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They sure fit together. Don't they? Thanks JDC.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ~ Winston Churchill
As God once said - and I think rightly........
Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery.
A lie gets halfway around the world before one truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~ Winston Churchill
"Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis". - T. S. Eliot from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Here's the verse:
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! 75
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep … tired … or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? 80
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 85
And in short, I was afraid.
I love the line in question - in or out of context. For me it is evocative of will-power. As the saying goes, "If you will it to happen, it will happen!"
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If God and nature were one, Spinoza would be correct, and science could settle the issues. We didn't need to kill Him 2011 years ago.
"We have killed Him. What are we going to do now?" F. Nietzsche.
age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young. -Homer : The iliad.
I am one of the gratest cowards I have known. So now, if necessary, I would give my life for freedom because I grasp the most important kind of cowardice. ~ C A Cafolini
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Change does not [necessarily] roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. ~ Martin Luther King
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Thankyou for remembering, Cafolini
This guru of justice and freedom will never be forgotten. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by KCurtis
I became insane with long intervals of terrible sanity - Edgar Allan Poe
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ~ Muhammad Ali
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon
I hate that song.Quote:
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Sorry
Do not make the mistake of thinking that because I quote it I'm in love with it. There are some I do love, but there are many interpretations to quotes. It's a sad song. Probably one of regret for having forced plans. And then there is the other side of it, where if no thing is forced, the plans are what life is. We are constantly planning some thing or other.Quote:
Originally Posted by KCurtis
I love Lennon, but I have no idols. Good response in your own way.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ~ Mark Twain
Well, It wasn't really a good response. I just have heard that phrase over-used so many times it has become a cliche.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafolini
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we might catch excellence. ~ Vince Lombardi
All guarded lookouts have a way to see outwards. But what most men want is to be seen and loved. That's why solitude never fulfilled men's need for happiness regardless of the discourses that they might have fenced rhetorically and consistently. ~ C A Cafolini
"love is not a difficult or complicated thing... but the people are"
its 100 % ture
You'll be surprised. Love is not difficult? Love is simple? Most show their want for it. Few can reach it. They preffer solitude because it's much easier. Maintaining good, rewarding relationships is not simple. It's just as complicated as life. The give and take requires growing, maturing and a certain amount of sacrifice. So does solitude, but the commander has little relationship to what complicates matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by ilmkidunya
If anyone thinks that the influence of the United States of America is waning, they don't know what they are talking about. ~ Barack Obama, State of the Union speech, 1/24/2012.
Regarding Iran: "I promise you I will not take away any options from the table." ~ Barack Obama, State of the Union speech, 1/24/2012.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. ~ Michel de Montaigne
"Anybody who stands up and says total freedom might be a good thing is immediately swamped with appreciative letters from old ladies whose twin hobbies are prize cucumbers and the castration of sex offenders."
Alan Bennett.
A philosopher was once a man who loved wisdom (sophistry). When the wisdom catalogs began to suffocate all different possibilities, a philosopher became a man who simply posed questions. But, as with wisdom, he had every answer. So in the last half of the 20th century, when all the answers were catalogued and had began to neosuffocate all different possibilities, he had to be placed in a museum as simply the proprietor of just a narrow way of life. That's how we got rid of the problem. And he is not coming back in any suffocating way. He now sells his books whenever he can. The people were smart to separate church and state, but it took a while longer to do it with the philosopher because the clever beast did not claim more than reason and clever, entangling arguments. ~ C A Cafolini
Chaos is an ancient invention of being and existence. It lingered far too long in the conciences of men. In a postmodern point of view, Chaos is a forced indifference inference on orders we deem inconvenient. Like all products of wisdom, it's impossible as knowledge. ~ C A Cafolini
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~
Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ~ Maya Angelou
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ~ Maya Angelou
Who is there that knows me, that would not trust me—that does not? Ask anybody whether they have ever doubted me; whether I have ever wronged them of a farthing. ~ From Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop
It's my favorite quote because it reminds me of how much I trust my three best friends!
P.S: A late B-Day wish to my favorite novelist! Happy 200th Birthday!!! =)
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. ~ Lemony Snicket
P.S: Guys and gals: Don't sleep on children's literature!
For the love of God, will someone PLEASE tell my friends how wonderful a book Peter Pan is?!
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. ~
Abraham Lincoln
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ~ Winston Churchill
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ~ John Lennon
There was a fight in the candy store. Two suckers got licked.
Those who will believe or disbelieve what they can fully comprehend must have very little knowledge and a lot of wisdom to commit biological suicide. ~ C A Cafolini