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Life can be tough and laughter the greatest healer.

John Bellamy

 

 

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow
but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson

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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it!

Barbra Streisand
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"There is an axiom that only a fool is proud of what he can't help being.
I was lucky to have been born a gay, but that evokes a sense of gratitude, not pride.
For me, pride is the result of commitment, accomplishments and character.
I feel pride when I see queer people making the world more beautiful,
or responding to prejudice against us with dignity and compassionate strength.
I feel pride when I see young queer people taking a same-sex date to the prom,
or two lesbians getting married for the first time in Massachusetts.
I feel pride when we play sports together, do charitable works together,
pray and meditate together and sing together.
Most importantly
I feel pride when we stand up and make our voices heard in Washington, DC
and in state capitols all around this country.
We are no longer a bunch of queer individuals living in individual closets of hell.
We are a community.
Our community is filled with many problems and challenges, to be sure,
but the fact that we stand together means that we no longer have to suffer alone.
To me, that is worth marching in the streets."

Darren Main
www.darrenmain.com

for more information on Darren Main - click on his web site above

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An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them,

"A fight is going on inside me...It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too."

They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather,
"Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied...

"The one I feed."

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Avoid the crowd.
Do your own thinking independently.
Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Ralph Charell
 

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

Unknown

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   TOO SERIOUSLY  

1. No one is listening until you make a mistake.
2. Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

3. To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

4. Always try to be modest and be proud of it!

5. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

7. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

8. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

11. Remember -half the people you know are below average.

12. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

13. Nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool.
14. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
15. He who laughs last , thinks slowest.
16. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm
17. For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

18. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
19. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

20. I intend to live forever - so far so good.
21. Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back.

22. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

23. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

24. Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.

25. The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

26. Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

27. When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane
and going the wrong way.28. Politicians are people who make the inevitable seem like wise
decisions on their part.

29. 99% of people who wear wigs assume others don’t realize  it’s a wig,
while 99% of people viewing someone in a wig, know full well it’s a wig.

30. Life is beautiful, if you only know how to view it correctly..


 

 

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"Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts."
Mary Robinson: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Retired)

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"Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,

and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace."
 

Lester B. Pearson

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Falling in love is so hard on the knees."

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"Creating happiness for oneself is paramount. It is really the only
important or meaningful thing there is, and furthermore, it can only come
from within. Not from the expectations or pressures of the outside world or
the people within it. I have learnt through hard experience and painful
mistakes that stumbling blindly in the direction of what you feel you ought
to do, instead of accepting and embracing what you want to do, causes
resentment, frustration, and deep unhappiness. I am not having any more of."

The above was e mailed by a guest and is a quote from his lady friend.

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We live in a society where fear,
fears love.
While love,
loves fear.

John Bellamy

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       What do we have ?    

The people of our time have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways,
but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less.

We buy more, but enjoy less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families,

More conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge,

But less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late,
get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much,

And pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions,

But reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.

We've added years to life not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back,

But have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbour.

We conquered outer space but not inner space.

We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.

We write more, but learn less.

We plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait.

We build more computers to hold more information.

To produce more copies than ever,

but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion.

Big men and small character.

Steep profits and shallow relationships.

These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, overweight bodies,
and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when
there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.

A time where everyone judges others yet knows nothing of the truth when judging.
A time of malice against anyone for anything that simply doesn’t conform.

A time when technology can bring this letter to you,

and a time when you can choose either to share this insight,
or to just hit delete.

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones,

because they are not going to be around forever. Remember to say a kind word to
someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will
grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones,
but most of all mean it. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for
someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, speak & share the precious thoughts in your mind.

A time to learn the truth and a time to know when to keep your opinions to
yourself if they come from an uninformed position of ignorance, for that rhetoric
has destroyed millions of lives, and for what ? Ignorance.

These are the times when anything can happen, and often does. When destroying another
persons life is as easy as reading the daily paper or listening to the news.

This is the world in which we live;- in which we thrive and in which we have created.
A world where it is easier to hate and fight with each other rather than nurture and sponsor
through good and bad.

This is the world of ‘No Responsibility’ – where everything is someone else’s fault,
and blame – it seems – is rife.

This is the world where some governments are all too quick to press that magic
button to destroy its enemies,

A church that damns anyone and everyone who doesn’t buy into their dogma,

And a society who persecutes someone just because they stand out –
are a little different or doesn’t quite ‘fit in.’

And this is the world that has stifled creative energies of joy and love for one
reason and one reason only.

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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
from religious conviction."
--Blaise Pascal--

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Richard Dreyfuss - who is 56 - said the following
when asked what the best things are about getting middle aged:-
"Nothing. You have wisdom that you can't impart, you have knowledge that is meaningless and your body withers away and becomes disgusting. Now I look in the mirror and go 'Whhhaaaaattttt ? - I have more hair than that !"
 

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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it,
and eventually they will believe it:
Adolf Hitler

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"I wish the Ring had never come to me I wish none of this had happened." --Frodo Baggins
"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given us. There are other forces in this world Frodo besides the men of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the ring. In which case you were also meant to have it And that is an encouraging thought."

Gandolf The Gray Wizard . The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring

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To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to
is the height of stupidity.
We are given senses to receive our information within.
With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel.
With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand.
But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
--Sophy Burnham.

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At a team building seminar the men and women were given a sentence
to punctuate and the following is how they saw it:
The men punctuated the following sentence such:-
' A woman, without her man, is nothing.'
The women punctuated the same sentence such:-
'A woman: without her, man is nothing.'

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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists
alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen,
otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!
There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder,
and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change,
wars will be waged:

Anne Frank: Jewish girl author of a diary of her family's
two years in hiding during World War Two, 1929-1945

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national
emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
-- Ronald Reagan
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it,
and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust:

Samuel Johnson:
 

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Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power:

Abraham Lincoln
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"I cannot say the world is safer when you consider
the violence around us, when you look around you
and see the terrorist attacks around the world and
you see what is going on in Iraq"
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves
as the sole cause of all our adversities:

Sophocles

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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them:

Edward R. Murrow
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....when I am disturbed, it is because I find some person,
place, thing, or situation - some fact of my life - unacceptable to me,
and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place,
thing or situation as being exactly the way it's meant to be at this moment.
Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in this world by mistake.

Unless I accept life completely on life's terms,
I cannot be happy.
I need to concentrate not so much what needs to be changed in the world
as in what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes".

an extract from a quote in "The Big Book";

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"Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it,
and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments
under pretense of public safety."
--Daniel Webster.
( a bit like cctv cameras and the ID cards.)
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The modern thing in stating 'My life is fucked up because I come from a 'broken home' - is just a feeble excuse.
When I was a child my Father went off to war and was gone for 5 years, and when he returned he was a different man, in many ways and I have lived a completely normal life with no majopr 'screw-ups.' So blaming your parents all the time is just the modern manner of passing the buck - of NOT taking responsibility and of NOT being mature and adult. It's all 'Mum / Dad's fault', - when really it is ALL up to the individual and NO-ONE else. What is wrong with the society we live in that fall for this weak willed, mambey pambey attitude of allowing these badly behaved people to blame their upbringing all the time and allow the therapists to back up their claim with more mumbo jumbo. When is the modern day society going to take individual responsibility for the way things are and stop blaming someone / something else.
Daniel Cart ( World War 2 veteran )

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At the quantum level (describing the universe at the atomic level),
there are things that, if you try to measure them, simply stop happening.
ANON

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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter:
-- George Washington.
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"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone;
at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

-- Elbert Hubbard

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."It's kind of silly all this argument over who killed Jesus -
the whole christian religion is based on him rising from the grave -
so I say to you... no one killed jesus."
--Buddhist Monk
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when
the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit,
is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command.
Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent:
-- Eliot Norton

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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves
and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson.
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For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free".
Here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage.
Why? Because women realize its not worth buying an entire pig, just to get a little sausage.
--Unknown
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six.
Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
--Shirley Temple

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"To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.
To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die."
-- Oscar Wilde

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.
The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it:
-- Woodrow Wilson
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"A little lemon and seltzer will remove
those pesky ink stains after you've been fingerprinted."
--Martha Stewart
( I love this one - and how topical at the moment....... tee hee )
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Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian
than standing in a garage makes you a car !
(thanks to Johnny for this one)

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'bohemian'
someone who makes up their own standards to value themselves
by - rather than by the established standards of the day.

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"Simple minds discuss people,
average minds discuss events,
extraordinary minds discuss ideas."

--Eleanor Roosevelt

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Real integrity is doing the right thing,
knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

--Carl Jung
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."It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy ... The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States." : Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men."

Woodrow Wilson

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"If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better propaganda effect." -

Private memo from The Council of Foreign Relations to the US State Department, 1941

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"We must become the owners, or at any rate the controllers at the source, of at least a proportion of the oil which we require." :

 British Royal Commission, agreeing with Winston Churchill's policy towards Iraq, 1913
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To love what you do and feel that it matters
how could anything be more fun?

--KatharineGraham

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"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

-- Dolly Parton

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Do good -- to parents, kinfolk, those in need,
neighbors who are near, neighbors who are strangers,
the companion by your side, the wayfarer you meet."

-- Holy Quran

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"Do not get rid of the button pusher,
get rid of the buttons."

--Yogi Amrit Desai
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"I will have greater confidence in your telling me t
hat I am wrong when you have all the facts."

--Janet Reno (to Sen. Arlen Specter)

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"Nobody believes that there's nothing to believe in."

Jack Kerouac
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   People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.  

Anne Tyler
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

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Make sure you have finished speaking
before your audience has finished listening.

--Dorothy Sarnoff
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterwards

--Vernon Sanders Law
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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain
the whole truth, or the only truth

--Charles Dana
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea
whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

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"A great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."

 Mencius

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"No one has a finer command of language than the person
who keeps his mouth shut

Sam Rayburn

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Whether you think you can or think you cant, you're right.

Henry Ford

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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make
you feel that you, too, can become great."

*Mark Twain {1835-1910 American Author}
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"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes;
the most beautiful prize slip through it."

--- Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain

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