You'll never find the light at the end of your tunnel until you find and clealy state the darkness at the beginning. C A Cafolini
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You'll never find the light at the end of your tunnel until you find and clealy state the darkness at the beginning. C A Cafolini
Beliefs have little to do with faith. For that matter, any belief suffices. So you better accept the faith of other people as important as your own. It is not the evidence of things unseen. It is the evidence of any belief. It is only thus that it is good for everyone. C A Cafolini
Every time I buy a more expensive suit, it looks cheaper on me. ~ Warren Buffet
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. ~Jacques Derrida
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. - Robert Browning
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~ Woody Allen
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. ~ Woody Allen
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.-johann wolfgang von goethe
To thine own self be true-Shakespeare
"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."-Oscar Wilde
Convictions are not necessarily true: a note for asses! ~ F. Nietszche.
The insanity of an individual is inconsequential compared to the insanity of political parties, systems of government and institutions. ~ F. Nietzsche
"I’m going to stop pretending my life hasn’t started yet."
Roadwork by Richard Bachman/Stephen King
I read this for the first time as a young adult. I realized in that moment that all my activities and interests revolved around future goals and aspirations. I was not living in the moment or taking time to "smell the roses." Or even thinking about the consequences of my actions.
Now I am married with four kids and there are still moments my husband and I ask each other if we feel like grown-ups yet.
I've got quite a few, but one of my favourite quotes that immediately comes to mind is...
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - George Orwell.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ~ George Orwell
What an amazing double agent was Orwell. There have been few as good as such. England never amazed me for what it lodged in order to fight for freedom. It always seemed quite normal to me: "To thyself be true." ~ C A Cafolini
Lincoln was a most ignorant military man. But he was also a most lucky one in giving comand of the north to George Meade when he needed the best general he could find. Meade would not have fought Gettysburg without doing what Lincoln could have never done. He was the way to democracy when he submitted to a vote whether or not the north would go after Lee. The north voted yes and the war went on. Otherwise Meade would have resigned.
Lee decided to play a trick, a gamble, where he lost 18,000 men. Then he started apollogizing as he withdrew into the deep south. Lee knew that unless Meade went after his defeated army he could not hope to entrap him latter in territory unknown to Lincoln's general. But so did Meade and did not go after that challenge.
Lincoln, who missunderstood the military game masterfoolly, came down on Meade heavily. Meade ignored Lincoln's lack of grasp and kept going safely.
His actions caused Lincoln to eventually show his political extreme compentency. He wrote a 271-word address which became known as The Gettysburg Address and delivered with it, at Gettysburg, our country into everlasting democracy: The government of the people, for the people, and by the people. Not many of us understood this until much later. Many still don't ~ C A Cafolini
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. ~ Khalil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. ~ Khalil Gibran
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. - Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. - Diogenes
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. - Benjamin Franklin
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. - Alexander Smith
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ~ Khalil Gibran
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ~ Khalil Gibran
'People won't hate you unless you give them a reason to'
I like this one because it's meaningful to the general population.
There are actually five (or more) versions of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. This is the version that appears on the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D. C. and contains the words "under God." This term appears to be the most notable difference among the five versions. According to popular accounts Lincoln spoke those words.
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
That all men are created equal is not born from an actual fact. It must be born from the spiritual reality that the human soul is incapable of recognizing any veritable rank. ~ E. A. Poe
All men are equal to fish. ~ Hoover.
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you can never trust them." -Abraham Lincoln
It was Al Gore listening to the GOP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis
“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
By Tony Robbins
I like this quote, it gives me strength whenever i am loosing my strength to solve something.
It is assuming quite a bit to have the solutions.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShortStory
To thine own self be true - Hamlet
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love - The Brothers Karamazov
Become a sun and everyone will see you - Crime and Punishment
And then there's Sonnet 116,
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
And of course Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne in Persuasion, the best love letter of all time:
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ~ Woody Allen
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Great choice! If a man would write like this in real life and mean it too, then it would be worth to leave the entire world for him. The only problem in real life is that something like this happens in the middle of life and before long you realize that it is not an Austen novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brielle92
Agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by aliengirl
That Blake quote you carry is far away from Romantic. Love it.
Give me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy - F.Scott Fitzgerald
As far as I go, this will be one of the funniest elections I've ever seen. So I'll give you a concert of what I'll do if that happens.
First, I stand upon my head till my ears are turning red. I would then petition so that the formula be changed to Ryan-Romney, instead of the way it is. Then, it would be okay to send Bidden to Central America, but it would be equally valid to send Rumney to Peru to deal with the issues he can deal with. This is already extreme fantasy. But there is a lot more. I would expect William James to send us a warning letter, saying that it is alright to be pragmatic, but you wouldn't need an atomic bomb to kill a fly.
Pritchard will come back galloping to anihilate the clanless societies discovered by Malinowsky. Someone would give Freudean Monkey a decoration for the name chosen for this forum.
Definitely Karl Popper will manage to make a genuine point about anarchy regardless of Feyerabend.
Could it happen? Could these freaks do it. And now we have to deal with Eastwood gone insane?
Till my ears are turning red.
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Once the fisherman goes beyond fishing and the cross becomes the meaninless symbol Togre explained, faith arrives fullforce through Jesus. Any belief is possible and can actually happen physically. This is why Romney could rescue USA from whatever he decides, whatever does or does not occur. This is what we are looking in the behaviour of these people. Whatever they wish will be true.
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The process by which any belief will be true regarless has to be understood in terms of social pressure. Actually, when a brother says something is true through the power of Jesus, he couldn't possibly find any opossition because the brother is speaking through the infallible power of Jesus. The other brother approving finds absolutely no motive to dispute the call. If a brother or sister makes it through the power of Jesus, it must be true, supporting the brother or the sister before time is even taken to judge. Whatever they wish will be true because Jesus told a brother or sister.
There is a final piece to this puzzle. Is Eastwood actually insane in what he's doing? Perhaps it is the logical thing to do for a desired effect? We could think about it.
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:leaving:
Let us be like
Two falling stars in the day sky.
Let no one know of our sublime beauty
As we hold hands with God and burn
Into a sacred existence that defies,
That surpasses
Every description of ecstasy
And love.
~ Hafiz Shirazi
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran
Outstanding speech by actual Gov of M, supporting Barack Obama's position. Most important because he holds the same position Rumney held the prior term.
"Michelle makes me feel misty." Obama commenting over his wife's speech.
Not only Israel's right to exist is not in jeopardy, we democrats will also guarantee that Jerusalem is and will always be the capital.
"Do not criticize people. They are just what you would be under similar circumstances."
No, that's not the case. They should be careful about what they tell the media because we are listening. What if we go ahead and evaporate them when they start talking about closing the chanel, etc. This is not a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by dodong
"I'll not take any option off the table." ~ Barack Obama
Neither is it a critique.
You know? I don't get it. I am old and white, and I like president Obama. ~ James Taylor, while performing at DNC 2012.
just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
It is always the upper classes that must be taxed more. Otherwise, how is the people going to get the money?
Regarding cheaper things, my new suits are always it no matter how much I pay for them.
Warren Buffett
Most important news of the day: Canada severs relationship with Iran. ~ CNN