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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:40:43 GMT 10
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they’re still there
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what
Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt
When humor goes, there goes civilizationErma BombeckUS writer, humourist (Born this day 1927) We've got a generation now who were born with semi-equality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attaché cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2014 7:41:45 GMT 10
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole
I don't even call it violence when it's in self-defense; I call it intelligence
I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, under- standing creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity
Truth is on the side of the oppressedMalcolm XUS black Moslem leader (Murdered this day 1965) You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:38:46 GMT 10
Saturday’s Quotes:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad oneBro. George WashingtonFirst President of the United States (1789- 1797) (Born this day 1732) Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:39:15 GMT 10
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
A man can be himself only so long as he is aloneArthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (Born this day 1788) The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:40:00 GMT 10
Folks never understand the folks they hate
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinionsJames Russell LowellUS Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (Born this day 1819) Light is the symbol of truth
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:40:36 GMT 10
1 of 2:Doubt grows with knowledge
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself
A person hears only what they understand
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes
If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wiseBro. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet (Died this day 1832) Mysteries are not necessarily miracles
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:41:16 GMT 10
2 of 2: A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables
Few people have the imagination for reality
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run awayBro. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(Died this day 1832) I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:42:10 GMT 10
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respondLord Robert Baden-Powell(Born this day 1857 Note: his wife, Lady Olave Baden-PowellChief Girl Guide, was born this day 1889) The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:43:17 GMT 10
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of itJules RenardFrench writer ( A Week in the Country) (Born this day 1864) Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2014 6:44:01 GMT 10
Knowing makes no difference to what is known
Philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us to know in a different way things which we already knew in some way
That which is caused is the free and deliberate act of a conscious and responsible agent, and causing him to do it means affording him a motive for so doing
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his lifeRobin G CollingwoodBritish philosopher and historian ( The Idea of History) (Born this day 1889) Metaphysics without ontology
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