What's the underrated quote that will stick with you for life?
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Oof. I felt that.
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I told you I was ill vibes
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Douglas Adams was a gift to humanity.
"See first, think later, then test. But always see first" is a good one. -
It's all so tiresome - Lao Yang in the 2011 documentary Empire of Dust
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"republicans are pussies" - me. thanks
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No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
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"You know, sweetheart, if there's one thing I've learned, it's this: nobody knows what's gonna happen at the end of the line, so you might as well enjoy the trip."
Manny Calavera -
I love that movie. Super disappointed that the pig was essentially a baby. They didn't have a adult pig in that movie to showcase how big they get.
I wanted a pig as a pet but the smallest pigs are 150 lbs!
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"Who I am is where I stand.
Where I stand is where I fall."
-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who
I have a lot of darkness in my head due to my upbringing. I'll never get it out. That doesn't stop me from being a good man, because who you are and what you'll be remembered as isn't your internal struggle, its what you chose to stand for in practice.
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"Trust no one - not even yourself"
My dad told me this while going through a divorce. He was also going through a criminal trial due to his deviance.
Its one thing that stuck with me and I wish it didn't.
Another one is from Lenin: " 'There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens' and 'Weeks Where Decades Happen' "
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Props to you for actually attributing the quote to the writer and not the character. It's a pet peeve of mine when people take profound sounding quotes and attribute it to a fictional character that never existed, never had real thoughts or opinions of their own
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I am reminded of:
"The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."The lesser known conclusion to Wilhoits Law.
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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Even if its not straigh up made up, data can be easily manipulated by omission of other data, disingenous presentation (countries military spending graphs for example), outdated methodology, or straigh up meaningless indexes (freedom index lmao).
There are just way too many ways to manipulate data to paint a narrative.
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Thank you! I try to, even though at the end of the day the best you can do is the show runner that signed off on it, as you'll never really know who invented it in the writer's room.
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"Nobody will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself"
Apply this to pushing back on contracts, double checking what you're asked to do, and putting yourself first, and you'll get a lot more respect in my experience. If you primarily put others first, your self will feel neglected. It doesn't mean you should not care for others, but that your highest priority should be yourself, and then others.
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I agree it's good to credit a writer, but the attribution should also include the character so the quote has context. For example, I would want there to be a distinction between a comment I made in real life and a line I wrote for a psychotic character to say.
