“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
Mitch Albom
“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
Mitch Albom
I don't think that's the case. If the stories were all one, that Ayatollah could never be called, as he will, Gadaffi II. Have fun and be careful with your story.Originally Posted by Leda
I'm sorry Cafolini, I must be off topic after 113 pages.
I was responding (as a newbie) to the title of the thread:
"What is your favorite quote?"
Kind regards
So you must have been thinking about the first one, the big stick. Kind regards.
Most important news of the day(9/7/2012): Canada severs relationship with Iran. ~ CNN
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ~ Jimmy Carter
"If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate!"
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
The Gettysburg Address (there are several versions but they address the same issue in the same succint manner.)
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.
Last edited by cafolini; 09-11-2012 at 11:09 AM.
Yes, but not a simple "so it goes" like the rest of "world gossip." This one went far and took hold. And as far as I see, we, the people, would fight for the people's liberty, and will do it by the civil command of the people in all respects. And that explains, among other things, why in America there will never be military takeovers.
There will be no going back to other days and times.
The worst thing one can do is to be kind to obvious enemies. One must love them to death as soon as possible. ~ C A Cafolini
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
~ David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement Speech
Do I really need to explain why is it a favorite?
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake
Captivity is consciousness,
So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson
Its only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything - Fight Club
Poisoned by Civilization he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild - Into The Wild
Aliengirl, you said? Definitely. We will negotiate you ET's "go home."
Good stuff. We will negotiate to make it possible for them to exit in the wild. We'll make it as easy as possible.
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Then who will give you company dear cafolini? You are prowling here alone and seemingly running out of quotes. Was trying to be helpful.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake
Captivity is consciousness,
So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson
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