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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2012 04:48 pm
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift
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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2012 04:49 pm
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2012 10:07 pm
"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

George Bush, August 27, 1987
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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 18 May, 2012 10:11 pm
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?
~ Blaise Pascal

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2012 07:40 am
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 19 May, 2012 08:08 am
“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
Letty
 
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Reply Sun 20 May, 2012 06:58 am
@edgarblythe,
More synchronicity, edgar.

The Peace That Passeth Understanding



For only they who in full completeness
Have drained life's wine to its very lees,
With all its bitterness and all its sweetness
Can joy completely in God's great peace.
—Hawthorne.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 20 May, 2012 09:04 am
“There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”
A. J. Muste

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 20 May, 2012 06:13 pm
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 21 May, 2012 05:02 am
I take my hat off to you--or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you with spiders.
Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter book)
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 21 May, 2012 06:54 am
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
~ Edward R. Murrow

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 21 May, 2012 06:58 pm
“The first draft of anything is ****.”
― Ernest Hemingway
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msolga
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2012 05:48 am
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
~ Maya Angelou

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 22 May, 2012 08:54 pm
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith (1723-90) Scottish economist. The Wealth of Nations, 1776.

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician.
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 05:39 am
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
~ Lenny Bruce

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 12:53 pm
"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.”
Flip Wilson

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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 01:29 pm
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift


A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 08:37 pm
“The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.”
― Grace Metalious, Peyton Place
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msolga
 
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Reply Thu 24 May, 2012 04:40 am
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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George
 
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Reply Thu 24 May, 2012 04:50 am
“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.”
~George R.R. Martin
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