Inspirational quotes.

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Aug 10 2010, 2:22 pm
If you know the context of this one, you'll appreciate it.

"This is no time to make new enemies."
-Voltaire
Aug 10 2010, 2:31 pm
Vermolius wrote:
Toadfish wrote:
I don't think it's circular, Verm :P
-- Me again.

Maybe, until you realize that beating others is an achievement if you view it that way.

Aye, then it's circular. But I think the author was looking at achievements as being something personal, rather than something interpersonal, if that makes sense...

Aug 10 2010, 2:33 pm
"Why do people troll great quotes?" - EnigmaticGallivanter
Aug 10 2010, 2:37 pm
Toadfish wrote:
Aye, then it's circular. But I think the author was looking at achievements as being something personal, rather than something interpersonal, if that makes sense...

It makes some sense, yes, but what is the point in living in such a secluded self-centered way?
Aug 10 2010, 2:37 pm
I think the quote itself can be taken as clarifying the difference between achievements, which the author claims are objective, and competitiveness. Whether it's self-centered... well I'd say Ayn Rand's philosophy pretty much was, from what I know of it.
Aug 10 2010, 2:37 pm
EnigmaticGallivanter wrote:
"Why do people troll great quotes?" - EnigmaticGallivanter

Quotes that suggest selfishness, and lack depth, meaning, and general moral justification are not great.

Rand is a nutsack.
-me
Aug 10 2010, 4:32 pm
I like the second one from the bottom.. About leisure time. The best of ideas come from leisure as well, because leisure isnt as easily stunted by what seems currently applicable. I learn more from classes by enjoying it.. It always allows me to see things in a new light.

Haha.. Like today I applied combination's to binomials.. Binomial Theorem is very interesting, I try imagining each "power" as signifying another dimension and define the space inbetween units as "spots".. Very fun way of thinking of it.

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live."

That one is nice too, I can definitely relate to it.

Then again.. Poetry, quotes, etc are usually rhetoric, and can be torn apart if one really attempted. I just love taking what I want from em and leaving.. :P
Aug 10 2010, 8:18 pm
"Circular logic is circular."

-Vermolius , this made my day.
Aug 11 2010, 2:35 am
"...Or should I?"
- Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Aug 11 2010, 1:15 pm
Naokohiro wrote:
"...Or should I?"
- Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Now I'd like to hear the context of that.
Aug 17 2010, 4:05 pm
Toadfish wrote:
Naokohiro wrote:
"...Or should I?"
- Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Now I'd like to hear the context of that.

http://kylemonk.tumblr.com/post/499171255/ i-thought-what-id-do-was-id-pretend-i-was-one
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