Emo Philips When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
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edgarblythe
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Mon 30 Apr, 2018 09:47 am
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Isaac Asimov
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eurocelticyankee
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Tue 1 May, 2018 07:36 am
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
A. Hitler.
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edgarblythe
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Tue 1 May, 2018 07:39 am
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Give a man a corn, and he'll have a snack for a few minutes. Show him how to grow corn, and he'll be corny all his life.
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edgarblythe
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Thu 3 May, 2018 07:25 am
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it! ~Taylor Caldwell, Testimony of Two Men, 1968
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edgarblythe
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Sun 6 May, 2018 06:30 pm
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
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edgarblythe
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Mon 7 May, 2018 08:13 pm
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
"Everything is improved with the flavor of bacon , including bacon"
-Setanta
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edgarblythe
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Tue 8 May, 2018 06:36 am
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
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Tue 8 May, 2018 06:40 am
"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place" -Washington Irving
Year after year, I keep coming back to this quotation.
As a Gemini who doesn't believe in astrology, but recognizes myself in the description of same, it fits me to a tee.
To folks like me, being 'Bruised in a new place' is far preferable to being bored in an old place.
