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PostPosted: 02/27/16 6:13 pm • # 301 
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

~ Walt Whitman


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PostPosted: 03/02/16 9:06 am • # 302 
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Love that quote, Sid.


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PostPosted: 03/02/16 9:07 am • # 303 
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)


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PostPosted: 03/31/16 8:11 am • # 304 
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I have no clue who Alfred North Whitehead is/was ... but this is a stellar quote! ~ Sooz

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."
~ Alfred North Whitehead


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PostPosted: 04/08/16 9:16 am • # 305 
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"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere."
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PostPosted: 04/15/16 6:51 pm • # 306 
This was written by a Political pundit here in Canada. It's based on Martin Neimollers' poem:

From First to Last

First they came for Parliament, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Parliamentarian.

Then they came for the Refugees and Immigrants, and I did not speak out—
Because I was born here.

Then they came for the Scientists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Scientist.

Then they came for Elections Canada, and I did not speak out—
Because I only vote once every four years.

Then they came for the Charter of Rights, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a criminal and they made me afraid for my safety.

Then they came for my data, emails and private conversations, and I did not speak out—
Because I thought I had nothing to hide.

Then they came for the Judges, and I did not speak out—
Because I trusted my government to obey the law.

Then they came for people's citizenship, and I did not speak out—
Because I already had my passport.

Then they came for my sons and daughters to fight overseas, and I did not speak out—
Because I‘m a patriot and don’t want to be called a terrorist sympathizer.

Then they came for me—and it was only then I realized there was nothing left of the Canada I loved.


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PostPosted: 04/18/16 9:56 pm • # 307 
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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. -Marcus Aurelius, philosopher, writer, and Roman emperor (121-180)


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PostPosted: 06/15/16 10:22 am • # 308 
It's better to light a candle than to sit and curse the dark. ~ JFK


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PostPosted: 06/18/16 8:38 pm • # 309 
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“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”
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PostPosted: 07/11/16 6:43 pm • # 310 
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. -Joseph Joubert


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PostPosted: 07/13/16 8:51 pm • # 311 
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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. -Louise Erdrich, author (b. 1954)


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PostPosted: 08/31/16 7:18 am • # 312 
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The extreme religious right need to understand this:

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect, and author (1743-1826)


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PostPosted: 10/19/16 7:01 pm • # 313 
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I saw this quote and thought it was perfect for this election season...


It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

William Arthur Ward


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PostPosted: 10/30/16 11:48 am • # 314 
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"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform."
~Derrick Bell


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PostPosted: 11/29/16 12:02 pm • # 315 
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Excellent advice! ~ Sooz

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
~ Charles F. Kettering


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PostPosted: 12/04/16 8:07 am • # 316 
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Bill Maher ‏@billmaher · 18h18 hours ago

Its been almost a month, will I ever get used to Trump? Fuck no. Its like watching a toddler playing with a gun - you're always nervous.


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PostPosted: 12/16/16 8:40 pm • # 317 
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“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”

–Adam Smith


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PostPosted: 01/21/17 7:50 pm • # 318 
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This describes Trumps method of governing.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. -Ivan Goncharov, novelist (1812-1891)


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PostPosted: 02/05/17 8:07 am • # 319 
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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. -John Ruskin (1819-1900)


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PostPosted: 02/08/17 4:21 pm • # 320 
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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. -Louis D. Brandeis, lawyer, judge, and writer (1856-1941)


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PostPosted: 02/08/17 4:54 pm • # 321 
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Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872)


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PostPosted: 02/10/17 5:11 pm • # 322 
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I love Emerson!

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old -- reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism is negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)


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PostPosted: 02/10/17 10:14 pm • # 323 
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)


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PostPosted: 02/11/17 10:29 pm • # 324 
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (1888-1965)


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PostPosted: 02/12/17 8:06 am • # 325 
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So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)


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