Thought for the Day

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the Day Sep 8, 2011:

"You are never given a dream without also being given the
power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."

Keep on crunching and Have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 9, 2011:

We can adjust to changing times and still stay true to unchanging principles.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Duke of Buckingham]

Friends are like diamonds and diamonts are forever.

[Mike029]

I upbeat & positive thread.
+1

[Crazybob]

+1

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep10,2011:

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.


​Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Duke of Buckingham]

Whoever abandons the struggle can never enjoy the taste of a victory.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 11, 2011:

Revenge is a confession of pain.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day....

[trigggl]

Thought for the day Sep 11, 2011:

Revenge is a confession of pain.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day....





A confession of pain.

OBL won't be celebrating the 10 year anniversary.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 12, 2011:

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 13, 2011:

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.


Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[zombie67]

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" -- Joseph Stalin

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 14, 2011:

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.


Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 16, 2011:

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 17, 2011:

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 18, 2011"

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 19, 2011:

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 21 Sep, 2011:

Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 22 Sep, 2011:

He who throws dirt looses ground...

Keep on crunching and have a nice day.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 25 Sep,2011:

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Sep 26, 2011:

Big shots are only little shots who just keep shooting.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 27 Sep,2011:

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams .

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...:)

[zombie67]

Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog! -- The Tick

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f4TGlbuAH9A/TS07ArDfJdI/AAAAAAAAAEE/2O1DfP5viEg/s1600/Albert+Einstein.jpg

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 27 Sep,2011:

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 28 Sep.2011:

Empty pockets never held anybody back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 1 Oct, 2011:

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 2,2011:

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct4,2011:

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell


Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 6, 2011:

There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship

kEEP ON CRUNCHING AND HAVE A NICE DAY...
cp

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct7, 2011:

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.


Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct8, 2011:

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 10, 2011:

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP

[Mike029]

If I may,

‘By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection which is noblest;
second, by imitation, which is the easiest;
and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.’

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 11, 2011:

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I knew I would be reckon sooner or later. Thanks CP

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[Duke of Buckingham]

"Filho é um ser que nos foi emprestado para um curso intensivo de como amar alguém além de nós mesmos, de como mudar os nossos piores defeitos para darmos os melhores exemplos e de como aprendermos a ter mais coragem. Isto mesmo! Ser Pai ou Mãe é o maior acto de coragem que alguém pode ter, porque é expor-se a todo tipo de dor, principalmente a da incerteza de estar a agir correctamente e a do medo de perder algo tão amado. Perder? Como? Não é nosso, recordam-se? Foi apenas um empréstimo".

"Son is a being that has been borrowed for a crash course in how to love someone other than ourselves, changing our worst faults to give the best examples and learn how to have more courage. That's right! Being a parent is the greatest act of courage that one can have, because it is exposed to all kinds of pain, especially the uncertainty to be acting properly and the fear of losing something so dear. losing how? We do not, remind it? it was just a loan. "
José Saramago

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[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 12, 2011:

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.


Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Now it is done and finnished. It is my song of love to the world. Well I liked to do it and put all of me in this video. Now it is yours also. I am not a public man but have given more than usual of my life in this video. Isnt life strange is a different kind of video in a world that see the fun in violence and non sense things. Somehow this is my painting on a new life to come. A beautifull thought for a day a task for a life.

Ric :duel:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-v2wcUh-Ow

[zombie67]

If I may,

‘By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection which is noblest;
second, by imitation, which is the easiest;
and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.’

I know this by a simpler expression.

"Stupid should hurt."

which leads to:

"Sadder but wiser".

[zombie67]

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-Voltaire

How depressing is that?!

On one hand, yes, one should strive constantly for that goal. On the other hand, phrased like that, impossible to achieve...and impossible to refute.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 13, 2011:

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 14, 2011:

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct15, 2011:

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct16, 2011:

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP.

[Duke of Buckingham]

"For many years there was one thing that intrigued me: the feeling we get when we are between sleeping and waking, to have understood the secret of the world. That everything is simple and clear."

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day Oct 25, 2011;

"Forget past mistakes and forget failures. Forget everythingexcept what you are going to do now and do it."

Keep on crunching and have a nice day...
CP.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 26 Nov 2011:


"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a

hundred days of sorrow."

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 27 Nov 2011:

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 28 Nov 2011:

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 29 Nov 2011:


One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is

to beat him at politeness.

[Mike029]

Thanks for posting these CP.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 30 Nov 2011:

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 1 Dec 2011:

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 2 Dec 2011:

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 3 Dec 2011:


You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume

of failure

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 4 Dec 2011"

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 5 Dec 2011:

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 6 Dec 2011:

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 7 Dec 2011:

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 2011 Dec 08:

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 9 Dec 2011:

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

[Duke of Buckingham]

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That is why my Computer is always smiling ...

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Did you smile Today?

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Nobodies fault Duke 624

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 10 Dec 2011:

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 12 Dec 2011:

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 13 Dec 2011:

I have to be wrong a certain number of times in order to be right a certain number of times. However, in order to be either, I must first make a decision.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 14 Dec 2011:


All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 15 Dec 2011:

Continuous challenge produces continuous improvement.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 16 Dec 2011:


I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 17 Dec 2011:

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 18 Dec 2011:

A smile is the beginning of peace.

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://www.osovo.com/pics/smiling/smiling-faces01.jpg

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Yes it is ...

Duke

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 19 dec 2011:

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 20 Dec 2011:

Whether you’re winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can’t change because of the circumstances around you.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 22 Dec 2011:

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 28 Jan 2012



Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

[Cruncher Pete]

Thought for the day 31 Jan 2012:


When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you
will find a way to get it.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Be careful with the way you get it. For the first time I can not agree with that thougt.

I love what I have and know there are a lot that dont have the same as me. What I want, I may get or not but still are people living miserable lifes with a lot of money and CP I know of some that wanted to be as happy as I am.

I wouldn`t change my life, my friends, my family for nothing for much I wanted to have it. I wouldnt change myselfe only for winning some race.:)

Money and griffe objects can trigger a very insane and ilogical reaction. I am no different only understand the best things of life are free because we must sacrifice so much for them. The ilusion of money and possession may be one of them or may not.

Always Your Friend
Duke aka Ricardo

[Cruncher Pete]

Be careful with the way you get it. For the first time I can not agree with that thougt.

I love what I have and know there are a lot that dont have the same as me. What I want, I may get or not but still are people living miserable lifes with a lot of money and CP I know of some that wanted to be as happy as I am.

I wouldn`t change my life, my friends, my family for nothing for much I wanted to have it. I wouldnt change myselfe only for winning some race.:)

Money and griffe objects can trigger a very insane and ilogical reaction. I am no different only understand the best things of life are free because we must sacrifice so much for them. The ilusion of money and possession may be one of them or may not.

Always Your Friend
Duke aka Ricardo

I agree with you Duke. I guess it is the idiosyncosies of the English Language. The written word or paragraph can be interpretted in so many different ways. That is why we often misinterpret and cause an argument by what we write, yet the meaning of the writer is often not what the reader interprets it to mean.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I think we could use nice thoughts and quotes to light our days. I will try once more in here, if you all can help me a bit.

Each one will accomplish something amazing and we together will accomplish something even better ...

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[Duke of Buckingham]

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

[Duke of Buckingham]

Loniless is a kind of strange feeling, no matter what we think we should feel, in the end we found ourselves seeing the world in more vivid colors and earing our own thoughts we couldn't ear for so long.

Loniless is the end of a world that we were constructing and the begining of a new one, if we have the courage to keep going with our own life.

For a while we have a brand new blank page, where we can paint (or not) anything. I will paint what is in my soul... I will keep going.


Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”

Sonia Johnson

[Duke of Buckingham]

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

Charles Horton Cooley

[Duke of Buckingham]

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

[Duke of Buckingham]

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!

Kalidasa

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Sun Tzu

[Duke of Buckingham]

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQC2Eyv2dyk

[EmSti]

mmmmm Donuts -- Homer Simpson.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The 50 Best Thoughts of Homer Simpson.

Most famous Homer Simpson Quotes on beer, love, marriage, donuts, alcohol and work.

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

Oh, so they have internet on computers now!

Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.

Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.

I'm going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won't be back for ten minutes!

[Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!

What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.

Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.

I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!

Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.

Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.

Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harrassing that woman.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

Homer no function beer well without.

I've always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is -- and it's me.

Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.

Alcohol is a way of life, alcohol is my way of life, and I aim to keep it.

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around.

Dear Lord.. The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here's the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won't ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal.

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing

I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

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Educational stuff for a change.:D

[EmSti]

I like it. Thought of the day, more like thoughts for the year.

My favorite of all time, when Homer explains how boy's bodies work - "Point and shoot."

[Duke of Buckingham]

:D Nice Emsti. Guilty in charge, when I was younger, much younger. :o


People look at your life and see things as a big deal that aren't a big deal to you. What I mean is, the chapter breaks are different for me. What people think about any stuff it's so inaccurate, usually, but the fact is, I wouldn't want it to be accurate. Because it's my truth. When I was younger, it was more important to me to come off well. Now, I just want to try to be good at what I do. Because what I do become part of what I am. And trying to be better everyday is part of my GOAL, to myselfe and in my consciousness, nothing else. I only ask others what I am ready to give them. I would never ask for something, I am not ready to give and I always do unto others as I want for myselfe. There were times when a word of a man worth a lot and the honor of a banker was the strengh of his bank, good old times.

Very Crazy Duke Thoughts

[Duke of Buckingham]

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”

Louis L'Amour

[Duke of Buckingham]

Winning it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is. Unfortunately winning and keep winning needs different postures. Winning for the first time needs talent, to repeat takes character. I don't know though if I am a winner or I just hate to lose.

Duke

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4TdI26ACL6Y/TkQSFzj1LSI/AAAAAAAAKjM/-lTBO4Pfvsk/s1600/23wjz13-727170.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”

Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

The primal principle of democracy
is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Edward Bellamy

[Slicker]

When you are not the lead dog, the view never changes.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The highest position on a democracy is for definition the CITIZENSHIP. That will define, between equals, the direction that democracy must follow.

The strengh of the people is not in the weapons but in the clarify mind of the majoraty that must be very carefull to not be transformed on a dictactorship of the majority against minorities

The people is everywhere. It is in the army, in the public services and in the religions. The respect for each other is our main strengh. So it was in Greece, that a king died with his soldiers and will be in the future.

The CITIZEN is everywhere, very conscient of his roll and of it's freedom. It is defending other's freedom that we will keep ours.



Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

Friends are angels sent down to earth to make good days and help us find our way.

[Duke of Buckingham]

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby

[Duke of Buckingham]

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

[Duke of Buckingham]

GOD give me wisdom and patience to deal with some people because if you give strength maybe I will smash their faces.

Crazy Duke

[Duke of Buckingham]

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Albert Camus

[Duke of Buckingham]

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

Edgar Allan Poe

[Duke of Buckingham]

Even when dark thoughts come I could discover with the strength of some friends and the light of my GOD the courage not to give up what I think is right though sometimes I think it is hopeless, I will keep on fighting for what I think is the best, excuse me if I disappointed someone, for I am only human.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[zombie67]

"There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head." -- P.J. O'Rourke

[Duke of Buckingham]

"There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head." -- P.J. O'Rourke

I can not comply with that. Even the Politicians fee and the one he gives to his friends and to his goons come from our money.

It is tough the conscience of people that can not defend themselves or even ask for food or money that I am worried about because, you know, they are people with needs and for us to care about them, all of us.

The citizen must be very conscientious of his roll in society because he knows he is the one that pays the bill, all bills...

Any society will be judge for history for this conscientious and the way it treats all beings, more or less rational, humans, animals, plants, water or energetic resources, in fact the way we have lived in this world. Don't tell your left hand what you have given with the right one.

[zombie67]

If the charitable cause is good, just, and not wasteful, then it will not need the point of the government's gun to enforce it it. People will donate of their own free will, because of its merits.

[Duke of Buckingham]

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

T. E. Lawrence

[Duke of Buckingham]

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

[Duke of Buckingham]

There is only one thing you will take of the life you are living, the life you had.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing or lurking the lives others lived for you.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

What a waste is life without the understanding that every new day is different, every new cloud is in constant changing and besides our mistakes we keep on trying because we know that we make mistakes but there are some that are always right, no matter how wrong they are.

How can they change if they are always right?

I will keep on changing because I am not so glad with myself, I have this strange feeling I keep doing mistakes. I am so sorry for all the perfect persons incapable of making mistakes or recognize them.

I will keep doing mistakes and refuse stand lurking on a tinny corner, so full of myself.


Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

Science and technology growing does not imply intellectual growing or intellectual complexity for most people. It often means the opposite.


http://rebekkagudleifs.com/photos/self-portraits/self0106.jpg

Feed your ideas with new concepts that can improve your growing as a human being.

[Duke of Buckingham]

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind and as we all know in one true adventure we only know how it starts but we sure hope to be till the end.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yYp69lWsUY8/T2SGVUpF3jI/AAAAAAAAACU/A4c6w70Qsss/s1600/victorya.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://citizented.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/earth_smaller.gif

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.


Buddha

[Duke of Buckingham]

Even the rough and insensitive stone teach and shaped by the hand of man founds its purpose, belong and place in our world. Why don't we?

Ricardo Ferreira

[zombie67]

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to just know. -- Will Rogers

[Duke of Buckingham]

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to just know. -- Will Rogers

Nice Z. I like that. I have a niece that specialized as a horse veterinarian, she has a very special touch with animals, they seem to trust her from the start, I don't how she does that, it is a kind of magic.



Not all those that wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

[Duke of Buckingham]

I ate some nails and suffered for a while, divided the work with friends and was furious with myself for several times.

In the end what really counts is this feeling of a work well done because anything well done is worth doing.

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the Attack.”

Sun Tzu

[Duke of Buckingham]

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

[Duke of Buckingham]

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

[Mad Matt]

If I may add one today...


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

[zombie67]

FRY: Uh, just so we'll know, who's the enemy?
ZAPP: A valid question. We know nothing about their language, their history or what they look like. But we can assume this: They stand for everything we don't stand for. Also, they told me you guys look like dorks.
-- Futurama

[Duke of Buckingham]

:) Nice Z.

I really think the best teachers we can have are amongst our enemies.
For what they teach we never forget.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.


Abraham Lincoln

[Duke of Buckingham]

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, that's what I'd hoped I'd give to you forever.

I am always looking for the words that never been said and in the end I always find the same old words that are with me for so long because those are the words that fit me. Those are the words I would like to see in my grave for eternity for they were in my heart for a life time.


Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”


Maria Robinson

[Duke of Buckingham]

An honest man is always a child.


Socrates

[zombie67]

"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever!" -- Shane Falco, _The Replacements_

Football is back! Finally!

[Duke of Buckingham]

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.


Jimi Hendrix

[Duke of Buckingham]

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

You should find peace within never without.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful.

Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

[Duke of Buckingham]

When we are on a team, the victory of the team is the victory of all. It is our duty to achieve a kind of commitment, that personal victories belongs to the team and the team belongs to everyone. And if a bunch of people is not a team then it is a mob and in a mob there are no personal victories or mob victories.

The United States, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. But that tradition spread to the world like fire in the wood.

Most of the stories about the American heroes, starts with the hero alone and finishes with a team, well organized by the sense of duty of each to everyone and of everyone to each and in the end is the team that wins.

The difference is in a mob the most eared sentence is: "It wasn't me". There are no duties or bonds between the members of a mob. In fact there are no us in a mob, only the shame of have been there.

[Duke of Buckingham]

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Niccolo Machiavelli



Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

[zombie67]

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? -- Joseph Stalin

No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government. -- Thomas Jefferson

[Duke of Buckingham]

+++1

[Duke of Buckingham]

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Thomas Jefferson

[Duke of Buckingham]

We Need Each Other

I think I caught a glimpse of a life without friends
Bitter, empty, hollow, dark and lonely
We never meant to hurt each other so can’t we trust again
And take it as a chance to keep on growing

Well, I don’t know why it doesn’t come easy
But I know that we could be happy
If we’d only learn to love

Oh, oh, we need each other so what’s the fighting for
Oh, oh, we need each other, please don’t close the door
Oh, oh, we need each other through all the highs and lows
Oh, oh, we need each other 'cause no one’s meant to be alone

Life revolves around the need of having someone
Causing every complicated feeling
Oh and I don’t want to lose you so there is nothing wrong with
Telling me what you need to keep our love strong

Oh, it’s just a part of being a family
Taking the good with the bad and the ugly
If we could only learn to love

Oh, oh, we need each other so what’s the fighting for
Oh, oh, we need each other, please don’t close the door
Oh, oh, we need each other through all the highs and lows
Oh, oh, we need each other and I don't wanna be alone

Oh, oh we need each other, fathers and mothers
Oh, oh we need each other, all your sisters and brothers
Oh, oh we need each other, we need friends and lovers
Oh, oh we need each other

I need you, you need me
'Cause that’s the way it’s meant to be
I need you, we need each other
I don’t want to be alone

I need you, you need me
'Cause that’s the way it’s gotta be
I need you, we need each other
I don’t want to be alone


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfI8zl4m8r8

Dedicated to DrBob.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

[Duke of Buckingham]

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?

Ricardo Ferreira


Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Charles M. Schulz

[Duke of Buckingham]

Don't look back unless there's a good view.

Sweta Sharma

[zombie67]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hvktSmcodeI/Tm-VoKqGh5I/AAAAAAAAEgU/ww0nnVDLmXk/s1600/calvin%2Bgird.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://ak1.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-thing/size/l/tid/18060253.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

Putting your iPod on shuffle, and then skipping all the way to the song you know you want to hear.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

I love animals. I have a lot of human friends.

http://puppytoob.toobnetwork.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/happy-dog.jpg

Very Crazy Duke

[Duke of Buckingham]

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

[Slicker]

Today is my birthday and I bought a new car. So what. My little sister has Leukemia. Her induction phase of chemo went well and a stem cell transplant appears to be the next step. She may even actually get to spend a few days at home this next month (after 5 weeks in the hospital). So, why don't projects that benefit humanity award more credits? Why can't projects which are searching for cures give 100 time the credit as those which are searching for little green men?

[Duke of Buckingham]

Congratulations for your birthday Slicker. I really hope the best for your sister and that you can be with her for very long and happy years.

I don't need no points for crunching cancer projects, in fact, I don't need no points to crunch any project. It is enough to me knowing that I helped saving a person life.

All knowledge is precious but life is even more. Tell us what you want us to do Slicker. The points don't count that much, not for me. Friends are my true points. Tell me what you want me to do.

[Duke of Buckingham]

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Victor Hugo

[Duke of Buckingham]

“I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.”

[zombie67]

Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog! -- The Tick

[Duke of Buckingham]

(The D)Evil Dog ... Newspaper. I used to read it.

http://shulinkou.tripod.com/rldevildogeditor.jpg

Nice and right words Z.

[Duke of Buckingham]

One of the first things I learned about messages on BOINC foruns is that most of the people don't REALLY read them. The use of images, improve the message and make people have a better attention of what is written.

One need to be very interested on computers to real follow the messages, that have so many ways of writing, because we are of so many countries and some message needed a decoder to be understood.

The IMAGE, well the image is there, makes much better understanding and avoid confusion between similar words. For a guy that is slightly dyslexic like me, the use of images and the check spelling is a real wonder. When I make confusion both help me get on tracks and if I just can and start getting very nervous. Just delete all and restart later.

Picture Duke

[Duke of Buckingham]

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

[Duke of Buckingham]

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

[zombie67]

The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down. - H. L. Mencken

[Duke of Buckingham]

Not every reporter, I know a lot of them that would kill their own mothers to have some news for the day. And not every politician, in spite I have nothing nice to say about them but I am sure some must be nice persons.

Geeez being political correct is making me feel very bad. Forget Z, maybe I am very wrong and we should kill them all.

The politicians and some of the reporters, let us try to keep the sound engineers alive for some time. :p

Time to sleep. Today I am very tired and I need to rest a bit, see you all tomorrow.

Another great day, I am sure.

Duke

[zombie67]

Forget Z, maybe I am very wrong and we should kill them all.

Naw. I don't think that is the point of the quote. The role of the 4th Estate is to keep the politicians honest, to be skeptical, to expose the truth. When the press starts looking up to public servants, they have lost perspective, lost objectivity, and failed at their obligation to the people.

[Duke of Buckingham]

About YESTERDAY.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

[Duke of Buckingham]

About every day.

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.

[Duke of Buckingham]

One idea

a sudden flash of thought

that is all it takes.

The best actions may come from bad ideas.

Good ideas with no limit can be a very bad idea.

Most of them are, sooner or later.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

This was for Anne but can be for CP or to all of us.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. Take it. Never give up, keep on fighting.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Sometimes I feel, I am so alone.

I am alone the way I am feeling.

I am alone in my intentions..

I am alone in my desires and efforts to achieve them.

So I must be stronger ...

I will never give up.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

[Duke of Buckingham]

The best we could do, is to learn with computers because when things don't go so well on our relationships, we should reboot the system.

Rebooted Duke

[Duke of Buckingham]

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln

[Duke of Buckingham]

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Duke of Buckingham]

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

[Duke of Buckingham]

I have this fixed idea that we have a gratitude debt with Bok and FreeDC and was thinking what could we do to a friend that gives us so much information and his daily work to Boinc Community.

I think we should give something in return. I will create on my calendar the FreeDC day. A day for crunching to FreeDC team and pay a bit of all the times that I go to FreeDC stats or copy paste the information.

From FreeDC, I can see that our daily credit is improving and very soon I will know that we are in the first place (I wish).

What do you say a day to say thanks to FreeDC, helping the team in any project. I am starting posting there also to give a push. It is a small push but is of good will.

FreeDC is more important for this team than we might think and is very important in our freedom choice. The stronger FreeDC is, the stronger we are. Our fate is connected.

Thanks Bok and FreeDC.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Bok]

Very kind, but Free-DC doesn't really mind the credits, so I'd personally prefer them to stay with SETI.USA :)

[Duke of Buckingham]

Thanks Bok that is very kind of you.

It is kind of egoistic logic from me, we need a stronger FreeDC stats, to have a real choice on challenges and messages. We need to go to FreeDC and do all without using other platforms as we do in the challenges right now.

I would like to know more but the only thing I can do is post some Pictures or Music or even one or another sentence. I wouldn't know where to start but a stronger and more efficient (powerful) FreeDC would be very nice for SETI USA but not only for SETI USA but to all Boinc community.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I will say once more because this one is mine (all mine)
and seems so true.

Friends are like diamonds and diamonds are forever.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm

[Duke of Buckingham]

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

So get mad, forgive and walk, the bridges, ideas and new paths will appear on the right time, when is the right time?
When you are ready to listen to your own voice.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The words that have never been said

I am so wrong most of the time that I always try to remember that I must forgive others for small mistakes and that is what I always try to do.

Don't expect much of me. I only can give what I have and sometimes I have nothing or very few. It is the damn life taking the patience and even the words. Those words that I always wanted to say, "the words that have never been said".

And this is the tittle of my book, the book of life, "that has never been written" because I am not able to find the right word and so sudden has it started the book vanishes again from the imaginary pages in which I was writing it.

In this world is easy to lose dreams and projects. To lose life and keep on living. To lose even death and keep on dying.

Tomorrow I will wake up again and will keep searching for the "words that never been said" and will write them on the imaginary pages of the book "that have never been written" and the right word that never comes ... never comes and one more day went by taking the right word that was so near.

Ricardo Ferreira

Maybe I write a story about the man that lost death. Am I crazy?

[Duke of Buckingham]

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

Chinese Proverb

[Duke of Buckingham]

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

[Duke of Buckingham]

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Duke of Buckingham]

http://i.brainyquote.com/photos/r/ralphwaldoemerson101322.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Duke of Buckingham]

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

“No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.”

Jewish Proverb

[Mumps]

“No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.”

Jewish Proverb

"La-La-La-La-La I can't hear you! La-La-La-La-La" %-(:-@

[Duke of Buckingham]

"La-La-La-La-La I can't hear you! La-La-La-La-La" %-(:-@

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0WpKZb4s2iA/TLVZNDia5eI/AAAAAAAABBU/eUf08ZZH6S4/s1600/2668975758_ff9a8944c7_b.jpg

[Duke of Buckingham]

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

[Duke of Buckingham]

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

[Duke of Buckingham]

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anais Nin

[Duke of Buckingham]

"There is a time when we must abandon the used clothes, which already has the shape of our body, and forget our paths that lead us always to the same places. It's the time of the crossing: and, if we dare not do it, we have been forever in the margin of ourselves. "

Fernando Pessoa

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities.”

― Luís Vaz de Camões, Sonetos de Camões

[Duke of Buckingham]

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

[Duke of Buckingham]

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

[Duke of Buckingham]

Money and happiness are they really connected?

More money, more happiness or more money less happiness.

What do you think? Is money and happiness connected or are they incompatible or happiness is nothing to do with money. I would like to know your opinion about that. Wasn't so good we could make a quote about money and happiness maybe the most quoted basic ideas.

Tell me what you think ...

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.”

Henry Miller

[Duke of Buckingham]

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche


The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes

[c303a]

Retirement Planning


If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock, you would have $49.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of wine one year ago, drunk all the wine, then turned in the bottles for the recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.


Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.



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[Duke of Buckingham]

Retirement Planning


If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock, you would have $49.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of wine one year ago, drunk all the wine, then turned in the bottles for the recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.


Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.



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It is a secret c303a because I can not see almost nothing. The text can not be seen. Except if you highlight it.

[c303a]

It is a secret c303a because I can not see almost nothing. The text can not be seen. Except if you highlight it.

I don't know what it is. I can read it perfectly. Are you wearing sunglasses over there?;);)

[Duke of Buckingham]

:-B No I am with the white screen and with that screen we can not read the text. In fact I use glasses but they are not sun glasses they are reading glasses. :D

:) I say you had changed the background color but the ones that are with the default background can not read your post. :p

I was only trying to say that c303a. :cool:

[c303a]

Sorry, let's try this. I don't know what happened on the original one. If it's not right please feel free to edit.

Retirement Planning



If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock, you would have $49.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of wine one year ago, drunk all the wine, then turned in the bottles for the recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00.


Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.



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[Duke of Buckingham]

No problem c303a. Maybe my ideas get mixed to try to explain them in English.

I was only trying to alert you, nothing else mate.

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[Duke of Buckingham]

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]

'You should reach the limits of virtue, before you cross the border of death. '

'How glorious fall the valiant, sword in hand, in front of battle for their native land!'

'Rise up, warriors, take your stand at one another side, our feet set wide and rooted like oaks in the ground. '

'...learn to love death's ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn. '

'Here is courage, mankind's finest possession, here is the noblest prize that a young man can endeavor to win.'



Some selected lines from the works of the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus, who was also a military man, his poems were sung to inspire his men.

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[Duke of Buckingham]

Zarathustra , also referred to as Zartosht , was an ancient Iranian prophet and religious poet. The hymns attributed to him, the Gathas, are at the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism.

The date of Zoroaster, the date of composition of the Old Avestan gathas, is unknown. Classical writers such as Plutarch proposed dates prior to 6000 BC. Dates proposed in scholarly literature diverge widely, between the 18th and the 6th centuries BC.

In the Gathas, Zoroaster sees the human condition as the mental struggle between aša (truth) and druj (lie). The cardinal concept of aša—which is highly nuanced and only vaguely translatable—is at the foundation of all Zoroastrian doctrine, including that of Ahura Mazda (who is aša), creation (that is aša), existence (that is aša) and as the condition for Free Will.

The purpose of humankind, like that of all other creation, is to sustain aša. For humankind, this occurs through active participation in life and the exercise of constructive thoughts, words and deeds.

Elements of Zoroastrian philosophy entered the West through their influence on Judaism and Middle Platonism and have been identified as one of the key early events in the development of philosophy. Among the classic Greek philosophers, Heraclitus is often referred to as inspired by Zoroaster's thinking.

Zarathustra Quotes

“Doing good to others is not a duty, it is a joy, for it increases our own health and happiness.”

“Let us be such as help the life of the future”

“Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry”

“Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.”

“He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers”

“Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.”

“Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.”

“Taking the first footstep with a good thought the second with a good word and the third with a good deed I entered Paradise”


You should read Zarathustra to know what he spoke and how he influenced the world and all other religions.

Zarathustra the first man (that we know) to have only one God, the very well known Ahura Mazda.

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Ahura Mazda on his Vimana

[Duke of Buckingham]

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

Dalai Lama

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

[Duke of Buckingham]

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

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[Duke of Buckingham]

For my father.

There are some memories in life that remain for a short time while and others stick with you forever. All the times I've spent with you are going to be sweet memories for the rest of my life. Let's raise a toast today and celebrate the beginning of yet another wonderful year in your life and cherish memories that we can have forever. Happy birthday.

Ric

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.


Friedrich Nietzsche

[Duke of Buckingham]

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Duke Ellington

[Duke of Buckingham]

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[Duke of Buckingham]

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde

[Duke of Buckingham]

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert Hoover

[Duke of Buckingham]

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

[Duke of Buckingham]

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Vincent Van Gogh

[Duke of Buckingham]

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

I am not a prophet.

Jose Saramago

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

― Harvey Fierstein

[Duke of Buckingham]

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

[zombie67]

"Democracy is the theory that holds that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken

(...and the way we are spending money we don't have, our children, and their children, and their children...they get it good and hard too. Too bad they have taxation without representation. Sucks to have us spending on their behalf. Oh well. - me)

[Duke of Buckingham]

Politicians. Bah...
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[Duke of Buckingham]

It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.

[Duke of Buckingham]

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

Edwin Booth

[Duke of Buckingham]

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

[Duke of Buckingham]

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Timothy Leary

[Duke of Buckingham]

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys.
Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!"

- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

[Duke of Buckingham]

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

[Duke of Buckingham]

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

[Duke of Buckingham]

Watching, waiting, stalking. Searching, skulking, smiling. Love is not all romance. Love is mystery, love is misery. Love is a big piece of dark chocolate. Bittersweet and forbidden.

Search for beauty find your shore, try to save them all, bleed no more, you have such oceans within and in the end I will love you, always.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Aristotle

[Duke of Buckingham]

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[John P. Myers]

Life is like a twinkie, we all want the fluffy golden outside but it's the cream filling that really matters. -Tom Brady

Goodbye Twinkies ;(

[Duke of Buckingham]

Take these broken wings and learn to fly...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaSMROk-D-A


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVRPIHAt4

[Duke of Buckingham]

No matter how evolved we are and much money we have.

The emotion of coming home should be the same cave men had.

We are, in basic facts, exactly the same as our ancestors.

We may have substitute one thing for the other but we are again playing for stones with the same emotions we had one day.

That gives me hope we can find our way again.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.

Ricardo Ferreira

[Duke of Buckingham]

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