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.

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Maebh

"They that have the power to hurt, and will do none; they rightly do inherit heaven's graces"
- Shakespeare, Sonnet 94

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

Ayana 

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)

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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 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 )

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

Ayana   

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

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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 

Ayana   

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