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[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

“The American public knows what it wants, and it deserves to get it… good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

“Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul and set you free from all your sins. Sometimes a woman is a heroin addiction - you are a junkie, you are my best friend. Let her go.” - The Bad Examples

[–] JustJoe@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re kidding.” TMBG

“Everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough.” Abe Lincoln

“Someone told me once that there’s a right and wrong, and that punishment would come to those who dare to cross the line. But it must not be true for jerk-offs like you. Maybe it takes longer to catch a total asshole. But I’m tired of waiting. Maybe it’s just bullshit and I should play God, and shoot you myself.”

Maynard

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

If we could understand but a single flower it could change our lives.

No clear attribution I could find.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Current mood is a toss up between

"I dream of a society where I would be guillotined as a conservative." - Proudhon / "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member" - Marx (Groucho)

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"All I know is that I know nothing", Socrates

Took me decades to really understand what he meant.

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[–] Trebuchet@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

"Man was born free, but everywhere is in chains." -Rousseau

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Who wants to be consistent? The dullard and the doctrinaire, the tedious people who carry out their principles to the bitter end of action, to the reductio ad absurdum of practice. Not I. Like Emerson, I write over the door of my library the word ‘Whim.’

From Intentions, by Oscar Wilde. It's one of my favorite books, all of the essays there are amazing, I definitely recommend anyone giving it a read.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

"Time is weird. Space too. I hope ours match up again some day."

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

"Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it"

The Lady Chablis

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even snakes are afraid of snakes

- Steven Wright

[–] rothaine@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

-Billy Shakes

[–] salimundo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The future is unwritten.

  • Joe Strummer
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