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You are born as freedom. It is just that you have been conditioned to forget it.

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

 No.12157

These are Freedom Quotes that have already been used in theNotificationarea on FreedomZine:

ENJOY!

Freedom is your birthright, however many people become enslaved by the life of mediocrity.

May these quotes inspire you to be free within yourself and live a life you are proud to live…

> “Freedom has a way of destroying things.”

― Scott Westerfeld, Impostors

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> “Freedom is to know that you are free.”

― Valeria Teles

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> "I am homesick for a place where silence is the only language, love is the only religion, and freedom is not something to be fought for…”

― Samiha Totanji

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> “There is an intrinsic connection between discipline and freedom that affects us in many aspects of our lives.”

― Ernest Cadorin, The Arrows of Zen

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> “Emotions have to go to maturity. Only a mature emotion bears fruits.”

― Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

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> “When a thing becomes indispensable it's time to give it up.”

― Marty Rubin

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> “Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.”

― Jeffrey Borenstein

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> "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

~ H. L. Mencken

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> "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

~ Thomas Paine

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> "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

~ George Bernard Shaw

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> "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

~ Voltaire

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> "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

~ John F. Kennedy

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> "No man is good enough to be another's master."

~ William Morris

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> "Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery."

~ W. E. B. Du Bois

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> "Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day."

~ John Ralston Saul

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> "Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."

~ Robert McNamara

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> "Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."

~ Hunter S. Thompson

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> "Freedom is from within."

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

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> "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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> "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."

~ Soren Kierkegaard

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> "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

~ Albert Camus

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> "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."

~ Benjamin Franklin

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>"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

~ Aldous Huxley

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> “The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.”

― M.T. Dismuke

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> “Freedom… expensive as jewels, cheap as parchment.”

― Tony Del Degan, The Plight of Steel

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> “They will say you're useless, if they can't use you.”

― Marty Rubin

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> “Until you know your true nature, life will not give you a real sense of living.”

― Shiva Negi, Freedom of Life

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> “In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.”

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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> “All too often, a wise or free person is ridiculed, because of ignorance, by fools or slaves.”

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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> “One of the main differences between a slave and an employee is that the employee sold themselves.”

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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> “True friends don't come with conditions.”

― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

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> “Some rules exist only to control someone.”

― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Rage and Ruin

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> “There is something worse than being ignored – not being ignored.”

― Marty Rubin

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> “Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.”

― Janosch

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> “Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.”

― Marty Rubin

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> “Caged birds grow the most colourful wings.”

― Laura Chouette

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> “I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another. Don't look for me!”

― Zadie Smith, NW

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> “Too little freedom is captivity, too much freedom is chaos.”

― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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> “Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.”

― D.J. Niko, The Tenth Saint

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> "The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.”

― Victor Pelevin, The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

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> “At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”

― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

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> “Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.”

― John Kremer

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> “The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.”

― Marty Rubin

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> “It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.”

― Jean Paul Sartre

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> “It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.”

― Chinonye J. Chidolue

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> “Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.”

― Marty Rubin

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> "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

~ George Orwell

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> "Ahh, the FREEDOM of Tor"

~ `'Just-Kiss-It'` (2020-12-10)

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> “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.”

– Thucydides

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> “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

– Bob Marley

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> “Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.”

– General John Stark

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> “It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”

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> “True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.”

– Dada Vaswani

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> “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”

– Rosa Luxemburg

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> “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

– Thomas Jefferson

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> “One of the greatest mental freedoms is truly not caring what anyone else thinks of you.”

– Anonymous

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> “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”

– Anonymous

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> “Freedom is being you without anyone’s permission.”

– Anonymous

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> "Let go of your story so the universe can write a new one for you.”

– Marianne Williamson

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> "“Freedom is found when we let go of who we’re supposed to be and embrace who we really are.”

– Anonymous

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> “Freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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> “On the other side of fear lies freedom.”

– Anonymous

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> “There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

– Anonymous

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> “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

– Bob Marley

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> “Freedom is never given; it is won.”

– A. Philip Randolph

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> “He who gives his freedom for safety gets none of them.”

– Thomas Jefferson

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> “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

– Bob Dylan

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> “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

– William Faulkner

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> “Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.”

– Anonymous

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> “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

― George Washington

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> "Use your fear… It can take you to a place where you store your courage."

― Amelia Earhart

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> "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."

― Max Lerner

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> "Men Argue, Nature Acts."

― Voltaire

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> "Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."

― Hunter S. Thompson

< worth using again…

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> “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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> “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

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> “The world could end and he would find a way to keep reading”

— Samantha Shannon

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> Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

— Lynn Nottage (but she stole it from an old Malayan Proverb I heard as a kid in Malaysia.)

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> An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

— Winston Churchill

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> "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people"

— John Adams

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> You are born as freedom. It is just that you have been conditioned to forget it.

— Osho

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 No.18580

File: 1a5891155567cc0⋯.png (2.81 MB,1920x1080,16:9,2022_09_23_TV_Chewing_Gum_….png)

I like to use the `Variety` Wallpaper-Changer on Linux. I also like to use the following Python Script which you can put in ~/.config/variety/plugins/quotes

Remember to make it executable! ( chmod +x fortune_variety_quotes.py )

# First be sure that `fortune-mod` is installed, and in your PATH

(You might want to grab some of the `fortune-mod` collections that appeal to you while you're there looking at packages in whatever Linux Package Manager you're using. Example: `fortune-mod-dhammapada` )

# Copy this file to ~/.config/variety/plugins/quotes

# Then Restart `variety` andENJOY!

I'll be leaving another script which I wrote and show what it can do in relation to this one shortly.

fortune_variety_quotes.py


#!/usr/bin/python

from variety.plugins.IQuoteSource import IQuoteSource
import subprocess, re
from locale import gettext as _

class FortuneSource(IQuoteSource):
@classmethod
def get_info(cls):
return {
"name": "Fortunes",
"description": _("Displays quotes using the UNIX fortune program"),
"author": "Dan Jones",
"version": "0.1"
}

def supports_search(self):
return False

def get_random(self):
fortune = subprocess.check_output(['fortune'])
q = fortune.split('--')
quote = q[0].strip()
if len(q) > 1:
s = q[1].strip()
m = re.search('(.+), +"?(.+)"?',s)
if m:
author = m.group(1)
sourceName = m.group(2)
else:
author = s
sourceName = None
else:
author = None
sourceName = None

r = {
"quote": quote,
"author": author,
"sourceName": sourceName,
"link": None
}

return [r]

def get_for_author(self, author):
return []

def get_for_keyword(self, keyword):
return []

### Read Me
#
# First be sure that fortune is installed and in your PATH
# Copy this file to ~/.config/variety/plugins/quotes
# Restart variety
#
###
#
# Gist: https://gist.github.com/goodevilgenius/3878ce0f3e232e3daf5c
#
### BEGIN LICENSE
# Copyright (c) 2014 Dan Jones
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
# THE SOFTWARE.
### END LICENSE

> screenshot related. My Desktop, using `variety`, `fortune-mod` (and I grabbed some of the mod collections that I like!) and used them together with this Python Script, and it works on any Linux Distro!

You too can do it!

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 No.18581

File: 669fd26019a5af0⋯.png (1.38 MB,1920x1080,16:9,2022_09_23_I_am_my_Greates….png)

>>18580

Yeah, I know.

Pretty Cool, right?

But ya know what would even be cooler?

Yeah, I know.

You probably haven't even done that yet, so you don't even know that you can Save, not only your "Favorite Wallpapers", but you can also Save your "Favorite Quotes" when you see them, after running the above script. Of course, it doesn't save them in a very presentable format, nor would a normie know where to go to find said favorite quotes, so I wrote a simple shell script using `sed` that will slap an updated `favorite_quotes.txt` file in your Home Folder and also Print it out in Terminal every time you run it in a Linux Terminal of your choice.''ENJOY!

(Be sure to place this Script in Your PATH and make it executable. `chmod +x fave_quotes.sh` )

(I usually keep all my scripts in a hidden folder in Home called `~/.bin`, but you do you!)

`fave_quotes.sh`


#!/bin/bash
### For Copying & Better Presenting the `~/.config/variety/favorite_quotes.txt` File…
cp ~/.config/variety/favorite_quotes.txt ~ && sed -i 's/%/_________\n/g;s/--/—/g' ~/favorite_quotes.txt && cat ~/favorite_quotes.txt
#######
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# `'Just-Kiss-It'`

Here is a Semi-Regularly Updated Output From When I Personally Run the Script…

⫖⫸➤ `fave_quotes.sh`

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

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“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

— Samuel Johnson

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“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”

— Enrico Fermi

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Prunes give you a run for your money.

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“Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.”

— Sidney J. Harris

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“If you can’t control your sexuality, you will have a hard time maintaining your sensuality.

One of my favorite quotes is by Robert Farrar Capon when he says we are given appetites, not to consume the world, but to taste its goodness.”

— Lebo Grand

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Washington, D.C: Fifty square miles almost completely surrounded by reality.

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“Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.”

— Chuck Sigars

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“I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.”

— Fran Lebowitz

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“Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible.”

— Paul Klee

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Weiler's Law:

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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“Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.”

— Jim Horning

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Sooner or later you must pay for your sins.

(Those who have already paid may disregard this cookie).

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“When there are more people who hate than people who love, then there are wars, which make hate grow until it destroys everything.”

— Mario Escobar

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philosophy:

The ability to bear with calmness the misfortunes of our friends.

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

— Rudyard Kipling

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“I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.”

— James Lileks

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Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

— Nelson Algren

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“The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.”

— Bill Hicks

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“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

— John Herschel

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“We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.”

— Francis J. Braceland

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“A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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“So come to the pond,

or the river of your imagination,

or the harbor of your longing,

and put your lips to the world.

And live

your life.”

— Mary Oliver

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“If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.”

— Lucretius

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“Do your best to defeat the enemy inside you and you will find yourself winning the heart of your external enemy.”

— Srinivas Mishra

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No motorized vehicles allowed.

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“I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.”

— Kathryn L. Nelson

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“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

— Horace Walpole

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“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”

— Judith Martin

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“Lots of people say they believe in karma. Most of them just believe in revenge.”

— Chris Bonnello

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“To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.”

— Corita Kent

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“This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”

— Bertrand Russell

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It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another

— but which one? Differences are crucial.

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“If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched her

maybe you should take a looks at your hands.”

— Kaija Sabbah

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Some days you wake and immediately start worrying. Nothing in

particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning

quietly and there will be trouble.

— "Survival Series", Jenny Holzer

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“Rigidity is bondage that keeps you from realizing your true capacity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY.

There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong.

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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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G. B. Shaw's Law:

Those who can

— do.

Those who can't

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“Nihilism is best done by professionals.”

— Iggy Pop

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“Every disordered soul is its own punishment.”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

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“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”

— Peter McWilliams

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When the sun shineth, make hay.

— John Heywood

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“Without struggle, success has no value.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

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“When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.”

— Chris Kraus

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“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.”

— Johnny Carson

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“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”

— Michael Crichton

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“The day that I realized they were the same thing; the problems I hated dealing with and the opportunities I needed so desperately to uncover. Leading people to success became realistic for me. Problems are opportunities SHOUTING at you!”

— T Jay Taylor

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“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”

— Charles Lindbergh

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Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject

— the actual enemy is the unknown.

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“Creativity is impossible unless existing rules are broken. Let's break some.”

— Ted Agon

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“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”

— Garrison Keillor

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The early bird gets the coffee left over from the night before.

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“Tomorrow will be a culmination of all my today’s, not an escape from them.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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“The ones who know can’t tell us, and the ones who tell us don’t know.”

— Laini Taylor

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“I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.”

— Colleen Wainwright

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“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

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“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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"Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all…."

— Thomas J. Kopp

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You are not dead yet. But watch for further reports.

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“Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.”

— Sunday Adelaja

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“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”

— Marcel Duchamp

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progress, n.:

Medieval man thought disease was caused by invisible demons

invading the body and taking possession of it.

Modern man knows disease is caused by microscopic bacteria

and viruses invading the body and causing it to malfunction.

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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“I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. ”

— Ingmar Bergman

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“The world could end and he would find a way to keep reading”

— Samantha Shannon

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A large number of installed systems work by fiat. That is, they work

by being declared to work.

— Anatol Holt

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“it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.”

— gertrude stein

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“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

— R. D. Laing

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“…writing is not a performance but a generosity.”

— Brenda Ueland

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“No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have already set them on a course that gives limited freedom in the choices to be made.”

— J.D. Stroube

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“Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.”

— Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

— E. M. Forster

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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This

is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the

last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give

enough.

— Quentin Crisp, "How to Become a Virgin"

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“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”

— Quentin Crisp

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A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned

things is ample.

— Rebecca West

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“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“How long does one remain in a human life (the other being animal & hell)? As long as he does not take what is not rightfully his.”

— Dada Bhagwan

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“Do you ever think about being with someone but realize it's impossible and then get really sad so you bake a pie instead.”

— Ngozi Ukazu

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“Was it a craving for salt, or for pain?”

— Amy Tan

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“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

— Granville Hicks

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 No.18582

File: d9d2b5431b01b59⋯.gif (56.85 KB,300x100,3:1,YOU_Soros.gif)

>>18581

Another Script is coming!

I think I may share my script for turning any Markdown-formatted document into 8kun-Formatted Text. (You thought I was annoyingly formatting all this shit myself?

Yeah, it'll turn all the "you"s into (((You)))s and all the "JN"s into "Johnny Neptune" s too! I may even add some capability before I share it so that you can create your own substitutions. It would be good script-writing practice for me. I am, however, going to be stuck for a few more months with virtually only one finger poking out of a full-body cast though, so I'll get around to sharing what I can when I can where I can…

''ENJOY!

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 No.38724

>>18582

When I get the time to make it prettier…

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 No.38975

File: 3425bb1702bf111⋯.jpg (42.78 KB,700x390,70:39,Osho_com.jpg)

>>12157

“The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about.

“My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

“It is not a question of getting freedom from something. That freedom will not be freedom, because it is still given to you; there is a cause to it. The thing that you were feeling dependent on is still there in your freedom. You are obliged to it. Without it you would not have been free.

“The freedom to do anything you want is not freedom either, because wanting, desiring to do something, arises out of the mind – and mind is your bondage.

“The true freedom certainly comes after choiceless awareness, but after choiceless awareness the freedom is neither dependent on things nor dependent on doing something. The freedom that follows choiceless awareness is the freedom just to be yourself. And you are yourself already, you are born with it; hence it is not dependent on anything else. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it from you. A sword can cut your head but it cannot cut your freedom, your being.

“It is another way of saying that you are centered, rooted in your natural, existential self. It has nothing to do with outside.

“Freedom from things is dependent on the outside. Freedom to do something is also dependent on the outside. Freedom to be ultimately pure has not to be dependent on anything outside you.

“You are born as freedom. It is just that you have been conditioned to forget it. Layers upon layers of conditionings have made you a puppet. The strings are in somebody else’s hands.

“If you are a Christian, you are a puppet. Your strings are in the hand of a God which does not exist, so just to give you the sense that God exists there are prophets, messiahs, representing God. They represent nobody. They are just egoistic people – and even ego wants to reduce you to a puppet.

“They tell you what to do, they give you the Ten Commandments. They give you your personality – that you are a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, a Mohammedan. They give you your so-called knowledge. And naturally, under the great burden which they start giving you from the very beginning of your childhood, the Himalayan load you are carrying – underneath it, hidden, repressed, is your natural self.

“If you can get rid of all conditionings, if you can think that you are neither a communist nor a fascist, that you are neither a Christian nor a Mohammedan. You were not born a Christian or Mohammedan; you were born just pure, innocent consciousness.

“To be again in that purity, in that innocence, in that consciousness, is what I mean be freedom.

“Freedom is the ultimate experience of life. There is nothing higher than that. And out of freedom many flowers blossom in you.

“Love is the flowering of your freedom.

“Compassion, another flowering of your freedom.

“All that is valuable in life flowers in the innocent, natural state of your being.

“So don’t connect freedom with independence. Independence is naturally from something, from somebody. Don’t connect freedom with doing things that you want to do, because that is your mind, not you. Wanting to do something, desiring to do something, you are in the bondage of your wanting and your desiring.

“But the freedom I have been talking about you simply are – in utter silence, serenity, beauty, bliss.”

― Osho, From Death to Deathlessness, Talk #23

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