QUOTES

"You can measure the size of a man by the size of the things that bother him." -Adlai E. Stevenson

"Better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it." -Apparently a lot of smart people

"Those who seem heartless once felt too much." -More smart people

"When is freedom NOT the answer? When has someone said "Gee wouldn't life be better for us if our freedoms were taken away?" No one said that, ever. Now the first argument is that "we can't have unlimited freedoms like the freedom to kill and rape anyone we want". Well isn't killing and raping taking peoples freedoms away? So I take it back, the only freedom you can't have is the freedom to take the freedom of others away, which in my mind should not even be considered a freedom at all." -Youtube comment

"Neurolinguist Robert Anton Wilson gave a lecture wherein he address what Bill Burr comments on, which is content vs context. Basically, how people can say hateful/stupid things, but if they avoid offensive words, they get away with it, while someone else could have a neutral/friendly comment, but use the wrong word, and it becomes offensive. He used the example: "San Francisco has become a Mecca for homosexual migration" vs "San Francisco is full of fags". The first has no bad words, but implies homosexuals are migratory creatures, and links them with Islam- a link neither group would appreciate. The second uses the wrong word, but is otherwise just factual. I've heard other great examples of this concept, and a recent was one "As a CIS white male, I believe our gender-normative relationships deserve more consideration than others, as we are able to procreate" vs "Let fags marry; what's the problem? Are you afraid that you might be queer, and its too much temptation?" The first is actually against gay marriage, but avoids buzz words that are deemed offensive, and actually goes out of the way to use the "appropriate" words. The second again uses bad words, but is actually in support of gay marriage. The particular words do not make it hatespeech in my mind- it is the context/meaning behind the words. Living in the South, I know a few open-minded red-necks, who use words now deemed offensive, but are generally supportive of the groups that those words are meant to target. They might call Obama "colored", but in the context of praising him. They might say "queer", but they genuinely support gay equality. I get what they are trying to say, even if they are not quite as eloquent as others. And all too often, those who are good with language use it to disguise their hateful intent. Context over content, people- don't be fooled." -Youtube Comment

“I exhort you not to attend this training, Don’t lay waste your time by doing so. It’ll be, I predict with confidence, intellectually flaccid: there’ll be bromides, cliches, and amen-corner rah-rahs in plenty. When (if) it gets beyond that, its illiberal roots and totalitarian tendencies will show.” -Prof. Paul Griffiths

"If you go to a restaurant, and the food you get sucks and you hate it and it's disgusting, you don't ask the chef to apologize. You just go to a different restaurant." -Bill Burr

"Strong men create good times. Good times breed weak men. Weak men create rough times. Rough times breed Strong men." -The Forging of Men (Youtube)

"Facts don't care about your feelings." -Ben Shapiro

"If you choose to ignore evidence, then you can be safely ignored." -Skallagrim

"Do not argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -Greg King

"It is sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity." -Cato the Elder

"A play with a sad ending doesn't make it a bad ending…the people are miserable and when they see a happy ending they wish their lives were like those of the characters. They want a life where everything is light hearted and happy, but you and I know that that is not reality. Sure, they enjoyed the story, and yes it was funny and nice, but it isn't personal. So…give the crowd a story. One where the characters are lovable or hated or anything else, and tell a tale that they can enjoy. Then…when it's all over, give them an ending that they can relate to. A sad one that reminds them of their own lives...because in that moment they can see themselves as the character. They see their own stories up on that stage, and that moment fills them with something no other play can. It reminds them that they are all players in their own stories, and they aren't insignificant in the least even if they are living tragedies of their own." -Gone Wanderlust

"When social-justice progressives on college campuses call for peers to be punished, socially or administratively, for “microaggressions,” like saying the word “fútbol” instead of soccer, or donning a tiny sombrero at a tequila party, or chalking Trump 2016 on a sidewalk, I wonder if part of what’s going on is that the punishment-seekers are saying, “That’s prejudiced” or “That’s racist,” and meaning, “That’s racist, the category that we all agree should be maximally stigmatized.” Whereas their critics reply, “No, that isn’t racist,” or “You’re wrong,” meaning not that the behavior at issue is or isn’t coherently objectionable in a way worth interrogating, but that, “Right or wrong, that behavior clearly doesn’t fall into the category of things that should, almost all of us have agreed, be maximally stigmatized.” -Conor Friedersdorf

"If you fall, I will be there." -Floor

"People are shallow, and they don't look past what they first see. They make snap judgments and then don't look any further." -Markiplier

"Always deny the apocalypse, because when you're wrong nobody will be around to say 'I told you so'." -Charlieissocoollike

"If you can't blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." -W.C Fields

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." -W.C. Fields

"Don't try and prove what you believe, try to disprove it." -Basic Scientific Theory

"More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag [non-hitch hiker] discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have 'lost'. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with." -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse." -The Litany of Gendlin

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is the first law of equivalent exchange." -Fullmetal Alchemist

"I believe in everything and nothing, so I cannot be fooled." -Richard Feynman

"It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?" -John Lennon

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." -John Lennon

"It's not the bullet that has your name on it you have to worry about...it's all those other ones marked 'To whom it may concern.'" -Greg Rucka/Murphy's Bullet

"Never dare tell me again anything about 'green grass.' Tell me how the lawn was flecked with shadows. I know perfectly well that grass is green. So does everybody else in England...Make me see what it was that made your garden distinct from a thousand others." -Robert Louis Stevenson

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” - Albert Einstein

"If you think you have problems in mathematics I can assure you mine are still greater." -Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Einstein

"The sky looks blue because we want it to." -Farrah YonDale from Transistor

"You don't understand. I am not locked in here with you. You are locked in here with me." -Rorschach

"Beware the fury of a patient man."-John Dryden

“Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable ... your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers - and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.” -Richard Silken from Black Telephone

"Oomans are pink and soft, not tough and green like da Boyz. They'z all the same size too, so they'z always arguing about who's in charge, 'cos no way of telling 'cept fer badges an' ooniforms and fings. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it. Wot a lot of mukkin' about if yer asks me. An' while they'z all arguing wiv each other over who's da boss, da Orks can clobber da lot" -Snotgrub from Warhammer 40k

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward

"If I could hire a busy man or a lazy man, I would hire the lazy man. Because the lazy man will always find an easier way to do things." -Steve Jobs

"Lead me not into temptation for I can find it myself." -Rita Rae Brown

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Don't touch the phlebotinum!" -David Greenwalt

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad-hoc plot device." -David Langford

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” -Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." -Epicurus

"Feelins'? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes that bludgeon their wife to death with a golf trophy. Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet." -The Sniper

"Time you've enjoyed wasting was not wasted." -Marthe TrolyCurtin

"In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson." -Tom Bodett

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -Phillip K. Dick

"Much learning does not teach understanding." -Heraclitus

"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued." -Thomas H. Huxley

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." -Shakespeare

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." -Shakespeare (Macbeth)

"Dear Shakespeare, Poetic talent is very easy to fake, when thy sentences doth no fukin sense make." -An unconvinced English student.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die…” -H.P. Lovecraft

"But I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest—the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind." -H.P. Lovecraft

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." -Mark Twain

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." -Captain Jack Sparrow

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." -Albert Camus

"People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel." ―Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain

"Reality continues to ruin my life." -Calvin and Hobbes

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” -Dr.Suess

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default." -J.K. Rowling

"I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise, and pretending that I don't exist." -Harry Potter

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -Terry Pratchett (Paraphrased from teach a man to fish)

"Look underneath the underneath." -Hatake Kakashi

"Nothing is true, Everything is permitted. Our Creed does not command us to be free. It commands us to be wise. To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic."" -Assassin's Creed

"Reality is just a crappy game. There's no way to know the rules or the goal. There are 7 billion players making whatever moves they want. If you lose too much or win too much there are penalties. You can't pass your turn. If you talk too much, you'll be kicked. There are no rules and no way to even know the genre." -{Blank} no game no life

"Reality may just be a crappy game, but If a crappy game can have an ideal ending then there may be an ideal route in the real world for me to discover." -The world god only knows

"People use their limited awareness to define "reality". But what does it mean to be "real"? Merely a vague concept… their "reality" may all be an illusion, Everyone lives in their own world, separated by their own beliefs." -Uchiha Itachi

"There's no 'I' in team? Well there's no 'you' in team either! So if I'm not on the team and you're not on the team than nobody is on the God damn team! The team sucks!" -RvB

"People who don’t work hard don’t have the right to be envious of people with talent. People fail because they don’t understand the hard work necessary to be successful." -Yukinoshita Yukino

"It's my policy not to dwell on the past. If I did my life would seriously be like a sea of pitch black gloom." -Hachiman Hikigaya

"Saying “I can change myself” is just admitting defeat in order to adapt to this cold cruel world, so that you can be its slave. It’s no more than a basis for deceiving yourself and decorating it with pretty words." -Hachiman Hikigaya

"Youth is a hoax. It’s evil. People who make a big deal of their “youth”, are just inviting trouble. They try to keep everything going on around them. For them, if there’s something that has to do with their “youth”, they jump at it without a second thought. From normal daily life, to rebelling against the view of society. If you fall in with them – lies, secrets, failure, and even crimes await you. But for them, it’s just a spice of life. And if failure is also a mark of “youth”, then isn’t it ironic, that a person who failed to make any friends, is also technically leading his “youth”? Though I wonder if they would agree. Everything runs on their schedule. Let me be clear. The people who enjoy their “youth”, will eventually fall apart." -Hachiman Hikigaya

"'The important thing is to take part.' Famous words spoken by Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin during a speech. However, this quote tends to be frequently misused and serves as kind of a threat to force participation. There are tons of wild-goose chases in this world, you know. If the most important thing is to take part, then surely one could find meaning in not taking part as well. And if everything’s worth experiencing, then there’s little doubt that the feeling of not experiencing something is, in itself, worth experiencing. In fact, you could even call it a valuable experience to not experience something everyone else does." -Hachiman Hikigaya

"To win, but not destroy. To conquer, but not humiliate. That is true conquest!" -Iskander the Great from Fate/Zero

“Everyone gets what they want most, I can’t think of anything more terrifying.” -Marquis from Worm

“That’s the funny thing about pity, Saint. It’s condescending by default.” -Worm

“Things become a great deal easier once you realize how temporary it all is.” -Worm

“Groups of people who take up the entire sidewalk so you have to step onto the road to go around them are a definite pet peeve of mine. Oblivious people who block the entire sidewalk and walk slowly enough that you’re forced to dawdle, yet fast enough that you can’t walk around them? They make me fantasize about bringing swarms of bees down on their heads. Not that I would actually do it, of course.” -Worm

“According to studies, clinically depressed individuals have a more accurate grasp of reality than the average person. We tell ourselves lies and layer falsehoods and self-assurances over one another in order to cope with a world colored by pain and suffering. We put blinders on. If we lose that illusion, we crumble into depression or we crack and go mad. So perhaps I’m crazy, but only because I see things too clearly?” -Worm

"Contrary to popular opinion, Skitter does not enjoy killing people. Contrary to your current opinion, this makes her more scary, not less." -Worm (Tv tropes)

"I think I'm afraid to be happy. Because when I get too happy something bad always happens." -Charlie Brown

"I don't want to be a good man. I want to be a great one." -OZ

"When they ask me what’s better than sex, I tell them world domination." -Anon on Tumbler

"I never got this. Ye can face down a flippin' demon an' everybody goes 'Yeah, but who d'ye want to kiss?'" - Jack in Widdershins

"Is e ‘n t-ionnsachadh òg an t-ionnsachadh bòidheach." -Irish Proverb Translated: 'The learning in youth is the pretty learning'

"Na toilich do mhiann gus am feuch thu do sporan." -Irish Proverb Translated: 'Check your purse before you please yourself.'

"Cha tèid nì sam bith san dòrn dùinte." -Irish Proverb Translated: 'Nothing can get into a closed fist.'

"Nì òigear leisg bodach brisg." -Irish Proverb Translated: 'A lazy youth will make an active old man.'

"Cha sgal cù roimh chnàimh." -Irish Proverb Translated: 'A dog yells not when hit with a bone.'

"Agus d'fhéadfadh do naimhde a fhoghlaim a eagla d'ainm." -Irish Proverb Translated: 'And may your enemies learn to fear your name.'

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." -Voltaire

"To find out who rules you. Find the people you may not criticize." -Voltaire

"I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it." - Edgar Allen Poe

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Bill Watterson

"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"One does not just randomly select a question or 2 and try to get them wrong. No. Nor do you do it to every 4th question or some other such ridiculous, predictable pattern like that. The key lies in, like all things, strategy. You need to choose ahead of time a subject or 2 you're awful at, a few you're neutral, and 1 you're good at. Then whenever you get homework, consistently get the same basic principals wrong, and get it wrong on the test as well. Also, you have to make a show of not paying attention in class, or else suspicions will be raised, and you'll be given a special "learning disability," and assigned a tutor pronto."

-My Stupid Reality by Twisted Grim

“Will you walk into my parlor?” said the Spider to the Fly,
'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy;
The way into my parlor is up a winding stair,
And I've a many curious things to show when you are there.”

“Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain,
For who goes up your winding stair
can ne'er come down again."

“I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high;
Will you rest upon my little bed?” said the Spider to the Fly.
“There are pretty curtains drawn around; the sheets are fine and thin,
And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in!”

“Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “for I've often heard it said,
They never, never wake again, who sleep upon your bed!”

Said the cunning Spider to the Fly, “Dear friend what can I do,
To prove the warm affection I've always felt for you?
I have within my pantry, good store of all that's nice;
I'm sure you're very welcome — will you please to take a slice?”

“Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “kind Sir, that cannot be,
I've heard what's in your pantry, and I do not wish to see!”

“Sweet creature!” said the Spider, “you're witty and you're wise,
How handsome are your gauzy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!
I've a little looking-glass upon my parlor shelf,
If you'll step in one moment, dear, you shall behold yourself.”

“I thank you, gentle sir,” she said, “for what you're pleased to say,
And bidding you good morning now, I'll call another day.”

The Spider turned him round about, and went into his den,
For well he knew the silly Fly would soon come back again:
So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner sly,
And set his table ready, to dine upon the Fly.

Then he came out to his door again, and merrily did sing,
“Come hither, hither, pretty Fly, with the pearl and silver wing;
Your robes are green and purple — there's a crest upon your head;
Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead!”

Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little Fly,
Hearing his wily, flattering words, came slowly flitting by;
With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew,
Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue —
Thinking only of her crested head — poor foolish thing!
At last,
Up jumped the cunning Spider, and fiercely held her fast.
He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den,
Within his little parlor — but she ne'er came out again!

And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you never give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

-The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt

Do not trouble with the Mods,

As while they are not really Gods,

Their magic powers are quite Grand,

And you will probably be Banned.

-Random Internet Poem talking about administrators by Somebody

I've got no strings
To hold me down
To make me fret, or make me frown
I had strings
But now I'm free
There are no strings on me

Hi-ho the me-ri-o
That's the only way to be
I want the world to know
Nothing ever worries me

I've got no strings
So I have fun
I'm not tied up to anyone
They've got strings
But you can see
There are no strings on me

-There are no strings on me by Pinocchio

He that complies against his will

Is of his own opinion still

Which he may adhere to, yet disown,

For reasons to himself best known

- Hudibras. Part III, Canto iii, lines 547-550 by Samuel Butler

I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us—if at all—not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer—

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

-The Hollow Men by T.S. Ellliot

Hero number one put up a valiant fight
But could not hope to dodge the giant fuckin knight
Hero number two fought calmly, feeling bored
Till death came swiftly by an electric sword
Hero number three was cautious, cold, and calm
His cold caution was unfrozen with a burning firebomb
Hero number four was bold, but not too smart or clever
He saw the Dragonrider true, but not the small safe lever
A very creepy monster lunged at hero number five
There is no way in hell he could have gotten out alive
Hero number six was tough, but couldn't safely weather
A pair of sentries that were fighting glued together
Hero number seven bought a pricey spell
A rabid pack of dogs sent him straight to hell
Hero number eight was feeling pretty crummy
He never got around to backstabbing that moaning mummy
Hero number nine fought for long and hard
The flying shield caught him quite off guard
The death of hero number ten was hated
For the monster he was fighting he underestimated
Then hero number eleven dies
At the bonfire of sinner's rise
Twelve died not a whole lot later
When he stepped off the elevator
Thirteen thought himself devoted
A goofy zombie soon exploded
Fourteen, still, was not a winner
He tried to heal at the lost sinner
At last one of them felt whole
As fifteen claimed the old one's soul
He allowed himself a moment's glee
before setting off for the other three
After some time had passed
Death had more dice to cast
We get to hero number thirty three
He was clobbered by a walking tree
Hero number thirty four
Did not even reach the door
Hero number thirty five
Opened a chest that was alive
Hero number thirty six
Fell before a wizard's tricks
Hero number thirty seven
Now resides in hero heaven
Hero number thirty eight
He saw the boulder just too late
And hero number thirty nine
Was impaled by Ornstein
Hero number forty, well...
Suicide by cliff is how he fell
You'll soon be breathing your last breath
This isn't life, it's living death
And although you've only just begun
You'll soon be hero number forty one

-Hero number forty one by MattheJ1

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

-Invictus by William Ernest Hentley

I must not fear
Fear is the mind-killer
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration
I will face my fear
I will permit it to pass over me and through me
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing
Only I will remain

-Litany against fear by Frank Herbert's Dune

One day a boy is abandoned by his family deep in the woods. A draught destroyed their crops and they could not feed themselves and the boy. The father carried him there whilst the boy slept, the mother and sister following close behind. They leave him at the base of a tree and hurry away. The Boy wakes and quickly realizes what has happened.

He does not cry.

The boy begins to walk. He follows no path, for there are no paths in the deep wood. Humans rarely venture there for it is the territory of the wolves. The boy walks, and as the sun sets he grows hungry. The boy comes across an owl sitting in a tree, eating a rat. He calls out to the owl. “Oh Owl, won’t you share your meal with me?” The owl peers at the boy. “No, I will not. My beak is sharp and my talons will tear. Leave, or I will make you my supper!” The boy walks away.

He soon comes across a snake slung across a branch, eating a frog. “Oh Snake, won’t you share your meal with me?” The snake sneers at the boy. “I shan’t, I say. My bite is deadly and my coils constrict. Leave of I will make you my supper!” The boy walks away.

He soon comes across a wolf that hunches over three bodies, its snout buried in their flesh. The boy moves closer and sees that the bodies are his father, mother and sister, their throats torn out. He calls out to the wolf.

“Oh Wolf, won’t you share your meal with me?”

-The Boy and the Wolf by Nythtak

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

-Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude.

-Culture vs. Kultur: Thoughts on Orkish Society by Uthan the Perverse, a controversial Eldar philosopher

"From a young age people are forced to work in groups. In school, at work, and at home. People are forced to rely on others for everything and they flail around in confusion and fear when they are left alone long enough. Teamwork is fine, but you should be able to stand up by yourself before helping someone else." -DogNaps

"In most social situations it actually pays off to have the 'clueless and socially inept' reputation. It causes people to explain things concisely and increases efficiency significantly. In layman's terms... Acting like an idiot can open a surprising amount of doors." -DogNaps

"If you suck at the game, it's usually because you suck at the game. Not because the game sucks. The game doesn't suck, you suck." -DogNaps

"I don't escape into my fantasies because they are kinder to me than reality, that would be so horribly cliche. I escape into them because they have more variety." -DogNaps

"You always need to have an easily accessible leash for other people to use. That way, when they try to lead you off a cliff you can slip out of it and shove them off instead." -Naruto fanfic (Trying to find it)

"Grab the Lantern... Please." -Thresh

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