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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 16:02:07 GMT
(I caught it late so I missed the origin of the saying, but I heard a rather piercing quip on the radio this last week) "Luck is merely a concept conceived by to weak to explain and justify their failures"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 20:56:42 GMT
"The best defense against evil is to seek it within. Only by confronting our own capacity for evil is evil held at bay. If evil is always external, moral purification always involves the extermination of others."
Chris Hedges
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 11:18:30 GMT
"The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people sane."
Eric Fromm - The Sane Society
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 23:35:00 GMT
"If you can fly this plane 600 miles an hour in the dark and find Los Angeles...you can find my bags."
Flip Wilson
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 14:04:28 GMT
Sixty days before introducing the largest deficit budget in the nation's history ($65 billion)
"This is no time for wild spending schemes. Ours is a prudent policy. We will never go back into deficit."
Canadian Prime Minister, Steven Harper, Sept. 15, 2008,
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2014 14:23:28 GMT
"Yes! But we will call it anti-fascism."
American lawyer Huey Long, when asked if fascism could ever overtake North America.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 9:34:09 GMT
"The strongest loyalties felt by men aren't to abstractions like justice and equity, but rather to persons, a sad fact of human psychology that goes far to explaining the popularity of political dictators."
(Philip Wheelwright 1934)
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Post by Stumour on Jan 21, 2014 0:00:45 GMT
Something Manny (I think.... can't be arsed checking) quoted actually came from an old Scottish proverb:
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride If turnips were swords, i'd wear one by my side If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers' hand
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Post by manny on Jan 21, 2014 0:58:07 GMT
Something Manny (I think.... can't be arsed checking) quoted actually came from an old Scottish proverb: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride If turnips were swords, i'd wear one by my side If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers' hand Wow, I never knew there was more to the saying! Thanks Stu. Ya learn something new every day.
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Post by Stumour on Jan 21, 2014 1:02:36 GMT
another fav saying is:
Every day is a school day.
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Post by manny on Jan 21, 2014 1:11:26 GMT
A lot of truth to that one Stu.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 10:34:05 GMT
"Private interest always wears the guise of the common good, and none are more easily persuaded of the nobility of some great public cause, than those who stand to gain personally therefrom."
JKG - The Age of Uncertainty
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 22:03:36 GMT
"All I ever wanted was to sing to God, and he made me mute."
Antonio Salieri
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2014 12:46:00 GMT
In the overwhelming main, one prefers to highlight the words of admirable persons. However, we shouldn't surrender to the natural inclination to dismiss and or ignore, those of our enemies; which sometimes reveal an ugly truth. In light of the rise of the surveillance/security state (and the ruthless prosecution of internal whistleblowers)offered toward this end is a disturbingly simple statement, by a truly despicable individual.
"We are not the people we used to be."
Richard Pearl (from the documentary, "Why We Fight")
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 23:18:24 GMT
"The News is the liturgy of the commodity economy -- whose scope and omniscience no man can grasp, but only consume as manna. We are feasters at the table of goods and services, most of which are not only unnecessary, distractive and mind killing, but earth destroying in both their manufacture and their use. This matters not a bit in an illusionary world of appearances."
Joe Bageant - Dancing at the Doomsday Waltz
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