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My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
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Contribution #4241
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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Wordsmith
Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on June 29, 2010
Contribution #4209
Even in abundance, human beings create willful scarcity; even in life, human beings create mindless death.
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personal reflection
Contribution #4146
To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.
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Joseph Prescott, aphorist (1913-2001)
Contribution #4101
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
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Les Noyers de l’Altenburg
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Contribution #4096
I am selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best
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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
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Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on May 26, 2010
Contribution #4059
Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
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Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on May 19, 2010
Contribution #4042
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
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George Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Nobel laureate (1880-1959)
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A.Word.A.Day"
Viewed on May 11, 2010
Contribution #4027
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
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Richard Bach, writer (b. 1936)
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on May 10, 2010
Contribution #4021
By kindling and fanning violent passions in the hearts of their followers, mass movements prevent the settling of an inner balance. They also employ direct means to effect an enduring estrangement from the self. They depict an autonomous, self-sufficient existence not only as barren and meaningless but also as depraved and evil. Man on his own is a helpless, miserable and sinful creature. His only salvation is in rejecting his self and in finding a new life in the bosom of a holy corporate body-be it a church, a nation or a party. In its turn, this vilification of the self keeps passion at a white heat.
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i am my parents child
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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
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The True Believer
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Contribution #3953
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
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The True Believer
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Contribution #3949
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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Stephen Roberts, database architect (b. 1967)
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on April 30, 2010
Contribution #3946
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
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Fran Leibowitz, author (b. 1950)
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A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on April 27, 2010
Contribution #3944
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
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Contribution #3939
Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Contribution #3772
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
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Ellen Goodman
Viewed on January 13, 2010
Contribution #3746
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
Contribution #3735
A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.
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"The world will be saved by the western woman."
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Women on the Edge of Evolution
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
http://womenontheedgeofevolution.com/
Viewed on November 13, 2009
Contribution #3620
Never say an unkind word to anyone. (--7 simple words to live by )
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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 by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self [ego]. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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He who angers you conquers you.
The best things in life are ridiculous.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
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Time Magazine
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Contribution #3227
You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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Everything that lives - lives not alone nor for itself.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but must always participate in the swell of the ocean, so we can never experience life by ourselves, but must always share the experience of life that takes place all around us.
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The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.
A good gardener starts as a good weeder.
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Contribution #2880
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
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Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.
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Contribution #1878
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
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The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
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Happiness is a skill,
emotional balance is a skill,
compassion and altruism are skills,
and like any skill they need to be developed.
That's what education is about.
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Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.
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Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,
like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1460
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
There are some things that should not be forgotten, but that should not always be remembered.
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In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
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Tao Te Ching
page 1, line 1
Version or Translation - translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Published by Vintage Books (Random House)
Published in New York, N. Y., United States
Published in 1997 (this edition)
http://this text is widely available in various translations
Contribution #1269
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.
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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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The Great Judge
by P. Hamburger
Published in 1946
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Contribution #1134
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose) but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence—a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Published by Norton
, 1995
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Contribution #749
Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.
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On Modern Marriage
Published by St. Martin's Press
, 1986
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Contribution #741
To apply the golden rule adequately, we need knowledge and imagination. We need to know what effect our actions have on the lives of others. And we need to be able to imagine ourselves, vividly and accurately, in the other person's place on the receiving end of the action. With knowledge, imagination, and the golden rule, we can progress far in our moral thinking.
y = mx + b
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The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
For everything there is a season.….a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; ... a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
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Edward Hoagland
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #450
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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What does balance look like in a person?
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