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[NF] Quote Thread: Express your feelings or thoughts with a quote

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"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful."
--George E. P. Box

Speaking of models again. I mean, it's trite, but it's a reality I constantly face in my day job. It's readily applicable to our own mental models and to, oh, typology.
 

Vasilisa

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If I have learned anything important over the past six months, it’s probably this: There isn’t any job description, anywhere, that contains everything I want. Nothing encompasses all of my interests. My main creative act (in this stage of my life) is not going to be my writing; rather, it’s going to be piecing together jobs, and projects, and ways of living, so that I can do and be everything that I want. That is how, I think, to win the game—and I definitely feel like I’m playing a weird, capitalist game. It’s so imperative to resist the overwhelming current toward mindless routines, social isolation, and self-segregation.

Arianna Stern
from her blog What the hell, summer spell.
 

Salomé

meh
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The beauty of taking offence is that the threats of the bully can be presented as the protests of the victim so that the ego can bask in virtue while the id exults in aggression. The arbitrariness is also appealing. Anyone can decide to take offence at anything and this ever-present potential creates a climate of fear satisfying to bullies.~M Foley.
 

Jaguar

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Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

— Ernest Hemingway
 
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One of my favorite quotes by my favorite philosopher.

"When, in some dreadful and ghastly dream, we reach the moment of greatest horror, it awakes us; thereby banishing all the hideous shapes that were born of the night. And life is a dream: when the moment of greatest horror compels us to break it off, the same thing happens."

- Arthur Schopenhauer
 

Trance

New member
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Mar 18, 2012
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ENFP
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"I got ninety-nine problems but a bitch ain't one."
 

Cellmold

Wake, See, Sing, Dance
Joined
Mar 23, 2012
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"You can't use weakness as a weapon!"

"It's the only one ive got"

"Why should I yield, then?

"Not yield. Bargain. Deal with me in weakness. Or one day you'll have to bargain with someone in a position of strength. The world changes"
 
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A window to the soul

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"Duct tape is a lot like the Force. It has a Dark Side, it has a Light Side, and it binds the galaxy together…"
 

EJCC

The Devil of TypoC
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
 
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"Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.”
--mr. nietzsche
 

EJCC

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"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all gone to look for America
-- Simon and Garfunkel
 
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A window to the soul

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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
 
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Ginkgo

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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee
 
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Ginkgo

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Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throught the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul. -- Carl Jung
 

EJCC

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All I know is that I don't know!
All I know is that I don't know nothin'!
- Operation Ivy
 
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A window to the soul

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"The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

- Deuteronomy 31:8 -
 

Vasilisa

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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Truman Capote
 
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garbage

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Oh, man. Helen Palmer should be required reading. Seriously, there should be some sort of entrance exam on the Helen Palmer introductory chapters before you're allowed into these forums.

"Typing can set up an unfortunate self-fulfilling prophecy. We may learn to type people and then begin to treat others as caricature composites of a list of type traits, which very effectively reinforces type."
--Helen Palmer

I'd quote her first few chapters if I could.
 

raindancing

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Writing wasn’t easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It’s wonderful!
Virpi Hämeen-Anttila
 
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A window to the soul

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"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop." ~Jack Kerouac, On The Road
 
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