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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

Just came over this and wanted to share :)

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...I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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

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Nature tells us to rest after meals and people who are too busy to heed that inner voice are often dead at the age of fifty years. -Mattie Ross in True Grit

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If you stay ready, you aint got to get ready

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Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

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https://i.imgur.com/ZOSsBJq.png

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Is all this living really worth dying for

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I'd rather die in my feet than live on my knees

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Lyrics from the final build up and climax of the song Unturning by the band Arcane

We are the voice of the crowd.
We are fire aloud.
We are the silence at the end of sound
Listen closer, perhaps you can hear us now...
We believe that the man who brings his heart is home,
If the fight isn't over, then let this be known:
We'll go down by the sound of the songs the we've sung,
And I welcome the drowning.
Fill these empty lungs.
And I know that there's nothing that waits for me there
But the peace in the silence.
I've earned it, I swear.
In the face of unturning eyes,
I have no fear.
There is no god, and I am standing right here.
Open arms to my brother,
I say: "Welcome home."
Find the peace in each other,
We've waited so long
Neither question nor answer will come from above.
Bury hate with the coward,
The answer is love.

The whole album is really amazing, with some of the best build ups and crescendos I've ever heard and some really amazing lyrics. It's a concept double album spanning over 2 hours but is one of the greatest whole pieces of music I've ever heard. If you like progressive and post rock/metal, I highly recommend checking it out.

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"You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man, the taller he stands. To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind. Men have this idea that we can fight with dignity, that there is a proper way to kill someone. It's absurd. It's anaesthetic. We need it to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy that idea. Show them what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man, and then show them that you relish in it. Shoot to wound, then execute the wounded. Burn them. Take them in close combat. Destroy their preconceptions of what a man is, and you become their personal monster. When they fear you, you become stronger, you become better. But let's never forget: It's a display. It's a posture, like a lion's roar or a gorilla thumping at his chest. If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror, then you become the monster. You become reduced. Not more than a man, but less, and it can be fatal."

DuranOfForcena posted...

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]

Jim Jarmusch

That's a quote in a quote!

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"It's all good, man."

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The last line of Notes From The Underground, by Dostoyevsky. It's written like a found diary, and the last line is an editor's note:

[The notes of this paradoxalist do not end here, however. He could not refrain from going on with them, but it seems to us that we may stop here.]

I love the idea that even if no one is paying attention anymore, the crazy continues. It's deupd_u AF.

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From Reflection Eternal - Memories Live

Like thoughts out the back of my mind
Going back in some time
Like when you used to cut and had to go to the back of the line
Look back and you find
Tracks that make you relax and recline
Now cats rap about packing a nine
When they lacking divine
Inspiration
Running out of topics of conversation
Well I drop it in the pocket because rocking's my occupation
I do it remarkably, spark up a leaf
And possibly you could follow me
Tap into your chi
Utilize your memory
To help you see clearly, then get back to me
Actually, nothing's new under the sun
So when life be stressing me
My remedy is 'bringing back sweet memories'

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