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Historical (and not so historical) quotes


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I think this needs a nerdy quote:

 

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."

- Linus Torvalds

 

That's a really good one. And it's true too.

"There are only 10 kin of people...

People that can read binary and people that can't."

 

"The only purpose for a soldier is making sure that bastarof the enemy dies...

Because else you'll be dead." - some american general

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“The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn’t the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.”

 

- The Brilliant John Cleese

 

 

 

“Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.”

 

“People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.”

 

“Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs”

 

- The Brilliantly Brilliant Noel Coward

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Not so surprisingly:

 

"……嫌な事件だったね。…腕が一本、まだ見つかってないんだろ?"

 

Translation: "...that was an unfortunate incident. ...they still haven't found one arm yet, right?"

 

From Tomitake Jirou- it's the first sign that anything in Higurashi is wrong.

 

Perhaps more surprisingly:

 

"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,

Thy knotted and combined locks to part

And each particular hair to stand on end,

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine"

 

From the ghost in Hamlet... absolute brilliance.

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