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"There's
magic in the web of it"
William
Shakespeare
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“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty,”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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QUOTES
"In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music ( indeed culture in
general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the
only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then
becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from
politics as a driving force for change." Daniel Barenboim
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"Dealing with bereavement isn't about forgetting and moving on, it's about rebuilding trust in life"
Kirsty Young on "Desert Island Discs" paraphrasing Julia Samuel
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"Mine
is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may
live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to
war."
Tony Blair
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"He was a man who was destined to go through life and not
around it. A man who was sure the shortest path to Heaven was straight
through Hell."
Lawson Pines (in "A Love Song for Bobby Brown")
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“Torture is how you create enemies, not how
you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good
intelligence. Torture is how you set back America’s standing
in the
world, not how you strengthen it.”
Barack Obama
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[I
write of] the great Loneliness which is creeping into my Soul with
every hour and every mile which separates me from you. I really feel
guilty as I applied the torch to huts that were Homes of Content until
we ravagers came spreading desolation everywhere... Our mission here is
to destroy but may it not transpire that we pillagers are carelessly
sowing the seeds of Empire?
American Officer
Letter to His Fiancé Before His Death in Battle
Sullivan-Clinton Campaign
September 1779
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A human being is part of the whole called by us
universe, a
part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts
and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical
delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true
value of a
human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in
which they have obtained liberation from the self… We shall
require a
substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
Albert Einstein
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"The main obstacles to investigating Islamic terrorism were U.S. oil
corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it."
John O'Neill (Former Deputy Director FBI, Chief of
Security
Twin Towers)
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"Those who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
Voltaire (extrapolation)
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"What we seem to have forgotten is that the state
is
there courtesy of us and we are not here courtesy the state."
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
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Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
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"Europe often presents itself as a beacon for human rights. The
uncomfortable truth is that without Europe's help, some men would not
now be nursing torture wounds in prison cells in various parts of the
world,"
Amnesty Report
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"The current government is
promoting a nationalist agenda, which puts Israel's Jewish identity
over and above its democracy, egalitarianism and protecting minorities."
Aluf Benn, Editor of Haaretz 2014
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"In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music ( indeed culture in
general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the
only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then
becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from
politics as a driving force for change."
"The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts -
liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right
in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order.
You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have
fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from
music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order
inevitably determines the content."
Daniel Barenboim
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"Fate's
mandate that we can find happiness only by following the correct path
cannot be circumvented"
I-Ching
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" He kissed me each evening and told me he'd die for me
And then he ran off the road, full of whisky and irony
He always meant what he said"
“truth is a story scribbled in chalk. just
an hour before
the flood”
Karine Polwart
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"I was stuck on the side of a mountain in
Scotland. I
was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked around in
panic. I prayed to God and relaxed. I realised if I turned carefully on
my front I could see bits of grass to hold on to."
Ivor Cutler
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"I bring my past I bring my future
I bring my rights and I bring my song
I stand atop the Hacienda and shout
We belong Here. We belong."
Lemn Sissay
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I always thought of Annenberg as my sort of guy."
Lucky Luciano
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"Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die"
Howard Zinn
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“Cut is the branch that might have grown
full straight,
And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.
Faustus is gone."
Christopher Marlowe
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"He does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great
power
that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot here without charges
and with no recourse to justice. We have the Habeas Corpus Act
and we respect it."
Dwight Eisenhower
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"Language is a city to the building of which every
human
being brought a stone."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Submitted by Scott McKenzie)
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The
real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the
few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of
laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of
these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be
exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts,
wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change.
This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people
no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for
corporations. — How is this?
Rutherfold Hayes Republican President of USA.
Diary (11 March 1888 )
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"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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My Imagination is a Monastry and I am its Monk
John Keats
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Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this
crying
sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say.
Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.
Rumi
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My religion is very simple. My religion is
kindness.
The Dalai Lama
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Love denied blights the soul we owe to God
Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
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"My one my only, I made you holy"
Wendy Lands
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"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for
reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to
make sure that one note follows another"
Leonard Bernstein
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"Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day,
I can hear her breathing."
Arundhati Roy:
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"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people
together to
collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach
them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"God-like, the man
who sits at her side
who watches and
caches the laughter
which softly tears
me to tatters.
Nothing is left of
me, each time I see
her"
Jude Fawley (according to Hussain
Amini)
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"I'm fed up with the ever widening gap between people
who
know how to make movies and the people who green light the movies. I
don't say they're all idiots, I'm just saying there's a lot of them
that are very good at it"
Sir Sean Connery
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"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible"
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
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Though one cannot always
Remember exactly why one has been happy,
There is no forgetting that one was
WH Auden
"When people can walk away from you: Let them walk."
"I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if
it takes too much sweat I don't need it."
TD Jakes
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"Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free"
A Course In Miracles
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"Happiness is an
angel with a serious
face"
Amedeo Modigliani
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"The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence."
Edward
Thomas
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear
life
are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell
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"One forgives
to the degree that
one loves."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty
of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day.
Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.
Just as the value of a house lies in its location,
The value of a mind lies in its depth,
The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit,
The value of words lies in their reliability
Lao Tzu
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself
on a kind
of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the
life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you
can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss,
and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be
afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Joe
Campbell
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but
by the moments that take our breath away."
Unknown (sent in by Sam Sou)
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"Torture and ill-treatment are prohibited at all times and in all
circumstances under international law. Most forms of torture and
ill-treatment are also prohibited under national constitutions and
laws. A public official who commits or tolerates torture is violating
the laws which he or she is charged with upholding."
Amnesty International report
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"The essence of
the divine being
is not power but compassion and love. And it's this love, and this love
only, that whispers to me in defiance of the darkness: all will be
well, all manner of things will be well".
Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser
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"The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that
something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder
in".
Dylan
Thomas
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"Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one
which is loved."
Christopher
Paul Rubero
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He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and
miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
Harry Kalas
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"Fate's
mandate that we can find happiness only by following the corect path
cannot be circumvented"
I-Ching
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"When you love someone all your saved up wishes
start
coming out"
Elizabeth Bowen
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"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what
ships
are for".
John A. Shedd
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"The greatest and most impossible problems of life
are
all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only
outgrown."
Carl Gustav Jung
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"Killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an
act of
murder."
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
Albert Einstein
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"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate
agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They
want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without
the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or
it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it
must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never
did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass, African-American
abolitionist
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"Don't
ask what the
world needs - ask what you need to come alive and then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive"
Howard Martin
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"It is blame, not calamity, that weakens our fate, blame, not other
people, that destroys what is valuable in the human spirit".
Greg Mogenson
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"The
great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with
life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the
life-preserver which sinks them".
Henry Miller
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"You can't do it with just a sensible diet and fruit juice"
Stan
Tracey OBE
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"Shit happens. The best thing you can do is own a shovel and learn
all the different ways to use it".
J. P. Dancing Bear
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"A
poem begins with a lump in the throat"
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Robert Frost
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"The first time ever I saw your face I thought the
sun rose
in your eyes"
Ewan
MacColl
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"Isn't it frustrating when people don't live their
lives as well as you could live them for them?"
Leslie Stroz
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"When we
are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago".
Neitzsche
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"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!"
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it
illegal."
Emma
Goldman
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"Wounded
heroes redeem others only because they themselves have experienced both
fragmentation and restoration. There is a path to love among the ruins"
Dave
Richo
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"I have learned throughout my life as a composer, chiefly through my
mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to
founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
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"A
breath of wind is all there is to fame
here upon earth it blows this way and that,
and when it changes quarter it changes name".
Dante
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"The
tragedies that now blacken and darken the very air of Heaven for us
will sink into their places in a scheme so august, so magnificent, so
joyful, that we shall laugh for wonder and delight."
Christopher
Bacon
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"I can
saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm
through"
Warren
Zevon
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"The
first time I saw you, something happened to me. I knew I wanted to hold
you as hard as I could. I don't deserve someone like you. But if I ever
could, I would stay with you for the rest of my life."
Phil
Connors (Groundhog Day)
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"If you
pour all your energy into one thing, you're sure to harm the rest of
your being".
Tao-te
ching,
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"No man ever listened himself out of a job".
Calvin Coolidge
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"All the
beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely
action."
James Russell Lowell
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"I'll go
look for God - it's not so hard 'cause I know where he's not. I will
bring him back with me, make him listen, make him see "
Richard
Shindell
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"If I
were a mockingbird I'd give you feathers and my very own blood and
other treasures, which you keep on your dresser at night, in corner
darkness, by the candle that you never light, though it be moonless"
"What I
wouldn't give to be God
just for a minute more of your love"
Megan
Slankard
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"We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving
humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system
is not sufficient."
Dalai Lama
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"One
becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of
'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out
all its threats simultaneously"
Sigmund
Freud
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We are
now seeing in America the possibilities of an absolute government by
the few for the betterment of the few. This is to be reached in any
manner. But, I am one of that great majority that believes and knows
America as America is not the person or political party who happens to
be in office for a stated period of time. In the words of Martin Luther
King "We Shall Overcome" And we will!"
Saul
Zaentz
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"Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple"
Dave
Crosby
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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better
policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
"America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end,
having first exhausted the available alternatives."
Winston Churchill
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"I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to
become as strategically significant as the Caspian."
Dick Cheney (1998)
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"In the future history will be made only by us"
George W. Bush addressing the AEI
"I think if you say you're going to do something and
don't
do it, that's trustworthiness."
George W. Bush, 8-30-00, From a CNN online chat.
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"The Superior Man has three appearances. From afar, he appears
majestic; close up, he seems warm; listening to his speech, he seems
polished."
Tzu Hsia
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"Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any
good if you lose."
Dick Cheney
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"Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the
Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation
into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency".
Hunter Thompson
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"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement
halls."
Paul Simon
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"The vice president shoots you in the heart and in the
face.
Then you apologize for all the trouble it’s caused him.
That’s what it
means to be a Republican."
Larry Beinhart
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that
we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public."
Theodore Roosevelt
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"Secrecy appears to be a hallmark of the Bush Administration's every
move, even in the development of policies that should emerge from the
crucible of public scrutiny and in the adjudication of charges against
individuals."
ACLU report
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"The difference between a smart man and a wise one is this: A smart man
can work his way out of a difficulty that the wise man will not get
into in the first place."
Saul Lieberman
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"Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and
brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object
of refinement, what is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into
collaboration, ignorance into knowledge, hereby rediscovering the
child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the
servant of life, and by life the servant of love"
Yehudi Menuhin
Submitted by Magnus Nilsson
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"Happy are they who live in the dream of their own
existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk
by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines
from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They
have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their
souls. The world has no hand on them."
William Hazlitt
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"I'm working my way out of suck rock"
Ryan Adams
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"Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train"
"Come down off the cross - we can use the wood"
Tom Waits
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"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies
hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness
in a descending spiral of destruction...The chain of evil-hate
begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be
plunged into the abyss of annihilation."
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's
great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is the white
moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a
negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace
which is the presence of justice."
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful
words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of
the good people." (submitted by Amber)
Dr Martin Luther King
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"It is written that the lion shall lie down with the lamb;
the lamb's opinion of this arrangement is not recorded. "
Mohan Singh
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"Military
justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Groucho
Marx
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"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good
is not original and the part that is original is not good."
Samuel Johnson
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"If we all practice an eye for an eye, pretty soon the whole world will
be blind."
"The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade
upon his weakness."
"The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be
achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony
of a pure life is achieved very rarely."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the
world's true strength"
Buddha
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Love is
patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not
ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of
wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love
never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
Corinthians... chapter 13
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition
of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight
of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Dwight Eisenhower
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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes
decide everything."
Joseph Stalin
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"War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an
inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism".
Douglas Hurd (former Foreign Secretary)
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"When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a
half."
Gracie Allen
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"He is the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most
medicines."
Benjamin Franklin
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"Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never
by those who seek it for themselves."
F. Emerson Andrews:
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"Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your
talent"
Martin Amis
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"There is no patriotic art"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832):
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"My feeling about technique in art is that it has the same value as
technique in lovemaking. That is to say, heartfelt ineptitude has its
charm and so has heartless skill, but what you really want is
passionate virtuosity"
John Barth
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"The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes
a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral
questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence
of the process"
William Kentridge
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"The superior person knows what is right; the inferior person knows
what will sell"
Confucius (... according to Kevin Danaher)
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"We're all going to the same place. It's better to get there slowly"
Renato Sardo
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"You make a living by what you earn, but you make a life by what you
give."
Lowell Perry
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"The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield
Campaign as a partner"
Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
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"When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you
and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to
get you through"
Macy Gray
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"Being humble is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of
yourself less."
Anonymous
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"When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of
the solution, allow somebody that."
Karla Faye Tucker
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"Do not take Jews, Negroes, Dagos, Mexicans or a member of any minority
race on a jury, no matter how rich or well-educated."
Prosecutor's Manual, Dallas, Texas, 1970s
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"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I
was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
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"More and more of our imports come from overseas."
George W Bush
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"Son, I love your strategy: Don't let them get to know you."
Barbara Bush
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"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little
longer."
Henry Kissinger
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"All the wrong people have the power of suggestion
and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question"
Ani DiFranco
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"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is
a merger of State and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy
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"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."
George W Bush —Trenton, N.J.,
Sept. 23, 2002
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"There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring
money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is
meaningless."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Who profits from the crime commits the crime."
Seneca the Younger 4 B.C. - 65 A.D.
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"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of
fools. Let's start with typewriters."
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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"Well the first thing I want to say is mandate, my ass... We've been
convinced that 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate.
We're all actors in this I suppose"
Gill Scott Heron
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"Paradise is always where love dwells."
Richter (1763-1825)
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"Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh."
Attributed to The Koran ... though
apparently incorrectly
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"The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is
cowardice"
Sean Penn
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"Things are only impossible until they're not."
Jean-Luc Picard
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"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does
the fake closeness so well."
Carrie Fisher
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"It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about
asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes."
John Sweeney
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"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them"
Suzanne Necker
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"Kiss me... Clark, what am I, your cousin? Really kiss
me."
Lana Lang
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"Evidence is sometimes the only thing that separates
the
criminal from the successful business man"
Lex Luthor
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"In many, many cases the lawyer is the first person the organised
criminal will go to to assist him in setting up money-laundering
systems. The bottom line is if the lawyers were more honest, more
diligent, then we would not have the problems that we are having."
Detective Chief Inspector, Simon Goddard
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"The louder he spoke of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Submitted by Charles Burrows
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"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
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"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also
be well-mannered."
Voltaire
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"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he cannot be believed
but that he cannot believe anyone else"
George Bernard Shaw
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"I have friends who are proud of themselves for getting rid of their
guilt. It seems like a feeble accomplishment"
Cokie Shea (as described by Bill Flanagan)
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"All artists steal but the truly original artist repays a thousandfold"
Charles Le Corbusier (nicked from Igor
Stravinsky...
allegedly)
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"I lay there alone in the bed feeling the black shadow creeping up the
underside of the world like a floodtide. Nothing held. nothing was
left. The silver airplanes and the blue capes all dissolved and
vanished, wiped away like the crude drawings of a child in coloured
chalk from the colossal blackboard of the dark "
Silvia Plath
********************
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile."
Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960)
********************
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
********************
"The RIP Bill as it stands is entirely inadequate as a mechanism to
achieve efficient and reasonable interception and surveillance Its
effect is likely to be loss of confidence in e-commerce, unacceptable
costs to business and to the UK economy, confusion and uncertainty at
numerous levels of business activity, and an onerous imposition on the
rights of individuals.The justification for the Bill has been
established to a large extent on anecdote and rhetoric."
British Chamber of Commerce Report
"The Economic Impact of The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill"
********************
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men
have mediocrity thrust upon them."
Joseph Heller
********************
"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. Pooh! he whispered.
Yes, Piglet? Nothing, said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.
I just wanted to be sure of you."
AA Milne
********************
"People with opinions just go around bothering one another"
Buddha
(You sure about this? Ed')
********************
"What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy,
will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?"
Alfred Adler
Submitted by Mark Smith
********************
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
Robert Frost
********************
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you
hit the target."
Ashleigh Brilliant
********************
"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of
hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all
conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human
destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that
poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?"
Emma Goldman
********************
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only
sooner."
Tallulah Bankhead
********************
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with
you for the rest of your life."
Randall Jarrell
submitted by Joseph Hutcheon
********************
"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with
"welcome" written on it"
Andy Partridge
Submitted by Kraig Olmstead
********************
"Keep away from 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
Submitted by Willa Cline
********************
"You have no doubt done much good... but you may also have, like
myself, scraped the last bit of shit off the bottom of your shoes!"
Daniel
O'Connell
********************
"I've made shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot"
"Look
how sweet she sleeps how free must be her dreams"
Bob
Dylan
********************
"While
it's very nice to be important, it's more important to be nice"
Daniel
Grant
********************
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
Rita Rudner
********************
"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the
land. They said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes
we had the Bible and they had the land"
Bishop Desmond Tutu
********************
"Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart..."
Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Submitted by Susan Collinsworth
********************
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may
not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend"
Attributed (curiously) to Albert Camus
Submitted by Brigitte
********************
"Genuine
goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral
spectrum"
Earl
Spencer
********************
"The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land
which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest
people on earth."
Diana, Princess of Wales
********************
"The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning
and significance."
Pablo Casals
********************
"Some
people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked
to do, they have initiative"
Ovid
********************
"Oh no. I did it again"
Lowell
George
********************
"Our
first album took eight hours to make. Our next one took even longer"
Attributed to George Harrison
********************
"In the
course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great
many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have
lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close
at hand. And that hasn't improved my opinion of them."
Antoine
De Saint-Exupery "Le Petit Prince"
********************
"I'm not
denying that women are foolish. God almighty made them to match men."
George
Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
********************
"A
friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory
fails."
The
Pioneer Girls Leaders Handbook
********************
"The
test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too,
unconditional assistance."
Mahatma
Gandhi
********************
"I was
much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning"
(Submitted by Mahatma Gandhi - er shom mishake shurely Ed')
Stevie
Smith
*******************
"Before
you set out for revenge, be sure to dig two graves."
Chinese
proverb (At least according to Harley Hahn
it is.)
********************
"Dance like nobody's watching, and love like you've never been hurt."
Attributed to Drew Glass
Submitted by Morgan Lemly
********************
"I am a
gentleman I live by robbing the poor"
"The
more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is"
G.B.Shaw
********************
"Cowardice
asks the question: Is it safe? Expediency asks the question: Is it
politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But Conscience asks
the question: Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a
position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must
make it because his conscience tells him that it is right...."
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
********************
"My
father said, if you see a good fight, get in it"
Rev.
Vernon Jones
********************
"I'd
have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet"
Anita
Roddick
********************
"Storytelling is linear. It's not interactive.You go to your TV when
you want to turn your brain off. You go to your computer when you want
to turn your brain on."
Steve Jobs
********************
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other
people."
Lucille S. Harper
********************
"Angels
fly because they take themselves lightly"
G.K.
Chesterton (submitted by Ellen Strandenaes)
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been
found difficult; and left untried."
G.K. Chesterton (Submitted by Cort McMurray)
********************
"The
easiest way to predict the future is to invent it"
Alan
Kay - (submitted by Trish Carrie)
********************
"The
mind embraces all the nobler aspirations but your body has all the fun"
"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then
one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to
love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To
be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore,
to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much
happiness. I hope you're getting this down." -
Woody Allen Love and Death
********************
"If you
have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning,
insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track"
Clarissa
Pinlola Estes
********************
"The
enquiry in England is not whether a man has talent and genius, but
whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass, obedient to
noblemen's opinions in art and science"
William
Blake
********************
"Independence
Day was made for dumb nine year olds in Idaho and we've had
enough"
Tony
Parsons
********************
"Honour
the difficult"
Oprah
Winfrey
********************
"These
activities are a form of love . . . beyond the fierce competition there
was an atmosphere of being involved in a communal activity . . . that
by sitting there, we these men, were perhaps upholding, perhaps
ratifying, perhaps creating or re-creating some important aspect of our
community"
David
Mamet "Some Freaks"
********************
"I don't
believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand"
Robbie
Robertson
********************
[To the critics. . . ] "You force it into a compartment into which it
does not fit instead of calmly, passively, quietly, and without
opposition helping the music to build a new compartment for itself"
Ernst
Toch
********************
"An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of
nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the
past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of
drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself
and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to
calamities that must strike it dead."
"Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the
darkness conscious."
"A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something
unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for
myself any predetermined course."
Carl Gustav Jung
********************
"I can well conceive the pleasure and happiness of a refugee
on approaching the shores of England; but they are not
greater than the pleasure and happiness every Englishman feels on
knowing that his country affords the refugee a home and
safety."
Conservative MP Lord Malmesbury in
1852
********************
"The way German Jews are pouring into this country is becoming an
outrage."
Britain's Daily Telegraph from 1938.
********************
"Asylum Invasion"
Britain's Daily Express 2001
********************
"A religion that requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's
propagation."
Hosea
Ballou (1771-1852)
********************
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Samuel Johnson
********************
"If at
first you don't succeed, move to another country and change your name."
"That
which doesn't kill you, only makes you wish it did."
Julia
M Payne
********************
"Follow
your Bliss"
Joseph
Campbell
********************
"Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers."
Sigmund Freud
********************
"If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything"
Joey
Conrad
********************
"Where
there is much dispute there is little enquiry"
Francis
Bacon
********************
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the
wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed
to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less
dissent."
Gore Vidal
********************
"They
enclosed a great multitude of fishes and the net brake"
Biblical
********************
"There
is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow
If it is now, 'tis not to come
If it be not to come, it will be now
If it be not now, yet it will come
The readiness is all"
William
Shakespeare
********************
"Before
you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be
train spotting may actually be writing poetry"
John
Hegley (submitted by Hazel Fleming)
********************
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who
falsely
believe they are free.
Goethe
********************
"Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims."
"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when
facing them."
Rabindranath Tagore
********************
"Be nice to other people they outnumber you six billion to one."
Dru'el the Chaotic (allegedly)
(entry by Ben O'lds)
********************
"There are more landmines planted in Cambodia than people.
Cambodia is just one of 64 countries around the world littered with
some 100 million anti-personnel landmines.
U.S.-origin weapons find their way into conflicts the world
over. The United States supplied arms or military technology
to
more than 92% of the conflicts under way in 1999"
Federation of American Scientists
********************
"I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are
to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very
charming thing too."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
********************
"Shut up
and play your guitar"
Frank
Zappa
********************
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness
that frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Nelson Mandela
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