I pray I’ve done my work so, that when I’ve gone from here, in all the turmoil through the wreckage and rumble, when someone finds themselves digging through the ruins, they’ll find me. Somewhere in that wreckage, they’ll find something they can use, that I left behind. And if I’ve done that, then I’ve accomplished something in life. ~James Baldwin
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoléon Bonaparte
“You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.”
~Mark Twain
“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.” Oscar Wilde.
I listened to Joe Louis fight on the radio. Not because I knew to plan it but because my stepfather loved boxing. eb
'There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.' - George Foreman
'I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.' - Muhammad Ali
'I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.' - Max Baer
'Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.' - Angelo Dundee
'Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.' - Joe Frazier
'Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.' - Tommy Farr
'When you're a great finisher, you’ll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.' - Mike Tyson
'He was a credit to his race – the human race.' - Jimmy Cannon
Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards.
Bob Crow
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." --Mark Twain
A few words from Werner Herzog to cheer you up for the weekend.
‘Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.’
Jack Benny: "There are only five real people in Hollywood. Everybody else is Mel Blanc."
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
—Noam Chomsky
RESanders -Demon's Tear OUT NOW!
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Things I didn't know before starting this self-publishing journey, #1:
Writing books is much easier than persuading people to read them.
“Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
Eddie DeChooch”
― Janet Evanovich, Seven Up
Politics is made up of two words: "poli" which is Greek for "many;" and "tics" which are blood sucking insects.
Gore Vidal
“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
― Billie Holiday
"If I could live my life over again, I would have gone to bed to rest when I felt sick instead of pretending the earth would stop if I wasn't at work for a day... I would have burned the pink candle carved like a rose instead of leting it melt in the pantry... I would have talked less and listened more... I would have invited friends to the table even if there is a stain on the carpt and the couch needs to be cleaned. I would have eaten popcorn in the "good" room and wouldn't have worried so much about dust when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather telling stories from his youth. I would never have insisted on driving with the car windows down on a beautiful summer day, just because my hair was freshly styled and fixed. I would have been lying on the meadow with my head on the grass. I would have cried and laughed less watching TV and more watching life. But, most of all, to have a second chance at life, I would cherish every moment, I would really look at it... I would live it... I wouldn't get so worked up over petty and petty things anymore... Don't worry about those who don't like you, or rather, you shouldn't care who does what... Instead, let's cherish the friends we have and the people who love us... And to what we do every day to improve our mind, body, soul, emotions."
Written by Erma Bombeck 1979.
Lee Camp [Redacted]
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Now that we've seen thousands of devices explode in people's pockets across Lebanon, is everyone ready for Elon's chip implants in your brain??
"It began as a mistake." First line of Charles Bukowski's Post Office.
“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”
― Charles Chaplin
′′ I have chosen loneliness to defend myself. I protect myself from humanity around me, from this loud and intrusive humanity. I live surrounded by animals, trees, flowers. I have horses, donkeys, rams, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons. Then of course dogs and cats. I don't even know how many there are...
I feel much closer to nature and animals than humans. I confess I hate most of the human species. I accepted the cause of animals to finally make sense of my existence here. I'm trying to explain to the man that cruelty inflicted on animals is unworthy, unacceptable, inhumane precisely...
I don't give a damn that the world remembers the divine B. B., that wasn't divine at all.”
- Brigitte Bardot
"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time --when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
~Carl Sagan
