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re: What are some of your favorite quotes/speeches?
Posted on 4/20/15 at 10:55 am to boom roasted
Posted on 4/20/15 at 10:55 am to boom roasted
“Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins.
There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”
Maurice Herzog
There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”
Maurice Herzog
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Posted on 4/20/15 at 10:55 am to boom roasted
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Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And, while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya.
Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.
Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam.
Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.
Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island.
And this morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island.
Japan has therefore undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.
As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense, that always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.
No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.
I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.
With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 10:57 am to ForeverLSU02
"Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried."
-Thoreau
-Thoreau
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:03 am to lsu480
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Ya that is a great one. She is a little smarter than Sheila Jackson Lee!
Holy crap, I had no idea Sheila Jackson Lee represents the same district as Barbara Jordan. Talk about a perfect representation of the dumbing down of politicians.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:06 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:07 am to boom roasted
quote:Tom Clancy
Sandra O'Toole walked back to the nurses' station, remembering what she alone had seen. Kelly's face turning so white that her first reaction to it was that he must be in shock, then the tumult behind her as she reached for her patient -- but then what?
It wasn't like the first time at all. Kelly's face has transformed itself. Only an instant, like opening a door into some other place, and she'd seen something she had never imagined. Something very old and feral and ugly. The eyes not wide, but focused on something she could not see. The pallor of his face not that of shock, but of rage. His hands balled briefly into fists of quivering stone. And then his face had changed again. There had been comprehension to replace the blind, killing rage, and what she'd seen next was the most dangerous sight she had ever beheld, though she knew not why. Then the door closed, Kelly's eyes shut, and when he opened them, his face was unnaturally serene. The complete sequence had not taken four seconds, she realized, all of it while Rosen and Douglas had been scuffling against the wall. He'd passed from horror to rage to understanding -- then to concealment, but what had come in between comprehension and disguise was the most frightening thing of all.
What had she seen in the face of this man? It took her a moment to answer the question. Death was what she'd seen. Controlled. Planned. Disciplined.
But it was still Death, living in the mind of a man.
Anyone who has been forced to make the decision will see how poetically perfect it is.
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In the game of life, there are rules. Some are easy, some are hard. Every broken rule has a consequence. Every trial makes you more of a man. If pushed too hard a man becomes a statue. Every man has a breaking point; you should always push toward yours, and you should pray you never find it.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:12 am to boom roasted
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Now if anyone here thinks I'm superficial or materialistic, go get a job in fricking McDonalds, cause that's where you fricking belong! But before you depart this room full of winners, I want you to take a good look at the person next you, go on.
Cause sometime in the not so distant future, you're gonna be pullin' up to a red light and you beat up old fricking Pinto, and that person's gonna be pulling up right along side you in their brand new Porsche, with their beautiful wife by their side, who's got big voluptuous tits.
And who are you gonna be sitting next to? Some disgusting wildebeest with three days of razor stubble in a sleeveless moo-moo, crammed in next to you with a carload full of groceries from the fricking Price Club! That's who you're gonna be sitting next to!
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That watch costs more than you car. I made $970,000 last year. How much'd you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing.
Nice guy? I don't give a shite. Good father? frick you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave.
I can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself $15,000. Tonight! In two hours! Can you? Can YOU? Go and do likewise. A-I-D-A. Get mad you son of a bitches, get mad. You want to know what it takes to sell real estate? It takes BRASS BALLS to sell real estate. Go and do likewise gents. Money's out there. You pick it up, it's yours. You don't, I got no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those sits tonight and close, CLOSE. It's yours.
If not you're gonna be shining my shoes. And you know what you'll be saying - a bunch of losers sittin' around in a bar. 'Oh yeah. I used to be a salesman. It's a tough racket.' These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you they're gold, and you don't get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. They're for closers.
I'd wish you good luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it. And to answer you question, pal, why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to. They asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fricking arse because a loser is a loser.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:13 am to boom roasted
Tough times don't last
Tough people do
Tough people do
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:14 am to Pettifogger
“Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.”
–Rick Flair
"To be the man, you gotta beat the man."
–Boethius
–Rick Flair
"To be the man, you gotta beat the man."
–Boethius
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:24 am to TigerPanzer
Panzer's first quote makes all of Great Lakes' babble worthless.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:27 am to boom roasted
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"There was some misinformation on ESPN and I think it's imperative that I straighten it out. I am the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I've got a championship game to play, and I am excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. That's really all I'd like to say. It was unfortunate that I had to address my team with this information this morning. With that being done, I think we'd be ready to play. There will be no questions for me. I represent me in this issue. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day."
Les Miles 2007 before SEC championship
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:32 am to Coater
"Lose some weight, baby girl."
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:37 am to boom roasted
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.”
-W. Edwards Deming
-W. Edwards Deming
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:46 am to Pettifogger
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance."
–Antoine Roquentin
–Antoine Roquentin
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:46 am to Commit2theG
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If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:48 am to boom roasted
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
Posted on 4/20/15 at 11:55 am to boom roasted
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there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Declaration of Independence
Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:15 pm to WG_Dawg
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that quote might have merit if any of the blacks today were slaves, or any whites today are/were slaveowners.
Sorry about the past and all but it's history and ended about 150 years ago. Let's move on.
I was just putting it there cause Sabi put a Malcolm quote and I wanted to be an a-hole. But he actually chilled out a lot with the hate speech later on, I'd suggest his autobiography to anyone.
And in his defense, at the time he wrote that black people were still getting the shaft pretty hard in this country. So there's that.
This post was edited on 4/20/15 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 4/20/15 at 12:17 pm to LucasP
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I was just putting it there cause Sabi put a Malcolm quote and I wanted to be an a-hole. But he actually chilled out a lot with the hate speech later on, I'd suggest his autobiography to anyone.
And in his defense, at the time he wrote that black people were still getting the shaft pretty hard in this country. So there's that.
I've read the book numerous times! It's a great book!
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