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"This is where the law stops, and I start."
- Sylvester Stallone in "Cobra"

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"You aren't too bright, are you? I like that in a man."
- Kathleen Turner, "Body Heat"

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"FREEZE! Lose the guns or I redecorate in brain-matter grey, got it?"
- Bridgette Wilson in "Last Action Hero"

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There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here, you are all equally worthless.
- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman "Full Metal Jacket"

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Mary: Don’t psychoanalyze me. I pay a doctor for that.
Isaac: Hey, you call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don’t get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone?
- Woody Allen in "Manhattan"

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"I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave."
- David Bowie in "Labyrinth"

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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
- Will Rogers

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

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I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
- Dolly Parton

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Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
- Groucho Marx

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Devils are not so black as they are painted.
- Thomas Lodge

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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson

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If you pray hard enough, you can make water run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
- Robert A. Heinlein

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A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh."
- Conan O' Brien

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Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
- Tennessee Williams

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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
- Voltaire

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W.H. Auden

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Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense, it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
- Bertrand Russel

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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- William M. Thackeray

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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers

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I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

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You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry

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One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen

Trollstigen

The final post from my September drive to the west coast is from one of the most visited tourist spots in Norway: Trollstigen (Troll's ladder). It is a serpentine drive down a tall, steep mountain side down into a narrow valley, with tall mountains on three sides. The view is breathtaking and not a little scary from the top, where there is a viewing platform. Just behind that, there's a tourist center with shops, toilets and a cafe.

These sheep were trotting alongside the road.


This is one of the two main waterfalls coming down the Trollstigen area.


Here's where it disappears off the edge.


And this is where my brain was going "I'm gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie, fuck, fuck, fuck!".


I held on to that thought for some time.


Here I was breathing again. The road, btw has 11 hairpin turns, all named for the road crew that worked that particular turn back in the 1930s.


Actually, since the valley twists and turns, it looks like you've got mountains on all four sides.


Coming down the hill gives you some stunning views though.


The main waterfall coming down. The Norwegian word for a waterfall is "foss".


The other large one is a little further down the edge. From what I can recall, they both cross under the road. One is called Stigfossen, the other Trollfossen.


The view from the relative safety of the valley floor. Notice the RV in front; these hellmachines have gone from being a mainly German nuisance on narrow, west coast roads to near ubiquitous as Norwegians have started to buy them in great numbers too. They're starting to clog up every road in the country, because fuck forbid people can't drag their house with them when on vacation. /rant


Very pretty.

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In a progressive country, change is constant; change is inevitable.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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Justitia est regina virtutum
[Justice is queen of the virtues]
- Latin proverb

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Carpe diem
[Seize the day]
- Latin proverb

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Volenti non fit iniuria.
[To a person who consents, no injustice is done.]
- Latin proverb

More mountain pics

More pics from wonderful County Road 63 in Norway, between Gudbrandsjuvet and Trollstigen.

This picture was taken from the parking lot of Gudbrandsjuvet.


A little farther up the road.


Muy bien, si?


"...and the rivers sweat from the melting hills."


Norway is full of mountainous vistas like this.


Here and there you can find an idyllic mountain lake.


Or some tall tops.


The road starts dipping down towards Trollstigen (later post).

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Si non caste, tamen caute
[If not chaste, then (at least be) careful]
- Latin proverb