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    What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better........Wendell Phillips

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    Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

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    To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

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    We love because it's the only true adventure.
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    Quote Posted by Referee (here)
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    "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

    "All good books have one thing in common-they are truer than if they had really happened."
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    I could not resist.

    Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
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    Ernst T. Krebs, Jr: "Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced...."

    Dr. H. Boucher, physician, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: "In all ages Man has sought to justify the cruelty of his actions by decking them out under the mantle of a lofty ideal..."

    " Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the 'Bastille' of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. They are fragments of monarchy and have no place in a republic. The Constitution of this Republic should make special provisions for Medical Freedom as well as for Religious Freedom." - Dr. Jonathan Rush, an original signatory of the American Declaration of Independence, 1776.

    .I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.............Why is it that medical men for the most part follow the fashion of the day? Is it that they dare not think?........Are they like Sidney Smith ‘s old lady who said she never read the other side of a subject in case she might be prejudiced? . A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. It is the great commercial manufacturing firms who are providing the brains for the medical man of to-day."---Dr Hadwen 1925

    Dr.Herbert Snow, eminent physician at the London Cancer Hospital: "Due to the powerful control exercised by business interests, the prospects for the public are all the more gloomy and bad the more the power of these basically selfish money interests is centered on the large-scale manufacturing chemists. The latter holds a despotic rule over doctors, hospitals, teaching establishments, pharmacies, charitable foundations. It is unnecessary to add that his guiding star is vivisection, in other words, the exploitation of the animal world under the guise of "scientific research" ...
    Every day we hear of some "wonderful discovery" in the field of remedies produced in this way, which achieves enormous sales for a while, after which its harmfulness and uselessness becomes apparent. Then the demand drops...
    But it matters not how worthless the alleged "remedy" may be; despite the harmfulness which many cases have amply proved it to represent, the artificially-created reputation which it enjoys continues for many years, in fact it never ends. As long as it is worthwhile for the chemical factories to make and sell the medicament, the serum, the vaccine and so on, the business goes on and on. "
    - (from: The Starry Cross, Philadelphia, Apr.1927, p.57)
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    Quote Posted by Referee (here)
    I could not resist.

    Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
    Solzhenitsyn a very fine man. suffered much in his life. and this quote is very close to the hearts of many people. thank you for posting this.
    warmest regards, corson

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    happy sunday too everyone.

    Sunday May 22, 2011

    "Man adjusts to what he should not; he is unable to adjust to what he should."
    -Jean Toomer, African-American author poet (1894-1967)

    "History repeats itself because nobody listens."
    -unknown

    "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
    -attributed to Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)

    enjoy the day, after all, we are still here.......
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    .I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.............Why is it that medical men for the most part follow the fashion of the day? Is it that they dare not think?........Are they like Sidney Smith ‘s old lady who said she never read the other side of a subject in case she might be prejudiced? . A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. It is the great commercial manufacturing firms who are providing the brains for the medical man of to-day."---Dr Hadwen 1925


    161803398 this is a very good and exacting quote. thanks for posting. more people should pay attention to what was being said in the past regarding medical functions and progress. thank you for this.
    warmest, corson

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    “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.”
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    “The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.” Eudora Welty

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    Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
    It sounds like a whisper....

    Finally the tables are starting to turn

    Lyrics from Tracy Chapman's song
    .... be gentle with your anger. Sixto Rodriguez, Cape Town 20.02.2013

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    "Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty --
    They merely move it from their faces into their hearts."
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    what we need is a new kind of army -

    the army of the kind


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    '...and before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love. I wonder if even now, right here in Nowheres, she can see the darkening clouds behind my eyes lifting. And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will.'
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    Electricity is really just organized lightning.


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    As I am grateful this morning for being safe in my home after seeing the devastation in Joplin MO. My heart and prayers go out to those with such massive loss.

    The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher

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    thank you benevolentcrow, my heart is with you on this. i am praying for everyone there.
    corson

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    So much is changing so quickly...take a deep breath, get centered, and keep up everyone!


    "When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged, and you begin to feel unomfortable because of a contradiction you've detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some aspect of it, pay attention -- you are about to learn something." - William Drury Sr

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