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    "Be what you love. Strive after that which you find beautiful and high, and let the rest go.

    Harmony, sacrifice, devotion: take these for keynotes; express them everywhere and in the highest possible way."

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    The only meaning of these vulgar nicknames and party distinctions, where they are urged most violently and confidently, is that others differ from you in some particular or other (whether it be opinion, dress, clime, or complexion), which you highly disapprove of, forgetting that, by the same rule, they have the very same right to be offended at you because you differ from them.

    William Hazlitt (1778-183o) On Nicknames [Hae nugae in seria ducunt.]
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    Quote Posted by 9ideon (here)
    Democracy is a well organized Anarchy in which too many People have something to say about nothing!

    9ideon.

    "The party is a contemporary form of dictatorship. It is the modern instrument of dictatorial government. The party is the rule of a part over the whole. As a party is not an individual, it creates a superficial democracy by establishing assemblies, committees, and propaganda through its members. The party is not a democratic instrument because it is composed only of those people who have common interests, a common perception or a shared culture; or those who belong to the same region or share the same belief. They form a party to achieve their ends, impose their will, or extend the dominion of their beliefs, values, and interests to the society as a whole. A party’s aim is to achieve power under the pretext of carrying out its program. Democratically, none of these parties should govern a whole people who constitute a diversity of interests, ideas, temperaments, regions and beliefs. The party is a dictatorial instrument of government that enables those with common outlooks or interests to rule the people as a whole. Within the community, the party represents a minority."

    Muammar al-Gaddafi - Passage from the Green Book.

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    " I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

    - Edgar Allen Poe

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    "Freedom itself was attacked this morning"

    The very first words out of the mouth of President George Bush (junior) at his first press conference in the afternoon/evening of September 11th 2001
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    This very great short poem, by the masterful W. H. Auden, deserves to be a whole Great Quote of its own.



    There Will Be No Peace

    Though mild clear weather
    Smile again on the shore of your esteem
    And its colours come back, the storm has changed you:
    You will not forget, ever,
    The darkness blotting out hope, the gale
    Prophesying your downfall.

    You must live with your knowledge.
    Way back, beyond, outside of you are others,
    In moonless absences you never heard of,
    Who have certainly heard of you,
    Beings of unknown number and gender:
    And they do not like you.

    What have you done to them?
    Nothing? Nothing is not an answer:
    You will come to believe - how can you help it? -
    That you did, you did do something;
    You will find yourself wishing you could make them laugh,
    You will long for their friendship.

    There will be no peace.
    Fight back, then, with such courage as you have
    And every unchivalrous dodge you know of,
    Clear on your conscience on this:
    Their cause, if they had one, is nothing to them now;
    They hate for hate's sake.

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    Shrek (2001)

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    "Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder. Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain--and since labor is pain in itself--it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work.

    "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." The Law, Frederick Bastiat, Economist and Statesman (June 1850)

    "Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction, after all, at least has to make sense." Mark Twain

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    "Strictly speaking, the 'government' of the United States (or of any State or locality) is a kind of 'legal fiction.' It is not the individuals elected or appointed to office, the physical buildings they occupy, or the actions they take per se. Rather, the 'government', rightly understood, is the set of actions duly elected or appointed officials take that are consistent with the Constitution. If an action is inconsistent with the Constitution, it is unlawful and nongovernmental, by definition. Such an unconstitutional action may be defined as usurpation or tyranny, but never as a truly governmental act. Simply put, our government has no authority to act outside of or against the Constitution; and when public officials do so, they are not acting as agents of government, but as lawbreakers or outlaws. *** What stands in the way of [freedom]...is not law, but lawlessness; not government, but usurpation and tyranny." Edwin Vieira, Jr., PhD, JD

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    He is as pious and thankful when a tempest is past, as devout when it is present : not clamorous to receive mercies, and tongue-tied to return thanks.

    Thomas Fuller [1608-1661] The Good Sea Captain
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    I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. ~ Richard P. Feynman
    “To develop a complete mind: Study the art of science; study the science of art. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else” – Leonardo Da Vinci

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    The sum of all this is, that a virtuous man is in danger to be trod upon and destroyed in the crowd of his contraries, nay, which is worse, to be changed and corrupted by them; and that it is impossible to escape both these inconveniences without so much caution as will take away the whole quiet, that is the happiness, of his life.

    Abraham Cowley [1618-1667] : 'The Dangers of an Honest Man in Much Company'
    Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it. ~ Conor C. O'Brien [1917-2oo8]

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    REVELATION MUST BE TERRIBLE
    Revelation must be
    terrible with no time left
    to say goodbye.
    Imagine that moment
    staring at the still waters
    with only the brief tremor
    of your body to say
    you are leaving everything
    and everyone you know behind.
    Being far from home is hard, but you know,
    at least we are all exiled together.
    When you open your eyes to the world
    you are on your own for
    the first time. No one is
    even interested in saving you now
    and the world steps in
    to test the calm fluidity of your body
    from moment to moment
    as if it believed you could join
    its vibrant dance
    of fire and calmness and final stillness.
    As if you were meant to be exactly
    where you are, as if
    like the dark branch of a desert river
    you could flow on without a speck
    of guilt and everything
    everywhere would still be just as it should be.
    As if your place in the world mattered
    and the world could
    neither speak nor hear the fullness of
    its own bitter and beautiful cry
    without the deep well
    of your body resonating in the echo.
    Knowing that it takes only
    that one, terrible
    word to make the circle complete,
    revelation must be terrible
    knowing you can
    never hide your voice again.

    The fire of a real, physical sense of revelation in the world may be one of the most nourishing experiences we have in life, but it is almost always accompanied by the sense of our previous identities being overwhelmed; of a certain kind of radical undoing, a vulnerability and a new voice, not to begin with, quite recognized, but ours now, and one that will claim any revelation not merely as insight, but as a new life. DW.
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    “The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” - Turkish proverb
    “If a man does not keep pace with [fall into line with] his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” - Thoreau

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    "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

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    "They Will Only Support Your Freedom To Sin" - Ben Armstrong, October 2022
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    “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors” – Plato
    “To develop a complete mind: Study the art of science; study the science of art. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else” – Leonardo Da Vinci

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    "Life without liberty is like a body without a spirit."

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    “Sam, the truth, just as truth, is taking quite a beating these days. It's almost as if truth has been thrown by the wayside, and no one notices the damage to integrity. Not to mention a false reality created as we attempt to understand it.”

    Sierra, 2017.


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