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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not uterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind; a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
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One more...
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a :present: and not giving it." ~ William Arthur Ward :blueheels: ~LadyBlue |
This is worth repeating.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.(f)
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Danse Russe
If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,— if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,— Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household? William Carlos Williams |
Dalai Lama
From one viewpoint, religion can be seen as sort of a luxury. If you have religion, that’s good, but even without it you can manage and survive - but we can't survive without human affection. While anger and hatred, like compassion and love, are part of our mind, I still believe the dominant forces are compassion and affection. Therefore, usually I refer to these human qualities as spirituality.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
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"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell."
- Sean Lennon "Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer." - Erica Jong |
Florynce R Kennedy
"Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism." |
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
- Abraham Heschel |
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw |
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.” - William Arthur Ward
"I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability." - Susan Boyle "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings." - Helen Keller |
I respect faith, but doubts are what get you educated.
Wilson Mizner |
Human beings are human beings before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible human beings, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
John Stuart Mill |
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can—and surely will at times—fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Joyce Brothers |
The Forgiveness Parade
There's nothing like a full moon reflected in the eyes of a blind man using a telescope to stir a bowl of Russian alphabet soup for the cosmonauts who orbited the shadow of Jupiter and are landing in an ocean of tears shed by cold blooded murderers who miss their mothers convulsively in their prison cells being wheeled caravan-style down Oswald Boulevard as part of the Forgiveness Parade where relatives of the victims stand quietly holding banners like 'Apology Accepted' as the vandals stumble past in shackles followed by the hijackers and the pickpockets who march single file up the fire escape of a skyscraper built by arsonists. Jeffrey McDaniel |
When She Finds Me
when I see her
my head becomes a mess that beautiful laugh that innocent smile the light inside of her eyes makes it all worthwhile she stands by my side I protect her and keep her safe when she says she loves me I can trust that she means it I can see it in her eyes this time it's real when she finally finds me my heart will run to her and her's to mine before we have each other in sight |
Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often dificult to tell which was which.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. There is a theory which states that if every anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. |
George Carlin...
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. :giggle: When someone says..."A penny for your thoughts..." and you 'put your :2cents: in'....what happens to the other penny? Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted and musicians denoted? :musicnote: I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. I"m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose....it'll be much harder to detect! If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. |
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. -- George Washington Carver |
Harriet Tubman...
Every great dream beings with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
I freed a thousand slaves & could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. |
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