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Drdevice

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My favorite quote, whats yours
« on: February 10, 2010, 02:17:10 AM »
The buggers finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. We don't throw our forces away because every soldier is the queen of one-member hive, But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong

"For we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane."

They don't believe we will use Dr. Device because the only way to use it is to destroy our own ships in the process. It was obvious to everyone that this was a suicide run. Win or loose there would be no human survivors.

They have never seen us make a move like that. They don't understand that,

"yes humans will always act to preserve their own lives-except for the times when they don't!"

In the buggers experience autonomous beings do not sacrifice themselves. Once they understood our autonomy their defeat was sown. Did Ender know this? It was Enders previous victories that taught the enemy to think of us as one kind of creature, when really we are something quite different. He pretended all this time that humans were rational beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ever have conceived of in their nightmares.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2010, 05:54:18 AM »
Quote from: Drdevice on February 10, 2010, 02:17:10 AM
The buggers finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. We don't throw our forces away because every soldier is the queen of one-member hive, But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong

"For we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane."

They don't believe we will use Dr. Device because the only way to use it is to destroy our own ships in the process. It was obvious to everyone that this was a suicide run. Win or loose there would be no human survivors.

They have never seen us make a move like that. They don't understand that,

"yes humans will always act to preserve their own lives-except for the times when they don't!"

In the buggers experience autonomous beings do not sacrifice themselves. Once they understood our autonomy their defeat was sown. Did Ender know this? It was Enders previous victories that taught the enemy to think of us as one kind of creature, when really we are something quite different. He pretended all this time that humans were rational beings, when we are really the most terrible monsters these poor aliens could ever have conceived of in their nightmares.

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Why do we fall back to earth? Because our weight pushes us down, no laws, no gravity pulling us. It is the law of intelligence.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2010, 08:36:27 AM »
According to Google, that quote comes from "Ender's Shadow", right?  I haven't read it.  Is it any good?
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2010, 10:55:10 AM »
Yes it is very good. Well in my opinion. I like all of the books from both series though, my favorites are the first ones from both (Enders game and Enders shadow)

Also, lol to pseudonym
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2010, 11:09:08 AM »
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that is my favorite quote, my most serious quote though it this:

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"see the truth you always knew and be happy that your alive"
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2010, 11:10:31 AM »
Quote from: Abraham Lincoln
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad; and that is my religion.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2010, 11:26:58 AM »
How about

"So will march day and night by the big cooling tower, they have the plant but we have the power" -Lisa Simpson

"Rules? We don't have rules here we're trying to accomplish something" - Thomas Edison
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2010, 11:44:19 AM »
There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man, with human flesh.
-Paul Muad'Dib, Dune

Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation?
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
-The Gunslinger





 

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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2010, 11:59:25 AM »
Why fill their pockets with gold when you can fill their hearts with conviction. -Anonymous
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2010, 12:24:58 PM »
Quote from: lilfiend on February 10, 2010, 11:09:08 AM
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Our survey shows that the P2P user attends 34% more movies in theaters, purchases 34% more DVDs and rents 24% more movies than the average internet user. The P2P user owns more HDTVs and is more likely to own a high-def-DVD player, too.
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"Sure is cold in Hell today..."
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that is my favorite quote, my most serious quote though it this:

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"see the truth you always knew and be happy that your alive"
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Your first post is to quote someone? You my friend are a stalker
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2010, 07:59:33 PM »
The last words of my grandfather.

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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2010, 08:03:31 PM »
"Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane"

-xkcd

I love that quote.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2010, 08:05:01 PM »
"Deomocracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive and tyrannical than one, if he be a tyrant"

--Benito Mussolini
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2010, 08:25:50 PM »
"I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character."

- Sam Neill
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2010, 08:34:31 PM »
You can't outrun Death forever,
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2010, 08:53:12 PM »
Quote from: Space Cowgirl on February 10, 2010, 11:44:19 AM


The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
-The Gunslinger





 



I was coming back to this thread to post that one.

That one quote caused me to read 7 very long books and love every minute of it.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2010, 09:03:24 PM »
*said after kicking death in the balls*

"Remember! Only the good die young!" -Arnold Judus Rimmer 2nd technition of Jupiter corperation Minning vessle Red Dwarf
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« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2010, 09:12:22 PM »
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-George Santayana
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« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2010, 12:06:58 AM »
They say a woman's work is never done, maybe that's why they get paid less

Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2010, 12:18:24 AM »
"if you need something to get you through times of strife just remember that there is some one who can make you and extra special extra cakey cake." The song cake by 7 seconds of love
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« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2010, 04:05:50 AM »
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It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it any more you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.
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« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2010, 04:19:07 AM »
“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” - James Dean

Simple.
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« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2010, 06:00:00 AM »
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The Key of Joy is disobedience.
- Aleister Crowley. In Hymn to Lucifer
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« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2010, 06:28:52 AM »
"Look, they don't care who knocks out those ammunition dumps. The only reason we're going is because that bastard Cathcart volunteered us."

"Oh I know all that," Clevinger assured him, he gaunt face pale and his agitated eyes swimming in sincerity. "But the fact remains that the ammunition dumps are still standing. You know very well that I don't approve of Colonel Cathcart any more than you do. But it's not for us to determine what targets must be destroyed or who's to destroy them or -"

"Or who gets killed doing it? And why?"

"Yes, even that. We have no right to question -"

"You're insane!"

"- no right to question -"

"Do you really mean that it's not my business how or why I get killed and that it is Colonel Cathcart's? Do you really mean that?"

"Yes, I do," Clevinger insisted, seeming unsure. "There are men entrusted with winning the war who are in a much better position than we are to decide what targets have to be bombed."

"We are talking about two different things," Yossarian answered with exaggerated weariness. "You are talking about the relationship of the Air Corps to the infantry. You are talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive."

"Exactly," Clevinger snapped smugly. "And which do you think is more important?"

"To whom?" Yossarian shot back. "Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."


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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2010, 07:45:08 AM »
Arse drink feck girls gobshite......... Father Jack Hackett.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2010, 08:46:45 AM »
Quote from: Raist on February 10, 2010, 08:53:12 PM
Quote from: Space Cowgirl on February 10, 2010, 11:44:19 AM
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
-The Gunslinger


I was coming back to this thread to post that one.

That one quote caused me to read 7 very long books and love every minute of it.

Me too! I might read them again someday. 
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Quote from: Thork on November 27, 2012, 12:25:43 PM
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2010, 08:49:33 AM »
Quote from: Space Cowgirl on February 11, 2010, 08:46:45 AM
Quote from: Raist on February 10, 2010, 08:53:12 PM
Quote from: Space Cowgirl on February 10, 2010, 11:44:19 AM
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
-The Gunslinger


I was coming back to this thread to post that one.

That one quote caused me to read 7 very long books and love every minute of it.

Me too! I might read them again someday. 
HA! i just started 7 last night. The fact that i haven't read hearts in Atlantis is going to kil lme... isnt it? Maybe ill watch the movie real quick like.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2010, 08:57:33 AM »
Nah, you don't have to read Hearts in Atlantis, but you'll probably want to eventually!  I always enjoyed finding bits of the Dark Tower in other Stephen King books. 
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Quote from: Thork on November 27, 2012, 12:25:43 PM
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2010, 10:55:56 AM »
If I love you, what business is that of yours?  --Unknown

It's all a case of mind over matter.  If you lose your mind, it doesn't matter.  --MarkJO
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Re: My favorite quote, whats yours
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2010, 01:28:38 PM »
"wont some one please"

"fuck"

"me up the"

"ass"

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