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Three epithets I try to live by:

 

1. Live dangerously.

 

For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”

 

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: (Gay meant something different in those days).

 

2. Part of the Serenity Prayer.

 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference…...”

 

- Anon (disputed) and not that I believe in God.

 

3. And now the end is probably near (No not Sinatra)!

 

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light…..

 

- Dylan Thomas

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“To thine own self be true.”

 

 “What do you see in them that you don’t like about yourself?”

 

If you meet more than one a-hole in a day, it’s not them. 

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1 minute ago, Negita43 said:

???????

Everyone is an a-hole every now and then, but not very often, and while there are some full-time  a-holes in the world, they are few and far between.

 

So while it is possible for anyone to come across an a-hole on any given day, the likelihood of coming across two on the same day is such that it’s likely just that you’re being an a-hole today.

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42 minutes ago, Negita43 said:

Three epithets I try to live by:

 

1. Live dangerously.

 

For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”

 

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: (Gay meant something different in those days).

 

2. Part of the Serenity Prayer.

 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference…...”

 

- Anon (disputed) and not that I believe in God.

 

3. And now the end is probably near (No not Sinatra)!

 

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light…..

 

- Dylan Thomas

So the idea here is to leave a heap of rubble in your wake?

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53 minutes ago, Negita43 said:

Three epithets I try to live by:

 

1. Live dangerously.

 

For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”

 

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: (Gay meant something different in those days).

 

2. Part of the Serenity Prayer.

 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference…...”

 

- Anon (disputed) and not that I believe in God.

 

3. And now the end is probably near (No not Sinatra)!

 

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light…..

 

- Dylan Thomas

 

Nice selection. I just heard a song on the radio using a Nietzsche aphorism. "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." Imagine this guy Nietzsche writing in the 19th century, and in 2025 people are still quoting him. Now that's longevity. 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Nice selection. I just heard a song on the radio using a Nietzsche aphorism. "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." 

 

 

 

   Apart from catching Covid .

That doesn't make you stranger if it doesn't kill you

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58 minutes ago, Negita43 said:

Three epithets I try to live by:

 

1. Live dangerously.

 

How are you living dangerously?

Posted
1 minute ago, Baht Simpson said:

Avoid loud and aggressive people.......they are a vexation to the spirit.

 

- Max Ehrmann

This is true. 

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Every morning I say to myself - I try to do my best. And every evening I must admit - I failed. 

 

But tomorrow is a new day.

 

Try and learn - learn and try.

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“Them what is, is. Them what ain’t? Ain’t never gonna be.” 

 

“Them what bite gonna get bit. Them what don’t bite? Gonna damn sure git ate up.”

 

Jerry Don Hood, 1978

RIP Brother 

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25 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Apart from catching Covid .

That doesn't make you stranger if it doesn't kill you

 

It does.

 

It makes you immune to Covid strains.

 

 

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Ya gotta kill it if ya wanna grill it.  

-Ted Nugent

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"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."

- They Live, Rowdy Roddy Piper (Nada)

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
“The edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

-Hunter S. Thompson

 

Live like you're the main character in a comedy, not a tragedy—laugh at the absurdity of the chaos as it gets ready to blow.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

That's not being stronger , just like talking the vaccine wouldn't make you stronger 

 

Yes it is, it makes your immune system stronger. If you survive Covid, you can withstand some strains of Covid easier.

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4 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Yes it is, it makes your immune system stronger. If you survive Covid, you can withstand some strains of Covid easier.

Your immune system being stronger does mean you are stronger. 

 

When you lose a leg, your arms the other gets stronger, but you’re not stronger. 

 

If yiu get hit by a bus and end up paralyzed, it doesn’t make you stronger. 

 

It’s a cute saying, but it’s a bit silly.

Posted
1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Apart from catching Covid .

That doesn't make you stranger if it doesn't kill you

Polio is a bit like that too

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