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    "The one who plants trees, knowing that he or she will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life"
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    The problem with common sense is it ain't so common.
    Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
    Keep skunks, bankers, and politicians at a distance.
    Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
    A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
    Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.
    The best sermons are lived, not preached.
    Forgive your enemies; its what GOD says to do.
    If you don't take the time to do it right, you'll find the time to do it twice.
    Don't corner something that is meaner than you.
    Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.
    It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
    You cannot unsay a cruel word.
    Every path has a few puddles.
    When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
    Don't be banging your shin on a stool that's not in the way.
    Borrowing trouble from the future doesn't deplete the supply.
    Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.
    Don’t judge folks by their relatives.
    Silence is sometimes the best answer.
    Don‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin' you none.
    Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
    If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.
    Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
    The biggest troublemaker you’ll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every mornin’.
    Always drink upstream from the herd.
    Good judgment comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgment.
    Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.
    If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.
    Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.
    Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
    Most times, it just gets down to common sense.

    (Borrowed from others)

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    We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are

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    We are the last people on earth, and the last to be free: our very remoteness in a land known only to rumour has protected us up till this day. But now there is no people beyond us, nothing but tides and rocks and, more deadly than these, the Romans. It is no use trying to escape their arrogance by submission or good behaviour. They have pillaged the world: when the land has nothing left for men who ravage everything, they scour the sea. If an enemy is rich, they are greedy, if he is poor, they crave glory. Neither East nor West can sate their appetite. They are the only people on earth to covet wealth and poverty with equal craving. They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, and call it by the lying name of ‘empire’. They make a desert and call it ‘peace’.
    Calgacus, 84 AD (Speech before the Battle of Mons Graupius, the Scots vs. the Romans)

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    ..................................................my first language is TYPO..............................................

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    ...equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air; we all have it or none of us has it."
    ~Maya Angelou

    I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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    For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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    Always be genuinely interested in others. Never try to be interesting.
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    Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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    "The two basic human control mechanisms - religion and banking - were first formed in ancient Sumer, legacies of the Anunnaki gods, according to some."

    - Jim Marrs, Our Occulted History

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    One of my favourite Frank Zappa quotes...

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    “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” - Donald J. Trump
    ..................................................my first language is TYPO..............................................

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    Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

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    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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    "It takes a big man to cry, and a bigger man to laugh at that man who is crying" - Jack Handey

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    An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
    Plutarch (AD 46–119)

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    "God may be a prankster, as I’ve suggested many times, but he’s also still God, and he doesn’t appreciate wannabe faux-messianic technocrat pricks like Klaus Schwab messing with his glorious creation."

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
    Plutarch (AD 46–119)
    Interesting how it mentions 'oldest' and the quote itself almost 2000 years old.. here we are in the 21st century and never a time this disparity more obvious than now.. and increasing at apparent exponential levels as we go forward!
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