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FuriousAvatar 11-03-2005 02:29 PM

"Consult not your fears, but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself, not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII

"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." - Confucious

"Far better is it to dare mighty things and win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank among those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

Hektore 11-03-2005 05:44 PM

"Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won"
- Adolf Hitler

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one."
- Adolf Hitler

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Hermann Goering

politicophile 11-03-2005 08:49 PM

"An unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates

"somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands"
-E.E. Cummings

"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges."
-Vladimir Nabokov

"Genius is an African who dreams up snow."
-Vladimir Nabokov

"We must never forget, that it is a constitution we are expounding."
-John Marshall

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
-Mao Tse-tung

"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means"
-Carl von Clausewitz

" Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
-Y.B. Yeats

irateplatypus 11-03-2005 10:12 PM

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
~G. K. Chesterton

cybersharp 11-04-2005 01:25 AM

All emotions have a price.. -- Russell K

Imagen a king who fights his own battles -- Movie Troy..

True reality is a shadow. -- me


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