"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." — Christopher Hitchens


I don't know where the other thread wandered off to, might as well start another!

Oops, this is better...

...."Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

I used to do a lot of aerobics and what not in the late 80's and early 90's with Charlene Prickett's "It Figures" program.

One day she said "There's nothing more delicious than a loose pair of jeans". For some reason it has stuck with me. Deep, I know.

"There is no good or bad fortune. There are only challenges and the greater the challenge the more grateful the warrior to be so honored."

Don Juan - Carlos Casteneda books.

That which does not evolve becomes extinct

I am constantly reminded of its veracity.

"One can't believe impossible things," said Alice.
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.
Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before
breakfast!"....Lewis Carroll

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"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" - Michael Savage

Unhappiness is just not accepting what is.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
~ Picasso



...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

today is the tommorow you dreamed of yesterday

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

Heh.. cool quotes
WY your one made me smile. Here is another...

One who says it can't be done, should not interrupt the person doing it !

"to be a realist, one must believe in mysteries"

from Andre tarkovsky's SOLARIS


okay ... so on that note
i daresay that i am a true pragmatist

"...the psychology of this country... It's the radio, you see. The radio makes everyone feel the same thing at the same time. Instead of millions of various thoughts, one big psychological fixation. The radio commands our gut response."

The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver.

Please substitute the word 'television' for 'radio' and you will understand why I think TV is the ultimate evil.

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein

"The Love of God in us is ever ready to believe the Best of every person"......the Holy Bible

"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."......Aristotle

" I never let my schooling interfere with my education"

Marcus Twainus AKA mark twain man

Hope is not what we find in evidence.
It is what we become in action.
_Motto OF THE SMALL PLANET INSTITUTE.

(E)ach person has the biological power to interrupt
detrimental, derogatory beliefs and generate new ideas.
These new ideas, in turn, can alter the neural circuitry that
governs how we behahave and what we believe.
Andrew Newburg, M.D. Author
WHY WE BELIEVE WHAT WE BELIEVE

People think "power"...oh, that's bad.
But powerlessness, that,s really bad!
Margaret Moore Citizen Organizer,
Fort Worth, Tex

Hope remains only in the most dfficult task of all:
to reconsider everything from the ground up,
so to shape a living society inside a dying society.
Albert Camus 1946

(Our) intimate brain-to-brain link-up... lets us affect the
brain- and so the body-of everyone we interact with, just
as they do us. -Daniel Goleman,
Social Intelligence:The New Science Of Human Relationships

Here are some from Dr.Seuss:

A person's a person, no matter how small.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.

Today you are you, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is youer than you.

From there to here, and here to there,
funny things are everywhere.


My favorite raw vegan

Ha-ha! As I always suspected, you can boil down the essence of life to Dr. Suess!

When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money. ~ Cree Prophecy

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849


Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence. ~Juvenal

Tamukha Wrote:
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> That which does not evolve becomes extinct
>
> I am constantly reminded of its veracity.


Sorry Tamu - I like this one -

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist and critic


My favorite raw vegan

Trive Wrote:
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> We may find in the long run that tinned food is a
> deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
>
> George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist and
> critic

That's a good one Trive, I like it. Very true...

What made Orwell say that I wonder? Hmm...


Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
~ Ingrid Bengis

coco Wrote:
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> What made Orwell say that I wonder? Hmm...
He was referring to a war where Field Rations came in
tin cans. The solder used was notorious for Food Poisoning.....WY

Wow. Not nice.


This is pborst's new signature, it's lovely:

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I particularly like this line, it's meaningful to me at the moment:
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends.

"But if I be not as I should, ‘tis I alone must bear it." (John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress)