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    "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
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    There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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    'The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.'
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    We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit..........Albert Schweitzer

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    Bares repeating! Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.........W. Somerset Maugham

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    Quote Posted by benevolentcrow (here)
    Bares repeating! Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.........W. Somerset Maugham
    i absolutely adore Somerset Maugham. he is in the top 5 for me.
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    The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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    In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds: and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.

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    "Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot," Mattis said, prompting laughter from some militay members in the audience. "It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling."

    CNN.com Feb 4 2005

    Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who commanded Marine expeditions in Afghanistan and Iraq

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    Quote Posted by Calz_Avaretard (here)
    In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds: and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.

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    grrrrr....argh.......chomp, chomp, chomp......lol
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    In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds: and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.

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    grrrrr....argh.......chomp, chomp, chomp......lol
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    Ouch!!!

    You just bit my big toe!!!

    Hope it tasted better than it smells

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    At present the American Government openly pushes for "la lutte finale" - "the ultimate war" - against a handful of nations, which until now refused to obey to orders of Global Investors. Moreover, this drive "to clean the earth from God damned people" has the support of a substantial majority of American population, especially in so called "Biblical Belt" of southern mid-western* states, from Florida to Texas. But what will be achieved once these plans "of a Creation of a 'New Earth' ", in agreement with prophet Isaiah 2, 5 thousand years old hallucinations, will be achieved? Already in 1912 the Polish philosopher Henryk Elsenberg, during the first wave of globalizaion, wrote: "One would not have a chance to escape from United States of the Earth. The man who thinks independently is condemned to extermination in such a super-state, and this without a hope. A Mankind divided, is a purgatory for a thinker, but the Mankind unified would be a hell without escape from it. (...) The catastrophe of unification means the generalized tyranny and generalized death (of human faculties to reason)."

    Unknown taken from Jordan Maxwell site.

    * - copying the quote but fwiw the states mentioned would be "southern mid-eastern" ...

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    "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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    'When all is said, we are ruled by the amateurs and the second-rate. The methods of our departments would bring any private firm to bankruptcy. The methods of Parliament — pardon me — would disgrace any board of directors. Our rulers pretend to buy expert knowledge, but they never pay the price for it that a business man would pay, and if they get it they have not the courage to use it. Where is the inducement for a man of genius to sell his brains to our insipid governors?

    And yet knowledge is the only power — now as ever. A little mechanical device will wreck your navies. A new chemical combination will upset every rule of war. It is the same with our commerce. One or two minute changes might sink Britain to the level of Ecuador, or give China the key of the world's wealth. And yet we never dream that these things are possible. We think our castles of sand are the ramparts of the universe.'

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    Now that you've found your paradise.
    This is your kingdom to command.
    You can go outside, and polish your car.
    Or sit by the fire in your Shangri-la.
    Here's your reward for working so hard.
    Gone are the lavatories in your backyard.
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    We go to work. come home, and watch TV for three hours, go to bed and do it all over again. What would you call that?
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    Hunger makes a thief of any man. -Pearl S. Buck

    Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. -William Shakespeare

    I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read -Thomas Babington Macaulay
    In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make

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    Good morning too all dearest avalonians. i hope you all have a beautiful day.

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    "Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."
    -Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, American writer and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1900-1948)

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    I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

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