Thought for the Day [Archive] - Page 2

Duke of Buckingham

12-23-12, 02:41 AM

Here are some quotes (although you will note they are not all in accord with each other):

"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions." David Borenstein

“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.” Bertrand Russell

“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” Roger Ebert

“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.” Marya Mannes

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason." -Marquis De Vauvenargues

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. ~Aldous Huxley

"Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions." ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

"The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where. " Dorothy Thompson

"A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail." ~La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand that uses it bleed." Rabindranath Tagore.

"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it." ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational."
A. N. Wilson

"Better to be without logic than without feeling." Charlotte Brontë

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." Unknown

"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."- Samuel Butler

"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." Andre Gide

"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out." Luigi Pirandello.

"Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?" Robert A Heinlein

"Logic is easier said than done, emotions are easier done than said." Ricardo Ferreira

"Man is young as long as he can repeat his emotions; woman, as long as she can inspire them." Thomas Szas

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." Nikola Tesla

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones." Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul." Arnold Bennett

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love." Oscar Wilde

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use." Ernest Hemingway

"But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there." Ernest Hemingway

"Control your emotion or they will control you." Bertrand Russell

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge” Plato

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary” Mark Twain

"I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble." Angelina Jolie

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." Albert Einstein

Duke of Buckingham

12-26-12, 06:42 AM

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Mahatma Gandhi

Duke of Buckingham

12-27-12, 10:36 AM

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

Duke of Buckingham

12-28-12, 11:06 AM

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Epictetus

Duke of Buckingham

12-29-12, 08:44 AM

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”

Lao Tzu

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Laozi (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ; Wade–Giles: Lao Tzu; also romanized as Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Laocius, and other variations) (fl. 6th century BCE) was a philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi). His association with the Tào Té Chīng has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of philosophical Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of Taoist philosophy, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones".

According to Chinese traditions, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Some historians contend that he actually lived in the 5th–4th century BCE, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while some others argue that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures or that he is a mythical figure.

A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. He was honored as an ancestor of the Tang imperial family, and was granted the title Táishāng xuānyuán huángdì, meaning "Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor". Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

Laozi is traditionally regarded as the founder of Taoism, intimately connected with the Daodejing and "primordial" (or "original") Daoism. Popular ("religious") Daoism typically presents the Jade Emperor as the official head deity. Intellectual ("elite") Daoists, such as the Celestial Masters sect, usually present Laozi (Laojun, "Lord Lao") and the Three Pure Ones at the top of the pantheon of deities.

Duke of Buckingham

12-30-12, 05:46 AM

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha

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Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम बुद्ध; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

The word Buddha is a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S. samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." Gautama Buddha may also be referred to as Śākyamuni (Sanskrit: शाक्यमुनि "Sage of the Śākyas").

Gautama taught a Middle Way compared to the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kośala.

The time of Gautama's birth and death is uncertain: most historians in the early 20th century dated his lifetime as circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE, but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 and 483 BCE or, according to some, between 411 and 400 BCE. However, at a specialist symposium on this question held in 1988 in Göttingen, the majority of those scholars who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death, with others supporting earlier or later dates. These alternative chronologies, however, have not yet been accepted by all other historians.

Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition, and first committed to writing about 400 years later.

Duke of Buckingham

12-30-12, 11:10 PM

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Jesus Christ

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Jesus (pron.: /ˈdʒiːzəs/; Greek: Ἰησοῦς Iēsous; 7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity, whom a majority of Christian denominations believe to be the Son of God.

Virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed. While the quest for the historical Jesus has produced little agreement on the historicity of gospel narratives and their theological assertions of his divinity, most scholars agree that Jesus was a Jewish teacher from Galilee in Roman Judaea, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect, Pontius Pilate. Scholars have offered various portraits of the historical Jesus, which at times share a number of overlapping attributes, such as the leader of an apocalyptic movement, Messiah, a charismatic healer, a sage and philosopher, or a social reformer who preached of the "Kingdom of God" as a means for personal and egalitarian social transformation. Scholars have correlated the New Testament accounts with non-Christian historical records to arrive at an estimated chronology of Jesus' life.

Christians hold Jesus to be the awaited Messiah of the Old Testament and refer to him as Jesus Christ or simply as Christ, a name that is also used secularly. Most Christians believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, performed miracles, founded the Church, died sacrificially by crucifixion to achieve atonement, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from which he will return. The majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, and the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. A few Christian groups reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural.

In Islam, Jesus (commonly transliterated as Isa) is considered one of God's important prophets. In Islam, Jesus is a bringer of scripture, and the product of a virgin birth, but not the victim of crucifixion. Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus was the awaited Messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill the Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh. Bahá'í scripture almost never refers to Jesus as the Messiah, but calls him a Manifestation of God.

Duke of Buckingham

12-31-12, 04:50 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

01-01-13, 10:50 AM

Almost midnight of the 31st of December.

The new year resolutions all in the head.

The head a bit high with the several cheers and toasts along the day

4, 3, 2, 1 ... we are in another day of another year.

con-fraternize, speaking, dancing enjoying the moment

and more toasts with speeches and speeches with cheers

time to sleep with the head full and a tired body

wake up and return to that old life, your life

we can not be another person, if we made all those new year decisions

we lied and now have to forget all them

but that is what we do every year

Return to your life of everyday ...

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

01-03-13, 11:26 AM

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Duke of Buckingham

01-03-13, 04:39 PM

See the world with the eyes of a child and find your way home.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

01-04-13, 11:05 AM

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Helen Keller

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

A prolific author, Keller was well traveled, and was outspoken in her anti-war convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971.

Duke of Buckingham

01-07-13, 09:41 PM

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Albert Einstein (pron.: /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪnʃtaɪn] ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and the most influential physicist of the 20th century. While best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"), he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory.

Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he published a paper on the general theory of relativity. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the general theory of relativity to model the structure of the universe as a whole.

He was visiting the United States when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and did not go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He settled in the U.S., becoming a citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he helped alert President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany might be developing an atomic weapon, and recommended that the U.S. begin similar research; this eventually led to what would become the Manhattan Project. Einstein was in support of defending the Allied forces, but largely denounced using the new discovery of nuclear fission as a weapon. Later, with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, Einstein signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons. Einstein was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.

Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works. His great intellectual achievements and originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with genius.

Duke of Buckingham

01-08-13, 09:26 PM

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics.

Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. Aristotle was well known among medieval Muslim intellectuals and revered as المعلم الأول - "The First Teacher". His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Duke of Buckingham

01-09-13, 07:07 PM

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

― Plato, The Republic

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Plato (pron.: /ˈpleɪtoʊ/; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad";[2] 424/423 BC[a] – 348/347 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. In the words of A. N. Whitehead:

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them.

Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have been ascribed to him. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato's texts. Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, and mathematics. Plato is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.

Duke of Buckingham

01-11-13, 05:19 PM

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛs ˈɡɔɲdʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]) and commonly known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an ethnic Albanian, Indian Roman Catholic nun. "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus." In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood. A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before she can be recognized as a saint by the Catholic church.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor". The Missionaries of Charity at the time of her death had 610 missions in 123 countries including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools.

For over 45 years, she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Her beatification by Pope John Paul II following her death gave her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta".

She was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India. Her awards include the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, the Philippines-based Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Pacem in Terris Award, an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia, the Order of Merit from both the United Kingdom and the United States, Albania's Golden Honour of the Nation, honorary degrees, the Balzan Prize, and the Albert Schweitzer International Prize amongst many others.

Mother Teresa stated that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world's needy. When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family." In her Nobel Lecture, she said: "Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society—that poverty is so hurtable [sic] and so much, and I find that very difficult." She also singled out abortion as 'the greatest destroyer of peace in the world'.

During her lifetime, Mother Teresa was named 18 times in the yearly Gallup's most admired man and woman poll as one of the ten women around the world that Americans admired most. In 1999, a poll of Americans ranked her first in Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. In that survey, she out-polled all other volunteered answers by a wide margin, and was in first place in all major demographic categories except the very young.

Duke of Buckingham

01-12-13, 07:30 AM

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.

Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.

At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.

At the height of his fame and success, while his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in prison. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In 1897, in prison, he wrote De Profundis which was published in 1905, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

Duke of Buckingham

01-14-13, 06:28 PM

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

Churchill was born into an aristocratic family, and was the grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.

At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air. After the War, Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative (Baldwin) government of 1924–29, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. Also controversial was his opposition to increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII.

Out of office and politically "in the wilderness" during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His steadfast refusal to consider defeat, surrender, or a compromise peace helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult early days of the War when Britain stood alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. Churchill was particularly noted for his speeches and radio broadcasts, which helped inspire the British people. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured.

After the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour (Attlee) government. After winning the 1951 election, he again became Prime Minister, before retiring in 1955. Upon his death, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history.

Duke of Buckingham

01-15-13, 10:03 AM

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963.

After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts' 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations were flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy. Kennedy ranks rather highly in public opinion ratings of U.S. presidents.

Duke of Buckingham

01-16-13, 10:59 AM

"I am nothing.
I'll never be nothing.
I can not wish to be nothing.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams of the world. "

Fernando Pessoa

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Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (Portuguese pronunciation: [feɾˈnɐ̃du ɐ̃ˈtɔnju nuˈgɐi̯ɾɐ dɨ siˈabɾɐ pɨˈsoɐ]) (June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.

Pessoa's earliest heteronym, at the age of six, was Chevalier de Pas. Other childhood heteronyms included Dr. Pancrácio and David Merrick, followed by Charles Robert Anon, an English young man that became Pessoa's alter ego. In 1906/7, when Pessoa was a student at Lisbon's University, Alexander Search took the place of Anon. The main reason for this was that, although Search is English, he was born in Lisbon as his author. But Search represents a transition heteronym that Pessoa used while searching to adapt to the Portuguese cultural reality. After the republican revolution, in 1910, and consequent patriotic atmosphera, Pessoa created another alter ego, Álvaro de Campos, supposedly a Portuguese naval engineer graduated in Glasgow. Translator Richard Zenith notes that Pessoa eventually established at least seventy-two heteronyms. According to Pessoa himself, there were three main heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis. The heteronyms possess distinct biographies, temperaments, philosophies, appearances and writing styles.

Fernando Pessoa on the heteronyms

« How do I write in the name of these three? Caeiro, through sheer and unexpected inspiration, without knowing or even suspecting that I’m going to write in his name. Ricardo Reis, after an abstract meditation, which suddenly takes concrete shape in an ode. Campos, when I feel a sudden impulse to write and don’t know what. (My semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, who in many ways resembles Álvaro de Campos, always appears when I'm sleepy or drowsy, so that my qualities of inhibition and rational thought are suspended; his prose is an endless reverie. He’s a semi-heteronym because his personality, although not my own, doesn’t differ from my own but is a mere mutilation of it. He’s me without my rationalism and emotions. His prose is the same as mine, except for certain formal restraint that reason imposes on my own writing, and his Portuguese is exactly the same – whereas Caeiro writes bad Portuguese, Campos writes it reasonably well but with mistakes such as "me myself" instead of "I myself", etc.., and Reis writes better than I, but with a purism I find excessive...). »
— Fernando Pessoa, "Letter to Adolfo Casais Monteiro", 13.01.1935, translated by Richard Zenith.

Duke of Buckingham

01-17-13, 02:52 AM

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln Listeni/ˈeɪbrəhæm ˈlɪŋkən/ (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln successfully led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

After a series of debates in 1858 that gave national visibility to his opposition to the expansion of slavery, Lincoln lost a Senate race to his arch-rival, Stephen A. Douglas. Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party presidential nomination in 1860. With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy. The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found. Lincoln explained in his second inaugural address: "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the Nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came."

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort. His goal was now to reunite the nation. As the South was in a state of insurrection, Lincoln exercised his authority to suspend habeas corpus, arresting and temporarily detaining thousands of suspected secessionists without trial. Lincoln averted British recognition of the Confederacy by skillfully handling the Trent affair in late 1861. His efforts toward the abolition of slavery include issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging the border states to outlaw slavery, and helping push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the slaves nationwide in December 1865. Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln brought leaders of the major factions of his party into his cabinet and pressured them to cooperate. Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865.

An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election. As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were "blasted from all sides": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death. Politically, Lincoln fought back with patronage, by pitting his opponents against each other, and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory. His Gettysburg Address of 1863 became the most quoted speech in American history. It was an iconic statement of America's dedication to the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's death was the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the nation into mourning. Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents, the others being George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Duke of Buckingham

01-18-13, 02:29 AM

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Golda Meir

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Golda Meir (earlier Golda Meyerson, born Golda Mabovich, Голда Мабович; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.

Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people".

In 1974, after the end of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister. She died in 1978 of leukemia.

Meir's story has been the subject of many fictionalized portrayals. In 1977, Anne Bancroft played Meir in William Gibson's Broadway play Golda. The Australian actress Judy Davis played a young Meir in the television film A Woman Called Golda (1982), opposite Leonard Nimoy. Ingrid Bergman played the older Golda in the same film. In 2003, the American Jewish actress Tovah Feldshuh portrayed her on Broadway in Golda's Balcony, Gibson's second play about Meir's life. The one-woman show was controversial in its implication that Meir considered using nuclear weapons during the Yom Kippur War.

Valerie Harper portrayed her in the touring company and in the film version of Golda's Balcony. Supporting actress Colleen Dewhurst portrayed her in the 1986 TV-movie Sword of Gideon. In 2005, actress Lynn Cohen portrayed Meir in Steven Spielberg's film Munich. Later on, Tovah Feldshuh assumed her role once again in the 2006 English-speaking French movie O Jerusalem. She was played by the Polish actress Beata Fudalej in the 2009 film The Hope by Márta Mészáros.

Duke of Buckingham

01-19-13, 10:46 PM

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert Anson Heinlein (pron.: /ˈhaɪnlaɪn/ HYN-lyn; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.

He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. He, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.

Heinlein, a notable writer of science fiction short stories, was one of a group of writers who came to prominence under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr. in his Astounding Science Fiction magazine—though Heinlein denied that Campbell influenced his writing to any great degree.

Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought. He also examined the relationship between physical and emotional love, explored various unorthodox family structures, and speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices. His approach to these themes led to wildly divergent opinions on what views were being expounded via his fiction.

Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four of his novels; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded "Retro Hugos"—awards given retrospectively for years in which Hugo Awards had not been awarded. He also won the first Grand Master Award, given by the Science Fiction Writers of America, for his lifetime achievement. In his fiction Heinlein coined words that have become part of the English language, including "grok" and "waldo", and popularized the terms "TANSTAAFL" and space marine.

Duke of Buckingham

01-20-13, 11:27 AM

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven", to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.

Edgar Allan Poe one side of my soul.

Duke of Buckingham

01-20-13, 10:53 PM

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Imagination rules the world.

A true man hates no one.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt], Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.

As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. His legal reform, the Napoleonic Code, has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, but he is best remembered for his role in the wars led against France by a series of coalitions, the so-called Napoleonic Wars. He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed Ancien Régime. Due to his success in these wars, often against numerically superior enemies, he is generally regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time, and his campaigns are studied at military academies worldwide.

Napoleon was born at Ajaccio in Corsica to parents of noble Italian ancestry. He trained as an artillery officer in mainland France. He rose to prominence under the French First Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. He led a successful invasion of the Italian peninsula.

In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. In the first decade of the 19th century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts—the Napoleonic Wars—that involved every major European power. After a streak of victories, France secured a dominant position in continental Europe, and Napoleon maintained the French sphere of influence through the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states.

The Peninsular War and 1812 French invasion of Russia marked turning points in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was badly damaged in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig; the following year the Coalition invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and returned to power, but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena. An autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer, but there has been some debate about the cause of his death, as some scholars have speculated that he was a victim of arsenic poisoning.

Duke of Buckingham

01-24-13, 06:49 AM

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

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Confucius (551–479 BCE) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.

Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics, but modern scholars are cautious of attributing specific assertions to Confucius himself. Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects, but only many years after his death.

Confucius's principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children (and in traditional interpretations) of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself", an early version of the Golden Rule.

Duke of Buckingham

01-29-13, 11:14 AM

You cannot do what I do, but I cannot do what you do. The needs are huge, and none of us alone ever do greater things. But we all can do small things.

Together we can do something wonderful and very special, only if we could love enough each other and get out of the selfish blanket that modern society
is teaching us ...
... in everyday.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

01-30-13, 07:05 AM

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃tɛɡzypeʁi]), officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944, Mort pour la France), was a French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.

Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot before World War II, working airmail routes in Europe, Africa and South America. At the outbreak of war, he joined the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force), flying reconnaissance missions until France's armistice with Germany in 1940. After being demobilised from the French Air Force, he travelled to the United States to persuade its government to enter the war against Nazi Germany. Following a 27-month hiatus in North America, during which he wrote three of his most important works, he joined the Free French Air Force in North Africa, although he was far past the maximum age for such pilots and in declining health. He disappeared over the Mediterranean on his last assigned reconnaissance mission in July 1944, and is believed to have died at that time.

Prior to the war, Saint-Exupéry had achieved fame in France as an aviator. His literary works, among them The Little Prince, translated into over 250 languages and dialects, propelled his stature posthumously allowing him to achieve national hero status in France. He earned further widespread recognition with international translations of his other works. His 1939 philosophical memoir Terre des hommes became the name of a major international humanitarian group, and was also used to create the central theme (Terre des hommes–Man and His World) of the most successful world's fair of the 20th century, Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada.

Duke of Buckingham

01-31-13, 02:10 PM

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Anais Nin

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Anaïs Nin (Spanish pronunciation: [anaˈiz ˈnin]; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was an American author born of Hispanic/Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She published journals (which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death), novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

Duke of Buckingham

02-01-13, 05:25 AM

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

It always seems impossible until its done.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; born 18 July 1918) is a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. His administration focused on dismantling apartheid's legacy, and cutting racism, poverty and inequality. Politically left-wing, he served as president of the African National Congress (ANC) political party from 1990 to 1999.

Born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, studying law. Living in Johannesburg townships and becoming involved in anti-colonial politics, he joined the ANC, becoming a founding member of its Youth League. When the National Party government implemented apartheid in 1948, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, being elected president of the Transvaal ANC branch and overseeing the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and with the ANC leadership stood on the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, he adopted a policy of violent resistance, co-founding the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, in 1961. In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mandela served 27 years in prison, many on Robben Island, while an international campaign lobbied for his release.

Released in 1990, Mandela wrote his autobiography, and led the ANC in negotiations with President F.W. de Klerk leading to apartheid's abolition and the establishment of multi-racial elections in 1994. In that year's elections, he led the ANC to victory. As president, he initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses, while introducing policies aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa. Refusing to run for a second term, and succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki, Mandela became an elder statesman focusing on charitable work in combating poverty and HIV/AIDS.

Mandela has received international acclaim for his anti-colonial and anti-apartheid stance, having received over 250 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, and is held in deep respect within South Africa as the "Father of the Nation", where he is often known under his Xhosa clan name of Mandiba. Controversial for much of his life, critics denounced him as a terrorist for his involvement in Umkhonto we Sizwe.

Duke of Buckingham

02-03-13, 07:08 AM

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, two epitaphs on a man named John Combe, one epitaph on Elias James, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two friends and fellow actors of Shakespeare, published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. It was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as "not of an age, but for all time."

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the 20th century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

Duke of Buckingham

02-04-13, 10:28 AM

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Soli Deo Gloria

Face to the reality.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.

All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque period. He enriched many established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Many of Bach's works are still known today, such as the Brandenburg Concertos, the Mass in B minor, the The Well-Tempered Clavier, his cantatas, chorales, partitas, Passions, and organ works. His music is revered for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty.

Bach was born in Eisenach, Saxe-Eisenach, into a very musical family; his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach was the director of the town musicians, and all of his uncles were professional musicians. His father taught him to play violin and harpsichord, and his brother, Johann Christoph Bach, taught him the clavichord and exposed him to much contemporary music. Bach also went to St Michael's School in Lüneburg because of his singing skills. After graduating, he held several musical posts across Germany: he served as Kapellmeister (director of music) to Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Cantor of Thomasschule in Leipzig, and Royal Court Composer to August III. Bach's health and vision declined in 1749, and he died on 28 July 1750. Modern historians believe that his death was caused by a combination of stroke and pneumonia.

Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected throughout Europe during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the main composers of the Baroque period, and as one of the greatest composers of all time.

Duke of Buckingham

02-09-13, 05:34 PM

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Be who you are and be that well.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Francis de Sales, C.O., T.O.M., A.O.F.M. Cap., (French: François de Sales) (August 21, 1567 – December 28, 1622) was a Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to the religious divisions in his land resulting from the Protestant Reformation. He is known also for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the Introduction to the Devout Life and the Treatise on the Love of God.

zombie67

02-09-13, 11:57 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

02-10-13, 04:23 PM

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Clank [MM]

02-11-13, 12:01 AM

If you think you feel good, wait until you feel me.

Wait, honestly I read that on a bumper sticker, no personal intentions meant.:p

Duke of Buckingham

02-11-13, 12:16 AM

;55739']If you think you feel good, wait until you feel me.

Wait, honestly I read that on a bumper sticker, no personal intentions meant.:p

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/old%20man%20teeth01.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI

Duke of Buckingham

02-14-13, 12:20 AM

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Sleep is the best meditation.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

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The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, founded by Tsongkhapa (1357–1419). The name is a combination of the Sino-Mongolian word dalai meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word བླ་མ་ bla-ma (with a silent "b") meaning "guru, teacher".

According to Tibetan Buddhist doctrine, the Dalai Lama is the rebirth in a line of tulkus who are metaphorically considered to be manifestations of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteśvara. The Dalai Lama is often thought to be the leader of the Gelug School, but this position belongs officially to the Ganden Tripa, which is a temporary position appointed by the Dalai Lama who, in practice, exerts much influence. The line of Dalai Lamas began as a lineage of spiritual teachers; the 5th Dalai Lama assumed political authority over Tibet.

For certain periods between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lamas sometimes directed the Tibetan government, which administered portions of Tibet from Lhasa. The 14th Dalai Lama remained the head of state for the Central Tibetan Administration ("Tibetan government in exile") until his retirement on March 14, 2011. He has indicated that the institution of the Dalai Lama may be abolished in the future, and also that the next Dalai Lama may be found outside Tibet and may be female. The Chinese government rejected this and asserted that only it has the authority to select the next Dalai Lama.

Duke of Buckingham

02-14-13, 08:44 PM

"felicior Augustus, melior Traianus"

One for you to search.:D

Duke of Buckingham

02-19-13, 05:48 PM

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Common sense is not so common.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Voltaire

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François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃.swa ma.ʁi aʁ.wɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire (pronounced: [vɔl.tɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate, despite strict censorship laws with harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

Duke of Buckingham

02-20-13, 09:57 AM

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

George S. Patton

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George Smith Patton, Jr. (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) was a general in the United States Army best known for his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II.

Born in 1885 to a privileged family with an extensive military background, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute, and later the U.S. Military Academy. He participated in the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and was instrumental in designing the M1913 "Patton Saber". Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in one of the earliest instances of mechanized combat. He later joined the newly formed United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Force and saw action in World War I, first commanding the U.S. tank school in France before being wounded near end of the war. In the interwar period, Patton remained a central figure in the development of armored warfare doctrine in the U.S. Army, serving on numerous staff positions throughout the country. Rising through the ranks, he commanded the U.S. 2nd Armored Division at the time of the U.S. entry into World War II.

Patton led U.S. troops into the European theater with an invasion of Casablanca during the North African Campaign in 1942, where he later established himself as an effective commander through his rapid rehabilitation of the demoralized U.S. II Corps. He commanded the Seventh Army during the Invasion of Sicily, where he beat British General Bernard Law Montgomery to Messina but was embroiled in controversy after he slapped two soldiers under his command. Patton returned to command the Third Army following the Invasion of Normandy in 1944, where he led a highly successful, rapid drive across France. He led the relief of beleaguered U.S. troops at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and advanced his army into Nazi Germany by the end of the war. Patton was the military governor of Bavaria after the end of the war before being relieved of this post, then he commanded the Fifteenth United States Army for a time. He died following an automobile accident in Europe on 21 December 1945.

Patton's colorful image, hard-driving personality and success as a commander were at times overshadowed by his politically inadequate statements in the press. But his philosophy of leading from the front and his ability to inspire his troops with vulgarity-ridden speeches, such as a famous address to the Third Army, led to new leadership philosophies in the U.S. officer corps. His strong emphasis on rapid and aggressive offensive action led to new strategies in combined arms warfare. While Allied leaders held differing opinions on Patton, he was regarded highly by his opponents in the German High Command. A popular biographical film released in 1970 helped transform Patton into an American folk hero.

Duke of Buckingham

02-22-13, 12:15 PM

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,
all the walks I want to take,
all the books I want to read,
and all the friends I want to see.

John Burroughs

Duke of Buckingham

03-03-13, 08:29 AM

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Leap, and the net will appear.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Henry David Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the 20th century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871.

In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world." The result was a body of work whose perfect resonance with the tone of its cultural moment perhaps explains both its enormous popularity at that time, and its relative obscurity since.

Duke of Buckingham

03-06-13, 08:37 AM

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

If you want to be happy, be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

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Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Граф Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, pronounced [lʲev nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ( listen http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Ru-Lev_Nikolayevich_Tolstoy.ogg ); known in the Anglosphere as Leo Tolstoy; September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

On 23 September 1862, Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior and the daughter of a court physician. She was called Sonya, the Russian diminutive of Sofya, by her family and friends. They had thirteen children:

Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (10 July 1863-23 December 1947)
Countess Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya (4 October 1864-21 September 1950), wife of Mikhail Sergeevich Sukhotin
Count Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy (22 May 1866-11 December 1933), writer
Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (1 June 1869-18 October 1945), writer and sculptor
Countess Maria Lvovna Tolstaya (1871-1906), wife of Nikolai Leonidovich Obolensky
Count Peter Lvovich Tolstoy (1872-1873), died in infancy
Count Nikolai Lvovich Tolstoy (1874-1875), died in infancy
Countess Varvara Lvovna Tolstaya (1875-1875), died in infancy
Count Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy (1877-1916), served in the Russo-Japanese War
Count Michael Lvovich Tolstoy (1879-1944)
Count Alexei Lvovich Tolstoy (1881-1886)
Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya (18 July 1884-26 September 1979)
Count Ivan Lvovich Tolstoy (1888-1895)

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Duke of Buckingham

03-09-13, 06:10 AM

Watch your thoughts; they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Lao-Tze

Duke of Buckingham

03-11-13, 09:49 AM

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

Eric Cantona

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Luciano Pavarotti

Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.

Bob Wells

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

James M. Baldwin

It's a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.

Mike Tice

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

Bobby Thomson

We are rivals, not enemies and we should keep things that way or meanwhile we will lose the clarity of our thoughts and the purity of our targets. We can even lose ourselves.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

03-12-13, 08:26 PM

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

Duke of Buckingham

03-18-13, 05:32 PM

Life doesn't worth a damn till I can say:
I am what I am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8C43r4zm0

I Am What I Am
I am what I am
I am my own special creation
So come take a look
Give me the hook
Or the ovation
It's my world
That I want to have a little pride
My world
And it's not a place I have to hide in
Life's not worth a dam
Till I can say
I am what I am

I am what I am
I don't want praise
I don't want pity
I bang my own drum
Some think it's noise
I think it's pretty
And so what if I love each sparkle and each bangle
Why not try to see things from a different angle
Your life is a shame
Till you can shout out
I am what I am

I am what I am
And what I am needs no excuses
I deal my own deck
Sometimes the aces sometimes the deuces
It's one life and there's no return and no deposit
One life so it's time to open up your closet
Life's not worth a dam till you can shout out
I am what I am

I am what I am

I am what I am
And what I am needs no excuses
I deal my own deck sometimes the aces sometimes the deuces
It's one life and there's no return and no deposit
One life so it's time to open up your closet
Life's not worth a dam till you can shout out
I am what I am

I am I am I am good
I am I am I am strong
I am I am I am worthy
I am I am I belong
I am
I am
Who whoooo etc.
I am

I am I am I am useful
I am I am I am true
I am I am somebody
I am as good as you

Yes I am

Duke of Buckingham

03-19-13, 10:51 PM

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

So we are always doing the same mistakes and taking the same paths.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

03-22-13, 09:22 AM

Time plays a tune, and we all have a note, as a crescendo life gradually progresses, into a chorus filled with many a hope.

Crystal Harris

Duke of Buckingham

03-28-13, 11:43 PM

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

Duke of Buckingham

03-29-13, 08:52 AM

越是没有人爱，越要爱自己。

The less loved you are by others, the more you have to love yourself.

Chinese Quote

Duke of Buckingham

03-30-13, 12:10 PM

I am watching a nature quote.
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Duke of Buckingham

03-31-13, 05:17 PM

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Mahatma Gandhi

Duke of Buckingham

03-31-13, 10:44 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

04-02-13, 11:09 PM

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 most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

Duke of Buckingham

04-04-13, 08:36 AM

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Slicker

04-04-13, 11:15 AM

Ron White: You can't fix stupid.

Duke of Buckingham

04-06-13, 06:13 PM

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Sun Tzu

Duke of Buckingham

04-07-13, 12:26 AM

If you have that love in you,

you will keep it

The Republic

The Democracy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g

Thanks Lawrence Lessig

Duke of Buckingham

04-08-13, 07:45 PM

A small thought, a small word for a better world ... in my opinion of course.

I would like to tell a short history of common life that maybe it has happened to all of us.

The day the Iraq dictator, Saddam Hussein as been hanged, a cousin of mine died also. It was a physician, a very big surgeon, a good father, a good son, a good friend, a good man.

He spread life all around, struggle for his patients, answered to all that need him, not for money, only because of his sense of duty.

That day all journalistic news spoke about Saddam Hussein dead and none about my dear cousin.

The world is what we make of it. The ones that make the news and the ones that are ready to listen.

A criminal is better than a good person, a man that takes lives is more important that one that preserves life.

I know my cousin was no one and Saddam Hussein was a very big man, my cousin saved lives Saddam took them, that is what we call a very important person, the assassin.

The world is what we make of it.

And so the world goes ...

Duke of Buckingham

04-08-13, 08:38 PM

If I may add one today...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher

I suddenly remembered a friend that may not be always right as he wishes but always gives is best.

Sometimes he is too certain of the things we use to doubt.

And will join a thought to yours: A journey of thousand friends begins with a good word ...

Duke of Buckingham

04-09-13, 04:09 AM

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Duke of Buckingham

04-10-13, 08:17 AM

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I can see you. You are lurking.

Duke of Buckingham

04-13-13, 11:08 AM

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He may walk faster alone but together we can go further.

Duke of Buckingham

04-18-13, 08:34 AM

One of the best things in life is discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time or space and there is no relativity on the theory of love.

The Crazy Duke

Duke of Buckingham

04-19-13, 09:01 AM

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Ezra Pound

Duke of Buckingham

04-23-13, 09:03 PM

“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”

Epictetus

Duke of Buckingham

04-24-13, 05:55 PM

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

Pope John XXIII

Duke of Buckingham

05-09-13, 06:10 PM

I invented nothing but I am rediscovering all ...

Duke of Buckingham

05-16-13, 09:38 AM

“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

Duke of Buckingham

05-17-13, 04:22 PM

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

Duke of Buckingham

05-19-13, 08:55 PM

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

Duke of Buckingham

05-20-13, 04:29 PM

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

Victor Hugo

Duke of Buckingham

05-31-13, 07:22 PM

http://i.brainyquote.com/photos/e/ernestholmes172213.jpg

Duke of Buckingham

06-01-13, 06:45 AM

A hero is a common person that found something that (really) worthwhile to fight for.

Crazy Duke

Duke of Buckingham

06-06-13, 03:48 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9IqsC5hc_Q

Duke of Buckingham

06-07-13, 05:07 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzbFl2INGys

Duke of Buckingham

06-08-13, 07:10 PM

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

Duke of Buckingham

06-09-13, 02:54 PM

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Duke of Buckingham

06-10-13, 08:44 PM

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

Duke of Buckingham

06-11-13, 04:47 AM

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

Duke of Buckingham

06-12-13, 04:03 PM

To know where to go is very important to know where we are.

Crazy Duke

Duke of Buckingham

06-14-13, 02:09 AM

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Robert A. Heinlein

Duke of Buckingham

06-15-13, 03:21 PM

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

Jello Biafra

Duke of Buckingham

06-20-13, 05:45 PM

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dalai Lama

Duke of Buckingham

06-21-13, 03:48 PM

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Duke of Buckingham

06-23-13, 05:20 AM

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Duke of Buckingham

06-24-13, 09:26 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0KRUGGajto

For my Brazilian Friends struggling for a new life in a better world.

Caetano Veloso → Sampa

Something happens in my heart
When I cross Ipiranga (Avenue) and São João Avenue
As I got here I didn't understand anything
Not the concrete poetry of your street corners
Not the discreet inelegance of your girls

I didn't know Rita Lee (a singer from São Paulo)
Your most complete translation
Something happens in my heart
Only when it crosses Ipiranga (Avenue) and São João Avenue

When we were face to face I didn't saw my face
I called what I saw bad taste, I called bad taste to bad taste
Because Narcissus thinks is ugly what is not a mirror
And what is not so old scares the mind
Nothing from before when you are not a mutant

And you were a difficult beginning
I get away of what I don't know
And who sell a dream of a different happy city
learn fast to call you reality
Because your are the reverse of the back of the back of the reverse

From the people oppressed in lines, in streets, in towns
Of the power of the money that builds and destroy beautiful things
From the ugly smoke that rises and hide the stars
I see your poets raise from the fields and spaces
Your forest workshops, your gods of the rain

Pan-Americas from Africa utopias, samba grave.
The newest of Zumbi's quilombo (I will post about Zumbi soon)
And the new baianos wandering in your drizzle
And the new baianos can enjoy you on a good one.

Duke of Buckingham

07-01-13, 07:45 PM

I have some doubts sometimes.

I have them for me, because I choose a different religion one day.

Would Jesus love me?

Duke of Buckingham

07-02-13, 07:47 AM

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

H. G. Wells

Duke of Buckingham

07-08-13, 06:53 AM

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Erma Bombeck

Duke of Buckingham

07-11-13, 06:46 PM

I need to go to my vacation place fast (Algarve) to get there and have more time to do absolutely nothing.

Crazy Duke

Duke of Buckingham

07-13-13, 08:03 AM

After a war most of the men can finally understand that peace is so precious, more than gold or diamonds. We should learn to avoid the war and learn from our ancestors or from our history.

Can we start today?

Ricardo Ferreira

DrBackJack

07-13-13, 02:41 PM

Duke !!!

Great one man !

Duke of Buckingham

07-13-13, 07:53 PM

Duke !!!

Great one man !

You are a big friend and on this moment of my life that I am very unsure of myself and the really meaning of my English words you have been the assure I need, Thanks DBJ for your words, they were very important to me.

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Duke of Buckingham

07-14-13, 06:25 PM

We always think that being poor is having no money.

The real poverty, can be or not, inside of every man.

And so is the fortune of being.

Happy to be what we are in our soul.

From whom we cant lie about.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

07-15-13, 07:03 PM

Are you there?

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Duke of Buckingham

07-16-13, 11:37 AM

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao Tzu

Duke of Buckingham

07-17-13, 04:15 PM

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Duke of Buckingham

07-18-13, 06:42 AM

Find your way back home, let all the fears and the past go.

You will find that in here you are not alone.

Duke

Duke of Buckingham

07-18-13, 05:15 PM

”If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

George Washington

Duke of Buckingham

07-19-13, 08:35 AM

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Nelson Mandela

Congratulations for your 95th birthday Nelson Mandela.

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I love and admire you because you have always followed you heart

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Duke of Buckingham

07-20-13, 08:43 AM

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Eliot Spitzer

I would like to understand those that talk about the sacred life when we talk about abortion and then vote for death penalty.

Is it the same life we are talking or life is more sacred if we haven't born yet?

Both are sacred to me and every man or woman to decide about others life should seat on the accused chair on a life and death trial before.

Maybe they could understand better their responsibility with their own life on the line.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

07-22-13, 11:00 AM

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

Duke of Buckingham

07-23-13, 12:14 PM

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

― Mae West

Duke of Buckingham

07-24-13, 05:20 PM

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

To be educated is to understand, what you know and what you don't know.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

07-25-13, 08:16 AM

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

― Albert Einstein

Duke of Buckingham

07-26-13, 10:36 AM

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. ”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke's the Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.”

― Albert Einstein

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

― Ansel Adams

Duke of Buckingham

07-27-13, 10:03 AM

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

― Allen Saunders

Duke of Buckingham

07-29-13, 08:16 AM

A government of laws, and not of men.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams

Duke of Buckingham

07-30-13, 09:53 AM

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Aristotle

Duke of Buckingham

07-31-13, 03:18 PM

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

Duke of Buckingham

08-02-13, 11:49 AM

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Duke of Buckingham

08-03-13, 03:13 PM

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

Duke of Buckingham

08-04-13, 03:42 PM

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Duke of Buckingham

08-05-13, 08:12 AM

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

Duke of Buckingham

08-06-13, 08:20 AM

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

Duke of Buckingham

08-07-13, 10:00 AM

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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Slicker

08-07-13, 10:48 AM

Those who can, do. Those who can't, become consultants. -- Me

Duke of Buckingham

08-07-13, 02:28 PM

Those who can, do. Those who can't, become consultants. -- Me

I listen to a brief history of a girl that insisted it as been rapped by a consultant ...:confused:

And when people asked her, why she was so sure he was a consultant, she replied ... I had to do everything.

Sorry bad joke.

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Duke of Buckingham

08-08-13, 07:51 AM

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Duke of Buckingham

08-09-13, 02:25 PM

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Duke of Buckingham

08-11-13, 07:56 AM

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

Duke of Buckingham

08-12-13, 06:02 AM

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

― Bernard M. Baruch

Duke of Buckingham

08-13-13, 07:16 AM

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

zombie67

08-13-13, 10:42 PM

"The secret to a steady-cam is a chicken....grasshopper."

They have a super power! Who knew?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPlkFPowCc

Duke of Buckingham

08-14-13, 05:42 PM

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Duke of Buckingham

08-15-13, 07:04 AM

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Duke of Buckingham

08-20-13, 07:32 PM

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

Hippocrates

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Epictetus

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

Herophilus

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

Wendell Berry

Duke of Buckingham

08-21-13, 09:38 AM

In every real man a child that wants to play is hidden.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Justgeo1

08-21-13, 09:44 PM

In every real man a child that wants to play is hidden.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My child is not hidden! I play all the time! :cool:

Duke of Buckingham

08-21-13, 11:03 PM

My child is not hidden! I play all the time! :cool:

I am not very sure about the translation of that sentence from Nietzsche. I translated from Portuguese maybe the sentence should be:

In every real man a child hidden that wants to play or In every real man a hidden child that wants to play.

I looked for the sentence in English but didn't find it.

And about playing, we are fortunate children that can play George, there are a lot of children being abused, working or serving Lords of war or other very bad things, denied from the childhood they are entitled, my main frustration is I can not do much about it.

Is a bad world for some and we are the lucky ones, something we all must be very aware of.

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Justgeo1

08-22-13, 05:15 PM

I am not very sure about the translation of that sentence from Nietzsche. I translated from Portuguese maybe the sentence should be:

In every real man a child hidden that wants to play or In every real man a hidden child that wants to play.

I looked for the sentence in English but didn't find it.

And about playing, we are fortunate children that can play George, there are a lot of children being abused, working or serving Lords of war or other very bad things, denied from the childhood they are entitled, my main frustration is I can not do much about it.

Is a bad world for some and we are the lucky ones, something we all must be very aware of.

That is too true, my friend! We are the lucky ones and always have been... It's the third world kids that bear the burdens and take the abuse...

Duke of Buckingham

08-22-13, 07:32 PM

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Duke of Buckingham

08-23-13, 06:40 AM

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said the alleged chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital "needs to be investigated without delay".

The coward attacks against unarmed civilians must be treated as assassinations and judge as so.

It is unthinkable that there are countries on Syria government side.

I will not post the pictures because they are extremely disturbing.

It is a good thought for today, the awake for how evil some persons are to others.

Very young children dead among other people, what they did that was so wrong to deserve this fate.

The International Community cant wait for more of this, is time to show some force to those that can only understand force.

Let us pray for all human victims of a world so cruel.

Duke of Buckingham

08-24-13, 06:21 PM

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The Aug. 28, 1963 March on Washington and MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyR8h9iimw4

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, August 28, 1963

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the colored America is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

One hundred years later, the colored American lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the colored American is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our Nation's Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our great republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed to the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given its colored people a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.

We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is not time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.

Now it the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Now it the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of its colored citizens. This sweltering summer of the colored people's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hope that the colored Americans needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.

There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the colored citizen is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.

We cannot be satisfied as long as the colored person's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.

We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for white only."

We cannot be satisfied as long as a colored person in Mississippi cannot vote and a colored person in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

No, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of your trials and tribulations. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our modern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you, my friends, we have the difficulties of today and tomorrow.

I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day out in the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interpostion and nullification; that one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be engulfed, every hill shall be exalted and every mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to climb up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father's died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!"

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi and every mountainside.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

Duke of Buckingham

08-25-13, 08:48 AM

Good thoughts are one habit.
Did had one today?

Very Crazy Duke

Duke of Buckingham

08-26-13, 05:20 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSDjwBcD9Ng&list=TL6_iEEikJ7x4

Duke of Buckingham

08-27-13, 09:42 AM

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Duke of Buckingham

09-17-13, 02:25 PM

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

--Marcus Aurelius

Duke of Buckingham

09-18-13, 06:58 AM

I went to sleep last night with a smile
because i knew i’d be dreaming of you…
but i woke up this morning with a smile
because you weren’t a dream

Someone

Duke of Buckingham

09-19-13, 07:10 AM

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

Duke of Buckingham

09-20-13, 11:26 AM

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Duke of Buckingham

09-21-13, 06:23 PM

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

GAO XINGJIAN, The Other Shore

Duke of Buckingham

09-22-13, 02:35 PM

“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”

― Bohdi Sanders, The Secrets of Worldly Wisdom: Your Key to Unlocking Success

Duke of Buckingham

09-23-13, 01:31 PM

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

― Oscar Wilde

Duke of Buckingham

09-24-13, 06:51 AM

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill

Duke of Buckingham

09-24-13, 06:36 PM

...is dreaming that I live everything...

Someone

Duke of Buckingham

09-25-13, 02:11 PM

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

~Leon Eldred

Duke of Buckingham

09-26-13, 08:41 AM

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

Marion Cotillard

Duke of Buckingham

10-17-13, 09:11 PM

I just miss you ...

I have nothing more to say.

Ric

Duke of Buckingham

10-18-13, 10:33 AM

for you to fit like that in my hug

Someone

Duke of Buckingham

10-20-13, 03:18 PM

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Aristotle

Duke of Buckingham

10-21-13, 06:38 PM

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

Duke of Buckingham

10-22-13, 07:15 AM

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

DrBackJack

10-22-13, 08:34 AM

haha !

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

Duke of Buckingham

10-22-13, 06:47 PM

haha !

My wife making her daily exercise with me.

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Duke of Buckingham

10-23-13, 10:39 AM

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

Duke of Buckingham

10-24-13, 11:54 AM

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

Evgeny Morozov

Duke of Buckingham

10-26-13, 07:43 PM

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

Sir Francis Bacon: "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

Duke of Buckingham

10-27-13, 08:46 AM

Each of them, because of his success at his craft, thought himself very wise in other most important pursuits, and this error of theirs overshadowed the wisdom they had.

— Socrates, “Apology,” Plato

Duke of Buckingham

10-28-13, 10:54 AM

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

Duke of Buckingham

10-29-13, 09:01 AM

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”

― Steven Wright

Duke of Buckingham

10-30-13, 07:35 AM

“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”

― Archimedes

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10-31-13, 08:13 AM

“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”

Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)

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11-02-13, 04:05 AM

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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11-03-13, 01:19 AM

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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11-04-13, 04:31 PM

“I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.”

― J. Kenner, Claim Me

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11-05-13, 02:04 PM

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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11-06-13, 07:03 PM

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11-07-13, 08:36 PM

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore de Balzac

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11-08-13, 11:29 PM

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Mao Zedong

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11-10-13, 08:32 AM

Friends are like diamonds and diamonds are forever.

Ricardo Ferreira aka Duke of Buckingham

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11-11-13, 05:49 PM

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11-13-13, 12:10 PM

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”

― Noam Chomsky

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11-14-13, 11:30 AM

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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11-15-13, 08:13 AM

“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.”

— Muhammad (570 – 632 CE)

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11-16-13, 03:18 AM

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

― Edith Sitwell

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11-17-13, 08:13 AM

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . .

Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Complete Jefferson

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Patrick Henry

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11-18-13, 07:49 AM

Good morning is not just a word, its an action and a belief to live the entire day well. Morning is the time when you set the tone for the rest of the day. Set it right!

~ Fain Blake

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11-19-13, 09:43 AM

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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11-20-13, 07:14 AM

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”

― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

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11-21-13, 10:17 AM

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation."

- supreme judge statement on considering first amendment rights for Internet users.

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11-21-13, 05:46 PM

“Friendship matters first.”

― Kristine Cuevas, Never Love your Best Friend

Duke of Buckingham

11-22-13, 02:46 PM

When you're not a winner you need more faith in yourself and have more discipline to be a winner once again.

Life is made by moments, the highest and the lowest, true winners never give up, die standing, looking challenges in the eyes and defeats as dearest lessons.

To be a winner is not easy, the price of victory is sometimes high but so are the rewards, the best of all are the ones we keep on our souls next to golden silences.

A team will, is the will of all his members and to keep that will, we need to be together and together we will accomplish something amazing.

Duke of Buckingham aka Ricardo

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11-23-13, 10:19 AM

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11-24-13, 03:42 AM

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

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11-26-13, 08:08 AM

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11-28-13, 11:37 AM

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11-29-13, 03:27 AM

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

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11-29-13, 07:28 PM

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

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11-30-13, 08:33 PM

If we keep our principles and respect each and everyone, we will have nothing to fear, not even our mistakes, we did them in our human conviction that we were right.

Being wrong is not something inhuman, it is so human that for forgiving ourselves we need to first start forgiving all other persons.

I will try better tomorrow knowing I will mistake me once in a while again but at least I have tried.

Someone like me.

Duke of Buckingham

12-01-13, 07:19 PM

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

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12-02-13, 07:09 PM

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao Tzu

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

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12-03-13, 08:57 AM

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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12-04-13, 11:01 AM

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

David Attenborough

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

Nancy Pelosi

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Frank Luntz

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

Andrew Cuomo

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12-05-13, 01:39 AM

Silence is a source of great strength.

Lao Tzu

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12-05-13, 09:39 PM

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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12-07-13, 01:14 PM

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

William Shakespeare

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12-08-13, 11:32 AM

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

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12-09-13, 06:33 AM

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

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12-09-13, 07:00 PM

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”

― Oprah Winfrey

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12-11-13, 02:54 AM

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

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12-12-13, 05:14 PM

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.

Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston

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12-13-13, 05:42 AM

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

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12-14-13, 09:59 AM

To my friends and family, near and far, I love you all and hope you have a Merry Christmas..

Someone like me

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12-15-13, 05:40 AM

"The high-minded man
must care more for the truth
than for what people think."

Aristotle

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12-16-13, 06:55 AM

It was during their reign that Saturn suddenly disappeared, and Janus then devised means to add to his honors. First he gave the name Saturnia to all the land which acknowledged his rule; and then he built an altar, instituting rites as to a god and calling these rites the Saturnalia—a fact which goes to show how very much older the festival is than the city of Rome. And it was because Saturn had improved the conditions of life that, by order of Janus, religious honors were paid to him, as his effigy indicates, which received the additional attribute of a sickle, the symbol of harvest.

Saturn is credited with the invention of the art of grafting, with the cultivation of fruit trees, and with instructing men in everything that belongs to the fertilizing of the fields. Furthermore, at Cyrene his worshipers, when they offer sacrifice to him, crown themselves with fresh figs and present each other with cakes, for they hold that he discovered honey and fruits. Moreover, at Rome men call him “Sterculius,” as having been the first to fertilize the fields with dung (stercus). His reign is said to have been a time of great happiness, both on account of the universal plenty that then prevailed and because as yet there was no division into bond and free—as one may gather from the complete license enjoyed by slaves at the Saturnalia.

Macrobius

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12-17-13, 04:38 AM

- Mas ele me bateu tanto, tanto, Portuga. Não faz mal...
Funguei compridamente.
– Não faz mal, eu vou matar ele.
- Que é isso menino, matares teu pai?
- Vou sim. Eu já até que comecei. Matar não quer dizer a gente pegar revolver de Buck Jones e fazer bum! Não é isso. A gente mata no coração. Vai deixando de querer bem. E um dia a pessoa morreu.

Meu Pé de Laranja Lima - José Mauro de Vasconcelos

- But he beat me so, so, Portuga. But no problem ...
I long sniffled.
- Never mind, I'll kill him.
- What is that boy, kill your father?
- Yes, I will. I've even started it. Killing does not mean we get revolver from Buck Jones and do bum! Not that. We kill in the heart. We stop wishing well. And one day the person died.

My Sweet Orange Tree - José Mauro de Vasconcelos

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12-18-13, 06:38 AM

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

Abraham Lincoln

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12-19-13, 09:13 AM

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12-20-13, 07:17 AM

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

Lord Byron

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12-21-13, 04:12 AM

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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12-22-13, 02:46 AM

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

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12-23-13, 05:44 AM

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

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12-24-13, 01:58 AM

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Duke of Buckingham

12-25-13, 07:43 AM

Let us get back our childlike faith again.

That is the Christmas inside, is not about presents, is not about anyone outside.

Christmas is about you, to see the world with the eyes of a child and what a world it is (or not) but it is the only world we have.

Ricardo Ferreira

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12-26-13, 07:05 AM

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.

Pope Benedict XVI

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12-27-13, 05:49 AM

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe E. Lewis

New years excuse

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12-28-13, 07:18 AM

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

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12-29-13, 02:28 AM

William Wordsworth. 1770–1850

536. Ode
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparell'd in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream. 5
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

The rainbow comes and goes, 10
And lovely is the rose;
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare;
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair; 15
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where'er I go,
That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth.

Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song,
And while the young lambs bound 20
As to the tabor's sound,
To me alone there came a thought of grief:
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
And I again am strong:
The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep; 25
No more shall grief of mine the season wrong;
I hear the echoes through the mountains throng,
The winds come to me from the fields of sleep,
And all the earth is gay;
Land and sea 30
Give themselves up to jollity,
And with the heart of May
Doth every beast keep holiday;—
Thou Child of Joy,
Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy 35
Shepherd-boy!

Ye blessèd creatures, I have heard the call
Ye to each other make; I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;
My heart is at your festival, 40
My head hath its coronal,
The fulness of your bliss, I feel—I feel it all.
O evil day! if I were sullen
While Earth herself is adorning,
This sweet May-morning, 45
And the children are culling
On every side,
In a thousand valleys far and wide,
Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm,
And the babe leaps up on his mother's arm:— 50
I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!
—But there's a tree, of many, one,
A single field which I have look'd upon,
Both of them speak of something that is gone:
The pansy at my feet 55
Doth the same tale repeat:
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 60
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come 65
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, 70
He sees it in his joy;
The Youth, who daily farther from the east
Must travel, still is Nature's priest,
And by the vision splendid
Is on his way attended; 75
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
And, even with something of a mother's mind, 80
And no unworthy aim,
The homely nurse doth all she can
To make her foster-child, her Inmate Man,
Forget the glories he hath known,
And that imperial palace whence he came. 85

Behold the Child among his new-born blisses,
A six years' darling of a pigmy size!
See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,
Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,
With light upon him from his father's eyes! 90
See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,
Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learnèd art;
A wedding or a festival,
A mourning or a funeral; 95
And this hath now his heart,
And unto this he frames his song:
Then will he fit his tongue
To dialogues of business, love, or strife;
But it will not be long 100
Ere this be thrown aside,
And with new joy and pride
The little actor cons another part;
Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage'
With all the Persons, down to palsied Age, 105
That Life brings with her in her equipage;
As if his whole vocation
Were endless imitation.

Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie
Thy soul's immensity; 110
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep
Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind,
That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,
Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,—
Mighty prophet! Seer blest! 115
On whom those truths do rest,
Which we are toiling all our lives to find,
In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;
Thou, over whom thy Immortality
Broods like the Day, a master o'er a slave, 120
A presence which is not to be put by;
To whom the grave
Is but a lonely bed without the sense or sight
Of day or the warm light,
A place of thought where we in waiting lie; 125
Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might
Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,
Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke,
Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? 130
Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,
And custom lie upon thee with a weight,
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!

O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live, 135
That nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction: not indeed
For that which is most worthy to be blest— 140
Delight and liberty, the simple creed
Of childhood, whether busy or at rest,
With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:—
Not for these I raise
The song of thanks and praise; 145
But for those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realized, 150
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may, 155
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,
Are yet a master-light of all our seeing;
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, 160
To perish never:
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,
Nor Man nor Boy,
Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy! 165
Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,
Can in a moment travel thither, 170
And see the children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
And let the young lambs bound
As to the tabor's sound! 175
We in thought will join your throng,
Ye that pipe and ye that play,
Ye that through your hearts to-day
Feel the gladness of the May!
What though the radiance which was once so bright 180
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind; 185
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death, 190
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

And O ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquish'd one delight 195
To live beneath your more habitual sway.
I love the brooks which down their channels fret,
Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they;
The innocent brightness of a new-born Day
Is lovely yet; 200
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live, 205
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.