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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 11:28pm

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 1:20pm

Be careful, when a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.

Faites attention, quand une démocratie est malade, le fascisme vient à son chevet mais ce n'est pas pour prendre de ses nouvelles.

~ Albert Camus.

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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 12:34pm

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The Holy Ghost.
And yes, depending on your grammar it could be an inspiration.


I always try to use the best grammar an incomplete education can provide. Thanks internet!
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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 11:41am

 oldviolin wrote:
What is the quote?

The Holy Ghost.
And yes, depending on your grammar it could be an inspiration.
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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 11:35am

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So we all doomed in our own self-generated depression... as eternity seems so much more than our city limits.




What is the quote?
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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 10:53am

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“Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.”

“It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."

“Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.”


― Taylor Caldwell, Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty

So we all doomed in our own self-generated depression... as eternity seems so much more than our city limits.


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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 10:34am



“Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.”

“It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."

“Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.”



― Taylor Caldwell, Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty


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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 10:07am

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In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war. ~ Adam Smith


Hear! 
(..and we all have known this.. from the start.)

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Posted: Jul 2, 2024 - 3:22am

In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war. ~ Adam Smith

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Posted: Jun 7, 2024 - 7:45am


"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."

Friedman
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Posted: Jun 7, 2024 - 5:14am

"Music should be holy. When it becomes a business and the music is designed to make money, then the music doesn't do what it's supposed to do."
~ Jerry Garcia ~
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Posted: Jun 6, 2024 - 12:48pm

"Let the audience figure out the story. It might not be the same as yours, and that's fine."
- Rick Rubin
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Posted: Jun 4, 2024 - 1:15pm

"If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.”
- Billy Wilder
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Posted: May 27, 2024 - 11:08am



“Bill Walton was truly one of a kind,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center position. His unique all-around skills made him a dominant force at UCLA and led to an NBA regular-season and Finals MVP, two NBA championships and a spot on the NBA’s 50th and 75th Anniversary Teams.

Bill then translated his infectious enthusiasm and love for the game to broadcasting, where he delivered insightful and colorful commentary which entertained generations of basketball fans.


But what I will remember most about him was his zest for life. He was a regular presence at league events – always upbeat, smiling ear to ear and looking to share his wisdom and warmth. I treasured our close friendship, envied his boundless energy and admired the time he took with every person he encountered.”



Every day Wooden would fill the heads of his players with ideas that would help them in life – not just on the court. “To this day,” says Walton, “I have John Wooden quotes on and around my desk – and also the John Wooden Pyramid of Success.” Bill Walton goes into more detail about his relationship with the legendary UCLA basketball coach and his favorite John Wooden quotes in his bestselling autobiography: Back from the Dead.




-The Seven-Point Creed:

-Be true to yourself
-Make each day your masterpiece
-Help others
-Drink deeply from good books
-Make friendship a fine art
-Build a shelter against a rainy day
-Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day


John Wooden







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Posted: May 4, 2024 - 5:21pm

“You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” — Albert Einstein 
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Posted: May 4, 2024 - 12:52pm

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

General Patton
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Posted: May 3, 2024 - 3:38pm

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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Posted: May 3, 2024 - 9:40am

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"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking." - Dorothy L. Sayers





She just saying or what?
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Posted: May 3, 2024 - 9:27am



"Keith Richards looks 40 years younger now than he did when he was 40"

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Posted: Feb 23, 2024 - 1:42pm



Elegance is inferior to virtue.

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.


Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


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