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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    “Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” –Noam Chomsky
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
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    RIP

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    ^^^One great lady- thanks for posting it GP.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Yes, I'm on a Harold & Maude kick :)

    While surrounded by daisies
    Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?
    Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe.
    Maude: Why do you say that?
    Harold: Because they're all alike.
    Maude: Oooh, but they're *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
    [she points to a daisy]
    Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.
    [she gestures to a field of daisies]
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    "...the subway is subversive because it is, after all, an underground movement."

    -Vine Deloria, We Talk, You Listen
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited April 2015
    Silence and smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems and silence is the way to avoid many problems.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    "I was born, I blinked...and it was over"

    - Emily Debrayda Phillips

    She was a retired teacher who wrote her own obituary shortly before she died of pancreatic cancer, just recently.

    Those words, in their simple truth, hit me to the point of bittersweet tears.
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    edited April 2015
    This two have always stuck.

    "However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or
    complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't
    this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will
    never even be offered life in the first place?”

    Richard Dawkins

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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    The dumber you are, the smarter you think you are.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Deixa estar.

    (my second language lesson of the day)

    Shine on - well beyond tomorrow.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE2X239RG18
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    This is a fulfilling one that says a lot.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I get your point! First time was the charm, so to speak.

    I'm not pro-abortion - frankly, I have yet to meet anyone who is - but pro-choice all the way. Still and always will stand by and with my sister, for the decision she made.

    .....

    OK, I thought more than twice about posting additional comments and let it stew a bit.

    (thank you, "save draft" button)

    Hope the above comes across in its intended spirit - and that you, PJfan, might open your mindset on this a bit and imagine yourself in that fragile position of another.
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    hedonist said:

    I get your point! First time was the charm, so to speak.

    I'm not pro-abortion - frankly, I have yet to meet anyone who is - but pro-choice all the way. Still and always will stand by and with my sister, for the decision she made.

    .....

    OK, I thought more than twice about posting additional comments and let it stew a bit.

    (thank you, "save draft" button)

    Hope the above comes across in its intended spirit - and that you, PJfan, might open your mindset on this a bit and imagine yourself in that fragile position of another.

    Don't know why you are responding so. I posted some quotes in a quote thread. Most of which were about how special life is and how we should cherish and realize it.

    Your response to this should've been pm. In no way were the quotes meant to be taken any other way. Especially to bring up abortion.
    Weird.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Felt no need to pm given the public forum; however, I genuinely apologize if I mistakenly inferred something from the quotes you posted.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Reminds me of an Ed Abbey quote/book title/antidote to despair: "One life at a time, please."
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    "look around - choose your own ground"

    plus its playmate in hand -

    "don't be afraid to care"
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
    – Albert Schweitzer

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