Quote O' The Day

[Geo]

2 quotes in about an hour, im on a roll 

[Krandall]

"Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson


In his 19th-century collections of essays -- Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, the lecturer, essayist and poet explained that just as every man is at some point shamed due to whatever he's most proud of, he also at some point benefits from a defect. Emerson referred to Phaedrus' fable of the stag who stands admiring his antlers in front of a reflective pond and who is later unable to escape a hunter, ensnared in a thicket by his great antlers. "Our strength grows out of our weakness," wrote Emerson. "As no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same."

[Spartan]

[Today at 09:50:12 PM] redraptor23: i like it both ways

uhhh....

[Krandall]

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." -Eric Hoffer


In his 1951 book The True Believer, the social writer investigated the roots of fanatical movements. To this end, Hoffer explained that "unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden" which a small man is unlikely to profit from. He continued, "A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business."


amen.

[preddy08]

Today at 12:30:41 PM] Adam700Raptor08: just got cleared for more med supplies  now i dont have to worry bout my leg flying off while humping

[Today at 12:30:54 PM] Adam700Raptor08: L O L

[Today at 12:31:00 PM] Adam700Raptor08: jumping*

[Today at 12:31:06 PM] Adam700Raptor08: not humping

[Magz]

[Today at 01:13:17 PM] Adam700Raptor08: seriously though lady....it pisses me off cause my girls sisters now make her feel obligated to babyshit

[Today at 01:13:19 PM] PeelsSE2: 

[Today at 01:13:24 PM] Lady4Fiddy: I will teach your kids to cut you while you sleep

[Today at 01:13:25 PM] Adam700Raptor08: babysit

[Today at 01:13:28 PM] PeelsSE2: LOL

[Today at 01:13:32 PM] Lady4Fiddy: LOL

[Today at 01:13:35 PM] Adam700Raptor08: babyshit lol

[Today at 01:13:35 PM] PeelsSE2: babyshit adam LOL

[Krandall]

"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts." -James Allen


In the British writer's best-known book, As A Man Thinketh (1903), he wrote: "The strong, calm man is always loved and revered. He is like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm." People respect a man with peace of mind, Allen reasoned, because that man has learned to master himself. "Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power." James Allen began writing for the magazine The Herald of the Golden Age in 1898, and went on to publish several books a year on the side. He was something of a forerunner to contemporary inspirational writers.

[preddy08]

Dont ask....


Today at 09:54:45 AM] PeelsSE2: I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue

[Peelz]

[Today at 11:45:04 AM] SegKast: 'see honey, when you been around this industry as long as I have, you GOTTA do DVDA to keep working...'

do work son! 

[Krandall]

"A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man." -Arthur Miller


This quote comes from his 1949 play, Death of a Salesman, about an American everyman. The writer's 1991 The Ride Down Mount Morgan also explores daily life through an insurance agent, "Lyman Felt," who leads a double life. "A man is a fourteen-room house," Lyman explains. "In the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare-ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up."

[Spartan]

The birth of the high hp stock internal n/a motor build...
[Today at 08:22:19 PM] Spartan727: you didn't tell him that stacking them won't increase hp right?

[Today at 08:22:41 PM] troywcc: I told him if one makes two horsepower then 3 will make 6 horsepower

[Today at 08:22:45 PM] troywcc: that's right isn't it?

[Today at 08:23:15 PM] Spartan727: uhh. carry the one, subtract the dividend...

[Today at 08:23:20 PM] Spartan727: something like that

[Today at 08:23:42 PM] troywcc: I thought I was right about that

[Today at 08:24:15 PM] Spartan727: so now we just need a 3 plug 700 head...

[Today at 08:24:19 PM] Spartan727: and 3 ZX plugs in it

[Today at 08:24:26 PM] Spartan727: For like 9 extra hp right?

[Today at 08:26:11 PM] troywcc: at least

[Today at 08:26:27 PM] Spartan727: sweet, so I may actually have a chance against Tony?

[Today at 08:26:32 PM] troywcc: add that with 3 evacs and carry the one you'll have an additional 27 horsepower on a bone stock bike the way I see it

[Today at 08:26:48 PM] Spartan727: We've been going about adding power all the wrong way

[Today at 08:27:00 PM] Spartan727: All we need are 2 more holes in the head and a couple evacs daisy chained

[Today at 08:27:08 PM] Spartan727: fukk this crank and piston and big tb shit

[Today at 08:29:57 PM] troywcc: that's what I'm sayin, we are going to change the landscape of horsepower right now

[Today at 08:30:27 PM] Spartan727: hell yeah...I'm gonna list up my shit here soon and go back to a stock exhaust

[Today at 08:30:33 PM] Lady4Fiddy: Roll Eyes

[Today at 08:31:20 PM] troywcc: I'm with ya

[Today at 08:32:28 PM] Lady4Fiddy: you guys fantasizing about the horsepower world?

[Today at 08:34:17 PM] troywcc: no fantasy here, we just discovered the secret to breaking 100 horsepower on a stockbore raptor

[Today at 08:34:48 PM] Spartan727: stock bore, stock cam, stock stroke?

[Today at 08:35:07 PM] Spartan727: or do we need a 5050 too?

[Today at 08:35:10 PM] Lady4Fiddy: okaaay

[Today at 08:35:20 PM] Lady4Fiddy:

[Today at 08:35:33 PM] Lady4Fiddy: good luck with that

[Today at 08:35:37 PM] troywcc: no, the 5050 would put us at a power level that it would instantly explode due to way too much power

[Today at 08:36:04 PM] Lady4Fiddy: I am sensing sarcasm

[Today at 08:36:06 PM] Spartan727: damn...that kind of power must be unimaginable then...aren't turbos pushing stock cases up to 120-140 hp?

[Krandall]

"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas." -Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift's essay "Thoughts on Various Subjects" (written in 1703) is a collection of the Anglo-Irish satirist's generally cynical but otherwise unrelated aphorisms -- another line from the collection supplied the title for John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ("When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him"). The implication of this quote is either that outward propriety is no true sign of a man's thoughts (Swift's biography notes the author's "rage for obscenity") or that apparent niceness is sometimes the only quality worth remarking on in someone of uninspiring character.

[Krandall]

"No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him." -James Russell Lowell


The American poet and literary critic's 19th-century poem "A Glance Behind the Curtain" was inspired by Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate. Lowell wrote that he respected the "deep, holy enthusiasm for liberty and democracy" that Cromwell represented, opposed to those "deaf to the cries of the poor and the oppressed." Lowell, an abolitionist, championed a number of causes that were unpopular or even radical in his day, including supporting worker's rights and opposing capital punishment. He was eventually made the American ambassador to Spain.

[Krandall]

[Today at 09:16:48 AM] del ban troywcc: I worked that black peter Langford sent me pretty good myself last night

[Krandall]

"Few men know how to be old." -Francois de La Rochefoucauld


The 17th-century French writer and wit had only moderate success while alive, but his writing influenced the literary world long after his death (Nietzsche in particular was an admirer). He was known mostly for his Memoirs and Maximes. The latter consisted of hundreds of sayings, most of which were pessimistic (or at least unflattering) reflections on human nature. Many of his maxims are as applicable to men now as they were in the author's time ("Confidence goes farther in Company, than Wit").