10-27-2004, 04:28 AM | #884 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
~Agnes Meyer
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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) |
11-06-2004, 09:01 PM | #887 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Bowling Green, KY
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God judges political power, calling it the great harlot. We can expect from it neither justice, nor truth, nor any good -- only distruction. Jacques Ellul Anarchy and Christianity
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"Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose." Dick Cheney |
11-09-2004, 07:02 AM | #888 (permalink) |
I change
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"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
---- Paul Coffey - NHL's highest scoring defenseman; winner of four Stanley Cups; inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004
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11-12-2004, 09:44 AM | #891 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will
produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. ~Joshua Reynolds, painter (1723-1792)
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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) |
11-17-2004, 07:32 AM | #892 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling
yeast. ~Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)
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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) |
12-07-2004, 05:48 AM | #897 (permalink) | |
see the links to my music?
Location: Beautiful British Columbia
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this quote seems to fit my thinking..........thanx Art |
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12-15-2004, 04:03 AM | #903 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.
~Lao-Tzu philosopher (6th century BCE)
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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) |
12-30-2004, 12:15 PM | #910 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought. ~John F. Kennedy
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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) |
01-04-2005, 07:58 AM | #916 (permalink) |
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But elephants have souls. Anything that can get drunk, he reasoned, must have some soul. Perhaps this is all "soul" means.
Thomas Pynchon, "V."
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite |
01-18-2005, 10:09 AM | #919 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
~Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- )
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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) |
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