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Post by outcast on Apr 23, 2014 15:03:19 GMT
"Enter God, stage left, right and center."
Lewis Black - Me of Little Faith
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 22:06:18 GMT
I do not have an issue with God. I have an issue with people using God to manipulate others.
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Post by outcast on Apr 24, 2014 15:45:18 GMT
"They have looked at the world and seen one highly obtrusive fact: there is no country with a relative literate population that does not have a relatively high and progressive living standard. There is no country with a relatively illiterate population that does."
JKG - The Voice of the Poor
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Post by tizzahell on Apr 25, 2014 6:55:48 GMT
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
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Post by tizzahell on Apr 25, 2014 6:57:14 GMT
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. William Shakespeare
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Post by outcast on Apr 25, 2014 12:34:57 GMT
"A stupendous source of economic power, and one of the largest material prizes in world history."
US State Department on the Middle East oil reserves 1945.
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Post by outcast on Apr 26, 2014 11:04:55 GMT
"Sovereign is he who declares the state of emergency."
Karl Schmidt
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2014 11:32:11 GMT
"When your mind creates a problem, when it resists life as it unfolds in the moment, your body tenses and feels this tension as an 'emotion,' variously interpreted by words like 'fear,' 'sorrow,' or 'anger.' True emotion is pure energy flowing freely in the body."
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"There's no praise or blame on the path you've chosen. Praise and blame are forms of manipulation that you no longer require."
Both from "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman (1980)
(Though I have the book, been listening to the audio book in my car these last couple of weeks...the lazy man's way to read, but great with all the driving I do.)
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Post by outcast on Apr 28, 2014 0:03:32 GMT
"We've elevated greed from the status of a vice to the central organizing principal of contemporary society."
Linda McQuaig - All You Can Eat
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Post by Stumour on Apr 28, 2014 12:14:08 GMT
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves - Albert Einstein
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Post by outcast on Apr 28, 2014 18:15:42 GMT
"What is certain is that human observers make mistakes. All they can really say is, I think this is why and I believe this is how. Science, it would appear, is a system of beliefs."
1988 Chemistry Nobel Laureate - John Polanyi
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Post by outcast on Apr 29, 2014 8:55:11 GMT
We patched her rents, stayed her vents, lagged hatch and port-hole down Put cables to her fore and aft and girded her around Tomorrow noon we'll hit the air and then take up the strain And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again
Stan Rogers
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Post by Stumour on Apr 30, 2014 2:12:10 GMT
As true today as it was almost 20 years ago (1995 when Windows 95 reared its head)...
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.
- Douglas Adams
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Post by outcast on May 2, 2014 22:56:48 GMT
"When vast sums of money are free to travel the globe at light speed, and investors are free to bet on the price of everything from cocca to currency, the result is enormous volatility."
Naomi Klein
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Post by Stumour on May 3, 2014 1:06:09 GMT
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future." - Benjamin Disraeli
and still holds true. Heading back to Thatcher "values" that near led to a peasant revolution
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