Zwan.
some thoughts of palahniuk 
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
This isn't about quality, it's about volume
This isn't about music. This is about winning.
You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword.
You dominate. This is really about power.
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"Why?" is the query of a skeptic; "How?" is the question of a person who wants to believe. (J Tilse)
Fear can hold you prisoner.
Hope can set you free.
Those who want to learn listen; those who know it all interrupt.
Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos?
Dream but always with your eyes wide open.
A hug is a great gift... one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. (Natasha Isabelle)
Make crime pay, become a lawyer. (Will Rogers)
The world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. (Sean O'Casey)
If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, maybe yours needs a little more tending.
When in doubt. . . mumble.
The taste of low quality lingers long after the satisfaction of low price.
Share love and it grows; share sorrow and it lessens.
Never interrupt your opponent while he is making a mistake (Napoleon Bonaparte)
There is only one thing that feels better than to be loved... to love! (Derek Prince in 'Caring for widows and orphans')
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. (George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950)
Life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
Happiness depens on happenings but joy depends on Christ.
It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. (La Rochefoucauld)
One man with courage is a majority. (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
Fun is a good thing, but only when it spoils nothing better. (George Santayana)
The degree of panic is the degree of the lack of personal spiritual experience with God. (Oswald Chambers)
When someone asks me what I think, I tell them: "I think all of the meat around a pig's ass is pork." (Tim Early)
Some people are about as helpful as a porcupine in a balloon factory. (Donna Early)
Dad: Someone who hopes his sons will turn out to be just like him, and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.
Happiness is like peeing in your pants.
Everyone can see it, but no one feels the warmth as you do. (J.Tilse)
Most would rather be ruined by praise than saved by critisism.
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. (Earl Gray Stevens)
When I walk backwards, it feels like I'm helping everyone else move forward faster.
My mind contains many good ideas, but it is not always easy to squeeze one out.
Dreams come true, without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. (John Updike)
I lost twenty pounds. Unfortunately, I was in England at the time.
Be as friendly to the janitor as you are to the chairman of the board.
No life without the sun, no Life without the Son.
A dog inside a kennel barks at his fleas. A dog hunting does not notice them.
There are 2 fools in every market: one asks too little, one asks too much. (Russian proverb)
Man and the turtle are very much alike. Neither makes any progress without sticking his neck out.
With righteousness in the heart
there will be beauty in the character.
With beauty in the character
there will be harmony in the home.
With harmony in the home
there will be order in the nation.
With order in the nation
there will be peace in the world.
Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.
We do three kinds of jobs, cheap, quick, and good.
You can have any two:
A good, quick job-won't be cheap.
A good job, cheap-won't be quick.
A cheap job, quick-won't be good.
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. (Otto von Bismarck 1815-1898 German chancellor)
I don't need music, lobster or wine.
Whenever your eyes look into mine;
The things I long for are simple and few:
A cup of coffee, a sandwich and you!
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. (Rita Rudner)
Flowers will not grow but die if they don't get rained on every once in a while.
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. (Ann Flanders)
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. (Fables Aesop)
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. (Ronald E. Osborn)
Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. (St. Francis de Sales)
May your love be filled with life and may your life be filled with love. (old wedding toast)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Love and Time: The only two things in all of life and all the world that cannot be bought, but spent.
I have no problem keeping secrets. It's the people I tell...
Love is not a game, so don't be a player.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. (Wilhelm Steckel)
My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life.
I think he was right.
I've only been jogging once and feel ten years older already.
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. (Evan Esar)
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. (William F. Scolavino)
Truth is not determined by majority vote. (Doug Gwyn)
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
I am not the boss of my house.
I don't know how I lost it.
I don't know when I lost it.
I don't think I ever had it.
But I've seen the boss's job, and I don't want it. (Bill Cosby)
Never run from your fears. Because when they catch up to you you're too tired to fight.
Justice without force is powerless.
Force without justice is tyrannical. (Blaise Pascal)
A fall will always make a wise man wiser. (ancient Chinese)
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. (Anatole France)
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. (Henry Ford)
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. (Euripides)
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. (William Feather)
I've started an exercise program.
I do 20 sit-ups each morning.
That may not sound like a lot, but you can only hit that snooze button so many times.
If raindrops were kisses, I would send you a storm. (Natasha Isabelle)
Fanatics are the first to betray their beliefs in order to defend them.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you.
The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.
Don't let them put you in that position. (Leo Buscaglia)
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. (Jim Backus)
There are two types of people who can tell you the truth about yourself: an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. (Kahlil Gibran, poet)
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves. (Lawrence LeShan)
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. (Earl Wilson)
Professor to noisey students: "Every time I open my mouth some fool speaks."
One must learn how to lose before learning how to play. (Mexican Proverb)
Three kinds of people:
The ones who learn by reading.
The ones who learn by observation.
And the rest of them who have to touch the fire themselves to learn if it's really hot.
"What are you doing?" a man asked of three laborers beside a building under construction.
The first man replied, "Stone-cuttin."
The second smiled, "Putting in time until a better job comes along."
The third man waited a moment and then said simply, "I m building a cathedral."
You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. (Zig Ziglar)
Some people grin and bear it.
Others smile and change it.
One of the ceaseless wonders of the world is the power of a smile. (Malcolm S. Forbes)
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. (Robert Bloch)
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. (Lord Chesterfield)
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, and normal to ignore it. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
(An Irish friendship wish)
Humor to a man is like a feather pillow.
It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfort.
When was the last time you did something new for the first time? (Emirates)
The trouble is, by the time you have money to burn, the fire has gone out.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. (American Indian Proverb)
Nature's laws are the invisible government of the earth. (Alfred Armand Montapert)
