying something profound:
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.
The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Indeed, indeed. You the man, Albert.
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Quote Of The Week #4
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This time, a Klingon quote, which I heard in one of the Star Trek-movies (forgot which one exactly):
QamuIs Heg qaq law’ lorvIs yInqaq puS
(Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
Think about it…
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Quote Of The Week #3
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Today, Minister Louis Farrakhan is getting quoted (by the way, this is sampled on Paris’ Sleeping with the Enemy-album, quite a strong quote. Forgive my ignorance that I had to use Google to figure out who the man actually was.):
The revolution can’t survive if the revolutionary is killed,
so the revolutionary has to be wise to [...]
Quote Of The Week #2
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This week, the fictional character Emmanuel Goldstein (from Orwell’s book 1984) writes this in his book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, chapter III:
The social atmosphere is that of a beseiged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And at the same time the consciousness [...]
Quote Of The Week #1
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The Quote of the Week section is a new section which I have just created. In this section I will occasionally post interesting quotes from famous historical figures, real and fictional.
Today, it’s Albert Einstein’s turn — the man renowned for his Special Theory of Relativity:
“The pioneers of a warless world
are the young men (and women)
who [...]
