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"Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue..."

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917- )

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"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of life is to go on asking them."

Frank Moore Colby (1865-1925)

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Piffka wrote:

"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of life is to go on asking them."

Frank Moore Colby (1865-1925)

Poppycock!
Piff, you and I are clever and you know damn well as soon as one question is answered we lose interest and move on to the next one.

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Maybe he was being facetious. I took it to mean "people who fancy themselves clever".

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Trust those who seek the truth, not those who have found it.

I don't see much difference between "chief relish of life is to go on asking them" and quickly wanting to move on to the next, Pan, but this Colby quote does not see being clever as a good thing. It has a negative connotation.

As a reader of the Dao de Jing, I'd say that bewilderment is our true state. Wink

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Good enough for me.

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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. - Unknown

As one who is bewildered fairly often, this quote seems fitting for me, at least for today.

Do you think "unknown" and "anonymous" are both women? I have it on good authority that anonymous is and was a woman. The alias of "unknown" would make sense if the men of the world started becoming suspicious of "anonymous."

One my thoughts for the day.

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Thanks, Diane.... from one bewildered anon. to another. Here's a lady who chose not to be anonymous:

"If history teaches anything about the causes of revolution...it is that a disintegration of political systems precedes revolutions, that the telling symptom of disintegration is a progressive erosion of governmental authority, and that this erosion is caused by the government's inability to function properly, from which spring the citizens' doubts about its legitimacy."

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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Piff, I once heard that Anwar Sadat said of Gold Meir, "That woman has balls!"

Bless the ladies.

Now for something on the irreverent side:

If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. -Catherine-

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I love that one... thanks for the snort of laughter.

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"The duty of an Opposition is to oppose."

Randolph Churchill (1849-1894)

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"Darkness isn't a condition apart from light. Darkness is a state of light and light is a state of darkness. Belief in the separation of one thing from another thing is the beginning of fear. Oneness is the end of it."

Wendell Berry (1934- )

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"You can't study darkness by shining a light on it"
I guess somebody musta said that.

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Yes indeed, dys! If they didn't, then you just did! Very Happy

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"The two worlds are of approximately equal size, but each regards the other as its moon."

Study Guide for Ursula LeGuin: The Dispossessed (1974)

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If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. --Dorothy Parker

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I read an entire book about her once. Sad, mostly. But outside of sad, she was one spunky broad...

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I have a covert respect for that guy. If only he served a different master.

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Yep, we tend to respect someone who is ruthless. Do you think he would be any better as a Democrat? I didn't say liberal because I don't think that would be possible.

I think I've used this Stewart Udall quote before, but it is soooo relevant.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
-- Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth
College, June 13, 1965

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.. -Elayne Boosler-

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