Thursday, August 12, 2010
Bumper Sticker
I need a bumper sticker or two. Something which reflects my personality, or at least that part which won't get me arrested. I'm not looking for "Here's a site which lists 375 of them", I want specifics. Suggestions?
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*If you alway do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got*
"What would you attempt if you knew you couldn't fail?"
I've had a thought rattling around in my head for a few days and I think it reminds me of your bumper-sticker idea. But I misquoted it to myself, saying "You have never met an ordinary human being." [C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory] I like my version better than "mere mortal" but here is the original section. If it's too long or unpalatable for your blog here then just chop it off, of course. I simply view you as out-of-the-ordinary and somehow you sporting a bumper sticker with an allusion to that made sense to me.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.
It is unclear whether you are looking for a laconic slogan that would be appropriate for a bumper sticker or tombstone or if you are looking for a physical bumper sticker itself.
Assuming the former:
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- Thomas Paine
If, on the other hand, you need actual stickers....
http://www.zazzle.ca/if_you_can_read_this_bumper_sticker-128918978489372092
http://www.cafepress.ca/+sheep_happens_oval_sticker,354716522
http://www.cafepress.ca/+stop_camping_me_mmorpg_bumper_sticker,50066124
http://www.zazzle.ca/npc_non_playable_character_gamer_gear_bumper_sticker-128669649098625585
Not a sticker, but still hilarious:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+youre_just_an_npc_in_my_world_dark_tshirt,187713008
or
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+npc_shirt,24914602
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