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Hunter
Member
Post Number: 117
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 15, 2004 - 09:42 pm: | 
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debt and taxes and armies are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people...
[There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and....degeneracy of manners and morals....No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." -- James Madison, 1793 |
Michael_d
Member
Post Number: 101
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 19, 2004 - 12:51 pm: |
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“Make yourself a sheep and the wolves will eat you.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” – Edward R. Morrow |
Beli
Member
Post Number: 23
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:35 am: |
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I try to listen better now:
When Creator gave out heads,
I thought He said beds
and I asked for a soft one.
When Creator gave out looks,
I thought He said books
and I didn't want any.
When Creator gave out noses,
I thought He said roses
and I asked for a red one.
When Creator gave out ears,
I thought He said beers
and I asked for two big ones.
When Creator gave out chins,
I thought He said gins
and I asked for a double.
When Creator gave out brains,
I thought He said trains
and I said I'd take the next one.
When Creator gave out legs,
I thought He said kegs
So I ordered two fat ones.
Since then I've been trying to listen better |
Edward
Member
Post Number: 443
Registered: 05-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 09:44 am: |
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" A lost herd of sheep without a shepherd...are destined to fall
prey...to a pack of vicious and beastly prowling..wolves. "
Edward. |
Janimetso
New member
Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 06:37 am: |
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Ignorant takes offense when a beautiful rose of truth is given to him. He only sees the thorns and hurts himself.
Jani Metso
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Michael_d
Member
Post Number: 104
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 02:08 am: |
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Jo_jo
Member
Post Number: 28
Registered: 04-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 08:14 pm: |
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In his address today, Bush speaks about "Freedom" a lot, but he forgets that the majority of the world is seeking to be free from HIM and from the influence of the USA. Nine-eleven gave Bush this secret language to use, to "free the peoples of the planet from their prisons" - and to put them into ours.
Jim Kirwan |
Janimetso
Member
Post Number: 5
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 08:43 am: |
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Earth's humankind is like a newborn puppy; eyes closed and feet unable to support him.
Jani Metso
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Lonnie
Member
Post Number: 65
Registered: 12-1999
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 04:53 am: |
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"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control"
-Thomas Edison, Inventer |
Edward
Member
Post Number: 468
Registered: 05-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 03:13 am: |
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Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth,
I know you don't know what life is really worth.
Is not all that glitters in gold and,
Half the story has never been told.
So now you see the light, aay...
Stand up for your right. Come on...
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
Bob Marley...
Edward. |
Nils
Member
Post Number: 32
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 05, 2005 - 01:27 pm: |
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Hi Folks!
Here are a few words about belief.
Belief is absolute. It's either 0 % or 100 % and cannot be conjugated. Anything in between are deceptions, illusions, lies manipulations or worse.
Belief is unique. It does not demand approval, referendum, scaffolds, crutches or wheelchairs.
Belief is timeless, spaceless and yet instantly present.
Belief can not be dictated, twisted, tampered with, ordered or be made the subject of compromise or solidarity.
- Niels |
Hunter
Member
Post Number: 133
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 03:55 pm: |
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"Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it."
~ Henry David Thoreau |
Lonnie
Member
Post Number: 67
Registered: 12-1999
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 07:25 am: |
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"The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it."
--Satchel Paige, Basehall Hall of Famer |
Edward
Member
Post Number: 482
Registered: 05-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 01:04 am: |
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" 'An eye for an eye'...
Will make all people Blind."
Gandi.
Edward. |
Joseph_emmanuel
Member
Post Number: 62
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 11:11 am: |
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"Somebody must have made a false accusation against Joseph K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong."
- Franz Kafka |
Joseph_emmanuel
Member
Post Number: 66
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 01:00 pm: |
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Thought I'd post this excerpt from a book, the Hermit, by Eugene Ionesco, which I am currently reading. I feel it captures the difference between a thinking person and someone who is religious.
"I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me on the contrary that it was abnormal for people not to think about it, for them to allow themselves to live, as it were, unconsciously. Perhaps it's because everyone, all the others, are convinced in some unformulated, irrational way that one day everything will be made clear. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for humanity. Perhaps there will be a morning of grace for me." |
George
Member
Post Number: 60
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 02:08 pm: |
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ON TRUTH.
They who know the Truth are not equal to those who love it, and those who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
-Confucius
Men occasionally stumble over the Truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
-Winston S. Churchill |
Michael_d
Member
Post Number: 107
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 09:57 pm: |
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
~Marie Beyle |
Jo_jo
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Post Number: 36
Registered: 04-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 10:02 pm: |
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"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
--General Douglas MacArthur, Speech on May 15, 1951 |
George
Member
Post Number: 61
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
--Albert Einstein |
Jo_jo
Member
Post Number: 38
Registered: 04-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 10:04 pm: |
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"Those who make nonviolent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy |
Lonnie
Member
Post Number: 82
Registered: 12-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 07:15 pm: |
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"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
--Maya Angelou, Poet |
Markc
Member
Post Number: 210
Registered: 06-2000
| | Posted on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 09:19 pm: |
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"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know " .
U.S. President , Harry S. Truman
Mark Campbell
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