@Letty,
It's a terrible quote Letty. Everybody knows, even little kids, that the trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel.
What we need is advice how to pull the trick off. Not just telling us what it is.
“I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.”
Walter Cronkite
@edgarblythe,
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
~ Albert Camus
@spendius,
My favourite is, “All that I know of Morality and obligations I owe to football.”
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”
Dan Rather
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick
@edgarblythe,
How do these people get "sophisticated"?
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
@spendius,
Practice, spendi. Unfettered by watchdogs with teeth.
I graduated pretty quickly. When I was eleven or twelve a close friend of the family got lynched. I guess he was about forty years old, married, and we used to play with his kids. I remember the Saturday night a bunch of white men beat him to death at the Decatur fairgrounds because he sassed back a white woman. They just left him dead on the ground. Everyone in town knew it but never said a word in public. I went down and saw his bloody clothes. They left those clothes on a fence for about a year. Every Negro in town was supposed to get the message from those clothes and I can see those clothes now in my mind's eye.... But nothing was said in public. No sermons in church. No news. No protest. It was as though this man just dissolved except for the bloody clothes.... Just before I went into the Army I began wondering how long I could stand it. I used to watch the Saturday night sport of white men trying to run down a Negro with their car, or white gangs coming through town to beat up a Negro.
Medgar Evers
“We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.”
― Rod Serling
@edgarblythe,
I think the future tense is inappropriate.
@spendius,
Well, you have to remember that the comment was made back in the days when the current generation of new voters was in swaddling clothes.
“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”
― Lucille Ball
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx
"This case clearly involves contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all.”
--Federal Judge Warren Urbom in dismissing the multi-state lawsuit over the contraception mandate.
May have done this one before, but it still makes me smile:
I will fight you with all my might and main! As Maine goes, so goes the nation
Pogo.
