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| ~ Confucius |
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It's in my sig and I've posted it before, but it was a casual remark from the late, great Quincy Jones:
"Ego is just overdressed insecurity", he said with a laugh.
"Ego is just overdressed insecurity", he said with a laugh.
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
-Lysander Spooner
-Lysander Spooner
Also this from Jones:
"Every day you have to make a choice between love and fear. As much as you can, choose love."
| "Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to." |
| ~Lao Izu |
| “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” |
| —Napoleon Hill |
"It is a sin to be humorless, lacking in mirth. Whatever is against reason is sinful, and it is against reason for a man to be burdensome to others by offering no pleasure to others and by hindering their enjoyment."
-St. Thomas Aquinas
-St. Thomas Aquinas
| "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor." |
| ~Charles Dickens (1812–1870), A Christmas Carol |
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"I mean Sure, Dr Von Brauns
a great scientist.....
But he isnt my hero"
a great scientist.....
But he isnt my hero"
| “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” |
| ~ Ronald Reagan |
"When Truth is at stake, I fear no one."
-St. John Melchior "Don" Bosco
-St. John Melchior "Don" Bosco
| "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." |
| ~MLK |
Found another one today:
| “No act of kindness, no mater how small, is ever wasted.” |
| -Aesop |
The message of Androcles and the Lion.
“We always have to start from wherever it is we are.” - Tim Mayhew, CEO, Keplr Vision
“If I was going to Dog Creek Road, I sure as hell wouldn’t start from here.” -Mack - “Funny Farm”, 1988
“If I was going to Dog Creek Road, I sure as hell wouldn’t start from here.” -Mack - “Funny Farm”, 1988
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| ~Louisa May Alcott |
"If you ain't where you are, you're no place."
-- Sherman T. Potter
"No matter where you go, there you are."
-- Jim Russel, in The Hazleton Collegian, 1955
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"In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
-Robert Frost
good one
| “Our greatness is only bounded by our horizons.” |
| —Michelangelo ((1475–1564) |
Loving someone does not mean going along with and approving of everything he does. Loving someone is to will and work for their good.* Which friend really loves a drug addict more: The one that says, "yeah, man, it's fine, you do you," or the one that keeps warning him that he's destroying himself and trying to convince him to quit?
-Me
*Except this sentence. That's paraphrased from St. Thomas Aquinas.
-Me
*Except this sentence. That's paraphrased from St. Thomas Aquinas.
The interventionist, not the enabler.
Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, and scapegoating — none of these things is the transcendent facet of the human personality. They are the diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. They are the infectious and contagious viruses that have bled humanity over the years. But because they have been and are, is it necessary that they shall be?
— Rod Serling
The last paragraph to "A Most Non-Political Speech"
A letter written in 1964.
— Rod Serling
The last paragraph to "A Most Non-Political Speech"
A letter written in 1964.
Perhaps I'm just bitter and cynical in my approaching old age. (I'll be 61 next month; some say that's still middle age, but I do get the senior discount sometimes.) As much as I would like this to be true, I've come to believe that those things are indeed the norm. Diseases, cancers? Absolutely! Yet the norm seems to be the growth of one new disease and one new cancer after another. When a thing happens over, and over, and over with predictable regularity, is that not the norm?
Rather than believe it's not, I can only hope that our cultural immune system grows stronger, strong enough to stamp out each new cancer, each new virus before it can take hold. Centuries of history give me some hope that it will, but that that will come to pass only in centuries to come.
| "I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art." |
| —Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 370 BC) |
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
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