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02/04/2005 06:27:07 PM · #301 |
I don't think I've seen this one ...
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."
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02/04/2005 06:50:55 PM · #302 |
Dont know if these have been posted yet, dont know the authors either.
"True friends are angels who catch you when your own wings have forgotten how to fly"
"I cant make you love me but you cant stop me from loving you"
"What we are is Gods gift to us, what we become is our gift back" |
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02/04/2005 07:02:17 PM · #303 |
"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
- President Eisenhower's Farewell speech, 1961
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men."
- Abraham Lincoln
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02/04/2005 07:13:38 PM · #304 |
"to dream - no effort
to think - easy
to act is harder
but to act upon thought, that
is the most difficult thing of all"
-Charles Olson
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02/04/2005 07:50:32 PM · #305 |
Originally posted by MadMordegon: "Is God willing to prevent evil but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
If he is neither willing nor able, then why call him God?"
-Epicurus 341-271BC |
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02/04/2005 08:09:24 PM · #306 |
You should not be jealous of anyones success unless you are willing to do what they did to achieve it. - Scott W.
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02/04/2005 09:07:42 PM · #307 |
1. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow -Lauren Bacall
2. What the hell was that!!?? - Mayor of Hiroshima |
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02/04/2005 09:08:36 PM · #308 |
"All men dream, but not equally. Some men dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds, and wake in the day to find it vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they live their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T.E.Lawrence (of Arabia)
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02/04/2005 09:10:21 PM · #309 |
"He who lives, must suffer:
and, even in our sleep,
pain that does not forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
even against our will,
comes wisdom, by the awful grace of God..."
— Aeschylus, "Agammemnon"
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02/06/2005 03:54:27 PM · #310 |
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02/06/2005 04:02:49 PM · #311 |
Originally posted by bear_music: "All men dream, but not equally. Some men dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds, and wake in the day to find it vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they live their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T.E.Lawrence (of Arabia) |
This reminds me of the line that Kipling took as almost his motto - 'go quietly and carry a big stick' - in that many people think it is nasty, that Kipling was advocating violence, and that Lawrence feared such people. In fact, Lawrence did not fear 'dangerous' men, and Kipling was advocating only having the arguments to back up your beliefs, but not to find need to shout about them.
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02/06/2005 04:05:50 PM · #312 |
"If a man's only tool is a key, he will imagine every problem to be a lock." - Abraham Maslow |
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02/06/2005 04:07:15 PM · #313 |
Happiness is not a destination on the road of life, but a state of being while traveling. |
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02/06/2005 04:10:02 PM · #314 |
My favorite quotes...
Happiness isn't having what you want, its wanting what you already have
From the scriptures...
Rejoice in the hope, Endure under tribulation, Persevere in prayer Romans 12:12 |
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02/06/2005 04:15:13 PM · #315 |
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Message edited by author 2005-02-06 23:58:31. |
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02/06/2005 04:34:59 PM · #316 |
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms.
Nothing is "mere."
I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them.
But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination -- stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light.
A vast pattern -- of which I am a part -- perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there.
Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together.
What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why?
It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it.
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!
Why do the poets of the present not speak of it?
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"
-- Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) |
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02/06/2005 05:07:45 PM · #317 |
Originally posted by zeuszen: Originally posted by turquoise919: Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms.
Nothing is "mere."
I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them.
But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination -- stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light.
A vast pattern -- of which I am a part -- perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there.
Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together.
What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why?
It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it.
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!
Why do the poets of the present not speak of it?
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"
-- Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) |
Mr. Feynman should read American Poets, especially of the XXth century and forward, many of which embrace science, some of which apply it.
Even the Greeks were scientific about their observations. Instead of dissecting the body, they laid bare the soul of creatures and objects. Examine Sappho for her knowledge of human emotions and their respective symptoms. Examine Homer for his knowledge of the sea and stars and for his insights pertaining to medicine.
There are poets who would speak of Jupiter as if he were a god, accommodating not only all forms of life but also the ability to change shape and, as such, occupy the same space/time.
Poetry and art do not discount science, at least not as commonly as Mr. Feynman appears to believe, commerce and mercantile interests do. |
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02/06/2005 05:18:57 PM · #318 |
"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm."
-Winston Churchill
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"The moon has set
And the Pleiades
It is midnight
And I lie alone."
-Sappho |
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02/06/2005 05:54:58 PM · #319 |
Wow!
Originally posted by MadMordegon: If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet about a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing in between. People would marvel at the bumps on it and hold in it. They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it as sacred because it was the only one and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would love it and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives could be nothing without it. If earth were only a few feet in diameter. |
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02/06/2005 06:06:30 PM · #320 |
" one of the most enjoyable sights is the smile on a persons face that has just been taken off the hook" Peanuts about 1958 |
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02/06/2005 06:19:05 PM · #321 |
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
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02/06/2005 11:46:10 PM · #322 |
"Debbie can't come to the phone right now; she has my d--- in her mouth"
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"I love wrong numbers!"
Danny DiVito
Ruthless People
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02/07/2005 01:13:27 AM · #323 |
The beauty of things
Is in the beholder's brain --
The human mind's translation of their transhuman
Intrinsic value...
...as mathematics, a human invention
That parallels but never touches reality, gives the astronomer
Metaphors through which he may comprehend
The powers and the flow of things: so the human sense
Of beauty is our metaphor of their excellence,
Their divine nature: like dust in a whirlwind, making
The wild wind visible.
Robinson Jeffers
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02/07/2005 01:16:04 AM · #324 |
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. |
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02/07/2005 01:22:05 AM · #325 |
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
--Jacob Riis
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