I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room. - George W Bush
oh yeah yeah. He's right. I must have forgotten. :P
Well as legend ascribes to Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake!
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Yes...
Its never over untill the fat lady sings.
Buffy
If you happen to meet a crocodile, dont stick your head in its mouth. Every now and then, and who knows the reason, people ignore this advice, which is sad because they die, but very stupid because they were warned. They had a choice. The moral of the story is this - you cant afford to be stupid. There are crocodiles.
"When I saw you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to hold you. When I held you, I was afraid to love you. And now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you" ;)
"Blaise Pascal: We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart"
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Oscar Wilde
"To the well ordered mind, death is merely the next great adventure" (possibly not 100% word for word)--Albus Dumbledore.
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"--Albus Dumbledore.
I personally think those two quotes, particularly the latter, are quotes no one should leave home without.
Quote"I'm going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I'm smart on the subject." War criminal Bush —answering a question concerning a possible flu pandemic, Cleveland, July 10, 2007
Not everyone is meant to make a difference; but for me, the choice to live an ordinary life is no longer an option.
Spider Man
Bertrand Russell:
"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise"
Dorothy Thompson:
"The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where"
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"Already then, in those accursed days, amid rag books and brightly painted school materials and soul-chilling drafts, I knew without knowing, I knew without wonder, I knew as one knows oneself, I knew what it is impossible to know -- and, I would say, I knew it even more clearly than I do now. For life has worn me down: continual uneasiness, concealment of my knowledge, pretense, fear, a painful straining of all my nerves -- not to let down, not to ring out...and even to this day I still feel an ache in that part of my memory where the very beginning of this effort is recorded, that is, the occasion when I first understood that things which to me had seemed natural were actually forbidden, impossible, that any thought of them was criminal. Well do I remember that day!"
--Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
I'm sorry but I don't recall that.
- Guess who
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
-- Niels Bohr
Quote from: Seshatneferw on July 30, 2007, 03:27:46 AM
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
-- Niels Bohr
QuoteI am a Vulcan, after all.
- Spock
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr:
"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
David Borenstein:
"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." - Isaac Asimov
When you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remember that the original objective was to drain the swamp.
- homespun wisdom that apples to people in transition.
- I like this one too.
Keep your eyes on the prize.
"don't follow leaders
watch the parking meters"
- bob dylan
"Do not ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman
"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity." – Ludwig Wittgenstein
"There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world. This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the TRUTH." – Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
"...drag your thoughts away from your troubles--by the ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you can manage it; it's the healthiest thing a body can do."
- Mark Twain, The American Claimant
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If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
If you forget your past you lose your present.
If you forget your pants you lose your dignity
"Humans are very peculiar. I often find them unfathomable, but an interesting psychological study"
"There are many aspects of human irrationality I do not yet comprehend. Obsession, for one. The persistent single-minded fixation on one idea".
"You have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man. His negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence; and his positive side, which Earth people express as compassion, love, tenderness. And what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see here indications that it is his negative side which makes him strong -- that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength. Your negative side, removed from you, the power of command begins to elude you".
"I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life".
"Superior ability breeds superior ambition".
All the above quotes were said by Mr. Spock! :P
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No fair, Tink. Aren't you supposed to cite your source?
Hmmmmmm? :police:
Quote from: Rebis on July 31, 2007, 05:57:15 PM
No fair, Tink. Aren't you supposed to cite your source?
Hmmmmmm? :police:
Oops! I forgot. Mr. Spock!
This one is perfect for some threads here: ::) >:D
"There's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about" Mr. Spock.
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Quote from: Tink on July 31, 2007, 06:21:17 PM
Oops! I forgot. Mr. Spock!
This one is perfect for some threads here: ::) >:D
"There's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about" Mr. Spock.
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That one is perfect for many occasions in my work. I shall steal it.
Dennis
Quote from: Dennis on July 31, 2007, 06:48:53 PM
Quote from: Tink on July 31, 2007, 06:21:17 PM
Oops! I forgot. Mr. Spock!
This one is perfect for some threads here: ::) >:D
"There's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about" Mr. Spock.
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That one is perfect for many occasions in my work. I shall steal it.
Dennis
LOL ;D go ahead.... :) steal away!
"Madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal"
"No one can guarantee the actions of another"
"It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers"
"Insults are effective only where emotion is present"
All the above quotes said by Mr. Spock!
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Quote from: Tink on July 31, 2007, 06:21:17 PM
Quote from: Rebis on July 31, 2007, 05:57:15 PM
No fair, Tink. Aren't you supposed to cite your source?
Hmmmmmm? :police:
Oops! I forgot. Mr. Spock!
This one is perfect for some threads here: ::) >:D
"There's a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you've already made up your mind about" Mr. Spock.
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Does that include sub-consious decisions? I never decided to be TG/TS - seams like I am.
Alice :(
QuoteSpock!
- Captain James T. Kirk
Federation Starfleet officer
"It's so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom."
Joan Rivers
"If it wasn't for pick-pockets and frisking at airports I'd have no sex life at all."
Rodney Dangerfield
"Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy."
Steve Martin.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled.
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did... but people will never forget how you made them feel.
by ummm....dunno. forgot the name.
Unknown: You had better put your foot down where you mean to stand.
"Perspicacity is the sweat I perspire".
My own quote!
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I like that one, Tink.
This next one comes the dwarf some refer to as george w. bush -
Quote"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
—Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007.
Posted on: August 01, 2007, 06:39:50 PM
Even more gems from the smirking chimp -
QuoteInformation is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.
—Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007
QuoteIf you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about.
—discussing the sorts of jobs many illegal immigrant workers perform, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007
I have one that I stole from Susan. ;D
"When I'm good I'm very good, When I'm bad I'm better, But when I'm evil you better run!" >:D
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My school colors were clear. We used to say, "I'm not naked, I'm in the band." - Steven Wright
"Use your ears to listen, use your eyes to see, but use your mouth to shut up."
Romanian Proverb
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That reminds me of a similar quote:
QuoteThere are two parts to being wise:
1) Having a lot to say.
and
2) Not saying it.
As a former Democrat, I can tell you [that]... back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party... down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England. —Ronald Reagan
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx
"There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough"
By Unknown
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QuoteDoubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. Moliere
"How dreadful!" cried Lord Henry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect." Oscar Wilde
"In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ha ha ha ha ha
If I had to choose a quote it would have to be from Family Guy...
QuoteTom Tucker: A bit of breaking news. A local family is forced out of their home by ghosts. Who are they gonna call?
Diane Simmons (sighs):Ghostbusters, Tom.
Tom Tucker: No, Diane. Their insurance company. That's just stupid what you said.
Absolutely brilliant!
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
QuotePurple monkey dishwasher
the simpsons
"Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh, no." - Mark Twain
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"As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality".
By Pema Chodron
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"Brilliant!"
- Basil Fawlty
"War is just terrorism with a bigger budget."
Anon
"I wish I could fly like Superman."
The Kinks
"go away, i'm thinking of priests now, not you."
Says king to lovely bottomed girl in film.
"Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything. Indeed, if you don't know yourself you cannot know anything else. People who don't know themselves criticize others from the point of view of their own ignorance. They consider what agrees with them to be good, and hate whatever doesn't go their way. They become irritated about everything, causing themselves to suffer by themselves, bothering themselves solely because of their own prejudices. If you know that not everyone will be agreeable to you, know that you won't be agreeable to everyone either".
Shosan
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The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Tony Blair
"The mind is like water: when it's still, there is reflection; when disturbed, no mirror. Muddled by folly and craving, fanned by misleading circumstances, it surges and billows, never stopping for a moment. Looking at it this way, where can you go and not be mistaken! It's like trying to look into a flowing spring to see your own appearance - it never forms." - Seng-Chao
Quote from: Fer on August 20, 2007, 10:47:37 PM
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Tony Blair
Let us pause to consider the English. Who when they pause to consider themselves they get all reticently thrilled and tinglish, because every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz; that to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is".
Ogden Nash - england expects
But if you really like patriotic tosh - then i found the above quote on the website with this... :)
England is a small country in the north-west corner of Europe founded by the Anglo-Saxons, a race of warriors who came to this country and made it their own. Small we may be, yet the English nation's influence spreads to the four corners of the globe. When travelling abroad it is virtually impossible to find anywhere untouched by our influence. Sports and games invented by the English, medicines which have saved countless millions of lives, the industrial revolution - the spark that changed the world forever, English television, music, theatre, literature and culture. We have given the English language to the world along with its greatest masters; Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Tennyson.
During the dark days of 1940 it was the English people who bore the brunt of German aggression and it was the English people who steadfastly refused to yield as Hitler tried in vain to bomb them into submission. Our island was the sole beacon of hope left for the subjugated peoples of Europe - Britain stood alone against tyranny and, along with our allies, saved western civilisation from destruction. No selfish reason dictated this stance. The Germans did not want to fight us. Quite the opposite, they actually admired us. The cost of the war in both manpower and financial terms helped advance England's fall from world eminence by decades. We stood alone for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. Is this all so easily forgotten?
Our glorious history stands testament to our sense of adventure. A history of invention, of development and advancement, both of our own people and our neighbours near and far. Our martial spirit and military history stand apart from any other nation. A rich tapestry to be savoured, admired and protected.
We have a heritage that is the envy of the world and yet, due to political correctness, it is a history and culture that is to be denied us. Scottish, Irish, Asian or any other culture you can think of is to be celebrated, but we the English are not afforded the same opportunity to celebrate our identity. This cultural genocide has now reached the point where any notion of Englishness, even our own flag, is being shouted down by the left wing thought police and labelled offensive or even racist.
It is a national tragedy that through political correctness we are unable able to instil a sense of pride and history into our children. What harm can possibly come from all of our children having a greater sense of pride, identity and belonging to their own country? Indeed, in times where many have no sense of direction, when communities are fragmented, the nation state can provide that identity, pull everyone together and tell us something of who we are and from where we came. At the end of the day, political correctness is nothing more than a weapon in the hands of a small minority, used to deny the majority their right to express their opinion and culture.
Always remember that no matter where you go and what you do, you carry something inside you that sets you apart from other nationalities.
We are the ones who have given so much to this world.
We are the ones who have touched this planet like no others.
We are the ones who have so much of which to be proud.
Walk on. Stand tall...
We are the English!
-wanker.
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.
Ronald Reagan
Quote from: Fer on August 20, 2007, 10:47:37 PM
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Tony Blair
And in reply, from Trainspotting:
QuoteTOMMY: Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
RENTON: I hate being Scottish. We're the lowest of the f***ing low, the scum of the earth, the most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the English, but I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. We can't even pick a decent culture to be colonized by. We are ruled by effete arseholes. It's a ->-bleeped-<-e state of affairs and all the fresh air in the world will not make any f***ing difference.
Slight tidying up of the language, but I couldn't do too much or it destroys the effectiveness of the rant.
Dennis
great book.
great film.
rare.
Quote from: BeverlyAnn on August 21, 2007, 01:06:00 PM
A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.
Ronald Reagan
Hi Beverly,
Is this true?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Unknown
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Quote from: Rebis on August 21, 2007, 04:19:47 PM
Hi Beverly,
Is this true?
Supposedly it is according to my quote source.
Beverly
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. MOLIÈRE
Quote"Within the categorical syllogism, ordinary language represents the ordinary flow of inference. Two premises are given; there is a plash of insight, and one step undertaken. The mind hops right along, not quite knowing where it is going but getting there nonetheless. On the right, a checklist does its work. The logician's clamp retains its force of old, but the inferential steps involve no more than the substitution of symbols for symbols, with the anchor of inference embedded in identities. Inference now proceeds from one identity to the next; no plash of insight is involved, only the solid satisfying ratcheting sound of symbols being substituted for symbols". David Berlinski
Great quote Mystique, I mean Katia....LOL ;D
Here is mine:
"you think you are always gentle, yet look at how viciously the world strikes at you nonetheless! This idea of your victimization is merely cynicism turned inside out and made more impenetrable to insight. You are clever enough to disguise your addiction to gloom in protests of innocence. The good news is that you may never be effectively challenged by others about this routine; few friends have enough wisdom and chutzpah at the same time. The bad news is that you will probably never walk your way to forgiveness in sensible steps. You will have to leap your own well-built defenses, disowning your morbid vanity in mid-flight".
D. Patrick Miller
Source: A Little book of Forgiveness
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein
"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet, this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits – islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency".
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going".
Seung Sahn
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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales."
Aesop
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Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" -------- Plato.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -Mark Twain
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QuoteBe careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.
Maxine Hong Kingston
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
A E Housman
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
-Thomas Szasz
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"He married a Texas girl ... a West Texas girl, just like me." George W. Bush
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"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-Sloan Wilson
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"dont worry, be happy" dunno by who.
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. ----- Plato
QuoteAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
"In critical moments men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see"
"The cat is the most ruthless, most terrifying of animals. As far back as the sabertooth tiger".
Mr. Spock
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"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." -Henry Ford
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Being powerful is like being a lady. Margaret Thatcher
YABBA DABBA DOO!
-Fred Flintstone :laugh:
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln
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From Bob Dylan:
Quote
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
QuoteA man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
QuoteBeing noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
QuoteAll this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
QuoteColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
QuoteDemocracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
QuoteI like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
QuoteIf I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Jim Hightower's great line about Bush, "Born on third and thinks he hit a triple," is still painfully true. Bush has simply never acknowledged that not only was he born with a silver spoon in his mouth - he's been eating off it ever since. The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life. He got into Andover as a legacy. He got into Yale as a legacy. He got into Harvard Business School as a courtesy . . . He got into the Texas Air National Guard - and sat out Vietnam - through Daddy's influence.
Molly Ivins
"Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all."
William Shakespeare
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Posted on: August 28, 2007, 07:05:10 PM
• A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel
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"There are very few honest friends - the demand is not particularly great."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.
Sister Joan Chittester
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
~Vincent van Gogh~
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot."
Jay Leno
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. Margaret Thatcher
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-Groucho Marks
The more tranquil someone becomes, the greater is her success, her influence, her power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
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Go then , there are other worlds than these . Jake Chambers
The road is long for the project to its completion. MOLIERE.
I have a dream. Martin Luther King Jr.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. George W Bush
If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
~Vincent van Gogh~
Feel me. I am strong and fierce, yet I am soft and gentle. I have much power, yet I am peaceful and loving. I can defend myself, yet I remain kind and giving. Feel who I am. I have much joy and passion, yet I am not dramatic. I do not indulge in negative emotions.
Ellen Weil
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain
Quotethere are no truths outside the gates of Eden
- Bob Dylan
With your background and taste and intelligence, you could have become a serious composer, or a diplomat, or anything you wanted to be. And what have you become? A jukebox hero!
Princess Grace Kelly
LOL ;D True, some poeple just don't take advantage of their potential.
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"Become who you are." - Friedrich Nietzsche
There are well dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well dressed fools Diane Akerman
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal
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[Carly Simon] sings this entire song obsessing about this dude. Then, during the chorus, he's suddenly getting ->-bleeped-<- for thinking the song's about him. But it is, every word. Now the poor guy's confused, probably just wants to eat his dinner in peace. But no, she starts yapping about him again, and then he's wrong for thinking she's yapping about him ...
Serge Storms
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.
Mohamad Mahathir
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One dies only once, and then for such a long time. Molière
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Emo Phillips
Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.
Charles Haanel
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"All I did was tell my story and
seek to live as authentic a life as I could. I guess that made me a
hero. I don't feel like a hero, but if that is what I am, more are
needed. Want to be a hero? Tell your story and/or encourage others
to tell theirs. You will be a hero . . . at least to me."
Julie Nemecek
"To some it is a rude concept. To some it is a socio-political issue. To the transsexual, it can make the difference between forever being a object or living a comfortable life. Passing increases survivability and overall happiness for the transsexual. Passing is composed of a physical side and a behavioral side. Earliest possible use of hormones is the best guarantee of physical passability. Unlearning sex roles and expressing natural, inborn gender behavior is the most important part of successful behavioral passing". Raven Caldera
Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education. ---Tony Blair---
Well, i think if you're going to do something and don't do it , thats trust worthiness. The American president George W Bush
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.
Albert Schweitzer
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spitwads are not free speech. bart simpson
Hi Blanche, :) Wow so much of what is being discussed here was very much what I feared before I transitioned 8 Years ago. The decision was overnight where I went and put all my male clothes in a garbage bag then took them to Salvation Army to exchange for female clothes. That night I had all these horror story thoughts go through my mind. They're going to take a baseball bat to my knees, shoot me in the back, throw rocks at me, or maybe if I get lucky it will only be rotten veggies thrown at me. Well maybe get my pic and name in the National Enquirer as well . :angel:
Well the next day I went to work as the inner me, the real me and not a thing was said, except only I was called upstairs by my boss and she was more concerned about my safety then anything else. By the way this was a small country town where everyone knows everyone. Now I was either very lucky that people are to preoccupied with their lives to notice, or I was just to tiny, skinny little runt of girl to be noticed.
After about one week it is just a routine thing we do in the morning, get dressed do up ones hair, dab on a bit of make up and run down and jump in the car and scram before you are late for work .
Cindy
There's a powerful political faction in this country that's determined to draw exactly the wrong lesson from the Katrina debacle - namely, that the government always fails when it attempts to help people in need, so it shouldn't even try. ...The thing about conservative governance is that it can succeed by failing: when conservative politicians mess up, they foster a cynicism about government that may actually help their cause.
Paul Krugman
Beverly
Remember your power and trust it.
Unknown
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. Diane Akerman
To garden, you open your personal space to admit a few, a great many, or thousands of plants which exude charm, pleasure, beauty, oxygen, conversation, friendship, confidence, and other rewards should you succeed in meeting their basic needs. This is why people garden. It can be easy but challenging, and the rewards are priceless.
Tom Clothier
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Posted on: September 04, 2007, 09:07:12 PM
I wish we lived in a world where we could choose our own gender; until then it is much easier to change a body than to change one's heart and soul.
Unknown
Source: True Selves by Kate Bornstein.
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Think wrongly, if you please , but in all cases think for yourself. Dorris Lessing
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
Bertrand Russell
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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
Beverly
If you want to have sex, the kids will have to leave. If you want it to be good, then you will have to leave. al bundy. married w/children :laugh:
I'm not present
I'm the drug that makes you dream
I'm an Aerostar
I'm a Cutlass Supreme
In the wrong lane
Trying to turn against the flow
I'm the ocean
With the giant undertow
Neil Young
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character --- Albert Einstein
Quote
Well, I rapped upon a house
With the U.S. flag upon display
I said, "Could you help me out
I got some friends down the way"
The man says, "Get out of here
I'll tear you limb from limb"
I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
He said, "You're not Him"
Bob Dylan's 115th dream
When a stupid person is doing something s/he is ashamed of, s/he always declares that it is his/her duty. ::)
George Bernard Shaw
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What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
Shana Alexander
Beverly
remember you can always find east by looking directly to the sun. bart simpson
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
Coco Chanel
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen
I childproofed my house, But they keep getting in anyway.
Anon
Beverly
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel
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behind every successful man is a woman who did not marry me. al bundy. married w/children. lmao :laugh:
"The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time . . . the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought". ------ Ludwig Boltzmann
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible . Robin Morgan
As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure. Jacques Chirac
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set her free.
Michaelangelo
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"To do is to be." -Descartes
"To be is to do." -Voltaire
"Do be do be do." -Frank Sinatra
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"I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The old prophets, when they would describe things emphatically, did not only draw parables from things which offered themselves, as from the rent of a garment, ... from the vessels of a potter, ... but also, when such objects were wanting, they supplied them by their own actions, as by rending a garment, ... by shooting, ... etc. By such types the prophets loved to speak. And Christ, being endued with a nobler prophet spirit than the rest, excelled also in this kind of speaking, yet so as not to speak by His own actions -- [which would have been] less grave and decent -- but to turn into parables such things as offered themselves. On occasion of the harvest approaching, He admonishes His disciples once and again of the spiritual harvest. Seeing the lilies of the field, He admonishes His disciples about clothing. In allusion to the present season of fruits, He admonishes His disciples about knowing men by their fruits. In the time of the Passover, when trees put forth their leaves, He bids His disciples, "learn a parable from the fig-tree". Isaac Newton
" An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support". John Buchan
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Dan Rather
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"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." -John F. Kennedy
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A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be passive; she can be aggressive, she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.
Barbara Walters
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P.S. Also please let's stay on topic, this thread is about QUOTES OF THE DAY. Thanks.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech ~Vincent Van Gogh~
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
george burns. :laugh:
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. MOLIERE
"The world can change with but a single bullet"
-Unknown
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. Jane Austen
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Barbara Walters
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u gotta live. love and dance :laugh: by me
"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars" Mikhail Gorbachev.
Faith is believing something you know ain't true . Mark Twain
T.H.O.S.E.
(To Heal On September Eleventh)
"A Meditation, A Plea, An Invitation, And Me"
Meditation
THOSE men,
THOSE women,
THOSE children,
That agony,
Those screams,
Those lost forever(?) dreams....
For THOSE who dreamed,
For THOSE who screamed,
For THOSE who perished,
For THOSE who remain who ache - who still ache - after all these odd, odd
years, For the kin of THOSE For the friends and lovers of THOSE For the
towns and countries of THOSE For the pure brotherly love I feel for THOSE I,
one of those who still loves THOSE who perished, dedicate a moment of time
To Heal On September Eleventh
Plea
To you who can heal a mind or a heart or a body or a soul or a something
else, I, one of those of us who still loves THOSE who perished, plea to you
to join us in tithing time
To Heal On September Eleventh...
So, to you who can heal, let us introduce you to THOSE who remain who need
To Heal On September Eleventh
Invitation
To you left behind,
If your heart,
If your mind,
If your body,
If your soul hurts,
If you still hurt,
If you hurt still,
I, one of those who loves THOSE who perished, invite you to join us and let
us introduce you to those who dedicate themselves To Healing On September
Eleventh
And Me
Though I am not a medical doctor,
Though I am not a spiritual doctor,
Though I am not a mental or emotional nor political doctor, nor any other
healer nonetheless what I can do, that I will do..
And the least I can do for you is this:
I can hope for you,
I can dream dreams of peace for you,
I can hug for you,
I can speak encouragement for you,
I can spread a smile for you,
I can hold a hand for you,
I can write to heal for you,
THOSE whom I love who perished in September.
So, to you, THOSE of you whose bodies perished on that fateful morn, All
future September 11th mornings belonging to me, I dedicate a moment of time
To Heal On September Eleventh...
To The Loved Ones Of THOSE
Now that that part is finished, the terrorists are impotent against THOSE
The terrorists' terror is now finished against THOSE The terrorists have no
more weapons against THOSE And now we, those who love THOSE who perished can
defiantly SMILE for THOSE To Heal On September Eleventh
Author: Vincent Wright
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him or her to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beverly
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow.
Robert Goddard
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The problem with our current political party system is that you can't keep the Republicans out of your bedroom and you can't keep the Democrats out of your wallet.
Political Science Axiom
Beverly
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it ------- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
if you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. Ernesto Che Guevara
"I never intended to become a run of the mill person". Barbara Jordan
The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time.
I wonder if people who stand up to cheer a hagiography of Che Guevara, as the Sundance audience did, will ever give a damn about the oppressed people of Cuba—will ever lift a finger on behalf of the Cuban liberals and dissidents. It's easy in the world of film to make a movie about Che, but who among that cheering audience is going to make a movie about Raúl Rivero?
Paul Berman
(Raul Rivero is currently serving 20 years in prison for being a dissident by writing poetry and newspaper articles that the Cuban government didn't like.)
Beverly
I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
Robin Morgan
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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. Rosa Parks
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign -------- Victor Hugo
I am not a pretty girl
that is not what I do
I ain't no damsel in distess
and I don't need to be rescued
so put me down punk
maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair
isn't there a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere
I am not an angry girl
but it seems like I've got everyone fooled
every time I say something they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
and never to their own fear
and imagine you're a girl
just trying to finally come clean
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling
and I am sorry
I am not a maiden fair
and I am not a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere
and generally my generation
wouldn't be caught dead working for the man
and generally I agree with them
trouble is you gotta have youself an alternate plan
and I have earned my disillusionment
I have been working all of my life
and I am a patriot
I have been fighting the good fight
and what if there are no damsels in distress
what if I knew that and I called your bluff?
don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down
whether or not you ever show up
I am not a pretty girl
I don't want to be a pretty girl
no I want to be more than a pretty girl.
Ani DiFranco
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P.S. I love you Ani. LOL ;D You go girl!!!!
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat. Bernard M. Baruch
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
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Happiness depends upon ourselves ------ Aristotle
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
Beverly
The envious will die, but envy never. MOLIÈRE
I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die-- the dream of freedom and peace. Rosa Parks
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
Ani DiFranco
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Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something.
Anything. Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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equality is the soul of friendship. unknown
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
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have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. rosa parks.
"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us." - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
Beverly
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
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No great genius is without an admixture of madness ------ Aristotle
To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, 'Your end of the boat is sinking. unknown
"Let each live by his own convictions and worship his own God", Mikhail Gorbachev
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4s6i4-7dg
it would be better without the stupid laughtrack.
"Hey, don't talk like that about pigs. They're usually much nicer than people." -Leon, in Leon (aka The Professional)
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
Naomi Klein
"The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be." --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Ambrose Bierce
Beverly
"a dog is a dog, unless he is facing you. Then he is Mister Dog."
"If you want to get ahead, get a hat."
"Be A Lert. The World Needs More Lerts."
QuoteDon't let that horse
eat that violin
cried Chagall's mother
But he
kept right on
painting
And became famous
And kept on painting
The Horse With Violin In Mouth
And when he finally finished it
he jumped up upon the horse
and rode away
waving the violin
And then with alow bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across
And there were no strings
attached
ferlinghetti
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
Salvador Dali
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And a child will lead you by the hand back to paradise lost.
Perhaps Paradise lost was on Mars, think about that, it was once a water world.
The Warrior Princess is beginning to awaken from her long slumber.
Dreams and visions being woven into reality like the magical spider spinning her web of imagination
Written by little old me. Wink
Cindy
Don't agonize, organize. Jim Hightower
" Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspires good actions in others." Plato
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
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if you're not giving the world the best you have, what world are you saving it for ? unknown
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions ------ Albert Einstein
My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British. ~ Bob Hope
Ambition is like a vector; it needs magnitude and direction. Otherwise, it's just energy.
Grace Lindsay
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One is easily fooled by that which one loves. MOLIÈRE
The real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long. Rosa Parks
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity ----------- Albert Einstein
he was a very clever man ;)
All this world needs now is Love. Lots and lots of loving is the greatest most precious and powerful gift a girl can posses ,
Written by Me
Cindy
Acknowledge where you are and who you are working with. If you're not content, rethink your priorities and ambitions.
Mitch Thrower
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
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Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. Rosa Parks
Power relies on desires.
Oskr Carrera
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
Cesar Chavez, Director of the United Farm Workers
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world. Baruch, Bernard
'I reject this reality and substitute my own'....Mythbusters.
'You're never alone with a clone.'
'Marriage is a penalty for shoplifting in some states.'
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Beverly
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R. D. Laing
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality. Susan B. Anthony
Who put this pineapple juice in my pineapple juice? - W. C. Fields
You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach
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A committee is the only known life form with multiple stomachs and no brain.
Robert A. Heinlein
Like it or not -- and often we don't -- power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be -- and often is -- abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.
Tom Peters
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
Ernest J Gaines
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
Henri Matisse
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Nobody writes great music. You are born with it in your soul.....and merely pass it on.
Bobby XX
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
Beverly
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein
From my perspective of Higher Awareness, No one has the power to drive me crazy. In fact, people have stopped trying.
Unknown
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memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. rosa parks
Folk music? There ain't nothing but folk music. I never heard a horse sing a song.
- Louis Armstrong
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Monet
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
we've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around. geraldine ferraro.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
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ur bad princes :laugh: >:D
dont talk to much. do as much. my mom :laugh:
Quote from: Chris on October 02, 2007, 01:52:04 AM
ur bad princes :laugh: >:D
What? They are quotes Peter Pan! ;D Anything goes.... :P
Letting go of possession with nothing left on the outside, you are forced to look inside. And it is inside you where you can find your true power.
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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." Acton, Lord, John
QuoteThere's a new day at dawn and I've finally arrived.
If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived.
I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive,
But without you it just doesn't seem right.
Oh, where are you tonight?
Bob Dylan
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi
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The End of the Age [by Pat Robertson] is to Dante what Sterno is to The Inferno. When you have a hard time keeping a straight face while reading a novel about the death of a billion human beings, something is probably amiss.
Christopher Buckley
The fundamentalist mind-set is not so much a firm and rational set of beliefs based on thoughtful interpretation of strict Biblical screed as it is, well, a paranoid wallowing in fear. Fear of the Other, fear of change, of progress, of the new and different and young and the sexual and the truly spiritual. And as we all know from almost seven years of Bush, fear knows no reason. It knows no stability. Fear is simply insatiable, voracious, and about as un-Godlike as Jesus with a machine gun.
Mark Morford
Beverly
"Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything."
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson
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Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to
duty. Marcus Aurelius
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this: nothing works unless you do.
Nido Qubein
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"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
- Anon
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
Beverly
equality's the soul of friendship. unknown
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before we can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude whose starry plains are but the vestibule of spiritual worlds.
Honore Balzac
As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of previous existences... As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.
Henry David Thoreau
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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you ain't.
Jesse Carr
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Cindy
Why is everybody always more afraid to live than die?
It seems we have the strength to fail, but not the will to try...
- Lucie Silvas
an enlightened person - by perceiving God in all - looks at a learned person, an outcast, even a cow, an elephant, or a dog with an equal eye. unknown
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.
Carl Sagan
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Someone once said, Paul Goodman I think, that stupidity was a character defense and had little to do with intelligence, one reason the so-called best and brightest got us into Vietnam and why people who are smart enough to accumulate huge piles of wealth persist in doing things that get them major jail time.
Michael Gruber
Beverly
discrimination is the act of treating differently two persons or things, under like circumstances. herman broch
"Life is never easy for those who dream." -Robert James Waller
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Even sorrow or sympathy for the afflicted, or grief for the passing of loved ones, unbalances the body cells and makes one vulnerable to infections or destructive toxins, for such emotions have no relation to love or the inner joyousness of love-inspired man, nor are they within the God-Mind which alone knows unchanging ecstasy.
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature.
The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion – ECSTASY – the ecstasy of Love – the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.
Walter Russell
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one who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. martin luther king Jr
President Bush says he's going to fight global warming. He announced today that he is sending 20,000 troops to the sun.
David Letterman
Editorial from Bev: The sad truth is that's about his level of intelligence.
Beverly
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. Isaac Newton
"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." - W. C. Fields
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen W. Hawking
Cindy
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. -Groucho Marx again
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a person playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
George W. Bush
Beverly
You [humans] find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million.
Mr. Spock
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"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. "
-Yogi Berra
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James
Cindy
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
"I shall demonstrate that humanity's darkest evil, the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law..."
--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."
George W. Bush--to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
Beverly
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
-Yogi Berra
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Stupid as a man,' say the women: 'cowardly as a woman,' say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. unknown
"I feel strongly that there ought to be fair justice."
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
Beverly
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. :icon_evil_laugh: :icon_twisted:
Aristotle
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"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
George W. Bush, Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007
Huh?
Oh darn, did I miss the second revolution?
Beverly
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
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remember you can always find east by looking directly to the sun. bart simpson
"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
- Yogi Berra
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I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose.
Mr. Spock
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"This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th."
George W. Bush, on the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2006
Beverly
there may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. unknown
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Cindy
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth.
James Hillman
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I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
Beverly
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
- Stephen W. Hawking
To limit spirit is to limit who you are and all possibilities for the future development towards your fullest potential.
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"Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods, ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction."
--Plato
"It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought." - Aristotle
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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Renoir
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If you take out the killings, Washington D.C. actually has a very, very low crime rate. -------Mayor Marion Barry
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
- Stephen W. Hawking-
Cindy
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
Samuel Goldwyn
Beverly
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
Henri Matisse
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There is always time to make right what is wrong. susan Griffin
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Henri Matisse
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat
"Shut up and talk." -Yogi Berra
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Anything that may extend the existence of a human is humane, no matter the side effects.
Said Saillant
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whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. rosa parks
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal
Beverly
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. MOLIÈRE
"Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? "Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye? "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."
Matthew 7: 3-5
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone De Beauvoir
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen W. Hawking
Cindy
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn. Isaac Newton
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. MOLIERE
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
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What can't be cured must be endured.
Robert Burton
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cindy
I will not be silenced. I'm not leaving. rosa parks
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. rosa parks
Americans too often teach their children to despise those who hold unpopular opinions. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place - the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.
Mark Twain
Beverly
Too serious, here is one that I also use against bigots:
"You're so open minded, I can feel the breeze from here!" - Marx brothers
Many believe that the dawning Age of Light or Age of Consciousness defines itself in relation to our capacity for unconditional love, our ability to transcend enemy patterning and victim consciousness while adopting unity consciousness that sees divinity in all things. From this standpoint, it might be said humans are evolving into a "biologically conscious" species capable of holding and sharing the full light of unconditional love.
Sol Luckman
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: "Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
Dorothy Parker
Beverly
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting – all these will be used as a means to this end.
Adolf Hitler
I hope he's burning in hell >:( >:( >:( :icon_no:
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Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Cindy
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Though it has been a topic of much attention in recent years, the origin of the term "terrorist" has gone largely unnoticed by politicians and pundits alike. The word was an invention of the French Revolution, and it referred not to those who hate freedom, nor to non-state actors, nor of course to "Islamofascism." A terroriste was, in its original meaning, a Jacobin leader who ruled France during la Terreur.
François Furstenberg
Beverly
I HAVE NO doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your life. Perhaps now you love other people in a way that you never imagined possible. You may even experience feelings of bliss while praying. I do not wish to denigrate any of these experiences. I would point out, however, that billions of other human beings, in every time and place, have had similar experiences--but they had them while thinking about Krishna, Allah, or the Buddha, while making art or music, or while contemplating the beauty of Nature. There is no question that it is possible for people to have profoundly transformative experiences. And there is no question that it is possible for them to misinterpret these experiences, and to further delude themselves about the nature of reality. You are, of course, right to believe that there is more to life than simply understanding the structure of contents of the universe. But this does not make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about its structure and contents any more respectable.
It is important to realize that the distinction between science and religion is not a matter of excluding our ethical intuitions and spiritual experiences from our conversation about the world; it is a matter of our being honest about what we can reasonably conclude on their basis. There are good reasons to believe that people like Jesus and the Buddha weren't talking nonsense when they spoke about our capacity as human beings to transform our lives in rare and beautiful ways. But any genuine exploration of ethics or the contemplative life demands the same standards of reasonableness and self-criticism that animate all intellectual discourse.
Sam Harris
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
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"We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places."
- Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt
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"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man".
- Hunter S. Thompson.
Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature.
Lynn Holland
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like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Cindy
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
- Carl Jung
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing there own soul."
- Carl Jung
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Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James Matthew Barrie
:( :'(
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Ann Coulter couldn't find a homosexual at a Barbra Streisand concert, in San Francisco, on gay pride, if Elton John bitch slapped her in the face. I shudder to think what would become of her on Gay, Straight or Taken?
Richard Kim
Beverly
We will surely get to our destination if we join hands. Aung San Suu Kyi
When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets,
Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,...
And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek
She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek.
Marjorie Barrows
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
Cindy
to say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, 'Your end of the boat is sinking'. unknown
You can't say that civilization don't advance however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
Beverly
"...to pierce through the illusion of separateness, to realize that which lies beneath the tormenting wound of duality...".
- Chuck Lorre form "Vanity Card#24" (Dharma & Greg Show).
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
William Butler Yeats
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they went skipping about, and that was the beginning of faeries.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
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Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
Marin County newspaper's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
Beverly
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
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Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
George Carlin
"The true "problem" with transsexuality is not the condition itself, it is the method by which non-transsexuals generally handle the subject: often with sensationalism and obfuscation, emotional responses that come with the territory of the uneducated or compassionless".
Annah Moore- from her new book: "Right Side Out".
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Beverly
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Douglas Jerrold
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
- General George S. Patton
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. Albert Einstein
hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. martin luther king Jr
The self-righteous believe that all that they themselves do must be right, for they are Good, and that which issues from the Good must also be Good.
Larry Beinhart
Beverly
The fairies break their dances and leave the printed lawn.
A.E. Housman
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The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary
Beverly
Calling atheism a religion, is like calling bald a hair color. Don Hirsberg
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
Cindy
I think people who can't believe in faeries are not worth knowing.
Tori Amos
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. martin luther king jr.
QuoteWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.
That was written by men who had slaves.
Read: Nobodies
We still support slavery.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo
"I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it."
- George Burns
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Deep within the winter forest among the snowdrift wide. You can find a magic place where all the fairies hide....
Author Unknown
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr.
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself."
- Ethel Barrymore
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Sadly, that day has long been discovered.
Beverly
The fairies went from the world, dear,
Because men's hearts grew cold:
And only the eyes of children see
What is hidden from the old...
Kathleen Foyle
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change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. saul alinsky
"Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." ~ anonymous
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." Frederic Bastiat
QuoteI'm going to the football this weekend. I think it's almost sacrilegious to call an election while there are a couple of football Grand Finals on. I don't think the Australian people would thank me for that.
QuoteI will be fighting every minute of every day of the campaign because I am determined to win and I think it's important that we have a strong experienced Government that knows it's own mind in these more difficult times.
QuoteI've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.
John Howard (Prime Minister of Australia who will be elected out this weekend if I have anything to do with it, rock on Saturday, 24 November!!)
He's out!!!!He's out!!!!!!!! Yipeee!!!! :eusa_dance:
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
William Butler Yeats
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Quote from: buttercup on November 20, 2007, 06:17:13 PM
John Howard (Prime Minister of Australia who will be elected out this weekend if I have anything to do with it, rock on Saturday, 24 November!!)
I will be in mourning if he wins this weekend. I hope us Aussie hold their nerve.
Alice
Quote"The rabbis and priests and ministers stopped talking about sin. The jurists picked it up and turned sin into a crime, and finally psychiatrists converted it into a complex. The result is that no one is a sinner."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
What an inspirational religious man of the cloth and speaker!
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves. Albert Einstein
THEODOTUS
Caesar: you are a stranger here, and not conversant with our laws. The kings and queens of Egypt may not marry except with their own royal blood. Ptolemy and Cleopatra are born king and consort just as they are born brother and sister.
BRITANNUS (shocked).
Caesar: this is not proper.
THEODOTUS (outraged).
How!
CAESAR (recovering his self-possession).
Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw
Beverly
cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. susan B. Anthony
"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." ~Gilda Radner
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Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies. Thomas Jefferson
from the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. cesar chavez
if you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...The people who give you their food give you their heart. cesar chavez
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
Beverly
Katia, Einstein was a wise man in every sense of the word, wasn't he?
"If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales."
Albert Einstein
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If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. ~Dennis McKinsey~
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cindy
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Charles de Montesquieu
Beverly
QuoteWe teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
QuoteWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars!
Oscar Wilde 1854-1900
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony
"What we need is to use what we have." Susan Sontag
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
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I know that you believe you understand what you think I said but Im not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I meant ~Richard Nixon
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr
Cindy
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." --Ron Paul
"You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.
Losing baby teeth were a part and parcel of one's life - a symbol of growing up, and it is the tooth-fairy that makes this otherwise dreaded and painful process an exciting one - something to look forward to.
Mansi Maheshwari
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I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen Roberts
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.
James Matthew Barrie
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Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?"
- Epicurus
you can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. malcolm X
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God...primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
- Mark Twain
"To err is human - to forgive, canine." - Anonymous
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And as the seasons come and go, here's something you might like to know. There are fairies everywhere: under bushes, in the air, playing games just like you play, singing through their busy day. So listen, touch, and look around - in the air and on the ground. And if you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wing.
Author Unknown
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If it turns out that there is a god, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen-
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." — Nelson Mandela
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung -
Cindy
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine
Take a sprinkling of fairy dust,
An angel's single feather,
Also a dash of love and care,
Then mix them both together.
Add a sentiment or two,
A thoughtful wish or line,
A touch of stardust, a sunshine ray...
It's a recipe, for a Baby Girl truly fine.
Author Unknown
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
William Shakespeare
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. - Lin Yutang
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men. - Carl Sagan
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Martin Luther King Jr.
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle
Cindy
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving
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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. ~Albert Einstein
"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated." Madalyn Murray O'Hair
there is always time to make right what is wrong. susan griffin
"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."
-Igor Stravinsky
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
It ain't the parts of the bible that i can't understand that bother me, it's the parts i do understand. Mark Twain
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
J.R.R. Tolkein
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
- Johann Sebastian Bach
"Bring me A bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat."
- Johann Sebastian Bach
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If we open our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
Samuel Smiles
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The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. John Addams
Science sans conscience est la perte de l'homme.
Science without conscience is the perdition of humanity.
Montaigne.
LL&R
Maebh
Are those the magic fairy wands
glistening on the tree
or only winter icicles that I see?
Author Unknown
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The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
- Physicist Heinz Pagels
Cindy
We the Fairies, blithe and antic,
Of dimensions not gigantic,
Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.
Thomas Randolph
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the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
martin luther king jr
"The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. " Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Cindy
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. -Albert Einstein
I have a feeling that childhood has been robbed of a great deal of its joys by taking away its belief in wonderful, mystic things, in fairies and all their kin. It is not surprising that when children are grown, they have so little idealism or imagination.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro."
- Franz Joseph Haydn
Blind folk see the fairies.
Oh, better far than we,
Who miss the shining of their wings
Because our eyes are filled with things
We do not wish to see.
Rose Fyleman
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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Beverly
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. -Soren Kierkegaard
You could go on a boat,
Through sparkling waters,
Made out of the shell of a tortoise.
Sit in the ring where the fairies all sing,
Drink, dance, fairy fling.
Diddle on the fiddle, play fairy in the middle,
Sparkle shine, drink buttercup wine.
T'is not far, you must believe,
Just follow the voice from within.
Unknown Author
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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. Saul Alinsky
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Fairies love herbs, wild creatures and rhymes,
In between places, in between times.
Midnight, noon, wood sorrel and toads,
Caves in the hillside, bends in the roads.
Carla J. Nelson
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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. Saul Alinsky
All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and shade. -Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Fairy babies so sweet and small
Quite simply hard to see at all
Asleep on Bachelor Button beds
Babies Breath pillows at their heads.
Diana Greenwood
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Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. - Ernesto Che Guevara
You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
unknown--
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Marx (Groucho)
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Maebh
"And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence."
- Bertrand Russell
"I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired."
-Richard Wagner
Le chemin est long du projet a la chose.
The road is long for the project to its completion. Molière
Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell
Cindy
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. - David Brooks
"Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
-- Felix Mendelssohn
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it. -Whitney Griswold
Why should I allow that same god to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown his own? - Robert G. Ingersoll
A fairy flies
over the skies,
Over the seas'
whispering breeze,
Winged flight flowing,
up and then down,
Bubbling dreams drifting,
dancing around,
The softness of flight
lost in delight.
S.K. Lindeman
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship god, but to create him.- Arthur C. Clarke
The fairy beam upon you,
The stars to glister on you,
A moon of light
In the noon of night,
Till the firedrake hath o'er-gone you.
Unknown
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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. ~Ignazio Silone
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Seneca
I have a feeling that childhood has been robbed of a great deal of its joys by taking away its belief in wonderful, mystic things, in fairies and all their kin. It is not surprising that when children are grown, they have so little idealism or imagination.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him."
- Ludwig van Beethoven
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. Cesar Chavez
The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
Charles de Lint
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. -Napoleon
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell
Cindy
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. === Margaret Thatcher ====
"The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously." --George W. Bush, New Albany, Ind., Nov. 13, 2007
Well, duh! Now if he would just act like he really believed that......
Beverly
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have. Cesar Chavez
The past is never dead; it is not even past.
William Faulkner
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Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops. cesar chavez
Things only have the value that we give them. Molière
Some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde.
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Maebh
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius
People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
William Faulkner
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"It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to flip 'em the bird."
- Robin Williams
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"Without justice, courage is weak." Benjamin Franklin
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Beverly
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt
Every person's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how they lived and how they died that distinguish one person from another.
Ernest Hemingway
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Delivering a difficult message is like throwing a hand-grenade. Coated with sugar, thrown hard or soft a hand-grenade is still going to do damage.
Douglas Stone.
LLL&R
Maebh
"They that have the power to hurt, and will do none; they rightly do inherit heaven's graces"
- Shakespeare, Sonnet 94
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I started with all the handicaps, incapabilities and helplessness. I didn't talk when I was twenty. I taught myself by the act of writing.
Anais Nin
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Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. -Ambrose Bierce
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There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing; and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.
Allen and Ivy Dodd
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. Tony Blair
perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
- Plato
Cindy
The USA was founded in the name of democracy, equality and individual freedom, but is failing to deliver the fundamental promise of protecting rights for all. unknown
We are all connected to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; and the universe, atomically.
Unknown Author
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And through the web my email!! ;)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.... inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.
Marx (Groucho)
LLL&R
Maebh
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X. lmao :laugh: yep
Macbeth:
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Doctor:
Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.
-William Shakespeare (Macbeth Act 5, scene 3, 40–47 )
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. -Kenko Yoshida
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
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P.S. Yes, my sir! :)
"In the stillness and silence of meditation we glimpse and return to that deep inner nature that we have so long ago lost sight of amid the busyness and distractions of our mind."
Sogyal Rinpoche
LL&R
Maebh
Upon meeting you're judged by your clothes, Upon parting you're judged by your wits. -Russian proverb found in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
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The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
Salvador Dali
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Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
:) :) :)
Sivananda
"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword." Fuller, R. Buckminster
Quote from: Chris on December 25, 2007, 01:00:50 AM
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
:) :) :)
Sivananda
You night also see a similarity here:
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails"
1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Quote from: Kristi on December 25, 2007, 08:27:23 AM
Quote from: Chris on December 25, 2007, 01:00:50 AM
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
:) :) :)
Sivananda
You night also see a similarity here:
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails"
1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
I like it :) :) :)
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. -- John 4:18
"There were a lot of women in the beginning. It(the Punk Movement) was women doing things. Then it became this whole macho, anti-women thing. Then women didn't go to see punk bands anymore because they were afraid of getting killed. I didn't even go because it was so violent and so macho that it was repulsive. Women just got squeezed out". -Jennifer Miro
Posted on: December 26, 2007, 03:05:55 AM
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 'twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
DANIEL DEFOE
Le veritable Amphitryon Est l'Amphitryon ou l'on dine.
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
Moliere.
The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati Roy
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the abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. William Mather Lewis :) :) :)
people will forget what you said. People will forget what you did... but people will never forget how you made them feel. m. angelou
If you want to know why and how reincarnation happens, let us make an experiment. Lie down, and see that the body, and above all the nerves, are completely relaxed. Then repeat, slowly and with attention, these words, trying as you do so to convince yourself that they are entirely true; "I abandon here and now all worry, all preoccupations, all personal will . . . I wash away all grief and regret, all spite and vengeance....I give up all personal love, all plans, all longings, and all hopes for earthly things."
If you really try to be sincere in making these assertions, I defy you to speak the words without misgivings. Certain flame-hot fibers will revolt in you, will refuse such a surrender and contradict any such undertaking. Those are the threads that will drag you back to earth. Inevitably!
Spiritual states have nothing in common with your memories, or with the imaginings and intellectual interests of your earthly being; but those memories impress their emotional attraction upon your Ego-consciousness, and this prevents its liberation and causes you to return to earthly existence, by attraction, by the yearning for completeness. This is one of the most important aspects of the law of karma.
Isha De Lubicz
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Here's one Tink will understand.
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
Beverly
Quote from: BeverlyAnn on January 04, 2008, 09:35:06 PM
Here's one Tink will understand.
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
Beverly
Thanks Bev :)
I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.
Jack London, The Star Rovertink :icon_chick:
unable to be true to their innate natures and being, they still saw themselves as sages. Is this not shameful, that they were not ashamed? -- Chuang Tzu
Hi Tink I love your quote, I have had that very same idea rattling around like a marble in an empty ox for many years.
f those who lead you say to you, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky," then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea," then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
- (All the sayings of Jesus gathered from ancient sources and compiled into a single volume for the first time. Compiled by Ricky Alan Mayotte) From The Complete Jesus. (Pg 71) Jesus
Cindy
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein
Beverly
Other animals give us a lesson in self-control: the cat, for instance, whose wisdom is a model because it combines the most intent passion with the calmest indifference. Motionless it plans its leap, and performs it exactly; the strength of its muscles is matched by its relaxation in repose; in sleep it has the abandon of an infant, yet its instinct is ever alert; it can fall without danger because it does not resist; hunting and fighting are games of pure pleasure for it, it hunts with rancor and plays without an object; it is ever ready to attack without animosity, and to defend itself without apprehension; being indifferent to victory, it cannot feel defeat.
Serenity comes from independence. This independence, to be created in oneself, is not indifference, but neutrality with regard to the impressions received from without – whether pretty or ugly, good or bad, happy or sad, pleasant or unpleasant. It is one thing to observe these qualities and quite another to let them affect our moods.
Uknown
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte
Better to live one's own life poorly, than to live another's well. Living one's own life brings truth. Living another's brings only fear. Bhagavad-Gita 3.35
when I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me -- Emo Philips
Quote from: Natasha on January 06, 2008, 09:25:39 AM
when I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me -- Emo Philips
LOL. great!!
*giggles* ;D That was cute, Natasha.
There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing; and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.
Allen and Ivy Dodd
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I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if god really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. Mikhail Bakunin
Horse hockey!
Road apples!
Great balls of fire!
Mule muffins!
Busload of bushwah!
Hell bells!
Crock of beans!
Mule fritters!
Monkey muffins!
Buffalo bagels!
Buffalo chips!
Hot mustard!
Hot sausage!
Pigeon pellets!
Pony pucks!
Beaver biscuits!
Cow cookies!
Bull cookies!
Pig feathers!
Jumpin' jompers!
Suffern' saddlesoap!
Sufferin' sheepdip!
Scuttlebug is as common as cooties in your skivvy!
Great Caesar's Ghost...
Great Mother McCree...
Where in the name of Carrie's Corset...
What in the name on beelzebub is going on here...
What in the name of Sweet Fanny Adams...
What in the name of Marco "BLESSED" Polo...
What in the name of Samuel Hill...
What in the name of Great Caesar's Salad...
What in the name of George Armstrong Custer...
--Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H
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Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
Socrates
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Unknown Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned -- Unknown
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There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly
and without law, and must be plucked where it is found,
and enjoyed in its entirety" D.H.Lawrence
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
Editorial: So far, this entire lot we have trying to buy the Oval Office seems to fall into the first catagory. With maybe the exception of Ron Paul.
Beverly
"I don't believe in god because I don't believe in Mother Goose."
Clarence Darrow
Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb I would sing and say,
"Who is it loves me? who loves not me?"
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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"War is a poor chisel to carve out a peaceful solution".
- Sir Winston Churchill
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
Antoine de St-Exupery
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There was an Old Man with a owl,
Who continued to bother and howl;
He sat on a rail
And imbibed bitter ale,
Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Salvor Hardin (Isaac Asimov)
Beverly
"A man without a god is like a fish without a bicycle."
Adapted from a quotation of feminist Gloria Steinem
The world holds two classes of people, intelligent people without religion , and religious people without intelligence.
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."
H L Mencken
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
Bernard Devoto
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I think it says volumes about humanity when most of us actually believe that we deserve eternal bliss in heaven. If I ran heaven that's exactly kind of egotistical person I would want to keep out. unknown.
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.
Mevlana Rumi
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I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. Woody Allen. lmao :laugh:
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Robert A. Heinlein
Beverly
There are mental demons we fight and mental angels that we all carry around; it's how we deal with them that will determine if we can finish this thing called the Ironman, this thing called life.
Mitch ThrowerQuote from: Chris on January 13, 2008, 03:04:48 AM
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. Woody Allen. lmao :laugh:
LOL ;D You nut! ;D
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I would read Playboy magazine more often, but my glasses keep steaming over.
George Burns
Quote from: Chris on January 14, 2008, 01:43:12 AM
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I would read Playboy magazine more often, but my glasses keep steaming over.
George Burns
now they is the quotes I like :)
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
--anon.
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Today is a day for celebration, no matter what your religion or your culture. Learn to celebrate today: celebrate the fact that you are alive, that you are breathing, that you have friends, family, angels and spirit guides in your life.
Margaret Neylon
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An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex
Edgar Wallace
lmao :laugh:
Quote from: Tink on January 14, 2008, 09:34:46 PM
Today is a day for celebration, no matter what your religion or your culture. Learn to celebrate today: celebrate the fact that you are alive, that you are breathing, that you have friends, family, angels and spirit guides in your life.
Margaret Neylon
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Today is a gift that's why it is called the present.
Anon
LLL&R
Maebh
Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw,
Betwixt the green brink and the running foam,
Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest
To little harps of gold; and while they mused
Whispering to each other half in fear,
Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea.
Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Sea Fairies
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuknsnphEU
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together,
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl's feather!
William Allingham, The Fairies
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. >:D unknown
*giggles* Can you be more specific? ;D
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in"
Rachel Carson
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Flannery O'Connor
Beverly
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
How very true! ;D
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"If the bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?" Justin Brown
Quote from: Kristi on January 16, 2008, 10:49:30 PM
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
I just bought the annotated hunting of the snark. Love carroll, except Sylvia and Bruno - that is ded-shoddy.
Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
Kjell B. Sandved
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"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."
George Bernard Shaw
Beverly
"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands."
W.B Yeats
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"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
Gerry Adams
Beverly
"Observe
The faith of a caterpillar
That never questions "why".
Behold
What a homely worm
Becomes a butterfly."
Mildred N. Hoyer
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"An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support." John Buchan
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast." Woody Allen
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Quote from: Chris on January 22, 2008, 01:10:14 AM
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast." Woody Allen
:laugh:
Gosh! I never checked! :laugh:
LLL&R
Maebh
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
- Paul Dudley White, M.D.
"Better to buid a fence at the top of the cliff than park an ambulance at the bottom"
Denis Parson Burkitt.
LLL&R
Maebh
understandingscience.ucc.ie/pages/sci_denisburkitt.htm (http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/pages/sci_denisburkitt.htm)
"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."
- William Faulkner
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"Ice fishing in shorts isn't macho. It's stupid."
- Howard Hendrix, Better Angels
You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
Author Unknown
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. RD Laing. :laugh:
"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 18
The violence was terrible, but this book and the subsequent movie just absolutely summed up the problem of my life. Trying to be what others wanted from me. And taking it to heart in many ways helped me to accept my true self.
Chuck Palahniuk rocks.
"It was a bold man who ate the first oyster."
Jonathan Swift
Beverly
"When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery."
William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson.
LLL&R
Maebh
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
- William Faulkner
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel." - Thomas Paine
"Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched."
- Francis Schaeffer
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:
And now from having ridden out desire
They lie closed over in the wind and cling
Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
Robert Frost
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Quote from: Maebh on January 22, 2008, 05:51:32 PM
"Better to buid a fence at the top of the cliff than park an ambulance at the bottom"
"As I walked back to the car, I chatted with an Englishman, who confirmed that, indeed, sheep are dropping into the oceans around Ireland at a regular rate"
Margeret Lynn McLean, noting the general lack of fences along cliff edges on Irish farms
Beverly
"The god of the Bible measures up to the level of a petty and vicious tyrant. The god of the bible punishes babies for the sins of their parents (Exodus 20:5, 34:7; Numbers 14:18; 2 Samuel 12:13-19); punishes people by causing them to become cannibals and eat their children (2 Kings 6:24-33, Lamentations 4:10-11); gives people bad laws, even requiring the sacrifice of their firstborn babies, so that they can be filled with horror and know that god is their lord (Ezekiel 20:25-26); causes people to believe lies so that he can send them to hell (2 Thessalonians 2:11), and many other atrocities, far too many to list here. It would not be hard to measure up to, and exceed, that level of moral purity. Atheists surpass it every day."
- Doug Krueger -
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but tis it the God o' the Catholics or the God o' the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
Quentin Crisp
Beverly
The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real intrinsic value. But for the Christian, there is an intrinsic value. The value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it. It deserves this respect as something which was created by God, as man himself has been created by God.
- Francis A. Schaeffer, Pollution and the Death of Man
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
Ian McEwan
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love. Woody Allen :laugh:
Quote by Joseph Lewis:
"Atheism has given to the human race the intellectual monarchs of the world. When the great Darwin discovered the law of the origins of species, he was called an Atheist because he disproved the special creation of Man. When the Chemist went into his laboratory and discovered the indestructibility of matter, he was called an Atheist because he proved the impossibility of a Creator. When the Astronomer pointed his telescope toe sky and explored the regions of unlimited space, he was called an Atheist because he found no God within the confines of space, no heaven within the region of his explorations. When the Geologist determined the age of the earth through its rock and soil and formations, he was called an Atheist because he, too, destroyed a belief in the special six-day creation, and exposed the falsity of the biblical cosmogony. When the Historian went back to ancient and prehistoric times, and discovered civilizations of high ethical and moral culture, of intellectual achievements that are still an amazement to us, he was called an Atheist because he exposed the myth of Adam, uncovered the mistakes of Moses, and branded with the epithet of fraud the commands of Jehovah. When the Physician sought to alleviate the pain and suffering of Man, he was called an Atheist because he refused to accept disease as a special visitation of a vengeful God.
When religion expresses a nobler sentiment than that contained in these words of Robert G. Ingersoll, then, and only then, might it assume a superior attitude. He said:"
"Call me infidel, call me Atheist, call me what you will, I intend to so treat my children that they can come to my grave and truthfully say, 'He who sleeps here never gave us one moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.'"
Compare that statement with the words of Jesus Christ, and then decide whose mantle you prefer to wear, when he said:
"For I come to set man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: he that loveth his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."
(Matthew 10, 35, 37).
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."
--C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore
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Yoda: Do, or do not. There is no try.
-Yoda
(okay so it's a little geeky but I love sci fi and I think the little green bugger has a point :-)
You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither! Drew Carey
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quote by Bertrand Russell:
"Then you come to moral questions. There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in Hell. I do not myself feel that any person that is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching -- an attitude which is not uncommon with preachers, but which does somewhat detract from superlative excellence."
"As I said before, I do not think that the real reason that people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to do to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous." ... "That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for the most part extremely wicked. You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so-called Ages of Faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with all its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burned as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or ever mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a better place to live in, instead of the sort of place the churches in all these centuries have made it."
"The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan."
- Henry "Fritz" Schaefer (Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia)
"Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan, the Fascisti. and Mr. Winston Churchill? Really I am not much impressed with the people who say: "Look at me: I am such a splendid product that there must have been design in the universe." I am not very impressed by the splendor of those people. Therefore I think that this argument of design is really a very poor argument indeed. Moreover, if you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is merely a flash in the pan; it is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system. You see in the moon the sort of thing to which the earth is tending -- something dead, cold, and lifeless."
- Bertrand Russell,
"It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life."
- Arthur L. Schawlow (Professor of Physics at Stanford University, 1981 Nobel Prize in physics)
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.
Herman Hesse
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"Le vin est la plus saine et la plus hygienique des boissons."
"Wine is the healthiest and most hygienic of all drinks."
Louis Pasteur.
:icon_drunk: I'll drink to that!
LLL&R
Maebh
-12-14 billion years ago god created the Universe
-5 billion years ago he started with our Earth
-3 million years ago he started with humankind
-150,000 years ago he started with the current version of humankind
-5,000 years ago he revealed himself to humankind (so they say)
-And for only 2,000 years he has been able to "enjoy" Christian people
On a timescale of the Universe (100 percent):
-the Earth has existed for 42 percent of the time
-Apeman existed since 0.025 percent of the time
-Humankind itself has existed for 0.00125 percent of the time
-The Christian faith has existed for 0.000042 percent of the time (rounded upwards)
-The time God has been able to enjoy Christian people is 0.000017 percent (rounded upwards).
Thus, god has, for 99,999982 percent of time (rounded downwards = 1,199,999,784,000 years), been bored, has done nothing. He has been waiting for us, only to leave us behind "alone" once again. Why? For eating an apple, that's why! I know time is nothing to God, but this is preposterous.
- Sogree -
"I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing."
- Alan Sandage (winner of the Crawford prize in astronomy)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet Act 1, scene 5, 166–167
The Bard of Avon
Beverly
"When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute." Unknown
lmao :laugh:
Quote from: Chris on January 28, 2008, 01:18:49 AM
"When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute." Unknown
lmao :laugh:
lololol I laughed at that one Chris. Except I think they got it down to .99c a minute now! :D Mr/Mrs. Unknown must have wrote that when it first came out!
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings -- preaching intolerance and resorting to violence. - Hillary Clinton
Quote from: Natasha on January 28, 2008, 05:50:45 PM
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings -- preaching intolerance and resorting to violence. - Hillary Clinton
While I am not really a Hillary fan, this is a good quote. Thanks.
"When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics."
Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics)
Quote from: Chris on January 28, 2008, 01:18:49 AM
"When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute." Unknown
lmao :laugh:
ROFL ;D you nut! LOL
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I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.
Gene Wildertink :icon_chick:
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me. Moliere
"My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one." Bob Hope
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
OMG Chris, I swear...I could be having the toughest day ever, but you always make my day...LOL ;D :-*
"It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave."
Theophile Gautier
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Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the first district of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.
John McCain (upon being called a carpetbagger by a voter when he first ran for office because he had only lived in Arizona a short while)
As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe. - Stephen Hawking
Quote from: Tink on January 29, 2008, 10:14:03 PM
OMG Chris, I swear...I could be having the toughest day ever, but you always make my day...LOL ;D :-*
tink :icon_chick:
see princes I make u laugh all da time :laugh: :icon_kiss:
All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer." Homer Simpson :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Hi here is one for those who are interdimentionally inclined.
We have actually touched the Borderland where Matter and Force seem to merge into one another, the shadowy realm between the Known and Unknown ... I venture to think that the greatest scientific problems of the future will find their solution in this Borderland, and even beyond; here, it seems to me, lie Ultimate Realities, subtle, far-reaching, wonderful.
- Sir William Crookes, 1879
Cindy
Although all cat games have their rules and rituals, these vary with the individual player. The cat, of course, never breaks a rule. If it does not follow precedent, that simply means it has created a new rule and it is up to you to learn it quickly if you want the game to continue.
Sidney Denham
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"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters." unknown :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
"Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God."
- Stephen Hawking
Other animals give us a lesson in self-control: the cat, for instance, whose wisdom is a model because it combines the most intent passion with the calmest indifference. Motionless it plans its leap, and performs it exactly; the strength of its muscles is matched by its relaxation in repose; in sleep it has the abandon of an infant, yet its instinct is ever alert; it can fall without danger because it does not resist; hunting and fighting are games of pure pleasure for it, it hunts with rancor and plays without an object; it is ever ready to attack without animosity, and to defend itself without apprehension; being indifferent to victory, it cannot feel defeat.
Serenity comes from independence.
This independence, to be created in oneself, is not indifference, but neutrality with regard to the impressions received from without – whether pretty or ugly, good or bad, happy or sad, pleasant or unpleasant. It is one thing to observe these qualities and quite another to let them affect our moods.
Isha De Lubicz
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Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill
lmao :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires" - Susan B. Anthony -
Cats, by means of their whiskers, seem to possess something like an additional sense: these have, perhaps, some analogy to the antennae of moths and butterflies.
Rev. W. Bingley
I agree :)
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
About the God thing, and what came first, the egg or the chicken?
Well every now and again I let my mind get free to chase its tail on that one and it always comes up with the same answer. How could there be such precise order in the universe if there wasn't some type of intelligence to even conceive it to start with, then release it through the ether of this three dimensional realm so that there can even be mass and energy to exist in order to form the universe?
Written by me. ;)
Cindy
Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions. Woody Allen
lmao :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
"I'm a life long Anglophile. England is still the only place I know where any young man can grow up to be the Queen."
- Hawkeye Pearce
"Hee, hee, hee, hee." Love it Kristi
Cindy
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
Leonore Fleisher
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"Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end." -- Spock (Star Trek VI)
Chaunte
Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is. Milton Berle :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
*giggles* funny guy! ;D
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash; that one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
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"People in general do not know what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty?" -- Thomas Paine
It is impossible to think evil thoughts while eating a home grown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard
"There is one thing goes with me when tonight
I enter my last lodging, sweeping the bright
Stars from the blue threshold with my salute.
A thing unstained, unsullied by the brute
Broken nails of the world, by death, by doom
Unfingered - See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion -
My Panache."
Edmond Rostand (Trans. Anthony Burgess)
Kittens are angels with whiskers.
Author Unknown
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"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They simply refuse to be English."
Winston Churchill
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve. Andy Rooney
lmao :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
"It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life."
Arthur L. Schawlow (Professor of Physics at Stanford University, 1981 Nobel Prize in physics)
And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Oscar Wilde (The ballad of Reading Gaol)
To respect a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
Erasmus Darwin
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"The Irish gave the b->-bleeped-<-ipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
Oliver Herford
If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips
Woody Allen :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Chris on February 07, 2008, 12:24:30 AM
If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips
Woody Allen :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Naughty man! ;) ;D
With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?
Fernand Merytink :icon_chick:
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Humans are the only animal who can have sex over the phone.
Dave Letterman
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest Hemingway
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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. lmao :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Chris on February 08, 2008, 11:39:10 PM
I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. lmao :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Don't you? ;D >:D *hides*
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
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Religious experiences are like those induced by drugs, alcohol, mental illness, and sleep deprivation: They tell no uniform or coherent story, and there is no plausible theory to account for discrepancies among them." - Michael Martin
"Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
-Carl Jung
Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant.
Maurice Burton
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Sex relieves tension - love causes it. Woody Allen :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Okay naughty man. Here is one for you! ;D
If you don't get busy soon, we're going to sacrifice you to the volcano gods.
Cupid
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Quote from: Tink on February 12, 2008, 08:18:54 PM
Okay naughty man. Here is one for you! ;D
If you don't get busy soon, we're going to sacrifice you to the volcano gods.
Cupid
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lmao :laugh: thats a good one! :laugh:
no quotes today. dont got any :laugh:
"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely."
- Hawkeye, M.A.S.H.
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
..........Charles Bukowski
"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say 'supernatural') plan."
- Arno Penzias (Nobel prize in physics)
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. — Ferdinand Magellan
I suspect that many an ailurophobe (a person who fears or hates cats) hates cats only because he feels they are better people than he is -- more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not.
Winifred Carriere
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
Galileo Galilei
"Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word."
- George Ellis (British astrophysicist)
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. Woody Allen
lmao :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers
Beverly
To respect a cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
Erasmus Darwin
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
Beverly
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.
A.S.J. Tessimond
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'I wonder if its possible to have a live affair that lasts forever?
Andy Warhol
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
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Quote from: mr_marc on March 06, 2008, 11:31:00 AM
'I wonder if its possible to have a live affair that lasts forever?
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol exhibition on in town atm. Wonderful work, I love this man, would love to have met him in real life!!
shouldn't this topic be renamed, 'My repetitive obsessions' ??
Quote from: Pica Pica on March 06, 2008, 07:45:26 PM
shouldn't this topic be renamed, 'My repetitive obsessions' ??
No, no, and no!
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I prefer cats to dogs because I've never heard of police-cats.
LLL&R
Maebh
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.
Eve Babitz
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It's so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom.
dunno who said that :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
"She felt that somehow, wandering through uncharted territory, we might stumble upon something that will, in an instant, seem to represent who we are at the core," said Maya Soetoro-Ng, Mr. Obama's half-sister. "That was very much her philosophy of life — to not be limited by fear or narrow definitions, to not build walls around ourselves and to do our best to find kinship and beauty in unexpected places."
- Maya Soetoro-Ng, speaking of Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro
Cats are love on four legs.
Richard Torregrossa
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Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
Robert A. Heinlein
Cats are such good friends; they ask no questions, they accept no criticisms.
Edna Beilenson
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"Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?"
Eamon De Valera, on Victory Day in Europe, May 8, 1945, responding in a radio speech to criticism by Winston Churchill of Ireland's neutrality in World War II, a speech in which De Valera also thanked Churchill for not invading Ireland.
"It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls. "
- Katherine Lee Bates
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Quote from: BeverlyAnn on March 22, 2008, 10:36:21 PM
"Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?"
Eamon De Valera, on Victory Day in Europe, May 8, 1945, responding in a radio speech to criticism by Winston Churchill of Ireland's neutrality in World War II, a speech in which De Valera also thanked Churchill for not invading Ireland.
Go raibh míle maith agat BeverlyAnn.
And hopefully never will. But you'll soon see for yourself.
LL&R
Maebh
PS. I'm posting you some pictures from Belfast.
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
Anonymous.
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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror. -- Burt Reynolds
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. by somebody. dunno who :laugh:
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Quote from: Chris on March 26, 2008, 02:54:07 AM
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. by somebody. dunno who :laugh:
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ROFL! ;D Do you realize what you are getting into? ;)
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Quote from: reapersun (AFI FanFiction)I was seething inside. I was also seething outside, but that doesn't exactly sound poetic.
Serious, yet... Not.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. by somebody :laugh:
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at."
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
camille Paglia
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Je meurt comme j'ai vécu... au dessus de mes moyens
I die as I lived... well above my means.
The last words of the same divine Oscar.... when presented with his doctor's bill.
LLL&R
Maebh
Passion for place - there is no greater urge in feline nature.
Paul Annixter
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. Moliere
"By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold." (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain