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daledo
22nd November 2010, 00:53
Misc Quotes
Quotes from Information Clearing House and other sourses
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The Census Motto applies to President Obama, Congress, Supreme Court, Military and ALL Government: We cannot move forward until the COUNTRY looks back at 911. How we got here is MORE important than just blindly going forward. It IS in our collective National Security Interest NOT to let a proven lie stand as an "official record" of that terrible day. Like the warning we now KNOW the White House had before the earlier Pearl Harbor of WWII. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident as a False Flag ops to get the Vietnam War going. Actual PROOF of a "Secret Goverment". We can't wait, and do not NEED to wait, to discover the Brutal Truth of "...a new Pearl Harbor" September 11, 2001 and the Progress for New American Century members. Reality MUST be Truthful to be Useful. Robert Williams Administrator
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We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a suffeciently poweful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. - DUNE Reverend Mother Ramallo, Sayyadina of the Fremen
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“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?” - Joseph Stalin
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth: Lenin (1870 - 1924)
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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
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We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men: George Orwell
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"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.": Euripides
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"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty." : Anne Louise Germaine de Stael - (1766-1817) French author
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous: Carl Sagan
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Stabilizing the present is assumed to be a form of balance, but inevitably this action turns out to be dangerous. Law and Order are deadly. Trying to control the future serves only to deform it. DUNE Karben Fethr, The Folly of Imperial Politics
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"Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity." Cornelius Tacitus
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"The first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth" - Michael Parenti
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Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind: George Orwell
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The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. - Bene Gesserit Precept
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"We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government.... Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson ... and tell them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government and that the banks should go out of the governing business." - William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Convention, 1896
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If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20 percent. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. Thomas Edison 1920s
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"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in.": General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them: George Orwell
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"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.": Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 and died in 1945. Goebbels was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda
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“It is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe in the world.....

These are the gentry who are today wrapped up in the American flag, who shout their claim from the housetops that they are the only patriots, and who have their magnifying glasses in hand, scanning the country for evidence of disloyalty, eager to apply the brand of treason to the men who dare to even whisper their opposition to Junker rule in the United Sates. No wonder Sam Johnson declared that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.....

Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These autocrats, these tyrants, these red- handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims-they are the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight. " Eugene V. Debs - The Canton, Ohio, Anti-War Speech. June 16, 1918
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Swim Against The Current. Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow. Jim Hightower
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.": Abraham Lincoln
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"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands." -- Spiro Agnew U. S. Vice-President Source: 13 November 1969
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
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The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil: Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo - Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)
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"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." : Michael Parenti political scientist, author
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"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people." David Edwards - British columnist - Source: Burning All Illusions, 1996
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"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...: Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
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"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.": Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) 26th US President
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"If the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.": Noah Webster - (1758-1843) American patriot and scholar, author of the 1806 edition of the dictionary that bears his name, the first dictionary of American English usage.
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Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires: Edward W. Said - "Orientalism 25 Years Later," Counterpunch.org website, 4 August 2003.
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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.: Lucius Annaeus Seneca : 4 BC-65. Roman philosopher and playwright
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"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Russian writer Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
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"Free inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, however unpopular they may be, without social or legal prohibition or fear of success." -- Paul Kurtz "A Secular Humanist Declaration," in On The Barricades, 1989

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"This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths." -- Simon Heffer : Daily Mail, 7 June 2000

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We allow the most atrocious lies uttered by political and moral prostitutes to go unchallenged. These lies are endlessly recycled in the commercial media until they become ingrained in the public conscience as truth. Worse than burying our heads in the sand, we bury them up our collective ass. How do you like the view?: Charles Sullivan
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Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
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Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
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Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah
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Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18
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Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a
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Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23
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Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.: T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien
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Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5
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"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." -- Fredrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
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"Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation." -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice Source: We, The Judges, 1956
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"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind." -- Thomas Paine - (1737-1809)
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From Dune:
"Superiority is in the eye of the beholder and invariably involves filtering out details that do not conform to a particular preconceived notion." - Erasmus

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"How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man." - Abulurd Harkonnen

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"To keep from dying is not the same as "to live"." - Bene Gesserit Saying

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"Why look for meaning where there is none? Would you follow a path you know leads no where?" - Query of the Mentat School

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"Innovation and daring create heroes. Mindless adherence to outdated rules creates only politicians." - Viscount Hundro Moritani

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"The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice." - Rebec of Ginaz

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"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim." - Bene Gesserit Axiom

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"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie
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"Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul." - Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering
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"There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgements." - Bene Gesserit Axiom
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"If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying." - Duke Paulus Atreides
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"To know what one ought to do is not enough." - Prince Rhombur Vernius
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"Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wnats to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence." - Caedmon Erb
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"There is no reality---only our own order imposed on everything." - Basic Bene Gesserit Dictum
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"The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth." - Bene Gesserit Precept
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"The desert is a surgeon cutting away the skin to expose what is underneath." - Fremen Saying
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"Special knowledge can be a terrible disadvantage if it leads you too far along a path that you cannot explain anymore." - Mentat Admonition
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"The strictest limits are self-imposed." - Friedre Ginaz
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"The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is." - Sigan Visee
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"Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way. No one makes it through life without paying, in one fashion or another." - Lady Helena Atreides
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"In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and--let us hope--we remember how to change back." - Ambassador Cammar Pilru
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"Hatred is as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for either one is the capacity for its opposite." - Cautionary Instructions for the Sisterhood
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"The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer." - Ancient Fremen Wisdom
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"Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?" -- Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) Source: at the US Constitutional Convention
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"We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this." - Woodrow T. Wilson - (American 28th President of the United States 1856-1924)
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"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are." - Plato - Greek Philosopher - 428 BC-348 BC
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"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war." - - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia - Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War
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Half a truth is often a great lie: Benjamin Franklin
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"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.": Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
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" I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." Thomas Jefferson:
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"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings." Dorothy Thompson:
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" As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings:
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"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." Stephen Vincent Benét
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." Andre Gide
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"Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Arundhati Roy:
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all". : Dale Carnegie:
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"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be": Don Quixote:
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"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow". Dorothy Thompson:
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"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired". Erik H. Erikson:
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" ... I am a wholly independent newspaperman, standing alone, without organizational or party backing, beholden to no one but my good readers. I am even one up on Benjamin Franklin - I do not accept advertising." -I.F. Stone
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"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank. "- Barack Obama, October 27, 2007
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"Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.": Helena Cassadine
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Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own: John Ruskin
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear: Herbert Sebastien Agar
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth: Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
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"...freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation." - Thomas Jefferson
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"The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus ... are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it [the Constitution] contains. ...The practices of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. Alexander Hamilton

Administrative Note: In light of Obama continuing Bush policy, the illegal and permanent detention without charge, the above quotes are MORE important now then ever. We are slowly becoming a FASCIST POLICE MILITARY STATE.

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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.": Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - (1749-1832)
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"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Benjamin Franklin - (1706-1790) US Founding Father
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"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.": Frederick Baily (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
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I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. Rev. Martin Luther King -
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." -- Thomas Jefferson - (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
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"Anyone who tells you that 'It Can't Happen Here' is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no 'house rule' that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos." -- Mike Vanderboegh : (1953- ) Alabama Minuteman
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"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.": Oswald Spengler - (1880-1936) Source: The Decline of the West, 1926
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Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible 'noble purpose', but to plain, naked, human evil.: Ayn Rand
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"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either." -- Edward Zehr - (1936-2001) Columnist
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"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." -- Justice Joseph Story : (1779-1845) US Supreme Court Justice 1833
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"Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned." - -- Swami Nirmalananda - Source: Enlightened Anarchism
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"A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought." -- Leon Blum - (1872-1950)
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My eyes have been trained to look for other things. A beautiful person may still be repugnant inside, and a malformed body may contain a pefect heart. What sort of creature are you? - Liet Kynes DUNE
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An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me...It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too."
They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied..."The one I feed." Cherokee Teachings
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost: Thomas Jefferson

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Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed: Horatius Bonar, D.D.

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Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people: John Adams

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

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"Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society" : Albert Einstein

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"MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY.

SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS

OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER,

SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND

RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS."

SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON

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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." -Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963
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"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed ... were not, as some assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees.": Rudolf Hoess, the SS commandant at Auschwitz.
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"It has been for some time a generally received opinion, that a military man is not to inquire whether a war be just or unjust; he is to execute his orders. All princes who are disposed to become tyrants must probably approve of this opinion, and be willing to establish it; but is it not a dangerous one, since, on that principle, if the tyrant commands his army to attack and destroy, not only an unoffending neighbor nation, but even his own subjects, the army is bound to obey? A negro slave, in our colonies, being commanded by his master to rob or murder a neighbor, or do any other immoral act, may refuse, and the magistrate will protect him in his refusal. The slavery then of a soldier is worse than that of a negro!" Benjamin Franklinto Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (B 11:18-9)
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"It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control." Ron Paul - (1935-) American physician, US Congressman

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"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretense of defending, have enslaved the people." - James Madison, speech at the Constitutional Convention, June 29, 1787

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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.

"The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." - James Madison, "Political Observations" April 20, 1795

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"Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen."
(Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd")

crosby
29th March 2011, 08:16
i decided this morning to start this thread. i'm sure lots of you out there have many quotes from famous or even not so famous persons in history. it's a lightweight thread meant to start your day off with something lighthearted. i will also be posting quotes that may give you something too ponder as well. please feel free to add your own quotes as well. so here goes!!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
-Thomas Mann, German author (1875-1955)

Ineffable Hitchhiker
29th March 2011, 08:22
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jiddu Krishnamurti.

crosby
29th March 2011, 08:27
excellent quote. thanks for joining in Ineffable Hitchhiker. have a great day.
warmest regards, corson

Teakai
29th March 2011, 08:45
"Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened."

Winston Churchill.

crosby
29th March 2011, 08:51
Teakai, isn't that the truth. thanks for contributing.
warmest regards, corson

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 09:02
Hello - some more Churchill quotes:

1. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

2. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

3. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

4. A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

5. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

6. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Love and peace to all. JP :cool:

ViralSpiral
29th March 2011, 09:05
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Afm6-TcZ7Ho/Saq3IhZq4xI/AAAAAAAABeo/Bk1ihuXTSbI/s400/dr.+seuss+lorax.jpg

crosby
29th March 2011, 09:07
John, those are priceless. thanks so much. my day will be much brighter with these thoughts running around......lol. Churchill was a great speaker wasn't he?
warmest regards, corson

Gaia
29th March 2011, 09:08
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

crosby
29th March 2011, 09:09
Viral Spiral, nothing better than a good dose of dr. suess to make you think. thanks for the graphic, way too cute.
warmest regards, corson

Gaia, i agree wholeheartedly. thanks for posting my friend.
warmest regards, corson

Muzz
29th March 2011, 09:15
Experience is what you get when you didnt get what you wanted.

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 09:16
Hello corson

One of my favourite Churchill quotes; When a cabinet colleague asked: “Prime Minister can you lend me a penny to phone a friend?” Churchill replied: Here’s Twopence - phone them all…” Ha ha ha

Best regards. JP :cool:

crosby
29th March 2011, 09:18
Muzz, that is great. thank you. lots to ponder there.
warmest regards, corson

John, hahahahahahahahahah. that is tooooooo funny. love it.
corson

Wiremu2011
29th March 2011, 09:26
"YOU are the Pupil and the Teacher".......period!

crosby
29th March 2011, 09:27
Wiremu2011, couldn't have said it better!!!!!
warmest regards, corson

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 09:34
Another funny from Churchill: Bessie Braddock a rather large and voluble lady met Winston in the halls of Parliament rather late one evening and exclaimed: “Prime Minister - you are drunk!” and without a second thought, Winston replied: “And you madam, are ugly - but in the morning, I shall be sober ...” Ha ha

Best regards. JP :cool:

Anchor
29th March 2011, 09:36
Funny one...

Woman on Street: Sir, you are drunk; very, very drunk.
Winston Churchill: Madame, you are ugly; very, very ugly...... I shall be sober in the morning.

http://theorem.ca/~mcole/Churchill.html

SKAWF
29th March 2011, 09:49
my perception, is the medium, through which, i express myself. (me)

'life has a habit of dressing up your greatest gifts in the form of your worst nightmare' (David Icke)

'the truth is of little value unless utilised in some way' (h rosenthal)

'you'll see your problems multiply
if you continually decide,
to faithfully pursue....
the policy of Truth.' (depeche mode)

Lord Sidious
29th March 2011, 10:00
Do, or do not, there is no try.

Some little green communist I saw once.

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 10:30
A few more classics from Churchill


A sheep in sheep's clothing (On Clement Atlee)

A modest man, who has much to be modest about (On Clement Atlee)

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

JP :cool:

Calz
29th March 2011, 10:30
These two need to be taken together to get a good feel for the "political reality" that we have always been mired in:


Decades ago Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “Nothing in politics ever happens
by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

Decades earlier Benjamin Disraeli, famed as the Victorian-era Prime Minister
of Britain, wrote: “The world is governed by people far different from those
imagined by the public.”

Ineffable Hitchhiker
29th March 2011, 10:38
Evening news is where they begin with :-"Good evening" and proceed to tell you why it isn´t.

Calz
29th March 2011, 10:47
We need to slow down here folks or else we will run out of quotes and could that mean the END OF DAYS??? :scared:

Just like the joke about the Mayan calandar makers running out of rock :moil:

Muzz
29th March 2011, 10:50
These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
____________________________________________________________________
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?'
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
______________________ ________________
ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: ; Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________________________________
ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty-one.
________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you ****tin' me?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh.... I was gettin' laid!
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS : Are you ****tin' me? Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated it?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Guess.
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like to rephrase that?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 P.M.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at t he time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh....are you qualified to ask that question?
______________________________________
And the best for last:
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practising law.

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 11:02
Hi Muzz

Hahahahahahaha - these were so funny - my wife has just walked in wondering why I am laughing like a drain to myself!

Best regards. JP :cool:

Muzz
29th March 2011, 11:11
Thanks John, Ive had these a while but still get a tickle when I read them.

ViralSpiral
29th March 2011, 11:27
http://www.inkycircus.com/photos/uncategorized/carbon_14_dating.jpg

ktlight
29th March 2011, 12:07
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!

If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got!

dejavu
29th March 2011, 12:23
From Robert Burns (1759-1796)
6486



In Scottish............
'Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
to see oursel's as others see us
It wad frae monie a blunder free us

In English...............
Oh would some power the gift to give us
to see ourselves as others see us
It would from many a blunder free us

benevolentcrow
29th March 2011, 12:36
March Wind

As the trees start leafing out, I am reminded of what's to come.
The trees dance in the wind, awakening a glimmer of hope within my heart.
As I look at the daffodils facing the sun, I remember the present.
Feeling this energy surge through my own body, I breathe deeply.
I accept the continuous changing world of our Creator.

Mister_m
29th March 2011, 13:12
"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. "

Abd Er-Rahman III of Spain: (960 C.E)

One of my favorites, as it sums up how pointless the pursuit of power for powers sake is.

East Sun
29th March 2011, 13:40
"If you're not paranoid by now you must be crazy."

It may have been said before, if not I claim it as from my life's experience...

Gaia
29th March 2011, 14:48
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
Deepak Chopra

benevolentcrow
29th March 2011, 15:06
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." Margaret Bonnano

Lord Sidious
29th March 2011, 15:14
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
Deepak Chopra

You know, deepak chopra sounds like something you could order at an indian restaurant?
Yeah, I will have one beef madras, one chicken vindaloo and a deepak chopra all take away, thanks.
See?

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 15:19
Hell My Lord

Ha ha ha - I like your sense of humour - more please ...

JP :cool:

Lord Sidious
29th March 2011, 15:24
Hell My Lord

Ha ha ha - I like your sense of humour - more please ...

JP :cool:

Lucky you posted, I forgot the pappadums.
Again.

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 15:27
Hello again M'Lord

Still laughing! Ha ha ha - How about Naan Bread?

All the best. JP :cool:

Jake
29th March 2011, 15:38
"I have gone to find myself. If I should return before I get back. Keep me here! I need to talk to myself"

Gaia
29th March 2011, 15:49
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
Deepak Chopra

You know, deepak chopra sounds like something you could order at an indian restaurant?
Yeah, I will have one beef madras, one chicken vindaloo and a deepak chopra all take away, thanks.
See?

"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."

Peter Ustinov

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 15:54
“Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel” Aristotle ...

bearcow
29th March 2011, 16:18
"git r done"

larry the cable guy

Gaia
29th March 2011, 16:20
When I go to a restaurant, I always ask for a chicken and an egg, to see which comes first.
Anonymous.

butcherman
29th March 2011, 16:59
life is a ting, sometimes a good ting, sometimes a bad ting, but yanah always a ting .

butcherman peace and love to all

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 17:03
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas” - Paula Poundstone

I remember asking my daughter this same question when she was little and she replied: “An adult!” …

Love to all. JP :cool:

Mad Hatter
29th March 2011, 17:17
From the sublime to the rediculous... enjoy!!


In a 1994 interview with an IBM virus hunter, notorious Bulgarian virus writer Dark Avenger offered this advice:
First rule of computer security: don't buy a computer.
Second rule: if you do buy one, don't turn it on.


“Nationalism” The last bastion of complete scoundrels


'Intellectual' Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence
Arthur C Clarke


“Politics is the art of the possible “
which is why only second rate minds go into it,
genius likes to challenge the impossible…


That which does not kill me is just not trying hard enough!!


If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?


A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.


Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.


You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.


It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.


Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.


Ideas won't work unless you do.


Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.


Don't let your mind go wandering it’s too small to go out by itself.


If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?


Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.


Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.


Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.


A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.


Truth comes only to a prepared mind.


UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.


Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.


Temporarily out of my mind… back in 5 minutes!


I’m not completely insane I’m just missing bits…


I’m not suffering from insanity I’m thoroughly enjoying it!


The Gene pool needs a little chlorine.


The world is ruled by those who turned up.


Don’t resent getting old. A great many are denied that privilege.


Still waiting on 172.16


There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law…..
No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Girandoux


To speak on behalf of the wounded you must first make an imaginary leap of identification with the wounded….thus the favourite sport of academic leftists: Pin your Tale on the people!!


“Windows” is a 32 bit graphical user interface for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system made for a 4 bit microprocessor by a 2 bit company that can’t stand one bit of competition.


According to the father of free software, Richard Stallman, it “is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free speech, not free beer.” It is not a socialist ideal.


The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth. Neils Bohr.


If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work.Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut. Albert Einstein.


There is no I in team, however there is me.


The truth lies in static instances. Brian Aldiss.


Be not do Brian Aldiss.


Multitasking = an inability to focus!!


First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure. Mark Twain


Nothing is true, everything is permitted.


An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr


"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act," George Orwell


Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering


Be alert, Australia needs more lerts…


In the Land of the Blind, the one eyed man is considered insane.


Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34


There are two types of infinity, space and mans stupidity. Mark Twain


The wise man is always seeking more knowledge, and in his searchings will not scorn what, at first sight, may seem to be a variance with established opinons, lest in so doing he lose a jewel of wisdom worth more than all the treasures of Earth.Osiris


Nothing is impossible except that the state of your mind makes it so Professor John R R Searl


Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. Arthur C Clarke


Veritas Liberabit Vos Truth Freedom You St. Annes Gippsland Grammar School Moto


See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. Robin Williams


I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish
if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? U.S.President Ronald REAGAN
September 21, 1987, 42d Session of the U. N. General Assembly in New York


When freedom is at stake, silence is not golden – it is yellow. Tom Anderson


Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence.
Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881; Swiss writer and philosopher)


Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.; Greek philosopher)


The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a time of moral crisis try to maintain a position of neutrality. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321


Remember, it is better to be disturbed by truth than to be deceived by falsehood. Dr. Cathy Burns


“Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms: and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses…” Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte; 1769-1821)


When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimmy Hendrix


All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed; Second it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self evidentArthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)


When your one step ahead of the crowd you’re a genius. When your two steps ahead you’re a crackpot. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, (Feb 1998)


Those who say something can't be done should stop bothering those who are doing it!


Using Yesterday's Software to create tomorrow's problems today.


Time is the wisest because it discovers Everything Thales of Miletus (ca.624BC-ca.546BC)


Everything flows, nothing stands still. Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca.535BC-475BC)


One thing I know, that I know nothing. Socrates of Athens (ca.470BC–399BC)


Great spirits have always met violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstien.


If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to prove that no crows are; it is enough to prove one single crow to be white.William James


There is no energy crisis. Only a crisis of ignorance. R. Buckminster Fuller


The crowd of fools who know nothing is infinite Galileo


Scepticism is the first step towards truth. Denis Diderot


The Pursuit of Excellence is a choice... one that defines the essence of who we are. It sets the standard for the manner in which we fulfill commitments, the service we provide, the quality of our support and the encouragement we give to others!


“When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: “Who stands to gain?”… It is not important who directly advocates particular views. What is important is who stands to gain from these views, proposals, measures.”Vladimir Lenin


Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right reasons, and in the right way - that is not easy.Aristotle


Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its goal the betterment of humanity.Nikola Tesla


Violence is the last resort of the incompetent Asimov


“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.”Albert Einstein


Secrets, the first bastion of the inept.


Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity!


Never attribute to malice that which can adequately explained by stupidity.


“I think ; Therfore I am.” Decartes


Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups Robert Killeffer


To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a widflower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in one hour. William Blake


"If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You'll Always Be What You've Always Been." Anonymous


If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him - Is he still wrong? Anonymous


When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a troublemaker.


Of all the things I've ever lost, I miss my mind the most.


Madness takes its toll....please have exact change ready.


The trouble with being in the rat race is, even if you win you're still a rat. Lily Tomlin


Make it idiot proof, and someone will invent a better idiot.


Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?A terrible thing; no one to blame. Erica Jong


The trouble with computers is that they are very sophisticated idiots. Doctor Who


In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.Samuel Johnson


"A crank is a crank only until he's been proved correct." Mark Twain


The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius


War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left. Confucious


It is the duty of every patriot to protect their country from its government. Thomas Paine


I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire


CUI BONO(Who benefits)


In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell (Eric Blair, author of 1984)

The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Margaret Thatcher


A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx. Ronald Reagan


Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from behind or an idiot from any direction!


“History is the lie currently agreed upon.” Voltaire


“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a politician…but i repeat myself”. Mark Twain


“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, create a new model that makes the old model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller


"One does not become enlightened by imagining beings of light, but by making the darkness conscious." Carl Jung


”Sorry to interrupt the festivities, but we have a problem.” HAL 2001 A space odyssey“


Time is an illusion, but a very very persistent one.” Albert Einstein


“There is a principal which is proof against all information, which is proof against all argument, which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance; that principal is contempt prior to investigation.” Herbert Spencer


“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.” Einstein


“Banking doesn’t ‘involve’ fraud...banking IS fraud.” Tim Madden


“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Ghandi


What is mind? Never matter. What is matter? Never mind.


“Computers are worthless. They can only give you the answers.” Pablo Piccaso


"Seriousness is the leading cause of truth decay." Swami Beyondanonda


"A fool can learn from his own experiences; the wise learn from the experience of others." Democritus, 460-370 B.C.


"Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do!" JP Morgan


“When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings;when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.”


Diogenes

”What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.” Diogenes


“He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.” Lao Tse


“There is only one absolute truth, which is there in no absolute truth.” Einstein


“So, what you are saying, Percy, is that something you’ve never seen is slightly more blue than something else you haven’t seen” Black Adder


"A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure"
Hugh Kingsmill 1889-1949


"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic." David Russell


“Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.” Richard Feynman


“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Jefferson.


“He who controls the past controls the present. He who controls the present controls the future.” George Orwell


“Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds?”


“What you are speaks so loud, I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


“If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?” Charles Fort


“Every majestic oak tree was once a nut who stood his ground”


"Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view." Micheal Crichton, The Lost World

ViralSpiral
29th March 2011, 17:27
looooooooooool Mad Hatter. Couldnt find one you really liked? Perhaps this was your problem: Multitasking = an inability to focus!!

;)

The Hatter - Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at.

:p

John Parslow
29th March 2011, 17:27
Hello Mad Hatter

My favourite:

“Windows” is a 32 bit graphical user interface for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system made for a 4 bit microprocessor by a 2 bit company that can’t stand one bit of competition.


Ha ha ha - I loved that line!

Best regards. JP :cool:

Gajanana
29th March 2011, 17:28
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

Gaia
29th March 2011, 17:32
Geez, Mad Hatter, do you have breakfast stuff like Twinkies, Pez or Root beer ? :)
My cheeks are hurting, I'm out of here:p

Calz
29th March 2011, 17:36
Mad Hatter ... can you please repeat that in BINARY???

Holy Smokes ... those are "Quotes for the Year" (and not a bad year I might add ... thanx)

:blah: :first: :blah:

Eva2
29th March 2011, 17:37
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.
Bugs Bunny

shijo
29th March 2011, 17:58
Hello corson

One of my favourite Churchill quotes; When a cabinet colleague asked: “Prime Minister can you lend me a penny to phone a friend?” Churchill replied: Here’s Twopence - phone them all…” Ha ha ha

Best regards. JP :cool:

another one, bessie braddock mp. " Winston your drunk! "And you Madam are ugly, however i shall be sober in the morning".

Calz
29th March 2011, 18:06
Hello corson

One of my favourite Churchill quotes; When a cabinet colleague asked: “Prime Minister can you lend me a penny to phone a friend?” Churchill replied: Here’s Twopence - phone them all…” Ha ha ha

Best regards. JP :cool:

another one, bessie braddock mp. " Winston your drunk! "And you Madam are ugly, however i shall be sober in the morning".

Quite popular ... I believe that is the *third* time for that quote (in only one day no less :) )

In which case he may have been sober but must have endured one HECK of a hangover :sick:

Belle
29th March 2011, 18:12
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
-- Wendell Johnson

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
-- Margaret Mead

Buy land. They've stopped making it.
-- Mark Twain

crosby
29th March 2011, 18:59
okay, looks like while the cat was away the mice were at play. nice job everyone. these are all great. mad hatter????????????? i hope you saved some for tomorrow. lol. thanks everyone. these quotes are all fantastic......it looks like churchill takes the day. hope you all had fun with this. as i watched the posts coming in this morning before going to work, i was laughing a lot. when i got home from work, and read the rest, i was on the floor. some of these are just way too funny.
warmest regards, corson

benevolentcrow
29th March 2011, 19:26
"We came here on this planet from many other physical locations and dimensional realms to assist in the global transition now under way into a higher vibrational frequency of existence.

Although most of us do not yet have a clear and complete recall of this self-chosen mission of spiritual assistance, we have nevertheless followed the callings from our soul and have prepared ourselves in all kinds of ways to be ready to accomplish what we came to do and, more importantly, to be.

Through the collective resonance we hold by being in perfect alignment with our true divine nature as sentient expressions of All That Is, we can indeed provide the necessary global impetus for the ever greater awakening of countless souls on Earth and for their empowerment to be all that they can be.

In so doing/being, we co-create a powerful vortex of change whose near contagious effects can now be observed worldwide and is instrumental in bringing about significant changes in all spheres of human activity.

This is directly opening the way towards the Golden Path of Light which all souls eventually take to become reunited and consciously re-absorbed into the Cosmic Matrix of Creator Source while bringing the harvest of many, many lifetimes and countless experiences to further enrich the collective sentience of All That Is in All That Is.

This process which is forever ongoing is part of the natural maturation of souls in their eternal journey of exploration of the myriad experiences offered by all realms of sentient existence."


- Taken from Meditation Focus #221: Anchoring the Golden Path of Light

Lord Sidious
29th March 2011, 21:45
I am what I am and that's what I am, I am Popeye the sailorman.
Some nugget called Popeye, it seems.

jjl
29th March 2011, 22:09
have you got any chicken nuggets?

¤=[Post Update]=¤

I'm afraid you wont

Lifesong
29th March 2011, 22:14
What a great thread, fun and inspiring. Here are mine:

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." - Sir Winston Churchill

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark." - Barbara Hall

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Ghandi

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

"I do not believe that the same God that endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Gallileo

HURRITT ENYETO
29th March 2011, 22:15
In life the things that are free often cost you the most.
by Hurritt Enyeto

Lord Sidious
29th March 2011, 22:26
have you got any chicken nuggets?

¤=[Post Update]=¤

I'm afraid you wont

Sorry, the name is Lord Sidious, not Colonel Sanders.

Gaia
29th March 2011, 22:41
Luv it Lord !

The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes, and that smug look on his face.

Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken ! Ohhhhh !


Memorable quotes So I Married an Axe Murderer

jorr lundstrom
29th March 2011, 22:44
All these days that passed. I didnt realize it was my life. ( Unknown)

benevolentcrow
29th March 2011, 22:48
“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy”

Gaia
29th March 2011, 22:53
have you got any chicken nuggets?

¤=[Post Update]=¤

I'm afraid you wont

Backword of stressed is desserts:o
Anonymous

rgray222
29th March 2011, 22:58
A few more Churchill quotes

Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”
Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”

There is no such thing as a good tax.

KosmicKat
30th March 2011, 02:35
The further music departs from the dance, the less musical it becomes

I rely heavily on quotes. They save me from having to be original

Mad Hatter
30th March 2011, 04:27
Sorry team, upon reflection that probably was a bit over the top!! Too much imbibing from the 'ine' food group (Caffeine / Nicotine)
Corson thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this thread it makes my quote farming operation so much easier!!
Keep em rolling folks….

If I had to choose just one it would be “I am that which I can not point to and say I am that”

PS1 I had no idea Mr. Churchill had such a wicked sense of humour.

PS2 Try running one a day on your office door, then slip in the odd controversial one. Can generate an opportunity to wake another up!!

TigaHawk
30th March 2011, 04:33
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its ANIMALS are treated" - No Clue.

crosby
30th March 2011, 05:34
okay folks, here is today's quote, i hope you like and enjoy and think.


March 30, 2011
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
Colette, French author ( 1873-1954)

Calz
30th March 2011, 05:47
David Rockefeller, Memoirs, 2002

"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interest of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

crosby
30th March 2011, 05:55
........................................

thanks calz, where would we be if not for them????
warmest, corson

Calz
30th March 2011, 06:21
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken


PS - corson. I saw your last reply before you deleted it (for whatever reason). Quotes like this (and rockefeller's) are not about inducing a feeling of "emptiness".

Quite to the contrary ... they should be viewed as empowering in that they shed light into the "darkness". They give clues into the mindset of the PTB/W and show that they are not (were not) nearly as all-powerful as we are sometimes led to believe.

IMHO - and thanks for the thread :)

¤=[Post Update]=¤


........................................

thanks calz, where would we be if not for them????
warmest, corson

Lol :)

I should think that would be another thread but a useful stretch of positive imagination.

crosby
30th March 2011, 06:22
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken


PS - corson. I saw your last reply before you deleted it (for whatever reason). Quotes like this (and rockefeller's) are not about inducing a feeling of "emptiness".

Quite to the contrary ... they should be viewed as empowering in that they shed light into the "darkness". They give clues into the mindset of the PTB/W and show that they are not (were not) nearly as all-powerful as we are sometimes led to believe.

IMHO - and thanks for the thread :)

love you. and you are correct, absolutely.
warmest , kim

thank you

Platinum
30th March 2011, 06:35
Just found this great topic, excellent reading, thanks! :)



"There is a reason you chose what is happening around you.
Hold on, live your way through the best you know how, and in a bit, you'll find out why."


"The only reason you find the Game confusing, is because you can't remember all the rules!"


"You learn most, when you play against an opponent who can beat you."


"That which most concerns and worries you -
your survival -

is the only certainty you have."


- Excerpts from the "Messiah's Handbook".

crosby
30th March 2011, 06:54
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken


PS - corson. I saw your last reply before you deleted it (for whatever reason). Quotes like this (and rockefeller's) are not about inducing a feeling of "emptiness".

Quite to the contrary ... they should be viewed as empowering in that they shed light into the "darkness". They give clues into the mindset of the PTB/W and show that they are not (were not) nearly as all-powerful as we are sometimes led to believe.

IMHO - and thanks for the thread :)

¤=[Post Update]=¤


........................................

thanks calz, where would we be if not for them????
warmest, corson

Lol :)

I should think that would be another thread but a useful stretch of positive imagination.

YOU REALLY MADE ME THINK... SCARY
THANK YOU. kim

Ineffable Hitchhiker
30th March 2011, 07:06
"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Parslow
30th March 2011, 08:48
Mens cuiusque is est quisque - CICERO

The spirit is the true self ...

Love to all. JP :cool:

Lord Sidious
30th March 2011, 09:11
If I told you I was a liar, would you believe me?
Uncle Sidious

ViralSpiral
30th March 2011, 09:15
If I told you I was a liar, would you believe me?
Uncle Sidious

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/signaturepics/sigpic2038_1.gif

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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. Zahi Hawass

/cough

Calz
30th March 2011, 09:21
have you got any chicken nuggets?

¤=[Post Update]=¤

I'm afraid you wont

Sorry, the name is Lord Sidious, not Colonel Sanders.

What State did KFC originate from???

Oooops ... my bad ... that was ANOTHER thread :sorry: :haha:

ViralSpiral
30th March 2011, 09:26
http://www.bghelp.net/forums/images/smileys2/rofl.gif


this thread delivers!!

Wookie
30th March 2011, 09:26
So long and thanks for all the fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojydNb3Lrrs

Peaceful Journeys Wookie

Calz
30th March 2011, 09:38
So long and thanks for all the fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojydNb3Lrrs

Peaceful Journeys Wookie

:wave: :bolt: :fish:

Gaia
30th March 2011, 09:45
"Boy, those French ! They have a different word for everything."
Steve Martin

W.C.
30th March 2011, 10:52
'So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.'
Churchill, 1936

dejavu
30th March 2011, 11:56
From the one and only Oscar Wilde........

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

"Every woman is a rebel."

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

............mind boggling funny and accurate

W.C.
30th March 2011, 12:02
'There are only directions, no answers and the direction is to be found in the question.'
liquidangel, 2006

Gaia
30th March 2011, 12:13
Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
W.C. Fields

W.C.
30th March 2011, 12:25
'It has been surmised, that perhaps my lord had become like a wild animal that had been kept too long. Perhaps, but whatever, freedom... so long an unremembered dream, was his.'
Akiro, 1982

Belle
30th March 2011, 12:31
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel

sister
30th March 2011, 13:25
"Envision this with me . . . millions of sea turtles pulsing ashore onto the beaches . . . fertilizing the rims of thousands of islands and two continents. And after this wave of nutrients enters the rims, it is pulsed on up and into the interior lands in successive waves of biological transport. Year after year – tons of nutrients and billions of kilojoules of energy in a predictable, regular cycle – for tens of millions of years.

Envision this with me . . . millions of turtles grazing on seagrass beds, stimulating primary productivity at the base of the ocean’s food chain. And this surge of increased productivity works its way up the food chain, nourishing shrimp, mollusks, lobsters, and fish – as well as eventually pulsing onto the shore in the annual ballet of nesting activity.

Envision this with me . . . millions of sea turtles nibbling on sponges – trimming back the invading poriferans that otherwise would overgrow and shut down the coral reef machine. A constant system of checks and balances that also contributes to the gift of energy that sea turtles offer to the land each year in the form of nests and eggs. Year after year, for tens of million of years, the ecosystem engineers, these hawksbill and green and loggerhead and ridley and leatherback turtles, shape and improve and fine-tune the complex and mysterious and marvelous cybernetic machines of the oceans."

-- Dr. Nat Frazer

benevolentcrow
30th March 2011, 14:46
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt

despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will

not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.


The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is

that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth,

who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good

deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who

brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your

wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can

be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.


~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~

“Women Who Run with the Wolves”

Lord Sidious
30th March 2011, 15:38
Life is like a sh*t sandwich
The more bread you have, the less sh*t you have to eat.

Not sure who said it.
Oh and in this one, bread is slang for $

Platinum
30th March 2011, 15:53
"What many take for realistic,
is the suppression of their deepest knowing.

Why be realistic?"


"With every choice
you risk the life you would have had;
with every decision,
you lose it."


"'Just your imagination!?'
Of course it's your imagination!
This world is your imagination.
Have you forgotten?"

- The "Messiah's Handbook.

John Parslow
30th March 2011, 15:54
And I thought life was like a box of chocolates!

Just shows how wrong I can be ...

JP :cool:

Lord Sidious
30th March 2011, 15:58
And I thought life was like a box of chocolates!

Just shows how wrong I can be ...

JP :cool:

It can be John, it depends on where you are in life I suppose.

Belle
30th March 2011, 16:24
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey

John Parslow
30th March 2011, 16:24
Hello M'Lord

Managed to get past the sh!t sandwich phase fortunately ...

All the best. JP :cool:

dan i el
30th March 2011, 16:31
3 favourites:

“The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”

--Travis Walton

The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!"
--Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace

Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
-- Jack Handey

crosby
30th March 2011, 16:55
OMG.....you all are so great, these quotes are phenomenal. they all have an interior meaning that is palpable. thank you so much for making this thread so successful. if i could keep hitting the thank you button for all of you a million times, i certainly would. big kisses and hugs. keep it going.........
warmest regards, corson

John Parslow
30th March 2011, 17:46
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable ...

In married life - three is company and two is none ...

Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900

Love and hugs to all. JP :cool:

Gaia
30th March 2011, 18:36
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

benevolentcrow
30th March 2011, 23:11
DON'T READ THE NEWSPAPERS -- Henry David Thoreau, 1853

MorningSong
30th March 2011, 23:16
Here are a few:

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what
they laugh at.

*** Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German Philosopher ***

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have
amounts to much more.

*** Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65) Roman Philosopher & Playwright ***

You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them to discover it
within themselves.

*** Galileo Galilei ***

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They
just make the best of everything.

*** Unknown ***

Normalguy31
30th March 2011, 23:30
"Life without knowledge is like death in disguise"

"That's why knowledge of self is like life after death"- Talib Kweli (Hip-Hop Artist)

Belle
30th March 2011, 23:46
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” - Robert McCloskey

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Platinum
30th March 2011, 23:51
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"

- Eve Merriam



The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

- David Friedman



There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know that we don't know.

- Donald Rumsfeld



Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

- Donald Rumsfeld

DouglasDanger
31st March 2011, 00:06
Curly of the three stooges
At first if you don't succeed. Keep on sucking until you do succeed!

Belle
31st March 2011, 00:11
Corson, what a great thread! Thank you so much for starting it.

Once you start with just one quote...well, it's like eating peanuts; you just have to have more. They can make you laugh, and think, and question, and maybe even bring a tear to the eye. This is so much fun.

benevolentcrow
31st March 2011, 00:28
Sad news...

Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment
community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and
trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.
Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities
turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry
Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and
Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours.
Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man
who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show
business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not
considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked
schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old
man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.
Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and
Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his
elderly father, Pop Tart.
The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.
If this made you smile for even a brief second, please rise to the
occasion and take time to pass it on and share that smile with someone
else who may be having a crumby day and kneads it.

Sorry could not help myself!!

Belle
31st March 2011, 00:32
My stomach hurts from laughing so hard! Thanks, benevolentcrow. Can't wait to pass that one on.

crosby
31st March 2011, 00:33
Benevolentcrow that was priceless. i will roll it out and pass it on.....
regards, corson

i think that Benevolentcrow's doughboy takes the day. that was great.

crosby
31st March 2011, 00:53
i see that it is now tomorrow for some of you, so i'm going to start off the day with:

March 31, 2011

"The truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time."
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855)

Normalguy31
31st March 2011, 04:45
"If you can talk you can sing, If you can walk you can dance" African proverb form Zimbabwe

(stop caring what other people think and be you!)

Calz
31st March 2011, 06:49
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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Hermann Goering

Sound familiar to anybody ... particularly here in the usa after 9/11???

ViralSpiral
31st March 2011, 07:15
Never linger too long with the ignorant,
throw stones at their talk.
Walk only with the lovers,
the mirror of the soul gets rusty when
dipped in muddy water.
Rumi

Davidallany
31st March 2011, 07:17
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
-Buddha.

Platinum
31st March 2011, 07:53
Argue for your limitations,
and sure enough,
they're yours.



It's called a default belief,
when you agree to rules before you think,
when you go along, because you're expected to.
A million of those in a lifetime, unless you're careful.



You gave your life,
to become who you are right now.

Was it worth it?


~ The Messiah's Handbook.

Gaia
31st March 2011, 09:34
Dogmatic religion any form of mind control actually, has been used, and refined to fantastic effect over thousands of years since the "restart" of Modern civilisation-Sumeria/Sumer according to Official history. to Incite and Exploit emotions like Fear, Guilt,Frustration,Anger, and the feeling of 'Emptiness'. Which has assisted our prison warders, who've encouraged the "masses" to hand over their Responsibilty, and right to think and feel to a Politician,Book, Media presenter, priest, Experts because they feel and are encouraged to perpetuate the Consensus reality, therefore subconcious Belief that We/they don't have the ability or confidence for that matter to establish truth for themselves regardless of any external influences and without fear of being "Crucified" for doing so. You and I have the right,to take control of our minds and therefore of Lives, which is the first step on the road to infinite, Now is a Good time as any to start to make your own decisions.

David Icke

John Parslow
31st March 2011, 10:34
Hello Benevolentcrow


Sad news...

Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment
community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and
trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.
Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities
turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry
Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and
Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours.
Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man
who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show
business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not
considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked
schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old
man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.
Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and
Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his
elderly father, Pop Tart.
The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.
If this made you smile for even a brief second, please rise to the
occasion and take time to pass it on and share that smile with someone
else who may be having a crumby day and kneads it.

Sorry could not help myself!!

Absolutely the funniest thus far - I take my hat off to you sir ...

Best regards. JP :cool:

Calz
31st March 2011, 10:39
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

:crazy_pilot:

Calz
31st March 2011, 10:43
Hello Benevolentcrow


Sad news...

Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment
community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and
trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.
Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities
turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry
Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and
Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours.
Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man
who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show
business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not
considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked
schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old
man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.
Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and
Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his
elderly father, Pop Tart.
The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.
If this made you smile for even a brief second, please rise to the
occasion and take time to pass it on and share that smile with someone
else who may be having a crumby day and kneads it.

Sorry could not help myself!!

Absolutely the funniest thus far - I take my hat off to you sir ...

Best regards. JP :cool:

:hail: Pillsbury :doh: boy :haha: :first: :thumb:

W.C.
31st March 2011, 11:03
'...truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.'
Churchill, 1916

W.C.
31st March 2011, 11:07
'The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble.'
Oscar Wilde, 1890

Belle
31st March 2011, 13:04
"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car" - Unknown

John Parslow
31st March 2011, 13:18
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.


Epitaph on his tombstone: I told you I was ill!

Spike Milligan 1918 - 2002


Love to all. JP :cool:

Normalguy31
1st April 2011, 05:08
"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." - A. M. Lindbergh

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"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts a hand on you, send him to the cemetery!" -Malcolm X

ViralSpiral
1st April 2011, 06:22
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/16/1667/61SGD00Z/posters/coffee-chocolate-men.jpg



You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. Carrie Fisher

crosby
1st April 2011, 08:34
Yesterday's quotes were all so great. i'm having difficulty picking a favorite.......i'll have to ponder that for a while. okay, today, april fool's day.........be nice too your friends and don't fool them too much.....teehee.

-April 1, 2011

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
-Andre Gide, French author and critic (1869-1951)

W.C.
1st April 2011, 10:10
'One of the first duties as a physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.'

Sir William Osler,
frequently referred to as the Father of Modern Medicine,
The Principals and Practice of Medicine (1892)

Gaia
1st April 2011, 10:24
"The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play."

Johnny Cash

John Parslow
1st April 2011, 10:34
Hello all - more from Oscar:


"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train."

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." … In the Customs House visiting Amercia.

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

Oscar Wilde

Love to all. JP :cool:

Belle
1st April 2011, 19:42
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself” - Mark Twain

benevolentcrow
1st April 2011, 19:47
"...when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another Heaven and another Earth must pass before such a one can be again."
-William Beebe

crosby
1st April 2011, 19:49
these are all so good. thank you all so much.
warmest, corson

Platinum
1st April 2011, 23:39
You are fiction to the selves who took other paths and choices.
They are fiction to you.

You've got a lot to learn from each-other.



To learn anything,
you must put aside
the safety of your ignorance.



To bring anything into your life
imagine that it's already there.


~ Messiah's Handbook.

W.C.
2nd April 2011, 00:03
'...When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.'
Anaïs Nin, 1933

crosby
2nd April 2011, 00:08
W.C., that is one of my favorites. Anais Nin, what a very clever woman. she is definitely one fantastic authoress. thanks, i love it.
warmest regards, corson

which brings me too the fact that it's april 2, somewhere in this world. so today

April 2, 2011

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

-Malcolm X (1925-1965)

W.C.
2nd April 2011, 00:22
In that case, one more from Nin for the road:

'You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers — you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.'
Anaïs Nin, 1932

crosby
2nd April 2011, 00:25
In that case, one more from Nin for the road:

'You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers — you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.'
Anaïs Nin, 1932

beautiful. how bout: "We do not see people as they are, we see them as we are."

W.C.
2nd April 2011, 00:28
Perception is reality.

jorr lundstrom
2nd April 2011, 00:43
I dont know wot John died from. But is wasnt anything dangerous.

Platinum
2nd April 2011, 13:17
Whilst crossing open territory, bother no-one.
If someone bothers you, ask them to stop.
If they do not stop,
destroy them.

~ Anton Szandor LaVey. :P

ulli
2nd April 2011, 13:48
Here is a truckload of cheery quotes:

The Eschatological Laundry List
From Sheldon Kopp's book
"If you Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him":

1. This is it.
2. There are no hidden meanings.
3. You can't get there from here, and besides there is no place to go.
4. We are already dying, and we'll be dead a long time.
5. Nothing lasts!
6. There is no way of getting all you want.
7. You can't have anything unless you let go of it.
8. You only get to keep what you give away.
9. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things.
10. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay off and there's no compensation for misfortune.
11. You have the responsibility to do your best nonetheless.
12. It's a random universe to which we bring meaning.
13. You really don't control anything.
14. You can't make anyone love you.
15. No one is any stronger or any weaker than anyone else.
16. Everyone is, in his own way, vulnerable.
17. There are no great men.
18. If you have a hero, look again; you have diminished yourself in some way.
19. Everyone lies, cheats, pretends. (yes, you too, and most certainly myself.)
20. All evil is potentially vitality in need of transformation.
21. All of you is worth something if you will only own it.
22. Progress is an illusion.
23. Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all solutions breed new problems.
24. Yet it is necessary to keep struggling toward solution.
25. Childhood is a nightmare.
26. But it is so very hard to be an on-your-own, take-care-of-yourself-cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown-up.
27. Each of us is ultimately alone.
28. The most important things each man must do for himself.
29. Love is not enough, but it sure helps.
30. We have only ourselves, and one another. That may not be much, but that's all there is.
31. How strange, that so often, it all seems worth it.
32. We must live within the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial power, and partial knowledge.
33. All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.
34. Yet we are responsible for everything we do.
35. No excuses will be accepted.
36. You can run, but you can't hide.
37. It is most important to run out of scapegoats.
38. We must learn the power of living with our helplessness.
39. The only victory lies is in surrender to oneself.
40. All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
41. You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.
42. What do you know for sure...anyway?
43. Learn to forgive yourself, again and again and again and again.

Gaia
2nd April 2011, 14:11
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar Wilde

slipknotted
2nd April 2011, 15:10
"alway's trust the one who's looking for the truth: never trust the one who claim's to have found it." JORDAN -MAXWELL

slipknotted
2nd April 2011, 15:14
ULLI, wow those are really positive what a waste you must be the half empty type.

ulli
2nd April 2011, 15:42
ULLI, wow those are really positive what a waste you must be the half empty type.

maybe I should have mentioned that I came across his book in the seventies, nearly 40 years ago...so I must have been a 1/2 empty type to even manifest it on the screen of my life.
But let me tell you something: I have never, ever come across anything that compares.
If you want truth there you have it.

Once that list is faced in all it's implications, you can experience something new.
Which makes being a 1/2 empty type all worthwhile.
Now I'm 100 % empty and feel lighter than a feather

benevolentcrow
2nd April 2011, 16:14
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid............John Keats

Gaia
2nd April 2011, 16:56
Merci !!!
Merci Benevolentcrow good quote from the heart http://www.1001-votes.com/vote/4253sor/fleurs/fleurs-12.GIF

W.C.
3rd April 2011, 00:01
...We have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR; create your own roadshow! The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y.

This is sh**-brained, this kind of thinking. It is all cultural diversion -- and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, and you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world...


Terence McKenna, 1991

benevolentcrow
3rd April 2011, 00:45
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." Tori Amos

Platinum
3rd April 2011, 02:32
Just do your best son, give it your all, and I will be proud of you no matter what.

~ My Father. :)



A lifetime,
is your chance to express the Is
in the most adventurous creative way you can imagine.


The creative, loving-something life
is also the healthy one.
There is healing and protection
in doing what makes you happy.


You adjust your perceptions
to a certain frequency,
and call what you see "this world".
You can tune yourself to other frequencies whenever you wish.

~ (that good old) Messiah's Handbook (again). :wink:

crosby
3rd April 2011, 08:00
i've got to say that Gaia and Benevolentcrow's quotes really struck a chord with me for yesterday's quotes. very nice and true to the qualities of human nature. thank you, and here is the quote for today:

Sunday, April 3, 2011

"Hatred comes from the heart, contempt from the head, and neither feeling is quite within our control."
-Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860)

Lord Sidious
3rd April 2011, 08:35
Don't let the nuggets grind you down, but keep a lightsabre handy.

ViralSpiral
3rd April 2011, 08:37
I came from the air. I came from the moon. I just landed. Traveling, it's a constant in my life. Sometimes I feel like I'm naturally high because of this lifestyle. Sometimes I really feel like I'm the air or on the moon, and that's that. Of course, I originally came from China. Bai Ling


http://kellimarshall.net/unmuzzledthoughts/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/full-moon-et-bike-ride.jpg



Transcendental moonshine ;)

W.C.
3rd April 2011, 09:25
Don't let the nuggets grind you down, but keep a lightsabre handy.

Tread softly, but carry a big stick.

Ineffable Hitchhiker
3rd April 2011, 09:32
http://i55.tinypic.com/2dm6079.jpg

W.C.
3rd April 2011, 09:48
‎...But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Yeats, 1899

ulli
3rd April 2011, 09:50
Rub her feet~ Robert Heinlein

Gaia
3rd April 2011, 10:19
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

Anne Frank

benevolentcrow
3rd April 2011, 15:08
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.”
Lawrence Block

Agape
3rd April 2011, 16:02
''Dulce bellum inexpertis'' - War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it. (Pindaros)

The truth of all things will float to the surface one day like oil on water ..

and who are heavy will sink to the ground ..

lero molunt deorum molae molunt autem tenuiter.

Gods mills grind slow but sure


:alien:

Normalguy31
3rd April 2011, 17:50
A truly just man usually does an injustice to himself-Socrates

Normalguy31
3rd April 2011, 18:18
Infinitely go against the grain, that's why my motto is to, never do what they do, what they do, what they doooo- Black Thought (MC for The Roots)

Normalguy31
3rd April 2011, 18:23
"The Moon, and the planets are there. New hopes for knowledge and peace are there, and therefore as we set sail on our star misson, the most hazardous, and dangerous, and greatest adventure that man has ever embarked." JFK

Normalguy31
3rd April 2011, 18:32
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.- Hunter S. Thompson

crosby
3rd April 2011, 18:44
Hunter S. Thompson, very UN-P.C. ahhhh, but what rhetoric he could put forth.
regards, corson

ulli
3rd April 2011, 18:58
"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."
— Dorothy Parker

Gaia
4th April 2011, 09:33
Growing up in Montreal, musician Rufus Wainwright was steeped in the mystique of that city's legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen. Although too feisty a spirit to engage in idol-worship, Wainwright was at least slightly in awe.

As a young adult, he finally got to meet Cohen, whose daughter brought him to the great man's family home. When Wainwright walked into the kitchen, Cohen was in his underwear cooking up tiny sausages, which he was chewing, regurgitating, and feeding to a weak baby bird he had found and was trying to revive.

(Source: The film I'm Your Man, Leonard Cohen)

It was about the feeling that we have of betraying some mission that we were mandated to fulfill, and being unable to fulfill it. And then coming to understand that the real mandate was not to fulfill it, and that the deeper courage, was to stand guiltless in the predicament in which you found yourself.

Leonard Cohen explaining his song "The Traitor"

W.C.
4th April 2011, 12:24
'...Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.'
Mikhail Bakunin, 1876

benevolentcrow
4th April 2011, 13:23
Remembering our True Nature...... We are Love...We are Peace.....Let us Live in our Heart..... Blessings in Love...

Blue Star

ceetee9
4th April 2011, 14:28
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Hamlet Act 1, scene 5)

Lord Sidious
4th April 2011, 14:43
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Hamlet Act 1, scene 5)

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark.

benevolentcrow
4th April 2011, 14:44
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu

The One
4th April 2011, 15:21
Patience is the companion of wisdom

crosby
4th April 2011, 22:08
sorry that i haven't posted a new quote up to this point today, my laptop kept crashing and then i had no signal for most of the day. so, now for today:

April 4, 2011

"I love criticism, just so long as it's unqualified praise." -
-Sir Noel Coward (1899-1973)

Normalguy31
4th April 2011, 22:47
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." -Leo Aikman

Normalguy31
4th April 2011, 23:03
When will you be it, when will you see it, that thoughts and things they manifest when you decree it. - KRS-One, Trust

( I love hip-hop it was a big part of my enlightenment, but not the stuff you hear on the radio. Hip-hop is a true art form if you can find the right artists.)

crosby
5th April 2011, 01:14
since it's April 5, somewhere on the mothership, i thought i'd better post my quote for the day, because when i wake up in the morning my laptop may not be working.......

April 5, 2011

"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
-W. Somerset Maugham, English author and dramatist (1874-1965)

he also said:

"The tragedy of love is indifference."

Gaia
5th April 2011, 08:57
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Andre Malraux

John Parslow
5th April 2011, 10:16
Familiar acts are beautiful through love - SHELLY

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” John Lennon 1940 - 1980 :cool:

W.C.
5th April 2011, 11:57
‎'The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.'
J. Edgar Hoover, First Director of the FBI

learninglight
5th April 2011, 12:10
Every man is a damn fool for at least 5 minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit - Elbert Hubbard

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change;
until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds - R.D.Laing

Two of my favourites

much love

ulli
5th April 2011, 12:13
Every man is a damn fool for at least 5 minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit - Elbert Hubbard

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change;
until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds - R.D.Laing

Two of my favourites

much love

And R. D. Laing failed to notice that perception is everything. ~ulli

Calz
5th April 2011, 13:22
“A new invention to poison people … is not a patentable invention.”

Lowell v. Lewis, 1817

taken appropriately enough from this thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?17436-Farmers-and-Seed-Producers-Launch-Preemptive-Strike-against-Monsanto

benevolentcrow
5th April 2011, 14:43
“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.” Les Brown

benevolentcrow
5th April 2011, 15:06
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.........Henry S. Haskins

Calz
5th April 2011, 15:26
‎'The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.'
J. Edgar Hoover, First Director of the FBI

gonna have to start a new "sub thread" for "paraphrased quotes":

Papa Bush - If the people knew what we were really doing to them they would hang us from the nearest tree ...

Heard words to that effect from several sources but don't feel up to using a search engine as I don't want a knock on the door

:spy: :peep: :spy:

Calz
5th April 2011, 15:41
Okay ... back to actual quotes and here we see the wisdom passed from papa to son:


"You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

John Parslow
5th April 2011, 16:12
A few quotes from my favourite French Poet:

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”

“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”

“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”

“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”

“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”

“And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!”

“What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”

“In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891

Love and peace to all. JP :cool:

crosby
5th April 2011, 16:49
Okay ... back to actual quotes and here we see the wisdom passed from papa to son:


"You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

hey C, your quotes are so scary......... but i'm glad that you post them. these words were right out there in front of us, and we never noticed. well, times have changed and i think it's about time we start looking for that tree that was mentioned in a previous quote......... agree?
warmest regards, corson

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‎'The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.'
J. Edgar Hoover, First Director of the FBI

W.C., it is truly amazing how people never, ever noticed what evil lurks within, until now. thank you.
warmest regards, corson

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.........Henry S. Haskins

this is so very true. thank you for this one.
warmest, kim

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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Andre Malraux

thank you my friend, i love how Malraux's words sink into the core of our hearts.
warmest regards, corson

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A few quotes from my favourite French Poet:

“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”

“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”

“The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.”

“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”

“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”

“And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!”

“What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”

“In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.”

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”

Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891

Love and peace to all. JP :cool:

Rimbaud, is truly a great thinker. he passes that notion quite openly with each word spoken. thank you. i love Rimbaud too.
warmest, k

Gaia
5th April 2011, 18:53
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Paulo Coelho

Platinum
5th April 2011, 23:48
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."

~ Carl Sagan



"In retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth;
perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct."

~ Carl Sagan



I never came upon any of my discoveries, through the process of rational thinking.

~ Albert Einstein



If one inspired innocent loving soaring dreamer
believes in a universe of joy and light and perfect being,
and if she's wrong, and dies...
it's not the dreamer who's been foolish,
but the universe.

~ The "Messiah's Handbook".

Agape
6th April 2011, 00:01
Re: "QUOTE" of the Day
since it's April 5, somewhere on the mothership, i thought i'd better post my quote for the day, because when i wake up in the morning my laptop may not be working.......



Interesting. Sounds familiar to me :lol:

Agape
6th April 2011, 00:06
I'm older than your movies... :angel:

meeradas
6th April 2011, 00:28
"You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

Ouääh!!

Am innocently scrolling up from the latest post, to find this: nearly threw up...

Time to call it a day... thanks for the lesson :biggrin1: [=forgiving the b-tard].

crosby
6th April 2011, 01:53
Good morning avalonians. here's our first quote of the day:

April 6, 2011

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
-C.S. Lewis, English author (1898-1963)

have a fantastic day.
warmest, corson

arctourist
6th April 2011, 01:59
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why

crosby
6th April 2011, 02:02
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why

isn't that the truth?
warmest, corson

Normalguy31
6th April 2011, 02:39
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

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"If the people only understood the rank injustice of our Money and Banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
- Andrew Jackson

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce... And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
- President James Garfield (he was assassinated within 4 months).

crosby
6th April 2011, 02:40
wow Normalguy, these are very powerful quotes. thank you so much.
warmest, corson

Normalguy31
6th April 2011, 02:51
Anytime my friend, Thanks for starting this thread. One of my favorites so far.

Lord Sidious
6th April 2011, 03:52
I gotta stop killing all the people that piss me off, I am running out of room to bury the bodies.
Uncle Sidious.

Davidallany
6th April 2011, 07:45
Instead of cursing darkness, light a candle.

Franny
6th April 2011, 07:59
Albert Einstein, quoted in H Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu (Boston 1977).
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

ViralSpiral
6th April 2011, 08:14
http://www.atheisttshirts.co.uk/images/245.jpg

John Parslow
6th April 2011, 08:43
Good morning all


For what were all those country patriots born?
To hunt and vote and raise the price of corn?


Year after year they voted cent per cent,
Blood, sweat, and tear-wrung millions rent - why? for rent!

LORD BYRON 1788 - 1824

Love to all. JP :cool:

Gaia
6th April 2011, 09:10
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Blaise Pascal

Cjay
6th April 2011, 13:08
"I'm as happy as a dog with two tails"

My friend Daryl, despite living in Ibaraki, Japan, in the earthquake zone.

Normalguy31
6th April 2011, 14:23
"To bring relief to one person, is to bring relief to everyone. Including yourself." -Some guru I can't remember the name of right now....give me a minute lol.

benevolentcrow
6th April 2011, 14:24
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give........Winston Churchill

benevolentcrow
6th April 2011, 16:28
"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way." Edna Ferber

crosby
6th April 2011, 17:52
here's one for fun:

Time is a very versatile performer when you think about it:

-It Flies;
-It Marches On;
-It Heals All Wounds;
-It Runs Out, and
-It Will Tell.......

Time makes concessions for love and life ~ But it does not for death.
unknown

Warmest, corson

Platinum
6th April 2011, 22:03
A few from an old favourite, Joe Sobran:


The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.


The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn't get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.


At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.


In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.


It is sheer lunacy to believe that there are two separate political parties, vying for power. If this were true, the newly elected party would repeal those laws made by the other with which they had disagreed. What they do instead, is to build upon them.


If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.

crosby
6th April 2011, 23:20
April 7, 2011

"Integrity needs no rules."
-Albert Camus, French author and philosopher (1913-1960)

"The heart has no secret which our conduct does not reveal."
-French Proverb

Have a great day everyone.
warmest regards, corson

Belle
7th April 2011, 00:38
"The only time you take your foot out of your mouth is to switch feet." My Dad to me on several occasions.

Ineffable Hitchhiker
7th April 2011, 07:49
http://i55.tinypic.com/hu4wmg.jpg

crosby
7th April 2011, 08:09
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
-Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (1828-1910)

warmest, corson

Gaia
7th April 2011, 09:39
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Edith Piaf

W.C.
7th April 2011, 10:53
'The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.'
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 1930

benevolentcrow
7th April 2011, 14:08
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit..........Albert Schweitzer

benevolentcrow
7th April 2011, 15:59
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

crosby
7th April 2011, 19:00
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.
regards, corson

Gaia
7th April 2011, 19:10
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carl Sagan

Calz
7th April 2011, 19:15
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.

Rockefeller Foundation Director of Charity,

Frederick Gates, 1913

Calz
7th April 2011, 19:26
"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

crosby
7th April 2011, 19:31
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.

Rockefeller Foundation Director of Charity,

Frederick Gates, 1913

grrrrr....argh.......chomp, chomp, chomp......lol
corson

Calz
7th April 2011, 19:36
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.

Rockefeller Foundation Director of Charity,

Frederick Gates, 1913

grrrrr....argh.......chomp, chomp, chomp......lol
corson

Ouch!!!

You just bit my big toe!!!

Hope it tasted better than it smells :haha: :painkiller:

Calz
7th April 2011, 20:01
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" ...

benevolentcrow
7th April 2011, 20:22
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lord Sidious
7th April 2011, 23:47
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
Jesse The Body Ventura.

W.C.
8th April 2011, 01:09
'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.'


John Buchan, 1916

Normalguy31
8th April 2011, 03:20
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.
Gone are the days when you dreamed of that car.
You just want to sit in you Shangri-la

The Kinks- Shangri-la

Kerry from PC said one time that everyone is worried about TPTB enacting marshal law, and turning us all into slaves, but I don't think that will happen. I think we are already slaves.

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?

Normalguy31
8th April 2011, 03:30
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

crosby
8th April 2011, 08:11
Good morning too all dearest avalonians. i hope you all have a beautiful day.

April 8, 2011

"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)

warmest regards,
corson

Gaia
8th April 2011, 11:16
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.

John Steinbeck

benevolentcrow
8th April 2011, 14:35
"Act as if you have already achieved your goals. Believe that you receive. Acting with confidence and faith in yourself and your potential sends a powerful message to the universe. Accept your success right now. Don't wait until you have actually achieved results. Act as if. ...radiating confidence in your ability to achieve them [your dreams] will catapult you forward in your journey." Edwene Gaines

benevolentcrow
8th April 2011, 15:28
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation........Peter McWilliams

crosby
8th April 2011, 20:33
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
Jesse The Body Ventura.

"Guess if you can, choose if you dare."
-Pierre Corneille, French dramatist and poet (1606-1684)
warmest regards, corson

Agape
8th April 2011, 23:59
For much of the day, Reid and Boehner disagreed about what the disagreement was about.

( we are watching you...)

:popcorn:

crosby
9th April 2011, 08:06
good morning my friends. happy saturday too you all. here is the "quote" of the day to get us all started:

April 9, 2011

"Few things are more mischievous to good government and to 'domestic tranquility' than splendid rhetoric that doesn't pay off."

-Alistair Cooke, British born journalist and broadcaster (1908-2004)

we have heard and seen this rhetoric in action lately.
warmest, corson

Gaia
9th April 2011, 11:15
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Werner Herzog

benevolentcrow
9th April 2011, 14:20
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking..........Alfred Korzybski

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." Edgar J. Mohn

crosby
10th April 2011, 01:30
April 10, 2011

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
-Livy, Roman historian (64 or 59 B.C. - A.D. 17)

have a great avalonian day everyone.
warmest regards, corson

Normalguy31
10th April 2011, 01:32
"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind."

benevolentcrow
10th April 2011, 15:23
“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:
"This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me...or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who ...I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
"When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.” Stacey Charter