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- From: mshort@heisenberg.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Short)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Best of Stephen Smith's extensive quotes
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 19:33:37 GMT
- Organization: ERL, University of California, Berkeley
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- Keywords: Meatloaf, Marcus Aurelius
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-
- : "You and me we're going nowhere slowly
- : And we gotta get away from the past
- : There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby
- : But we should be going nowhere fast
- :
- : Everybody's going nowhere slowly
- : They're only fighting for the chance to be last
- : There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby
- : But we should be going nowhere fast
- :
- : It's so much better going nowhere fast..."
- :
- : --- "Nowhere Fast," Meat Loaf, _Bad Attitude_
-
- Wasn't the song written by Jim Steinman, who also wrote the songs
- for Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" album? The song was also sung/
- lip-synched by Diana Lane (?) in the movie "Streets of Fire".
-
-
- REQUIRED QUOTE:
-
- In answer to those who excuse abuse with that quote about 'absolute
- power corrupting absolutely" I always liked the come-back from Marcus
- Aurelius (last of the Roman Barracks Emperors, 121-180 AD) given
- in his "Meditations", book 5:
-
- "Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible;
- life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace
- a right life is possible."
-
- As well as
-
- "A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all -
- that is myself." - book 2
-
- "To refrain from imitation is the best revenge." - b.6
-
- "To stand up -- or be setup?" - b.6
-
- "A man does not sin by commission only, but often by
- ommission." - b.9
-
- "A candour affected is a dagger concealed." - b.9
-
-
- Michael ! Happy New Year !
- mshort@cs.berkeley.edu
-
-