psychopatrick

"“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…” “You mean, it comes from..."

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:34:56 +0530

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“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…”

“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”

“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”

“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”

“I did,” said ford. “It is.”

“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”

“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”

“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”

“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”

“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”

“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”

”

- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0530

“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms

"The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may..."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0530

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”

- Leo Buscaglia

"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:52:32 +0530

“Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.”

- Sophocles

"Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust, and when you’re up, it’s..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:38:48 +0530

“Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust, and when you’re up, it’s never as good as it seems, and when you’re down, you never think you’ll be up again, but life goes on.”

- Fred Jung - Blow

"There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight...."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:21:38 +0530

“There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

- Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

"There’s nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash."

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:33:16 +0530

“There’s nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash.”

- Boris Balkan - The Ninth Gate

"There is an art to dealing with the boredom of an 8-hour shift. An art to putting your mind..."

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:12:27 +0530

“There is an art to dealing with the boredom of an 8-hour shift. An art to putting your mind somewhere else while the seconds slowly tick away. I found that all the people working here had perfected their own individual art. Take Sharon Pintey. Sharon knows rule #1, the clock is the enemy. The basic rule is this: the more you look at the clock, the slower the time goes. It will uncover the hiding place of your mind, and torture it with every second. This is the basic art in dealing with the trade of your time.”

- Ben Willis - Cashback

"Alice went on: `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ `That depends..."

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:51:32 +0530

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Alice went on: `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’

`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.

`I don’t much care where—’ said Alice.

`Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.

`—so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.

`Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.’

”

- Alice in Wonderland

"People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. The confusion in this world is that..."

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:31:13 +0530

“People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. The confusion in this world is that people are being used and things are being loved.”

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"Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural..."

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:32:36 +0530

“Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us.”

- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders...."

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:38:21 +0530

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think (is..."

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:52:09 +0530

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think (is what) we become.”

- Buddha

"Jez: She’s the one person for me, in the whole world. Mark: Isn’t it convenient that..."

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:56:51 +0530

“

Jez: She’s the one person for me, in the whole world.

Mark: Isn’t it convenient that out of the approximately three billion adult women in the world, your one true love happens to live in the same block of flats as you instead of in a village in Mozambique?

”

- Peep Show

"Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:09:07 +0530

“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”

- Spanish Proverb

"The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it."

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:04:34 +0530

“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Choose Life Intro - Trainspotting

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:45:41 +0530

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Choose Life Intro - Trainspotting

"Isn’t it funny? You hear a phone ring, and it could be anybody…but a ringing phone has..."

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:34:00 +0530

““Isn’t it funny? You hear a phone ring, and it could be anybody…but a ringing phone has to be answered, doesn’t it?”

- The Caller - Phone Booth

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All..."

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:51:08 +0530

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

- Hermann Goering

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:19:20 +0530

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

- Peter Drucker