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Jul 12, 2004 18:59:10 GMT -5
Post by Boomer Chick on Jul 12, 2004 18:59:10 GMT -5
"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, humans will discover fire." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Jul 12, 2004 22:28:35 GMT -5
Post by Boomer Chick on Jul 12, 2004 22:28:35 GMT -5
"And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." - Kahlil Gibran [/b]
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Jul 13, 2004 1:34:11 GMT -5
Post by JerseyBluEyz on Jul 13, 2004 1:34:11 GMT -5
Here's one of my favorite quotes!!!
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, It is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.
-- Marianne Williamson
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Aug 3, 2004 18:00:08 GMT -5
Post by Boomer Chick on Aug 3, 2004 18:00:08 GMT -5
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world: Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife, 1864 = I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends: Abraham Lincoln = Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace: Martin Luther (1483-1546) = The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions: Robert Lynd (1879-1949), Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist ===
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Aug 12, 2004 19:14:48 GMT -5
Post by Boomer Chick on Aug 12, 2004 19:14:48 GMT -5
"War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder." : Alexander Berkman = "It seems that 'we have never gone to war for conquest, for exploitation, nor for territory'; we have the word of a president [McKinley] for that. Observe, now, how Providence overrules the intentions of the truly good for their advantage. We went to war with Mexico for peace, humanity and honor, yet emerged from the contest with an extension of territory beyond the dreams of political avarice. We went to war with Spain for relief of an oppressed people [the Cubans], and at the close found ourselves in possession of vast and rich insular dependencies [primarily the Philippines] and with a pretty tight grasp upon the country for relief of whose oppressed people we took up arms. We could hardly have profited more had 'territorial aggrandizement' been the spirit of our purpose and heart of our hope. The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations." : Ambrose Bierce, Warlike America = "COWARDICE, n. A charge often levelled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These 'cowards' are to be contrasted with red-blooded, 'patriotic' youths who literally bend over, grab their ankles, submit to the government, fight in wars they do not understand (or disapprove of), and blindly obey orders to maim and to kill simply because they are ordered to do so—all to the howling approval of the all-American mob. This type of behavior is commonly termed 'courageous.'" : Chaz Bufe NOTE: One could agree or disagree with these quotes, parts of them, and premises, but that's your choice and freedom at this time. Preserve that choice and freedom. -- Laurel War? What war? : The level of violence in Iraq has been escalating since the handover of sovereignty in June, but Americans are being exposed to less reporting and analysis about it www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6730.htm
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