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April 4, 2014 § Leave a comment
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a tricycle.” — Anonymous
“At the last judgment, no one in heaven will ask about your political party; in hell, however …” — Anonymous
“It’s a small world — until an airplane vanishes.” — Jane Tucker
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March 7, 2014 § Leave a comment
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” — Woodrow Wilson
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” — W. Edwards Deming
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” — G.K. Chesteron
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February 7, 2014 § Leave a comment
“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.” — Dalai Lama
“Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.” — Ambrose Bierce
“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.” — P.J. O’Rourke
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January 3, 2014 § 1 Comment
Voices lost forever in 2013 …
“A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.” — Nelson Mandela
“In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.” — Doris Lessing
“We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.” — Margaret Thatcher
“It always bothers me to see people writing ‘RIP’ when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop-out. To me, ‘RIP’ is the microwave dinner of posthumous honors.” — Lou Reed
“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.” — Roger Ebert
“History says don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.” — Seamus Heaney
“Mr. Jesus died for the bigots as well.” — Rev. Will Campbell
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” — Jonathan Winters
“We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.” — Dr. Joyce Brothers
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December 6, 2013 § Leave a comment
“The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.” — Elbert Hubbard
“The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.” — Carolyn G. Heilbrun
“Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.” — Phyllis Rose
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November 8, 2013 § Leave a comment
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.” — Cicero
“If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything.” — Howard Zinn
“I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.” — Henry Ford
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October 4, 2013 § Leave a comment
“I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.” — Barbara Woodhouse
“If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.” — Nan Porter
“In order to maintain a well-balanced perspective, the person who has a dog to worship him should also have a cat to ignore him.” — Peterborough Examiner
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September 6, 2013 § Leave a comment
“What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it… What is this liberty that must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not the freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check on their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few — as we have learned to our sorrow.
“What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.” — Learned Hand
“Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.” — Harry S. Truman
“It is incorrect to think of liberty as synonymous with unrestrained action. Liberty does not and cannot include any action, regardless of sponsorship, which lessens the liberty of a single human being. To argue contrarily is to claim that liberty can be composed of liberty negations, patently absurd. Unrestraint carried to the point of impairing the liberty of others is the exercise of license, not liberty. To minimize the exercise of license is to maximize the area of liberty. Ideally, government would restrain license, not indulge in it; make it difficult, not easy; disgraceful, not popular …” — Leonard E. Read
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July 26, 2013 § Leave a comment
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” — Nelson Mandela
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” — Lewis B. Smedes
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. … The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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May 10, 2013 § Leave a comment
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“My parents had only one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.” — Cathy Ladman
“And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.” — Jean Ferris
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