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Try not to derail too much here, or im going to ask for a split/delete.

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Chris Rock:

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"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon"."


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"Pussy is like Visa, accepted everywhere"

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Abraham Lincoln:
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power


William Shakespear:
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O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant


Tao Te Ching:
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.


Lord Macaulay
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

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Trent Reznor - Capital G
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Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person
You hadn't had enough to know what it's like

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Lupus in fabula, Sat. I just thought on that topic. A direct response:
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Power doesn't corrupt a person.
It just gives it an opportunity to show off its corruptness.

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And a commentary:
Most of those humble and modest people is just having problem with expressing themselves. By remaining silent and peaceful (and not expressing negative emotions) they cause sympathies from the other people, which only makes the thing worse. They take it as reward and stimulation to remain silent and don't try to change people's minds. Their behavioral curve looks perfectly immovable from the apparent course.

But poke them with just a bit more self-esteem (for example power over whole $10M). Set them free. And they will show off where this curve really goes. The real problem is that after they dare leaving the behavioral area by which everybody knows them and finally start to explore their real selves, they will make the first baby steps playing with no-small stuff, unlike the other people did. Thus the consequences of mistakes will be also huger. Even worse: in those baby steps they will act very likely just like children while others will expect grown up reactions from them. This would very likely lead to an isolation from all those people who don't understand them, and treating yesterday's acquaintances worse than total strangers.

This end-result isolation didn't appear from nowhere. It is the same isolation layer they used to hide their undeveloped personalities from the outside world. Now they have to isolate (likely) all those people whom they were 'hiding' from, and live the 'new reality'.

Those people didn't go corrupted. They just didn't develop freely / didn't have chance to steam off their first steps at the young age or they just simply got chance to show off how corrupted their inner (us previously unknown) world was.

Sometimes I think I should've studied psychology / psychiatry. :P

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unknown wrote:
There are two cupsizes in anime, DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and non-existant. Anything in between is a myth.



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I've already covered in this weekly adventure in good-natured fond ribbing that I think JRPGs can all suck on the unpedicured toenails of a menopausal valkyrie. Western RPGs, on the other hand, I've had a more changeable relationship with. While JRPGs generally involve a bunch of angsty twenty-year-olds with stupid hairdos following a strictly linear storyline when they aren't standing in a row in front of dancing goblins arguing over who's on potion duty, Western RPGs tend to feature more variety and less skinny underdressed girls claiming to be men.

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Rinox wrote:


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I've already covered in this weekly adventure in good-natured fond ribbing that I think JRPGs can all suck on the unpedicured toenails of a menopausal valkyrie. Western RPGs, on the other hand, I've had a more changeable relationship with. While JRPGs generally involve a bunch of angsty twenty-year-olds with stupid hairdos following a strictly linear storyline when they aren't standing in a row in front of dancing goblins arguing over who's on potion duty, Western RPGs tend to feature more variety and less skinny underdressed girls claiming to be men.


Amen to that.

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With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'

- Mitch Hedberg

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"Only the dead have seen the end of war"

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My wish is my mission, My dream is my vision, and Greed is the beginning of all.


Peltz, with a lil help from a friend.

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"It's an extreamly shity situation, buts its the fertilizer for our future.."

Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia. RIP

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Everything i have withheld has left me,
Everything i have given has stayed with me..

Words inscribed on the east wall of the Virgin Mary chappel in Oleviste church.

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