Quote O' The Day

[Krandall]

lol phucko...juist noticed your sig 

[Krandall]

"The final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living -- not sordid money-getting, not apples of gold." -W. E. B. Dubois

This line comes from the The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most important collection of essays in American history. Written in 1903 by W.E.B. Dubois, the preeminent African American intellectual and co-founder of the NAACP, it is also one of the first major sociological treatise. Discussing segregation, religion, and education, the above quote continues: "The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. And all this is gained only by human strife and longing."

[Krandall]

[Today at 10:16:02 AM] del ban Langford: i popped a levitra (sp?) once..."if your hardon lasts more than 4 hours, see a doctor"  mine lasted more than 4 hours, but it was gone when i woke up the next am

[Today at 10:16:10 AM] del ban PeelsSE2: lol

[Today at 10:16:18 AM] del ban PeelsSE2: black people need more?

[Today at 10:16:22 AM] del ban PeelsSE2:

[Today at 10:16:27 AM] del ban Krandall:

[Today at 10:16:35 AM] del ban PeelsSE2: just curious

[Today at 10:16:57 AM] del ban Langford: it wasnt cool...couldnt "finish"...my ol lady thought i was trying to saw her in half

[Hefe]

ERMAHGERD

[Peelz]

notice Lang didn't answer me?

[Krandall]

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." -Robert Louis Stevenson


"There is a rude nobility, like that of a barbarian king, in this unshaken confidence in himself and indifference to the wants, thoughts, or sufferings of others. In his whole works I find no trace of pity," wrote Stevenson of Henry David Thoreau in Familiar Studies of Men and Books. Stevenson paints Thoreau as a man of contrasts, a figure who deserves his place in history even if he seems to have stumbled tactlessly into it. "Thus this singularly eccentric and independent mind, wedded to a character of so much strength, singleness, and purity, pursued its own path of self-improvement for more than half a century."

[Magz]

typical day in RS.

[Today at 10:30:45 AM] Adam: wood is for fags

[Today at 10:31:01 AM] Segkast: naw, gimme wood anyday

[Today at 10:32:25 AM] Magz: i'll give you wood seggy!

[Today at 10:32:47 AM] Segkast: besides, you gimme wood every day

[Krandall]

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people." -John Ruskin


Art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) wrote in Pre-Raphaelitism that "GERD intends no man to live in this world without working: but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work." The goal then is for a man to determine what exactly his work should be, "in which inquiry a man may be very safely guided by his likings, if he be not also guided by his pride... When a man born of an artisan was looked upon as an entirely different species of animal from a man born of a noble, it made him no more uncomfortable or ashamed to remain that different species of animal, than it makes a horse ashamed to remain a horse, and not to become a giraffe."

[Krandall]

"Nothing was ever created by two men... Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.

The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man." -John Steinbeck
"Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone," Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden (1952), often considered the Nobel Prize-winner's greatest novel. "You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite... And I guess a man's importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories. It is a lonely thing but it relates us to the world. It is the mother of all creativeness, and it sets each man separate from all other men."

[disco]

Maybe not quite QOTD material but this comes from a coworker:  I'm looking for a good girl with ho-like qualities."  We all busted out laughing.

[Krandall]

"Both sexes work on their "lines" before they appear onstage. His lines are a lifetime of work; her introductory "line" is her appearance." -Warren Farrell


Warren Farrell is an American author known for his writing on men's and women's issues. This quote comes from his 1986 book Why Men Are The Way They Are: The Male-Female Dynamic. One of Farrell's arguments is that though men may tend to view women as sex objects, women in turn tend to view men as success objects. "Just as careers give men power," Farrell wrote, "so beauty gives women power. But just as the comparison between herself and the most beautiful women makes a woman feel powerless, so the comparison between himself and the most successful men makes a man feel powerless."

[Krandall]

"The true perfection of man lies not in what man has but in what man is." -Oscar Wilde


This line is from Wilde's "The Soul of Man under Socialism," an 1891 essay in which Wilde analyzes the root causes and effects of poverty and draws some fairly incendiary conclusions in doing so. "A poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious is probably a real personality and has much in him," argued Wilde. "He is, at any rate, a healthy protest. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."

[Krandall]

"As soon as a man is used to a certain amount, no matter how large, his ideas of what is suitable expand. That is the way men are made." -Clarence Day


Clarence Day (1874-1935) was an American satirist known for his New Yorker cartoons, as well as for his collection of autobiographical stories in Life With Father. This line comes from "The Crow's Nest", in which Day wrote "the mere having of money has the effect on most men of insidiously making them more and more dependent on having it." Day continued: "Of course a man will hate to believe that this is true of himself, but sooner or later money affects him as drugs do a dope-fiend. It is not really much joy to him, but it scares him to think of giving it up. When you urge a rich man to pull himself together, to summon his manhood and try, only try, for a while to depend on himself, he tells you he'd like to, perhaps, but he hasn't the strength. He can't take life that way."

[Krandall]

[Today at 02:31:27 PM] del ban Nick: i wish you took HJs for your shocks

[Today at 02:31:32 PM] del ban Nick: i'd wack you all day long

[Cammy]

[Today at 02:31:27 PM] del ban Nick: i wish you took HJs for your shocks

[Today at 02:31:32 PM] del ban Nick: i'd wack you all day long

Is Nick a mobster or a whore ??