uncle phil

"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."

Blaise Pascal
Les Provincials (1656-57)

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

ARTelevision

It’s not the difference between people that’s the difficulty. It’s the indifference.

Author unknown

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World's King

I'm not like you.


Just like everyone else.

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heavy is the head that wears the crown

noodle

I have just as much baggage as the person sitting next to me.
Mine's just mostly carry-on.



There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf-life. ~~Frank Zappa

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mixedmedia

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Supple Cow

He who binds to himself a joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
He who kisses the joy as it flies,
Lives in Eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)

mixedmedia

Nize!

...........

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

blue_eyes

Be the change you want to see in the world~ Mahatma Ghandi

uncle phil

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Ourcrazymodern?

We all do better when we all do better.

Paul Wellstone (RIP)

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Ourcrazymodern?

What experience he had had had been bad.

-Piers Anthony

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ARTelevision

The most beautiful thing in the world is the conjunction of learning and inspiration.

Wanda Landowski
(1879-1959) Musician

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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. - Ambrose Bierce

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

FuriousAvatar

Ourcrazymodern?

"After 62 sleepless nights, 5 bottles of headache relief capsules, and 47 pounds of really good coffee I finally understand..." -Rachael Ray

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hotzot

You never can tell, when your own feet smell.

- Grampa

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The Bully Boys are here!

serlindsipity

"its not having what you want, its wanting what you've got"

-Cheryl Crow

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My third eye is my camera's lens.

pan6467

I just had a dream where he said this to his wife on his deathbed.... did he really ever say these words who knows but it sounds possible. SO I credit this to him.....

George Harrison, " I've played in two great bands, and have met some of the most beautiful people. But I have seen their hearts torn out and watched them crumble, each for different reasons. What did they all have in common though. No matter how rich, how much money they could spend.... the money never made them happy or mended their hearts."

So deep and beautiful wish, the dream had been.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

StormBerlin

I can stare at a puddle and see a million places I love...

"watching water" alias

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"if anal sex could get a girl pregnant i'd be tits deep in child support" Arcane

ARTelevision

Conduct is more convincing than language.

John Woolman (1720-1772)
Abolitionist

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Jetée

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
--Ellie Wiesel

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw

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

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

ARTelevision

Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Painter

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My new signature...from one of my greatest heroes.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

warrrreagl

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." — noam chomsky

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

serlindsipity

Vivre Memento.

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My third eye is my camera's lens.

Eeeraq

"FUCK YEAH, SLAYER"

-Timothy Kunkle


"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

-Aldous Huxley

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remeber that one time we partied all night?

me neither.

Ourcrazymodern?

To think I almost dropped him.

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ARTelevision

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler
(1870-1937)
Psychiatrist

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Ourcrazymodern?

Slinky Gumby

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ARTelevision

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott (1938-1996)
Psychiatrist and writer

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Supple Cow

A man never describes his own character so clearly as when he describes another.

--Jean Paul Richter

Jetée

'Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.'
-- Mark Twain

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

ItWasMe

Love that one, reconmike!

"If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain the whales?"
~anonymous~ (which means I don't remember)

Jetée

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
--Rene Dubos

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Grancey

The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.

~Stephen Lacey

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Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.

Jetée

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
--Barbara Bush

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
--Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. -
Katherine Dunn

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Push-Pull

That's the thing about death. Either you die, or you don't.

Hank Hill

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"No laws, no matter how rigidly enforced, can protect a person from their own stupidity." -Me-

"Some people are like Slinkies..... They are not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs." -Unknown-

DAMMIT! -Jack Bauer-

Azathoth

Cthulhu ftagn! A question abou "Nancy" of teenfuns:
Did she ever graduate to hard? Or are we always left wondering?

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