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Created on 2006-05-23 21:56:57 (#10301090), last updated 2007-03-28
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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
- James D. Nicoll
"Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different than what it was before."
- C.S. Lewis
"If I could say half the things I wanted, I'd either be happy or hanging from a tree branch. Either way, the temptation is unbearable."
- R.K. Milholland
"Fanatacism towards anything is such a turn off intellectually, physically, and emotionally. I don't care what side of the political spectrum you lean towards, which god you worship (or don't), what brand soda you endorse or which ship you coo over, when logic, imagination and basic human compassion fall by the wayside, you have a problem."
- tooth_and_claw
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
- Anaïs Nin
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