I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.
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ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we no... JOHN GALSWORTHY I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was... SAM PHILLIPS World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaboratio... JON MEACHAM I was really proud of the way we played this afternoon. Everyone played well and we were very consis... KEVIN MILLER I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives w... TONY BLAIR The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no long... YEHUDA BERG Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of... ARRIAN The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all t... JAMES LOEB They were great. We have been depleted all year, we didn't have all of our guys, but we didn't quit ... RANDY JEPSON The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL Iraq policy cannot be seen as a partisan issue. The costs to our country have been far too great. No... ERIK LEAVER Were we tempted to change our style? No. We can control the things we own and the things we're buyin... PETER LANGERMAN For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that ... PAT BUCHANAN Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man... WILLIAM GODWIN You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s... DORIS LESSING Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in medi... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Because of people like that guy in San Francisco who told me it changed his life, 'Teen Witch... ROBYN LIVELY Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that ... JOHN FOWLES In some respects these presidents are very similar. In the Johnson-Nixon war the military was very m... DAN DODD I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to ... LARRY CONLEY We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ... DORIS LESSING Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Defensively, we were very pleased with the way we played. Our defense is very athletic and we have g... JEFF WREDE We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book ... ROBERT FISK It was a good showing for our team and it was a great atmosphere. It was a great game for everybody ... BENJAMIN BETTS It was great to see our kids come out and get off to a great start and play well for 48 minutes. I t... DAN STARKEY We were moving the ball well. (Graham) did a great job coaching. We got shots and we put them in. It... DAVID SALAZAR Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity i... WILLIAM KIRBY Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and ... PENN JILLETTE The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek... GENE RODDENBERRY We worked hard to get here. Our club has been so relentless, and we're in a great position. ... The ... TONY LA RUSSA We had no communication whatsoever. We were trying but no words were coming one. Our stats were grea... JENNIFER CONNOLLY No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount o... ISAAC ASIMOV This year has been the best out of all of them. Every year has been great, but this is where we see ... DAN TOTH We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by m... MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 When we are troubled wi... THOMAS À KEMPIS Our past experience is the manifestations of our thoughts..
we see what we want to see,
we listen wh... MIROR_VEGAS I'm beginning to feel as though everything has happened before, that our story has already been told... HELEN HUMPHREYS I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s... TERRY TEACHOUT In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy,... HARRI HOLKERI It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help ... JIM SENSENBRENNER It was nice to see that. Our fans have been with us the whole time. When we were playing Dallas and ... BRYCE FISHER We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has al... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling. ANTHONY DOERR I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and... BRIAN L. WEISS, M.D. And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after ... C.S. LEWIS The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time... BILL IRWIN It was a great game that could have gone either way and we were very fortunate to win. Manasquan is ... GEORGE SOURLIS Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that... TUPAC SHAKUR Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to ... ROY BARNES Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the en... MICHAEL R. FRENCH What then did those immortals see, the writers who aimed at all which is greatest and scorned the ac... DIONYSIUS CASSIUS LONGINUS God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far b... C. JOYBELL C. Our vision of war is probably too influenced by the biggest one of all, World War II, where the forc... DAVID HORSEY All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that ... KALLE LASN Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to de... DESMOND TUTU I wish we had met away from all these battles. I wish we had met in a land of peace without social c... JIHAD ELTABEY Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow w... T.E. LAWRENCE Memorial Day is the occasion this nation sets aside to remember, to grieve, and to honor those who c... CAMILLO BICA Memorial Day is the occasion this nation sets aside to remember, to grieve, and to honor those who c... CAMILLO MAC BICA I believed the entire game we were going to win, and so did the kids. I'm very proud of our kids for... CRAIG LORENZ The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Eu... JAN PETER BALKENENDE Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote ... DANIEL WEBSTER No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idea... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all prom... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We tried to outpace the thing that chased us, that said: You are nothing. We tried to ignore ... JESMYN WARD We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know o... GUY FINLEY Our fans were great!. They were more vocal and into the game compared to Morris. That was great to s... JACKIE PARSLEY If our eyes were fully attuned like a camera or better the wanders that we would actually see would ... GARY F EVANS... If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China ... ZHANG ZHIDONG The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time... BILL IRWIN We were so consistent throughout the entire game. It was great to see. ANGIE KREBS
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th... CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you. CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience! CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing? CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people. 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