Stormcloak

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Brothers! Hear my voice!
Who was it that stood for us, when no one else would!
Who was it that took a stand against those milk drinkers and knife ears that threaten our home!
Who was it that united us all under one banner!
All true sons of Skyrim, stand with me now! We will not falter! We will not let the Empire OR the Thalmor take our home from us!
Long Live Ulfric! Long Live the Stormcloaks!  Long Live SKYRIM!!!

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The Wisdom of Terry Pratchett

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Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?

Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.

Susan: So we can believe the big ones?

Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Susan: They're not the same at all.

Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.

Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?

Death: My point exactly. You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

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reminiscence
noun

/ˌrem.ɪˈnɪs.ənt s/ formal

the act of remembering events and experiences from the past

reminiscences

Your reminiscences are the experiences you remember from the past, often written in a book

The novel contains endless reminiscences of/about the author's youth.


rem·i·nis·cence  (rm-nsns)
n.

1. The act or process of recollecting past experiences or events.

2. An experience or event recollected: "Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety" (Charlotte Brontë).

3. A narration of past experiences. Often used in the plural.

4. An event that brings to mind a similar, former event.


Reminiscence [ˌrɛmɪˈnɪsəns]
n


1. the act of recalling or narrating past experiences

2. (often plural) some past experience, event, etc., that is recalled or narrated; anecdote

3. an event, phenomenon, or experience that reminds one of something else

4. (Philosophy) (in the philosophy of Plato) the doctrine that perception and recognition of particulars is possible because the mind has seen the universal forms of all things in a previous disembodied existence

5. (Psychology) Psychol the ability to perform a task better when tested some time after the task has been learnt than when tested immediately after learning it


Goodman:

AshamInstead of saying " reminds me of ", how could I rephrase it by putting in "reminisce" in the mix? Is it possible? From my POV perhaps it's not the best suited word for this purpose, but what do I know? Could someone give me a few examples of how to best use the word "reminisce". Thanks in advance!

John and I were reminiscing the good old childhood day when we were growing up on the countryside, going fishing and playing in the field on the hot summer days as we were sipping on wines by the riverbank.

Reminise has a positive feel-good annotation to it, meaning retracing the memory of something happy in time passed.

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Don't try to quit,
You are already in pain
You are already hurt
Get a reward for it!

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Let's equal the odds!

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 squat

verb (SIT)
/skwɒt//skwɑːt/

Definition

[I] to position yourself close to the ground balancing on the front part of your feet with your legs bent under your body
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ahoy

exclamation
/əˈhɔɪ/

Definition

• a shout used, especially by people in boats, to attract attention

Ahoy there!

• used, especially on a boat, when you see something, usually something which is in the distance

Land ahoy!

Ship ahoy!

Gild the lily

Gild the lily is an idiom that refers to wastefully and unnecessarily adding to something that is already perfect. The term is derived[citation needed] from amisquotation from William Shakespeare's play The Life and Death of King John: "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess."

Gild the lily Meaning

To apply unnecessary ornament - to over embellish.
Origin


Shakespeare didn't coin the term 'gild the lily', but he came as close to doing so inKing John, 1595:


SALISBURY:
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.


The context of that speech in the play is King John's satisfaction with his second coronation - "Here once again we sit, once again crown'd". His courtiers aren't so sure, calling the crowning 'superfluous'. The use of Shakespeare's text to denote unnecessary ornamentation is fairly straightforward. After all, 'to gild' is to cover with a thin layer of gold, so 'gilding refined gold' is obviously unnecessary. Unfortunately, remembering text from Shakespeare isn't everyone's forte and the quotation has become rather garbled. As the quotation above shows, 'gild the lily' doesn't appear in the original.

The term 'paint the lily' was used in the 20th century, with the same meaning we now apply to 'gild the lily'. Clearly, this is the correct quotation. The two versions coexisted for a time, although 'paint the lily' is now hardly ever used. The first citation I can find for 'gild the lily' comes from the USA, in the Newark Daily Advocate, 1895, in what appears to be a half-remembered version of Shakespeare:

"One may gild the lily and paint the rose, but to convey by words only an adequate idea of the hats and bonnets now exhibited absolutely passes human ability."

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Cae la noche y siento como me falta tu presencia conmigo, durante el día por alguna razón es más fácil esquivar este vacío, pero al caer la noche, cae con ella todo el peso de tu ausencia. Deseo que volvamos a vernos, lo deseo una y mil veces, pero mi deseo no se cumple.
Solo pido un minuto contigo, ver que esos ojos me miran, sentir esos dedos entrelazados con los míos, tus besos dulces, tus abrazos.

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Elemento Clab - Un amanecer

Son palabras directas desde este corazón,
Sin pensar el motivo o la razón,
Quiero que salga fuera lo que hay en mi interior,
Porque dentro no va a hacer que me sienta mejor.

I know what is within me, even if you can't see it yet.

Look me in the eyes, I have something more important than courage, although I do have courage too...

I have patience. I will become, what I know I am.

Mi historia II - @Albertoesfeliz

Hay momentos en la vida en los que conviene reflexionar, y este para mi es uno de ellos. Uno de esos momentos en los que no puedes evitar pensar "como he llegado hasta aqui?"

A veces aunque tienes claro el rumbo que hay que seguir, el camino se hace demasiado largo, asique te rodeas de gente que te acompañe, aunque te equivoques. Y cuando te sientes solo te refugias en tus aficiones, aunque solo tu las comprendas. Recurres a aquello que siempre estuvo contigo aunque a nadie mas le gustes. Y en ocasiones te llegas a plantear si eres tu el raro entre todos los demas. 

Pero un dia comprendes que lo que importa no es ser mejor que los demas sino superarte a ti mismo. Que da igual si te dan la razon o no, lo que importa es creer en ti, y cuando eres capaz de saber perder, es cuando aprendes a no rendirte. Y sabes que paso? que desde entonces todo empezo a ir bien. La actitud vence siempre a las circunstancias. Cuando crees en ti mismo todo sale mejor. Y descubres gente en el mundo realmente maravillosa. Y lo que antes te afectaba ahora te hace gracia. 

Hasta te llega a invadir la extraña sensacion de que recibes mas de lo que das... muchisimo mas!

ELEMENTO CLAB - Hoy llueve

Hoy llueve, oigo las gotas caer,
desde mi cuarto estoy sentado, escribiendo sobre este papel
mientras alla fuera quedan preguntas por resolver
preguntas por responder
y hoy he visto el amanecer
de este lluvioso dia
las calles estan vacias
mientras llueve
nadie se mueve
yo mientras tanto me encargo de que estas palabras lleguen
mientras otros duermen hago que esta lapicera se entrene
y asi algun dia ellos sueñen con algo que yo les cuente

Hoy encerrado en este cuarto
me siento volar y volar cada vez mas alto
Y desde aqui veo la vida pasar
los segundos contar
siento el despertar
de cada dia cada vez que escribo
tengo un motivo
para seguir escribiendo y no parar!