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A bit long, but charlie Chaplins speech in the dicktater. I mean dictator...

https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-

"i have d cups grandma, the waitress thinks you have dementia"

So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.

"Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back."

Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it's supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.

„Old habits die hard“

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"Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong."

• Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away

"Better say sorry than ask for permission"

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression"

Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)...

To enjoy life's immensity, you do not need many things.

• Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

• Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do.

• Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

• Winston Churchill

猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

Even monkeys fall from trees.

• Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

True victory is victory over one's self.

• Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido

"If you are racist, I will attack you with the North"

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." -Tolstoy

This one is from my previous boss: “you gotta do what’s good for you, and nobody else”

Taught me to prioritize things that are important to me and not to live for the sake of others

Another was “you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves”

Taught me that some efforts are futile because unwillingness from others will result in deterioration to the status quo unless they’re willing to participate to move things forward

"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future"

If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.

"The only thing to abuse is moderation" - A song quoting Sénèque, but I never found the original sentence from Sénèque (apparently he was talking about Sex in it but I think it applies to anything in life)

"If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't fuck with them." A quote from my TI in basic from 85'.

Keep moving forward

"Friendly fire isn't!"

Look after your equipment and your equipment will look after you.

-and-

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." - Neil Postman