Finally fucking done with senior project, presented to the panel today, and they seemed to have a good reaction to it so I won't put too much thought into it. Aside from that, I'm in a really good mood today so here's a quote to fit by Mr. Carter.
"Man I'm high off life, fuck it I'm wasted"
--Shawn Corey Carter (Jay-Z) - Allure
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
I was doing homework, then I ended up on Facebook
So I was cruising and perusing on facebook and found this contest by "I was doing homework, then I ended up on Facebook" group. The contest was to write a song basically inspired by the group, and the winner's song would be sung by some bums I don't know. And some quotes by General Patton.
some quotes by Gen. Patton
“I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now.”
“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
“If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.”
“If man does his best what else is there?”
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
-- General George Smith Patton, Jr.
some quotes by Gen. Patton
“I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now.”
“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
“If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.”
“If man does his best what else is there?”
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”
-- General George Smith Patton, Jr.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
2pac, Buddha, and Bob Marley
My second post here, I was filling out a college app thing called the Common App, and got bored so I started searching for quotes again. Here's a few by 2pac, Buddha and Bob Marley
“since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”
“Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal”
“only god can judge me”
“We all gonna die , we bleed from similar veins.”
“Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?”
“My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated”
--Tupac Shakur
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
A jug fills drop by drop.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
He is able who thinks he is able.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
-- Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Man is a universe within himself.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
-- Bob Marley
“since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”
“Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal”
“only god can judge me”
“We all gonna die , we bleed from similar veins.”
“Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?”
“My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated”
--Tupac Shakur
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
A jug fills drop by drop.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
He is able who thinks he is able.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
-- Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Man is a universe within himself.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
-- Bob Marley
Friday, November 20, 2009
Kick this baby off
I basically started this blog to house, (and possibly spread) an ass ton of quotes, philosophical stuff, stuff I deem interesting, and some utterly useless shit. Up until now it's been sitting on my facebook info page. Yeah this seemed like a better idea.
So here it goes, the big dump.
“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us”
“To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”
“say, 'Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you'”
“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
-- Voltaire
"They say the odds against me, are crooked and impossible
Like I was born with a hole in my heart it's an obstacle,
Or left to die by the doctors, in the childrens hospital
But I never lose hope, success is psychological "
"I would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers
But then the general, would decide when their life would be over"
A lot of niggaz drop SIGNS but they don't know the MATH
'cus their mind is narrower than the righteous path
It's funny how 'on the block' niggaz will kill you for cash
But never raise their gun and cry out "Freedom at Last"
"Son, remember when you fight to be free
To see things how they are and not how you like 'em to be
Cause even when the world is falling on top of me
Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy"
"America never taught me to turn the other cheek"
"Hell is not a place you go, if you not a christian
it's the failure of your lifes greatest ambition"
"And you shouldn't fucking talk about telekinesis
nigga please, moving shit with your mind
try moving ya moms out the projects with your rhymes"
"Write it down and remember that we never gave in,
the mind of a child is where the revolution begins,
so if the solution has never been to look in yourself,
how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?"
"Democracy is just a word when the people are starving."
"I love the country I live in but I hate the people in charge."
"The most gangster shit in the world is to know what's going on."
"Your mind is empty and spacious
Like the part of the brain that appreciates culture in racists"
"first of all being a vegetarian should
never be associated with being
a revolutionary or being open-minded,
that's a dietary choice."
--Felipe Coronel (Immortal Technique)
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing.
Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.
So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.”
“Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight
Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing in sight
Why am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try
Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?
Someone tell me why.”
“I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward”
--Tupac Shakur
"I believe man made god, out of ignorance and fear. If god made man, why the hell would he put us here?"
-- Dead Prez
"We are in a 'revolution of consciousness' .... What we looking for is the truth."
"There is man and there is environment. One does not supersede the other. The breath in man is the breath of Papa. Man is merely the caretaker of the land that maintains his life and nourishes his soul. Therefore, the ʻâina is sacred. The church of life is not in a building, it is the open sky, the surrounding ocean, the beautiful soil...."
-- George Jarrett Helm, Jr.
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. "
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching"
"An eye for an eye makes the world blind."
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.”
-- Jesus Christ
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"A feeble body weakens the mind."
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. "
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles."
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living"
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
"When something of an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
“Our greatest evil flows from ourselves”
“Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body”
“I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.”
“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world”
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
"A witty saying proves nothing."
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively”
--Voltaire
For the record, I don't plan on ever making a dump this big again.
So here it goes, the big dump.
“I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.”
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us”
“To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”
“say, 'Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you'”
“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
-- Voltaire
"They say the odds against me, are crooked and impossible
Like I was born with a hole in my heart it's an obstacle,
Or left to die by the doctors, in the childrens hospital
But I never lose hope, success is psychological "
"I would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers
But then the general, would decide when their life would be over"
A lot of niggaz drop SIGNS but they don't know the MATH
'cus their mind is narrower than the righteous path
It's funny how 'on the block' niggaz will kill you for cash
But never raise their gun and cry out "Freedom at Last"
"Son, remember when you fight to be free
To see things how they are and not how you like 'em to be
Cause even when the world is falling on top of me
Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy"
"America never taught me to turn the other cheek"
"Hell is not a place you go, if you not a christian
it's the failure of your lifes greatest ambition"
"And you shouldn't fucking talk about telekinesis
nigga please, moving shit with your mind
try moving ya moms out the projects with your rhymes"
"Write it down and remember that we never gave in,
the mind of a child is where the revolution begins,
so if the solution has never been to look in yourself,
how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?"
"Democracy is just a word when the people are starving."
"I love the country I live in but I hate the people in charge."
"The most gangster shit in the world is to know what's going on."
"Your mind is empty and spacious
Like the part of the brain that appreciates culture in racists"
"first of all being a vegetarian should
never be associated with being
a revolutionary or being open-minded,
that's a dietary choice."
--Felipe Coronel (Immortal Technique)
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing.
Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.
So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.”
“Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight
Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing in sight
Why am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try
Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?
Someone tell me why.”
“I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward”
--Tupac Shakur
"I believe man made god, out of ignorance and fear. If god made man, why the hell would he put us here?"
-- Dead Prez
"We are in a 'revolution of consciousness' .... What we looking for is the truth."
"There is man and there is environment. One does not supersede the other. The breath in man is the breath of Papa. Man is merely the caretaker of the land that maintains his life and nourishes his soul. Therefore, the ʻâina is sacred. The church of life is not in a building, it is the open sky, the surrounding ocean, the beautiful soil...."
-- George Jarrett Helm, Jr.
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. "
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching"
"An eye for an eye makes the world blind."
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.”
-- Jesus Christ
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"A feeble body weakens the mind."
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. "
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles."
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living"
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
"When something of an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
“Our greatest evil flows from ourselves”
“Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body”
“I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.”
“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world”
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
"A witty saying proves nothing."
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively”
--Voltaire
For the record, I don't plan on ever making a dump this big again.
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