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@edgarblythe,

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard to reach Americans regarding America. It’s not a place so much as a mindset. For myself, I got out of that mindset quite by accident, but it also took some effort. When confronted by contradictions that made me uncomfortable, I did not stuff them away and ignore them.

-- Mark Tokarski

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

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“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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@edgarblythe,

fm loves the sea ed. He can't get enough of it.

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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein

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“Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.”
― John Grisham, The Confession

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“Human nature is the same in all professions.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." — Robert Orben

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“To be is to do - Socrates.
To do is to be - Jean-Paul Satre.
Do be do be do -Frank Sinatra.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

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@edgarblythe,

Indicative of just what a bubble headed bleach blonde Frank was.

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@edgarblythe,

"I WISH either my father or my mother,
or indeed both of them, as they
were in duty both equally bound to it,
had minded what they were about when
they begot me;"

Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Part of first sentence.

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“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

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@edgarblythe,

“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
― Jodi Picoult,

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“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
― Omar Nelson Bradley

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" if you don't play a sport , be one " - local sportscaster Max Jackson in the 1950's .

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@hamburgboy,

"Above all these he set aloft the cleare and lightsome skie
Without all dregs of earthly filth or grosseness utterlie."

Publius Ovidius Naso.

He hadn't seen us lot coming eh?

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@hamburgboy,

hamburgboy wrote:

" if you don't play a sport , be one " - local sportscaster Max Jackson in the 1950's .

"If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter."

Bob&Ray (Bob Goulding and Ray Elliott, or did I get the surnames backwards?)

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