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edz · November 6

sorry, cant enlarge it

silvermouse · November 6

“Not long ago I was a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, with one of America’s most prominent atheists. Wearing my clerical collar, I realized that I stood out among his guests. So I decided to announce to Bill that I, too, am an atheist. He seemed taken aback, so I explained that if we were talking about the God who hates poor people, immigrants, and gay folks, I don’t believe in that God either. Sometimes it helps to clarify our language.”

— William J. Barber II

silvermouse · November 7

Fear makes man unwise in the three great departments of human conduct: his dealings with nature, his dealings with other men, and his dealings with himself.
Fear is a reaction which we share with the animals. It is crude and slapdash. Sometimes it serves the purposes of self-preservation, but sometimes it does quite the opposite.“
— Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951). Image: Bertrand Russell, 1954. National Portrait Gallery.

edz · November 7

Like the use of the word "slapdash" in it as well.

Amos_Umwhat · November 13

Heard an interesting quote while watching a docudrama about Alexander the other night. One of the Persian generals, I think, was quoted as saying:

"I have no fear of facing an army of lions led by a sheep. What I fear is an army of sheep led by a lion".

Seems relevant.

Rdp77 · November 13

Or this one maybe…

“If you have an army of 200 lions and they are led by a dog, all will fight like dogs. But if you have an army of 200 dogs that are led by a lion, all will fight as lions.” ~ Napoleon

memento_mori · November 13

Vision · November 13

“it’s fine”

silvermouse · November 15

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. And great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. And even loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo

silvermouse · November 19

“The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find a way to laugh at it.”
— Albert Camus

edit: LOL

ShawnOL · November 19

Sometimes its either laugh or cry.

silvermouse · November 20

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu

memento_mori · November 20

peter4jc · November 20

That's not right. ;-)

Amos_Umwhat · November 20

@peter4jc said:
That's not right. ;-)

Well, that's YOUR opinion.

silvermouse · November 22

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

silvermouse · November 23

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

silvermouse · November 28

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~Henry Miller

edz · November 28

@silvermouse said:
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~Henry Miller

Little touch of some Eastern Philosophies in this.

peter4jc · November 28

I have one of his chairs. Oh wait, that's Herman Miller.

silvermouse · November 29

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues" -Abe Lincoln

silvermouse · November 30

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln

silvermouse · December 1

If your parents never had children, chances are… neither will you.

**** Cavett

peter4jc · December 1

No D*ck Cavett...

silvermouse · December 3

"The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication." ~ W. Somerset Maugham

silvermouse · December 4

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous Huxley

peter4jc · December 4

We've been unconsciously conditioned, while still in the womb, to believe reality exists.

silvermouse · December 5

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

Jay Leno

ShawnOL · December 7

From 1440:

"Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing."

Chuck Yeager

peter4jc · December 11

“I would never say that about you, so please stop repeating it in your head.”
-God

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