Yes it just has some ring to it. Can you imagine?Originally Posted by Bleeding Pawn
But of course, a defeated enemy as a POW inspires com-passion for that. But what passion in common could a soldier have for a fighting enemy? None.
The ax of Herodotus? YES!!!
Many people think that money produces power (I'm not talking about the average citizen who mostly think so, but rather people that are relatively rich). But the truth is that the respect people has for the lastingly powerful is what produces the money. Those who think money does it are always a passing lightning bolt. ~ C A Cafolini
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans" - not sure where it comes from though!
That's one of John Lennon's best.
Add to that "The map is not the same as the territory," by Korsybski.
Add tp that "Life is not the one we lived, but the one we remember," by Gabby Marquez.
Don't let people judge your character and personality, you are what you are. ~ ?
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."
-Unknown
Love that one!
There is no greater pain than the collection of past happiness during times of misery. ~ Dante
There are three new synonyms that make so much sense that if you oppose their being synonyms to an extreme, you might lose all sense. Of course, synonyms need a framework where they operate.
Will take the military and the religious.
Attention Adam Gadahn, Daniel San Diego and Zulkili Abdhir, among many others.
The synonyms are for the word "Nuking." In the military there are two: "Droning" and "Enolagaying." In the religious framework: "Baptism" (by fire). ~ C A Cafolini
Understanding what Seal Team Six (not its real name which is a national secret) requires a grasp of a specific kind of flexibility. The training is for individuals and it is extremely exhausting. But it is not, as some people believe, a show of mind over matter. In order to enter the training people have to be very physically fit, but this is not the ultimate focus. Of all the people that enter only about 10% make it to the end. Why? Great athletes have applied, but most give up fast. Why? Because the objective is to show and prove how much a biological body can take, which is a lot a lot more than it is most commonly assumed. That’s the objective of the training. The people that graduate do so as individuals. Team work is not of the essence during the training. Only after they graduate the are thought as members of the team, during which stage they spend several years showing that they can do it. And it is a lifetime job. ~ C A Cafolini
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding. J.F.K
Do not ask what you can do for your country unless you ask first what your country can do for you. Otherwise what would you want government for? What would you want good morals and law and order for? ~ C A Cafolini
Being humble, humus of this earth, might be a good thing, a very wise thing. A tail cannot waggle a dog. But having your thought repressed, a victim of antidemocratic treatment, might rightly demand and arrogant revolutionary. Jefferson and many other founding fathers thought so. ~ C A Cafolini
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi
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