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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Sat 6 Apr, 2013 06:42 am
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
― James Baldwin


Truer words were never spoken
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 6 Apr, 2013 10:22 am
@blueveinedthrobber,
blueveinedthrobber wrote:

edgarblythe wrote:

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
― James Baldwin


Truer words were never spoken

We could do a whole thread about how the rich get preferential treatment in the form of cheaper prices, lower interest rates, government assistance without the hassle and more.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 6 Apr, 2013 10:28 am
“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
― Frank Sinatra
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 6 Apr, 2013 09:50 pm
In a Station of the Metro

THE apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
- Ezra Pound
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Sun 7 Apr, 2013 07:59 am
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:

blueveinedthrobber wrote:

edgarblythe wrote:

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
― James Baldwin


Truer words were never spoken

We could do a whole thread about how the rich get preferential treatment in the form of cheaper prices, lower interest rates, government assistance without the hassle and more.


we could call it "The News"
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 7 Apr, 2013 08:56 am
Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
Robin Williams
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Sun 7 Apr, 2013 11:53 am
"I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find
it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the
mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment.”

Sherlock Holmes, speaking of cocaine
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 8 Apr, 2013 04:23 am
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 8 Apr, 2013 07:54 pm
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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suresh021
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 04:21 am
@edgarblythe,
Quote of the day
"Pennies don’t fall from heaven – they have to be earned here on earth."
– Margaret Thatcher
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 04:24 am
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.”
― Walt Whitman
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 04:35 am
@suresh021,
"When she(Thatcher) walked into Downing Street promising harmony instead of discord, only one in seven children was poor and Britain was more equal than at any time in modern history. But within a few years, a third of children were poor, a sign of the yawning inequality from which the country never recovered."
Polly Toynbee.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 11:21 am
@izzythepush,
Neil Gaiman wrote:

Two nights ago it was snowing. Today it's 80 degrees in NY. It is a conspiracy to make sure I am wrongly dressed.
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 12:05 pm
“Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.”

George Ade
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timur
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 12:13 pm
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

- Thomas Szasz
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Lustig Andrei
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 02:35 pm
"True friendship's laws are by this rule express's,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
-- Alexander Pope
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 9 Apr, 2013 07:12 pm
“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
― Bill Watterson
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 10 Apr, 2013 04:21 am
“I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
― Bill Watterson
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Wed 10 Apr, 2013 07:42 am
There is no persuasion , argument or presentation of facts to sway the opinions of those who CHOOSE to believe, whether it be in religious or political nonsense, perverted to suit the needs of a handful of power brokers.

The Bear
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 10 Apr, 2013 07:48 am
@blueveinedthrobber,
BVT? Hmmm? A quote from a talking bear? Go figure.... Razz
Haruki Murakami wrote:
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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