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Somewhat of a quote :lol:

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^ :veryhappy:
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“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the senior prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.”

Frank Zappa - liner notes for song "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" on Freak Out! (1966)
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^^ Zappa rocked, in more ways than one. I don't agree with him 100% (I don't agree with anyone 100%), but I really wish that we lived in a world where people would educate themselves and not follow like sheep.

I love that poster. :lol: It reminded me of this little gem from the current season of Futurama:

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I always liked this one from the Tech Specs of the Transformer's Autobot Metroplex:
Vigilance is the foundation upon which victories are built.
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Reminds me of one of my favorites: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but probably apocryphal; profoundly true, nonetheless.
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I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles
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^ From the same source:

What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

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This thread has been long dormant but I came across this line in a review of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States written by Sam Wineburg several years ago I think is quite profound.

"A history of unalloyed certainties is dangerous because it
invites a slide into intellectual fascism. History as truth, issued
from the left or from the right, abhors shades of gray. It seeks to
stamp out the democratic insight that people of good will can see
the same thing and come to different conclusions. It imputes the
basest of motives to those who view the world from a different
perch. It detests equivocation and extinguishes
perhaps, maybe, might, and the most execrable of them all,
on the other hand. For the truth has no hands.
Such a history atrophies our tolerance for complexity. It makes
us allergic to exceptions to the rule. Worst of all, it depletes the
moral courage we need to revise our beliefs in the face of new
evidence. It ensures, ultimately, that tomorrow we will think
exactly as we thought yesterday—and the day before, and the day
before that."
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Indeed, that describes our current state of extremism well. There can be no discussion or growth when those who disagree are evil incarnate.

We should be making better use of this thread. :lol:
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Not sure if this one is true or not...

A gestapo officer barged into Picasso's apartment in Paris and saw a picture of Guernica and asked. "Did you do that?'
"No," Picasso replied. "You did."
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A good story, if true. But I'd wonder about the circumstances and how Picasso and the painting could survive the experience. :mellow:
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"I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun. God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right. Because it's decent. And above all, it's kind."

- The Doctor
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^ :yes:

I was tempted to post that myself.
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I think it will be my favorite Doctor quote of all time. It's such an elegant statement of a beautiful philosophy, and it very succinctly sums up who the Doctor is.
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