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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
Buddha
“True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.”
Someone like me
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
Serene Japanese Garden Pictures
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Fresh Snow and Reflections II by Greg Matchick
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Japanese Garden Bridge by Aram Williams
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Japanese garden by Ken Reardon
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Reflection of the fall colors by Mark Maxwell
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Japanese Garden Seattle, Washington by Carole Ellis
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Autumn Zen by Nathan Trivette
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Restful Places by Mike McKennon
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Spring Garden by Lisa
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A Quiet Joy by Robert Crum
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Japanese garden by Ken Reardon
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Hanami by nosha
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Serenity in Saratoga by Dawn Ellner
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Untitled by Sasquatch I
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Artist Under Bridge by Randy Robertson
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Magic Garden by Randy Robertson
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Winter Tones by aussiegall
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Untitled by Minette Layne
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Icon update by Jack Holloway
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George Eastman House Japanese Maples by Lisa Cook
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Shirotori garden by Bong Grit
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Reflections on The Japanese Garden by Rachel Sarai
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Ogród Japoński we Wrocławiu by Klearchos Kapoutsis
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“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”
Nora Ephron
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Albert Einstein
What Should You Photograph In The Yukon Territory?
Anthony DeLorenzo point of view...
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
Nothing that I say makes sense anymore.
Sorry for that.
I think you always make sense, but maybe because I'm a bit crazy? :)
"The value of things is not in the time that they lasts, but the intensity in which they occur. Because of that, there are unforgettable moments, inexplicable things and incomparable people. "
STOLEN DREAMS
I am a storyteller, I do it by images and words but mainly by the imagination of the listener, I built all the details by instict, I was always that way and cant remember beeing any other way.
You see, I love to imagine the eyes of the listener wide open while drinks the story. That is what storytellers do, bridges made human dreams to give on every story a lesson, that is our gain, we give the story and in it a bit of ourselves but we always want to plant a dream on others minds.
Storytellers are always a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
All stories (most of them stolen here and there) have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. I need to take to each mood his heaven, hell, purgatory and faeryland. I need to make the beast cry and touch the heart of the rock, I need to to awake what is sleeping and put to sleep what is awaken.
The person of everyday and in the end ... we are all chidren listening in wonder, forgotten of the person we were just a while ago and we are amazed again ... for a small while of ethernity we are the story.
That is what storytellers do ...
Ricardo Ferreira
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We put more than 400.000.000.000.000Kg of Carbon Dioxide since then.
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty and our loss would be greater. Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the main roots of happiness.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength, is it the empty vessel that makes the biggest noise?
And so life goes on, full and empty, or as William Shakespeare use to say: "Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion, even when dressed of science or bigger opinions of the most respectable men, they are also atoms and empty space and nothing else more.
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
Merlin Olsen
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?”
From the Song Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
Edward Snowden
Big Empires collapsed by the whispers and so will Internet surveillance. We cant fight big Empires on a clash war or with technology. It is by the power of the whispers that things will die. It is a pity that no country are on the way to defend freedom and so give power to dictators and installed corporations. In the darkest shadows of the corridors of power they started this but will be by the light of the whisper from the mouth to the ear that will fall.
It were not the barbarian armies that defeated Rome but the power of the whisper that drain Rome and his citizens faith, their faith on the Empire and on his power.
Great empires need great ideals because they need a constant provision of blood flowing, given by his own citizens for the sake and power of the Empire.
Always it was, always it is and always it will be.
It is the power of the whisper that drains the force and trust on the leaders and finally on the Empire people are not ready to give their blood if they are treated like enemies and spied like enemies.
Someone Like Me
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
Pain and love both seem to be dancing with hand in hand, always find very difficult to understand how to different things, almost the opposite of one another seem to be attached on their own eternal dancing.
Pain is the absence of love but not loving only makes life bitter, people often know they are feeling pain all the time, they are only so too use to it and nothing more.
I may feel pain when love is gone, by death or only because the other side found a different pass but there is a low price to pay for all the wonderful moments, eternal in a moment, true in only one word, real only in ones dream.
I feel really sorry for the ones than never open their heart to love because that is for me the real essence of living, between love and pain, two things that keep me awake for life.
Ricardo Ferreira
Amen, Duke!
Thanks George.
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We are waiting for you
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I'm tired of fighting, I want to be fought for. I'm tired of caring, I want to be cared for. I'm tired of being just me and some that are somehow ... like me,
I would like some apreciation for what we are ... because we apreciate exactly what you are (and never ask for more), I am tired of fighting (almost) alone ... for you and me. Today I am very tired, old and ill .. I am looking for tomorrow ... tomorrow ... tomorrow and you.
Today I feel alone in the crowd as if tomorrow never comes ... as if tomorrow is behind the ethernity of myselfe.
Someone Like Me
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
~Robert G. Ingersoll
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
~Titus Maccius Plautus
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
~Robert Brault
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Hope is the physician of each misery.
~Irish Proverb
To President of the United States Barack Obama:
Congress is about to vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) which makes it easier for private companies to share sensitive personal information with federal agencies.
CISA lacks any privacy or human rights protections — and it specifically fails to protect the private data of internet users outside the United States. The bill runs contrary to the overwhelming public support for more privacy, more accountability, and more data protection.
We urge President Obama to take a stand against this bill, which attacks our basic human rights, and to promise to veto CISA if it crosses his desk.
https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/CISA
We cant stop seeing our feelings as facts, they are so personal and attached to each of us, they are such a big part of us that we can't stop to treat them as facts but facts are facts and feelings are feelings.
Actions defines everyone toward others, feelings is part of the way we see the world and ourselves, most people confuse both.
Knowing your heart without fear is to find a way, the way we choose to go is a fact.
Ricardo Ferreira
Too much love, is it good or bad, can in fact exist too much love?
I can go to quotes and quotes about too much love and don't find one against it. Strange that my experience in life tell me exactly the opposite.
Too much love turn into a living hell with discussion most of the times on jealousy. Almost all of my relations ended because of too much love and not the lack of it.
Not always the other part fault, I have to confess, Immature, insecurity and sometimes just seeing things that were never there. I had discussions about women I never noticed, about feelings I never had and about people that I have never seen, I may had done the same.
The irrationality of too much love burns and hurts and destroy too much and built nothing.
This last years I tell my companions in life that I don't want so much love just need to be well treated and want to treat well also, I want to go to all places without fear of being watched all the time, I want to be myself all the time and want the same to them.
Nothing is easy or comes for free the trust between people is an everyday construction as all human feelings that depend that we feed the love on everyday, like we water a plant to become a flower and so life goes on with the warm of tenderness and some passion in the right place.
Ricardo Ferreira
Apocalipse (The Four Horsemen) Now?
Nice Pictures inspired on Ragnarok, the Bible and Islam.
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(death) by Kevin Dooley
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Everything corrodes. Everything dies. by Eddy Van 3000
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During The Famine Young Child Dying In The Gutter, China (1946) by Geroge Silk [Restored by ralph repo]
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War by Moyan Brenn
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Masks worn during experiments with Plague. Philippines, probably around 1912. by Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine
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Copper Horse by JonoTakesPhotos
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I can see you, lurking behind your desk
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No you can't, I'm hiding! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke of Buckingham
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“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station.
And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection—certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real—this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God
After many searches, meetings, disagreements, I think my most sincere intention is to feel comfortable, as much as I can, being in my own skin. Is feel comfortable even accessing, occasionally memories that I would love inaccessible, sorrows of unhealed patterns that I have not learned to turn off, while striving they can still get me.
Someone Like Me
In Portugal, Ex-Chief of Bank Is Arrested
By RAPHAEL MINDERJULY 24, 2014
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Ricardo Salgado stepped down this month as chief executive of Banco Espirito Santo. Credit Francisco Seco/Associated Press
MADRID — The problems of Portugal’s most powerful family deepened Thursday when Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado, the patriarch and the former head of its bank, was arrested and ordered to post bail of 3 million euros by a judge leading a major money laundering and tax evasion case.
Mr. Salgado, 70, was arrested early Thursday at his home on the outskirts of Lisbon and taken to a closed-door courtroom hearing. The case involves a three-year investigation, code-named “Monte Branco” by prosecutors, centering on the activities of a Swiss asset manager working mostly on behalf of Portuguese clients.
The public prosecutor’s office did not explain why Mr. Salgado was brought back to court Thursday as part of the Monte Branco case.
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The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by Southern states, which were forced to ratify it in order for them to regain representation in Congress. The Fourteenth Amendment, particularly its first section, is one of the most litigated parts of the Constitution, forming the basis for landmark decisions such as Roe v. Wade (1973), regarding abortion, and Bush v. Gore (2000), regarding the 2000 presidential election. The amendment limits the actions of all state and local officials, including those acting on behalf of such an official.
The second, third, and fourth sections of the amendment are seldom, if ever, litigated. The fifth section gives Congress enforcement power. The amendment's first section includes several clauses: the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. The Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship, overruling the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which had held that Americans descended from African slaves could not be citizens of the United States. The Privileges or Immunities Clause has been interpreted in such a way that it does very little.
The Due Process Clause prohibits state and local government officials from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without legislative authorization. This clause has also been used by the federal judiciary to make most of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states, as well as to recognize substantive and procedural requirements that state laws must satisfy.
The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction. This clause was the basis for Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court decision that precipitated the dismantling of racial segregation, and for many other decisions rejecting irrational or unnecessary discrimination against people belonging to various groups.
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