Scentofawoman
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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown..
What's your favorite quote?
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Lord_Michael
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Clare Booth Luce
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."
Nick0311
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I agree.
Scotsman69
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Better light a candle than curse the darkness.
Curious_in_Cali
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"At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; A wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity." -- Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
Lord_Michael
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Alex Levine
Appropos of St. Paddy's Day just past:
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat."
Appropos of St. Paddy's Day just past:
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat."
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Harry S. Truman
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
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"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stella_Omega
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You talk about things that “corrode the soul,” so does that mean you believe in souls?
Probably not like you mean it. I don’t believe in any supernatural notions of the soul, nor do I subscribe to philosophical dualism, but it’s almost impossible to discuss the mysteries of the universe (both inner and outer) without falling back on spiritually loaded language.
I use the word “soul” to poetically represent a mind generated non-corporeal self model. It’s not something that lives on after death. There’s nothing mystical or divine about it, but that doesn’t make the concept of a soul any less potent or beautiful.
Quite frankly, C.S Lewis was right when he said, “You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” He was just wrong about the semantics.
http://www.dearcoquette.com/post/19757391894/on-the-soul
Probably not like you mean it. I don’t believe in any supernatural notions of the soul, nor do I subscribe to philosophical dualism, but it’s almost impossible to discuss the mysteries of the universe (both inner and outer) without falling back on spiritually loaded language.
I use the word “soul” to poetically represent a mind generated non-corporeal self model. It’s not something that lives on after death. There’s nothing mystical or divine about it, but that doesn’t make the concept of a soul any less potent or beautiful.
Quite frankly, C.S Lewis was right when he said, “You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” He was just wrong about the semantics.
http://www.dearcoquette.com/post/19757391894/on-the-soul
tocurpussy
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Live your life to the fullest today Your tomorrow is never promised
ArchLady03
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Did we give up when the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
elysium_quester
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...
I've got so freakin' many...
(sorry if I'm spamming the lot and for any offense I might cause)
Serious...
- Sooner or later, you always have to grow up
- A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. A truth is still a truth even if nobody believes it.
- Would you destroy something perfect in order to make it beautiful?
- In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- What happens when a star explodes and shoots across the sky? It disappears and nobody ever remembers what it looked like.
- Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable
- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle
- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats
- In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it
- There is nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
- No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.
- Whatever you are, be a good one
- There is nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing eachother's children.
- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But rows like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, it wasn't a forest, but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
And now that you are thoroughly depressed...
Humourous...
- When I have a little money, I buy books. If there's any left, I buy food and clothes.
- There is not a righteous man on earth who hasn't sinned
- My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and I became Picasso [I know he didn't say it, but it's still funny]
- Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that people who have the most birthdays live the longest.
- The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything
- [said by Einstein] If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
- Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie," until you can find a rock
- The first person you should distrust is the one who says he would never lie
- The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?
- How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).
- "I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like the health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books!
I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this speaker man, I do not like this ‘YES WE CAN’.
I do not like this spending spree, I’m smart, I know that Nothing’s Free
I do not like their smug replies, when I complain about their lies
I do not like this kind of hope. I do not like it. nope, nope, nope!”
Wow, I just realized how many that was. Oh, well. Most of them are good. I appreciate you indulging my hobby of quote-collecting.
I've got so freakin' many...
(sorry if I'm spamming the lot and for any offense I might cause)
Serious...
- Sooner or later, you always have to grow up
- A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. A truth is still a truth even if nobody believes it.
- Would you destroy something perfect in order to make it beautiful?
- In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- What happens when a star explodes and shoots across the sky? It disappears and nobody ever remembers what it looked like.
- Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable
- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle
- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats
- In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it
- There is nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
- No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.
- Whatever you are, be a good one
- There is nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing eachother's children.
- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But rows like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, it wasn't a forest, but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
And now that you are thoroughly depressed...
Humourous...
- When I have a little money, I buy books. If there's any left, I buy food and clothes.
- There is not a righteous man on earth who hasn't sinned
- My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and I became Picasso [I know he didn't say it, but it's still funny]
- Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that people who have the most birthdays live the longest.
- The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything
- [said by Einstein] If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
- Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie," until you can find a rock
- The first person you should distrust is the one who says he would never lie
- The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?
- How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).
- "I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like the health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books!
I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this speaker man, I do not like this ‘YES WE CAN’.
I do not like this spending spree, I’m smart, I know that Nothing’s Free
I do not like their smug replies, when I complain about their lies
I do not like this kind of hope. I do not like it. nope, nope, nope!”
Wow, I just realized how many that was. Oh, well. Most of them are good. I appreciate you indulging my hobby of quote-collecting.
Loverskitten
I bite
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Lord_Michael
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Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Curious_in_Cali
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Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~ Unknown
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Thornton Wilder
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
DeepGreenEyes
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Curious_in_Cali
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"We're all just walking each other home." ~ Ram Dass
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Sydney J. Harris
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
