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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2014 6:57:57 GMT 10
The buck stops here!
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth — then all Americans are in peril
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the creditBro. Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President (Initiated this day 1909, Belton Lodge #450, Missouri) I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2014 6:58:44 GMT 10
God is love, but get it in writing
God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club
Praying is like a rocking chair — it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere
Women who marry men they don't love or aren't attracted to, men who are older, unattractive or unlovable, such women cannot validly look down on prostitutes. That is to say, on honest prostitutes
I used to come home at night full of inspiration, and sit up with a bottle of Scotch. As I wrote, the words seemed wonderful, just too wonderful to be coming from me. Next morning I always found they were terrible and I could never use anything I wrote
I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowlyGypsy Rose LeeAmerican burlesque entertainer, actress, author and playwright (Born this day 1911) I have everything I had 20 years ago, only it's all a little lower
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2014 7:04:55 GMT 10
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, Except that which makes the road safer, the beer stronger, the old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer
I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides
When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishopsBrendan BehanIrish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (Born this day 1923) If I'm a snob, I'm a working class snob and that is the best kind
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2014 7:07:14 GMT 10
When you're down and troubled and you need some loving care and nothing, nothing is going right. Close your eyes and think of me and soon I will be there to brighten up even your darkest nights
You just call out my name and you know wherever I am I'll come running to see you again
Now ain't it good to know that you've got a friend when People can be so cold. They'll hurt you, kiss and desert you. And take your soul if you let them. Oh, but don't you let them
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand
It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well
Tonight You're mine completely, you give your love so sweetly, tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?
Way over yonder, that's where I'm boundCarole KingAmerican singer and songwriter (Born this day 1942) My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever-changing view, a wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold, a tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2014 7:08:05 GMT 10
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fearsAlice WalkerUS novelist ( Color Purple, Meridian) (Born this day 1944) I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2014 7:08:51 GMT 10
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do
They who are all things to their neighbours cease to be anything to themselves
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean itNorman DouglasBritish essayist and novelist (Died this day 1952) I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2014 7:10:06 GMT 10
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughtsJ William FulbrightUS Senator (anti-Vietnam War) (Died this day 1995) The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 10, 2014 7:41:40 GMT 10
Monday’s Quotes:O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light
I see too plainly custom forms us all; Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth: Born beyond Ganges, I had been a Pagan; In France, a Christian; I am here a Saracen : 'Tis but instruction, all! Our parents' hand Writes on our heart the first faint characters, which time, re-tracing, deepens into strength, that nothing can efface, but death or Heaven
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter
You talk no more of that gay nation now, where men adore their wives, and woman's power Draws reverence from a polished people's softness, their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens; Free without scandal; wise without restraint; Their virtue due to nature, not to fear
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains. ’Tis the same with common natures: Use ’em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, and the rogues obey you well
Do not repent, but regulate your passion: Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Joys, which we do not know, we do not wishAaron HillEnglish dramatist and miscellaneous writer (Born this day 1685) But me no buts
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 10, 2014 7:47:10 GMT 10
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit
There is no word that has admitted of more various significations, and has made more different impressions on human minds, than that of Liberty. Some have taken it for a facility of deposing a person on whom they had conferred a tyrannical authority; others for the power of choosing a person whom they are obliged to obey; others for the right of bearing arms, and of being thereby enabled to use violence, others in fine for the privilege of being governed by a native of their own country or by their own laws
Some have annexed this name to one form of government, in exclusion of others: Those who had a republican taste, applied it to this government; those who liked a monarchical state, gave it to monarchies. Thus they all have applied the name of liberty to the government most conformable to their own customs and inclinations: and as in a republic people have not so constant and so present a view of the instruments of the evils they complain of, and likewise as the laws seem there to speak more, and the executors of the laws less, it is generally attributed to republics, and denied to monarchies
In fine as in democracies the people seem to do very near whatever they please, liberty has been placed in this sort of government, and the power of the people has been confounded with their liberty
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are
The public revenues are a portion that each subject gives of his property, in order to secure or enjoy the remainder
Useless laws weaken the necessary lawsBaron de MontesquieuFrench Enlightenment political theorist (Died this day 1755) The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourish- ment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health(If not a share in the Commonwealth, where is the significance and privilege of being an amenable citizen of that state?)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 10, 2014 7:48:02 GMT 10
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides
I could never hate anyone I knewCharles LambEnglish critic, poet and essayist ( Essays of Elia) (Born this day 1775) My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more
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