I like the idea that Mr. Curtis has... just let the brain play and let the body just exist... My brain works well, it's my body that's not working so great!Quote:
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I like the idea that Mr. Curtis has... just let the brain play and let the body just exist... My brain works well, it's my body that's not working so great!Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke of Buckingham
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Originally Posted by Justgeo1
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
Horace quotes (Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC)
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
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
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart
"We have sinned against the dignity of people, especially in Greece and Portugal and often in Ireland," acknowledged Jean-Claude Juncker this Wednesday, February 18th.
The bride and groom were in the altar, ready to say "yes", but an epileptic attack changed everything. The groom fainted and the bride angry for not knowing the future husband disease, married a guest.
My Own Life
Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
By OLIVER SACKSFEB. 19, 2015
A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out — a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years ago it was discovered that I had a rare tumor of the eye, an ocular melanoma. Although the radiation and lasering to remove the tumor ultimately left me blind in that eye, only in very rare cases do such tumors metastasize. I am among the unlucky 2 percent.
I feel grateful that I have been granted nine years of good health and productivity since the original diagnosis, but now I am face to face with dying. The cancer occupies a third of my liver, and though its advance may be slowed, this particular sort of cancer cannot be halted.
It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can. In this I am encouraged by the words of one of my favorite philosophers, David Hume, who, upon learning that he was mortally ill at age 65, wrote a short autobiography in a single day in April of 1776. He titled it “My Own Life.”
“I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution,” he wrote. “I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and what is more strange, have, notwithstanding the great decline of my person ...
... On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight. ...
... This is not indifference but detachment — I still care deeply about the Middle East, about global warming, about growing inequality, but these are no longer my business; they belong to the future. I rejoice when I meet gifted young people — even the one who biopsied and diagnosed my metastases. I feel the future is in good hands. ...
... Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
Read more on http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/op...al-cancer.html
"Sam Houston: You will remember this battle! Each minute! Each second! Until the day that you die! But that is for tomorrow, gentlemen. For today, Remember The Alamo!"
The Alamo
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
― C.S. Lewis
“That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
― Sophia Loren
“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”
― Eve Ensler, I am an Emotional Creature
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
Charles R. Swindoll quotes (American Writer and Clergyman, b.1934)
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
Morgan Freeman
My Thought for the Day, is to all that like to gamble with life.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Paul Newman
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
Simon Baker
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
Edward Norton
I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.
Gary Paulsen
“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.
Portuguese quote
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
We will honor every challenge with our presence.
We will win or not but most important of all, we will be there.
Being first have some duties, I think.
Damn Crazy Duke :p
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”
Adolf Hitler
"Kiss Me" - "There She Goes" Version (Official)
sixpenceofficial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45F0YesdZM
Hold me like I am the last person you want in your arms. kiss me like it is going to be the last kiss you're ever going to taste. Hug me Like you want me forever. But most of all... Love me like I am the one you always dreamed of.
Protect me. Love me. kiss me. Hold me. Smile with me. Laugh with me. But don't make me fall if you don't plan on catching me.
Someone Like Me
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM
Procol Harum performing A Whiter Shade of Pale with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and choir at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark in August 2006.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRD49AFxJVI
Genesis - Follow You Follow Me [Official Music Video]
Stay with me
My love, I hope you'll always be
Right here by my side if ever I need you
Oh, my love
In your arms
I feel so safe and so secure
And everyday is such a perfect day to spend
Alone with you
I will follow you, will you follow me?
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me?
Just one single tear in each passing year
With the dark
Oh, I see so very clearly now
All my fears are drifting by me
So slowly now, fading away
I can say
The night is long but you are here
Close at hand, oh, I'm better for the smile you give
And while I live
I will follow you, will you follow me?
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me?
Just one single tear in each passing year there will be
I will follow you, will you follow me?
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me?
Just one single tear in each passing year
I will follow you, will you follow me?
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me?
Just one single tear in each passing year
I will follow you, will you follow me?
All the days and nights that we know will be
I will stay with you, will you stay with me?
Songwriters
RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL/COLLINS, PHIL/BANKS, TONY
A German woman of 65 years is pregnant with quadruplets. Annegret Raunigk, which already has 13 children and seven grandchildren, could become the oldest woman in the world to give birth to quadruplets. "I'm not afraid, I remain in good health and fit," said Raunigk.
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young
“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato
“Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov
“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes
All education should have a moral component, educate any person without looking to his moral and you may have someone very dangerous to society and to yourself.
― Someone Like Me
"“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces."
Matthew 7:6 NIV
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but I need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
Someone Like Me
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia Woolf
Bulls need some fun also ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3bwVSbx9Bc
“Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!”
― Erick S. Gray
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― Erick S. Gray
“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”
― Edward de Bono, The Use of Lateral Thinking
And even that life give us reasons for bitterness and many others to become castles of ups and insurmountable walls, sometimes life makes us push the button and there are three identical symbols with the sound of coins falling, as in the films. The jackpot of this life are the people with whom we crossed and we recognize as our own.
It is this ability to meet ourselves, we lower the defenses and ask for lap. The greatest wealth of this life [in addition to the privilege of having health] is making friends. As a Portuguese song goes: If you care for me, I will care for you too.
Someone Like Me
“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
Bernard Edmonds
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Arthur Erickson
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
Emile Durkheim
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
Arthur Herzog
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill