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05-10-2007, 10:02 AM
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More Than You Expect
Location: Queens
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"Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit - the cosmos? The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete without the smallest transmicroscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge."
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." -John Muir
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"Porn is a zoo of exotic animals that becomes boring upon ownership." -Nersesian |
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06-12-2007, 04:26 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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Sanity is madness put to good uses.
--George Santayana No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. --Henry Ward Beecher Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. --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 |
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07-27-2007, 08:42 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
-- Siddhartha Gautama(the Buddha) The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where. --Dorothy Thompson If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. --Rita Mae Brown The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.--Albert Einstein
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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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07-27-2007, 09:01 PM
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warrior bodhisattva
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Location: East-central Canada
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Easy is what’s bad to do,
what’s harmful to oneself. But what is good, of benefit, is very hard to do. -The Dhammapada
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot |
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08-15-2007, 04:27 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
--Hannah More Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. --John Dewey Life is just a chance to grow a soul. --A. Powell Davies
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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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09-03-2007, 08:04 PM
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Super Moderator
Location: 18,000+ posts on TFP #1,2,3,4 and 5,but I'm not counting!
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Quote of the day...add yours tomorrow...
9/3/07....."If you feed the poor,you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor,you're a communist"
xoxoxoo
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"Life goes on,within you,and...with out you !" xoxoxoo |
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09-14-2007, 12:14 AM
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Lost
Location: Florida
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9/14/07
"You get some nice fat frogs. Then you put them in a big pot of cold water over the burner. Next you turn on the fire and wait. The water just feels fine to the frogs until they wind up unexpectedly dead. That's how you make frog soup. And you are the frogs. " |
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09-16-2007, 05:44 PM
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Dumb all over...a little ugly on the side
Location: In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops.
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Ambrose Bierce When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. - Booth Tarkington
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He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done, he done it first. -fz I jus' want ta thank you...falettinme...be mice elf...agin... |
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10-01-2007, 02:31 PM
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comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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carry on...
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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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. Last edited by uncle phil; 10-08-2007 at 02:05 PM.. Reason: unnecessary at this juncture... |
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10-08-2007, 12:41 PM
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I change
Location: USA
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I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt. As long as the tenderness is there but also please let some of the contempt be there, because we know what we're like, we know how we hustle and bustle and shove and push, and you sometimes use grand words to cloak it. Dennis Potter (1935-1994) Dramatist and screenwriter
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10-13-2007, 05:22 PM
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Location: Shalimar, FL
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov This hits home because I am working for a cancer center and sometimes it's so hard to watch the downward spiral of people in general.
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the voices in your head are not real--but they still have some really great ideas. always remeber you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. But..you CAN choose the insane asylum where you have them all put away! 
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12-25-2007, 11:21 AM
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comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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"By the time it was all said and done, I spent almost $200,000 on my college education. By the time it was all said and done, the U. S. government spent $2,435.98 on my ceramic body armor, Kevlar helmet, and flak jacket. As the cadence says, 'I love working for Uncle Sam/Lets me know just who I am.' It also lets me know what I think I'm worth and what they think I'm worth."
- a 25-year-old USMC 1st Lt., Camp Fallujah, Iraq
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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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
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12-25-2007, 11:40 AM
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I Confess a Shiver
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"Those days are long gone. We are not emotional Deloreans, equipped to time travel back into the past to relive a life once lived. To do so would be to face the peril of being stranded in the Wild West or at the very least force an inching crawl toward whatever happy future we may have in our own individual Hill Valley. If at this point, it turns out that she was my only love and that I was now to spend the rest of my life as an isolated loveless bastard, I am ecstatic that at least I had that experience. That I had her. That we had something true." - P.D.
"Paranoia is just another kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love." - Charles Manson "I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget." - Marcus Cicero "Women should always wear tight clothing and men should have powerful handguns." - random Calvin & Hobbes comic Last edited by Plan9; 12-25-2007 at 12:01 PM.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost |
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12-25-2007, 12:30 PM
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Location: ❤
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth,
so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quaility of laughter that the audience takes home with it. - James Thurber |
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12-25-2007, 01:16 PM
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has a plan
Location: middle of Whywouldanyonebethere
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"You wake up in the morning, your paint's peeling, your curtains are gone, and your water is boiling, which problem do you deal with first?! None of them, the building's on fire!"
So often we treat our problems as if they are not connected, failing to uproot the real disturbance. The similarity to all your problems: you. New day, new thought. If you can't be good, be good at it.
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02-04-2008, 11:45 AM
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comfortably numb...
Super Moderator
Location: upstate
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A meaningful victory? Get real. After my deployment to Iraq ('03-'04), the mission over there reeked of one thing: damage control for a bad choice and no way out.
- Crompsin
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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 ----------------------------------------- "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" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
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02-15-2008, 09:12 AM
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Insane
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“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over”
Sappho
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* I do not believe that struggles are a sign of life falling apart, but rather a step of life falling into place. * |
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02-15-2008, 06:51 PM
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Location: Nunya
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ARTelevision,
This one says a lot! Great one! Quote:
Sigmund Freud
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