Favorite quotes
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this and that- Posts : 316
Join date : 2012-10-29
this and that- Posts : 316
Join date : 2012-10-29
Re: Favorite quotes
you trying to give credit to your climate change thread?
usеro- Posts : 130
Join date : 2013-02-25
Re: Favorite quotes
Ah yes. I meant that...credibility, not credit
usеro- Posts : 130
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Re: Favorite quotes
bluebottle likes credibility. bluebottle likes credit. wotcha gonna do?
bluebottle- Posts : 50
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Re: Favorite quotes
how much credit do you want for your credibility services?
usеro- Posts : 130
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Re: Favorite quotes
speaking of camus
can't find it. But I recall, not sure how acurate, the stranger telling himself he should have payed attention and read about death by guillotine when he was imprisoned to meet it.
ah found it:
"This problem of a loophole obsesses me; I am always wondering if there have
been cases of condemned prisoners’ escaping from the implacable machinery of
justice at the last moment, breaking through the police cordon, vanishing in the nick
of time before the guillotine falls. Often and often I blame myself for not having
given more attention to accounts of public executions. One should always take an
interest in such matters. There’s never any knowing what one may come to. Like
everyone else I’d read descriptions of executions in the papers. But technical books
dealing with this subject must certainly exist; only I’d never felt sufficiently
interested to look them up. And in these books I might have found escape stories.
Surely they’d have told me that in one case, anyhow, the wheels had stopped; that
once, if only once, in that inexorable march of events, chance or luck had played a
happy part. Just once! In a way I think that single instance would have satisfied me."
I think this has come to my mind in the sense that one might find oneself stripped off tools or find useless all s/he's developed when presented under untrodden fatal circumstances (I don't mean fatal exclusively for death and I don't mean it exclusively for a passive person)
can't find it. But I recall, not sure how acurate, the stranger telling himself he should have payed attention and read about death by guillotine when he was imprisoned to meet it.
ah found it:
"This problem of a loophole obsesses me; I am always wondering if there have
been cases of condemned prisoners’ escaping from the implacable machinery of
justice at the last moment, breaking through the police cordon, vanishing in the nick
of time before the guillotine falls. Often and often I blame myself for not having
given more attention to accounts of public executions. One should always take an
interest in such matters. There’s never any knowing what one may come to. Like
everyone else I’d read descriptions of executions in the papers. But technical books
dealing with this subject must certainly exist; only I’d never felt sufficiently
interested to look them up. And in these books I might have found escape stories.
Surely they’d have told me that in one case, anyhow, the wheels had stopped; that
once, if only once, in that inexorable march of events, chance or luck had played a
happy part. Just once! In a way I think that single instance would have satisfied me."
I think this has come to my mind in the sense that one might find oneself stripped off tools or find useless all s/he's developed when presented under untrodden fatal circumstances (I don't mean fatal exclusively for death and I don't mean it exclusively for a passive person)
usеro- Posts : 130
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Re: Favorite quotes
"There were policemen in classes, to report. But the authorities would say well, let them say whatever they want, because thanks to mr x and mr p and mister z who say things not gallant toward the regime, the impression appears that there's freedom"- JLSampedro
usеro- Posts : 130
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Re: Favorite quotes
"Merci pour la cauliflower "
-- The naive pinhed with no royal taster
-- The naive pinhed with no royal taster
glue moon- Posts : 159
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Re: Favorite quotes
'Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools'
― Napoleon
― Napoleon
Alouette- Posts : 155
Join date : 2013-11-11
Re: Favorite quotes
^ when he named his sources
this sounds like "... and had something of the spirit of the universe in it, I don't remember the exact quote right now"
this sounds like "... and had something of the spirit of the universe in it, I don't remember the exact quote right now"
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