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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

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Jean Cocteau
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We are both the source of the problem and the solution, yet we do not see ourselves in this light...



"That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved."

Matthew Henry
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And do check my "art": Deviant



FernTree's Avatar
Colour out of Time
Thought I'd have some morbid play
and post last gasps on their death's day.


Edward 'Ned' Kelly
1855 - 11th November 1880
Australia's most famous Bushranger and Folk Hero
Fabricated a suit of armour for protection from troopers' lead.
Hanged in Melbourne Goal.
Most popular version - "Such is life"
Version from goal warden - "Ah well, I suppose it has come to this"


John Quincy Adams
11th July 1767 - 23rd February 1848
6th US President
"This is the last of earth! I am content."


Ethan Allen
10th January 1738 - 12th February 1789
American Revolutionary General
Attending doctor - "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."
"Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait."


Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor
19th May 1879 - 2nd May 1964
First woman to serve as a Member of Parliamant in the British House of Commons.
"Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.


Tallulah Bankhead
31st January 1902 - 12th December 1968
Actress
"Codeine . . . Bourbon."


John Sidney Blyth Barrymore
15th February 1882 - 29th May 1942
Actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation.
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."


Ludwig van Beethoven
16th December 1770 - 26th March 1827
Composer
"Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."


Humphrey DeForest Bogart
25th December 1899 - 14th January 1957
Actor
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."


Sir Winston Churchill
30th November 1874 - 24th January 1965
British Prime Minister and Statesman
"I'm bored with it all."
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.


Sir Noel Coward
16th December 1899 - 26th March 1973
Writer, Actor, Composer
"Goodnight my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow."


Joan Crawford
born Lucille Fay LeSueur
23rd March 1905 - 10th May 1977
Actress
"Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me."
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.


Amelia Mary Earhart
24th July 1897 - missing 2nd July 1937 - declared 5th January 1939
Aviatrix, Author, Women's Rights Advocate
First Aviatrix to solo fly across Atlantic
Disappeared attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
"Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."
Last letter to her husband before her last flight.
"KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low."
Last radio communiqué before her disappearance.


Malcolm X
born Malcolm Little aka El-Hagg Malik El-Shabazz
19th May 1925 - 21st February 1965
American Black Muslim Leader
"Let's cool it brothers . . ."
Spoken to his assassins, 3 men who shot him 16 times.


Karl Heinrich Marx
5th May 1818 - 14th March 1883
Philosopher, Revolutionary, Father of Communism
"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.


Anna Pavlovna Pavlova
12th February 1881 - 23rd January 1931
Ballerina, famous for her Dying Swan
"Get my swan costume ready."


John Sedgwick
13th September 1813 - 9th MAy 1864
General Union Army
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . ."
Killed by Confederate sharp-shooter in battle during US Civil War.


Dylan Marlais Thomas
27th October 1914 - 9th November 1953
Welsh Poet
"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . ."


Pancho Villa
Doroteo Arango Arámbula
5th June 1878 - 23rd July 1923
Mexican revolutionary General
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."


Leonardo da Vinci
Inventor, Painter, Sculptor, Scientist,
15th April 1452 - 2nd May 1519
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."


Herbert George Wells
21st September 1866 - 13th August 1946
Author, The Father of Science Fiction
"Go away. I'm all right."


Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
16th October 1854 - 30th November 1900
Irish Playwright, Novelist, Poet
"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
The Call of Cthulhu - H.P.Lovecraft



Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
I'm not really into making multiple quotes, but I'll make an exception.

Sir Thomas More:

"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

"If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable."

"One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
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I am half agony, half hope.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues -- faith and hope.

~Charles Dickens from Nicholas Nickleby
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann von Goethe



I never guess.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,
instead of theories to suit facts.


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How often have I said to you that when you have
eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth?


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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things
are infinitely the most important.


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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

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Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot.





Sherlock Holmes

Legendary character created
by




Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Born: 22 May 1859)


Happy Birthday
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You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
~William Blake ~

AiSv Nv wa do hi ya do...
(Walk in Peace)




Will your system be alright, when you dream of home tonight?
In honor of KOTCS opening today in the states:

Indiana: Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
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I used to be addicted to crystal meth, now I'm just addicted to Breaking Bad.
Originally Posted by Yoda
If I were buying a laser gun I'd definitely take the XF-3800 before I took the "Pew Pew Pew Fun Gun."



Great line from Yoda's review yesterday.

Crystal Skull has a knack for getting the important things right. Director Steven Spielberg (who has a real future in Hollywood)...

Yoda



"When life passes you by, look not on the wrong and the bad and the hatred and the malice, but look to the just and the good and the love and the forgiveness, for the life you live is merely one, and in that one you must find solace in the caring hands that embrace you, not the ones that tear away your path to life, you must try and live, before the story of your life runs out of chapters."

~ Anonymous
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"It's not the destination, but the things you learn on the way there"



We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ...but they all have to learn to live in the same box.

~ Anonymous



Welcome to the human race...
"Hold on! It's never enough
It's never enough until your heart stops beating
The deeper you get, the sweeter the pain
Don't give up the game until your heart stops beating"


From Shellshock by New Order
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I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.
Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0



Rich people have always stayed on top by dividing white people from colored people, but white people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people, we just gotta eliminate them. White people, black people, brown people, yellow people, get rid of 'em all. All we need is a voluntary, free spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction, Everybody just gotta keep f*ckin' everybody til we're all the same color

Jay Billington Bullworth



For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us. ~ Donald Williams



After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No hablo ingles."

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." -George W. Bush

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
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Is there someone inside you?
Sometimes.
Who is it?
I don't know.
Is it Captain Howdy?



Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
"We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war."

- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front