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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. ~ John Steinbeck
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ~ John Steinbeck
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ~ William Faulkner
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. ~ William Faulkner
We Americans become powerful foes when we don't understand something that happens inside the US. Many leaders (writers, dictators, etc.) from foreign cultures have claimed that we undestand each other excellently, but fail to understand other countries. After the events of 9/11/2001, we decided to prove that they were right. Still we don't understand. ~ C A Cafolini
Reality is what you grasp right now, not earlier, not later. It is what it is to you, and from that there is no escape. It's irrelevant whether you are right or wrong. That's not going to change reality. It could only make it partial. ~ C A Cafolini
Fascism at one of its best:
Death Is Nothing But To Live Defeated And Inglorious Is To Die Daily ~ Napoleon Buonaparte
One paramount aspect of fascism is love of glory for the leaders at the expense of the sacrifice of the common man.
Fascism is very entangling. It degrades de poor and then buys their vote by promising salvation from the misery and degradation it instituted. It took centuries to deliniate it, estimate it and reveal it for keeps. It will never be back on a global basis.
Now that's progress in the struggle for liberty from the famous monster. ~ C A Cafolini
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ~ Tennessee Williams
The fascist were extremely brutal and ignorant. Take Napoleon, for example, an idiot that other fasscist cosidered genial. In looking at statistics, he didn't speak about the subject. His fly's attention took him to look at the interpretation of others while considering it an art and being so retarded in his assumptions.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts."
Napoléon Bonaparte
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. ~ Tennessee Williams
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~ Tennessee Williams
There occur no nombelievers. People always find themselves in situations where they must make decisions fast enough to base then on belief. ~ C A Cafolini
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. ~ Dalai Lama
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. ~ Dalai Lama
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ~ Dalai Lama
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them - Dalai Lama
The cannons of his adversary were thundering in the tattered morning when the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart - T.H. White
"I used to be an optimist, but I got tired of being proved wrong." - Hawkman
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~ Oscar Wilde
We are all mediators, translators. ~ Jacques Derrida
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. ~ Jacques Derrida