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

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

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

tink

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