"Sometimes you can fall down the stairs, and only learn that gravity is still there"

-Tex of the Black Pants Legion.

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

"If you are confronted with two evils, thus the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether... The weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."

~ Hannah Arendt

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or anyone else, and he ends up loosing respect for himself and others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

-Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Through action, a Man becomes a Hero, Through death, a Hero becomes a Legend
Through time, a Legend becomes a Myth. And by learning from the Myth, a Man takes action.

-Eiichiro Oda

The secret to happiness is Freedom. And the Secret to Freedom is Courage. - Thucydides.

Esse Quam Vederi. (To be, Rather then to seem.) - Cicero.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-Robert A. Heinlein

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
– Plato

“Someone said to me recently, aren't you afraid? No, I said, I never react in fear; I react in anger. As with graffiti, you must counterattack within the moment, not a day, a month, or a year later. All the politically correct terrorists must be driven back into the stands. There is no place for them in the open field of democratic ballplaying.”
--Ray Bradbury, April 1994

"No Man is more unhappy the he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself" -Seneca

Don't cry because its over. Smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss

"The Society that separates its Scholars from its Warriors will have its thinking done by Cowards and its fighting by Fools." -Thucydides circa 460-400 B.C.

“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

Power is a curius thing. Three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man. Between them stands a common sellsword. Each great man bids the sellsword kill the other two. Who lives, who dies? Power resides where men belive it resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall, and a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
-G.R.R. Martin-Game of thrones.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
-Robert Heinlein

"It is the struggle itself that is most improtant. We must strive to be more the we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward." -Gene Roddenberry

"I think that Science Fiction even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as it's primary postulate: That the World DOES change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea" -Robert Heinlein.

Change your perspective, and reality changes with it.

"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death." - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour

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Steam sales are awsome and frustrating all at the same time.