blashimov comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blashimov 13 January 2013 07:53:31AM *  11 points [-]

I have always had an animal fear of death, a fate I rank second only to having to sit through a rock concert. My wife tries to be consoling about mortality and assures me that death is a natural part of life, and that we all die sooner or later. Oddly this news, whispered into my ear at 3 a.m., causes me to leap screaming from the bed, snap on every light in the house and play my recording of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” at top volume till the sun comes up.

-Woody Allen EDIT: Fixed formatting.

Comment author: MugaSofer 13 January 2013 01:51:55PM *  0 points [-]

Formatting is broken. Great quote, though.

Comment author: ygert 14 January 2013 01:49:47PM *  1 point [-]

The irony of it... (Although your formatting is less broken, as your only mistake was missing out a single period.)

Comment author: MugaSofer 14 January 2013 02:51:49PM -1 points [-]
Comment author: DaFranker 14 January 2013 03:13:06PM 1 point [-]

FWIW, it seems like whatever is parsing the markdown in these comments, whenever it sees a ">" for a quote at the beginning of a paragraph it'll keep reading until the next paragraph break, i.e. double-whitespace at the end of a line or two linebreaks.