"Only a fool believes the left wing and the right wing fly separate birds" -- Unknown
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners."
--George Carlin
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or, being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you:
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run--
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
@peter4jc said:
"Knowledge is power. France is bacon."
I don't get it. Are you making fun of bacon?
The phrase "knowledge is power" is often attributed to Francis Bacon, from his Meditationes Sacrae (1597).
I had to look at it twice, too. What? France is..OH! now I get it.. LOL
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
@peter4jc said:
"Knowledge is power. France is bacon."
I don't get it. Are you making fun of bacon?
The phrase "knowledge is power" is often attributed to Francis Bacon, from his Meditationes Sacrae (1597).
I had to look at it twice, too. What? France is..OH! now I get it.. LOL
"France is butter."
... Francis Bacon
=============
"Whenever a government wants to disarm its citizens it's because they are planning to do something we would shoot them for."
"Please name one time in all of history where the people who wanted to ban books, curtail free speech, and disarm citizens were the good guys."
... Lost Literati
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
The price of freedom is high. I have paid. Now I am free.
Ali
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
@webmost said:
The price of freedom is high. I have paid. Now I am free.
Ali
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
Or
The price of freedom is high, it always has been. And it's a price I'm willing to pay. And if I'm the only one, then so be it.
Steve Rogers, Captain America
Webmost's quote has been shown frequently on TV, teaser for a film about Ali. In the teaser, you can watch and listen to Ali saying it.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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Don’t know how that ended up here
"Only a fool believes the left wing and the right wing fly separate birds" -- Unknown
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners."
--George Carlin
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~Albert Einstein
“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between $h!+ and syphilis in the dictionary.”
“The problem is people are being hated when they are real, and are being loved when they are fake”
― Bob Marley
“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”
― Bob Marley
“I don’t have time" is the biggest lie you tell yourself.
If-
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or, being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you:
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run--
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
“If you think it’s a bad idea, you’re correct”
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
― Abraham Lincoln
it in a fruit salad.
"Knowledge is power. France is bacon."
It is hard to see the truth when your eyes are closed.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
I don't get it. Are you making fun of bacon?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
The phrase "knowledge is power" is often attributed to Francis Bacon, from his Meditationes Sacrae (1597).
Ahh, I see. As long as no one was making fun of 🥓.
My dad used to say that "There were two kinds of people in this world. Those who like bacon and those who just ain't right."
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
I had to look at it twice, too. What? France is..OH! now I get it.. LOL
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"France is butter."
... Francis Bacon
=============
"Whenever a government wants to disarm its citizens it's because they are planning to do something we would shoot them for."
"Please name one time in all of history where the people who wanted to ban books, curtail free speech, and disarm citizens were the good guys."
... Lost Literati
Keep your coffee and your life simple and free.
Glenn Filthie. http://filthiestbox.blogspot.com/
A compliment is often just a lie in full dress.
The price of freedom is high. I have paid. Now I am free.
Ali
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
Or
The price of freedom is high, it always has been. And it's a price I'm willing to pay. And if I'm the only one, then so be it.
Steve Rogers, Captain America
Not sure about your quote tho…. References?
Webmost's quote has been shown frequently on TV, teaser for a film about Ali. In the teaser, you can watch and listen to Ali saying it.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain