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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. A stranger from the ether ------------------------------------------- Far better it is to dare the mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though heckered by failure, than to take rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt ---------------------------------------------- Bhhagavad Gita 3:7-8 - Beliefnet The one who restrains the senses--by the trained and purified mind and intellect --and engages the organs of action to selfless service is considered superior. Perform your obligatory duty, because working is indeed better than sitting idle. Even the maintenance of your body would not be possible without work. ----------------------------------------------------------- The one who practices loving-kindness sleeps and wakes in comfort and has no bad dreams; he is dear to both humans and creatures; no danger harms him. His mind can be quickly concentrated, his expression is happy and serene. He dies without any confusion of mind. Loving-kindness protects him. -------------------------------------------------------------- Smaller than a grain of rice, smaller than a grain of barley, smaller than a mustard seed, smaller than a grain of millet, smaller even than the kernel of a grain of millet is the Self. This is the Self dwelling in my heart, greater than the earth, greater than the sky, greater than all the worlds. --------------------------------------------------- Mundaka Upanishad - Beliefnet Fire is his head, the sun and moon his eyes, The heavens his ears, the scriptures his voice, The air his breath, the universe his heart, And the earth his footrest. The Lord of Love Is the innermost Self of all. --------------------------------------------- Buddhism Sutta Nipata - Beliefnet Ajita asked: "What is it that smothers the world and makes it so hard to see? What is it that pollutes the world and seems to threaten it?" The Buddha answered: "It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness and greed that make it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear." ---------------------------------------------- "In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme bounderies of man's world, we have come to know some-thing of its true splendor. In my worst moments of anquish, I seem to discover the deep significance of existance of which till then I had been unaware." -Unknown --------------------------------------------- "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." -Colette --------------------------------------------- "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." -Einstein ------------------------------------------- "The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." - Shirley MacLaine ------------------------------------------------------------ Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons. Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know. - Aldo Leopold -------------------------------------- Tirukkural 17:161-163 - Beliefnet The unenvious heart is to be valued. No less than virtuous conduct itself. Among the profuse precious things a man may acquire, None surpasses a nature free from envy toward all. He who is jealous instead of joyous of another's wealth Does not desire, they say, wealth and virtue of his own. --------------------------------------------------- Dhammapada 17 - Beliefnet Abandon anger, Be done with conceit, Get beyond every fetter. When for name & form You have no attachment --have nothing at all-- no sufferings, no stresses, invade. -------------------------------------------- Dhammapada 18 - Beliefnet It's easy to see The errors of others, But hard to see Your own. You winnow like chaff The errors of others, But conceal your own?- Like a cheat, an unlucky throw. -------------------------------------------------------- If you focus on the errors of others, Constantly finding fault, Your effluents flourish. You're far from their ending. ------------------------------------- Risk is a fundamental part of living a full life ------------------------------- Good judgement is the result of experience, while an 'experience` is the result of poor judgement. Mark Twight ----------------------------------------------- The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain. Henry David Thoreau ----------------------------------------------- Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill. ----------------------------------------------------- mmapada, 5, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. - Beliefnet The path to material gain goes one way, the way to Unbinding, another. Realizing this, the monk, a disciple to the Awakened One, should not relish offerings, should cultivate seclusion instead. --------------------------------------------------------- Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu - Beliefnet Regard him as one who points out treasure, the wise one who seeing your faults rebukes you. Stay with this sort of sage. For the one who stays with a sage of this sort, things get better, not worse. -------------------------------------------- Katha Upanishad - Beliefnet These pleasures last but until tomorrow, And they wear out the vital powers of life. How fleeting is all life on earth! Therefore Keep your horses and chariots, dancing And music, for yourself. Never can mortals Be made happy by wealth. --------------------------------------------- Katha Upanishad - Beliefnet These pleasures last but until tomorrow, And they wear out the vital powers of life. How fleeting is all life on earth! Therefore Keep your horses and chariots, dancing And music, for yourself. Never can mortals Be made happy by wealth. ---------------------------------------------------------- Dhammapada, 15, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu - Beliefnet For, living with a fool, one grieves a long time. Painful is communion with fools, as with an enemy-- always. Happy is communion with the enlightened, as with a gathering of kin. ------------------------------------------------------------- At the moment, you might be dealing with some loud or pushy people who try to involve you in situations that are toxic. Try to just listen and to remain detached from the situation. Avoid any kind of confrontation; otherwise you will allow others to pull you into their melodrama. Just watch and wait. If you can simply remain an observer, you'll feel much more peaceful and happy in the end. Learn from what you see and incorporate it into your book of experiences. ---------------------------------------------------------- gavad Gita 12:12 - Beliefnet Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice (of religious ritual). Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results (of one's actions), because there follows immediate peace. ------------------------------------------------------ Beliefnet Don't ever--regardless-- be conjoined with what's dear or undear. It's painful not to see what's dear or to see what's not. So don't make anything dear, for it's dreadful to be far from what's dear. No bonds are found for those for whom there's neither dear nor undear. -------------------------------------------------- Trust, but verify. - Russian proverb --------------------------------------------------- I see a lot of myself in fringe people - I fight and question the issues of life- but for some reason my way is less obtusive. Perhaps it is just cowardice. Pete Takeda- Terminl Course ---------------------------------- The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other. Meridel Le Sueur ----------------------------------------------- There are two ways to get rich: earn more or want less. Sherpa proverb -------------------------------------------------- Bhagavad Gita 18:57-58 - Beliefnet Make every act an offering to me (God); regard me as your only protector. Relying on interior discipline, meditate on me always. Remembering me, you shall overcome all difficulties through my grace. But if you will not heed me in your self-will, nothing will avail you. ------------------------------------------- Buddhism Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu - Beliefnet Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape the wood. The wise control themselves. ---------------------------------------- Bhagavad Gita 2:47 - Beliefnet You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of the work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. ---------------------------------- Anguttara Nikaya - Beliefnet What are the results of a person??s past life? We can never know them by thinking or guessing and so we should not speculate about them. To try to find them out is to bring distress and distraction. Do not set yourself up as a judge of others or make assumptions about their motives. You can destroy yourself by holding judgments about others. ------------------------------ Tirukkural 25:248-250 - Beliefnet Those without wealth may one day prosper, but those without Kindness are utterly destitute, and their fortunes never change. Practicing charity without compassion is as inconceivable As realizing Truth without clarity of mind. Before advancing against men weaker than yourself, Ponder when you stood before those more powerful. ----------------------------- Anguttara Nikaya - Beliefnet If there were no freedom, beings could never disentangle themselves from the world. But since there is freedom to transcend the world, beings are able to become disentangled. ----------------------------- Visuddhi Magga - Beliefnet If the element of the truth seeker did not exist in everyone, There would be no turning away from craving, Nor could there be a longing for nirvana, Nor a seeking for it, nor a resolve to find it. --------------------------------- Bhagavad Gita 3:38-39 - Beliefnet Knowledge is hidden by selfish desire--hidden by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction. -------------------------------- Kegon Sutra - Beliefnet At the moment of awakening, the Buddha exclaimed: "Wonder of wonders! All living beings are truly enlightened and shine with wisdom and virtue. But because their minds have become deluded and turned inward to the self, they fail to understand this." ----------------------------------- Bhagavad Gita 2:49 - Beliefnet Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do ---------------------------- handogya Upanishad - Beliefnet The Self, who can be realized by the pure in heart, who is life, light, truth, space, who gives rise to all works, all desires, all odors, all tastes, who is beyond words, who is joy abiding?-this is the Self dwelling in my heart. ---------------------------- Visuddhi Magga - Beliefnet Just as space reaches everywhere, without discrimination, Just so the immaculate element, which in its essential nature is mind, is present in all. ------------------------- Bhagavad Gita 2:71-72 - Beliefnet They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of "I," "me," and "mine" to be united with the Lord. This is the supreme state. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality. ----------------------------------------------------- Dhammapada, 13, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. - Beliefnet The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened. ----------------------------------------------------- Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. -- Frank Outlaw -------------------------------------------------- Hard Times, Come Again No More By Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864) [Published here in memory of the 2001 economic climate] Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears, While we all sup sorrow with the poor; There's a song that will linger forever in our ears; Oh, hard times come again no more. 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary, Hard times, hard times, come again no more, Many days you have lingered around my cabin door, Oh, hard times, come again no more. While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay, There are frail forms fainting at the door; Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say Oh, hard times come again no more. There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away, With a worn heart whose better days are o'er: Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day, Oh, hard times come again no more. 'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, 'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore, 'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave, Oh, hard times come again no more. Stokely Consulting http://www.stokely.com ------------------------------------ Thus Thingol sailed not on the seas but dwelt amid the land of trees, and Melian he loved, divine, whose voice was potent as the wind the Valar drink in golden halls where flower blooms and fountain falls; but when she sang it was a spell, and no flower stirred nor fountain fell. A king and queen thus lived they long, and Doriath was filled with song, and all the Elves that missed their way and never found the western bay, the gleaming halls of their long home by the grey seas and the white foam, who never trod the golden land where the towers of the Valar stand, all these were gathered in their realm beneath the beech and oak and elm. ------------------------------------------ One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them ---------------------------------------- No one is perfect, Each of us errs, For a moment of gain, Fleetingly, We've all caused pain, And all that pride, Building and breeding, Behind false doors, Is an endless source of shame.
You may cry for wrongs not righted, And for wrongs with no apology, And cry to the wind how it batters your skin, Cry for yourself, Or cry for me, But never forget, That we all feel badly sometimes, We all feel the need to hide, And from behind all that false pride, We cry too, For ourselves, For you, And we cry that we are sorry. ---------------------------------------- Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen the countless stars of heaven's field were mirrored in his silver shield. But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are. ----------------------------------- Black as the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strict the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. ------------------------------------------------- May today there be peace within you. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. "I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." ----------------------------------------------- The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead. --------------------------------------------- "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes" ------------------------------------------------- The truth is out there. Trust no one. ------------------------------------------- Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed before. ------------------------------------------ "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them" - Albert Einstein - ------------------------------------- Buhda said "desire is the cause of suffering"... Sean said but without desire, what delight. -------------------------------------------- It is written, "If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him." The road lies before you. Yet none may know the nature of those who travel along it. ------------------------------------------ "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, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? [...] Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do[...] it's in everyone. As we let our own light shine we give others permission to do the same; as we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Nelson Mandela ----------------------------------- I saw a flower blossom from the darkness, watched a smile break through the mist. I witnessed beauty rising out of pain, and was blessed by the grace of that midnight rose. Gerard Messina Copyrig ------------------------------------ Dilbert's words of wisdom #18: Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. --------------------------------------------: Thus conscience doth make cowards of all' And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought. Hamlet ----------------------------------- "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." From The Mourning Bride by William Congreve, Act III, sc. 2 ------------------------------------------- Ron Bombard, Network Administrator Meddle not in the affairs of dragons... for you are crunchy, and taste like chicken. ----------------------------------------------- All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end. Thoreau ---------------------------------------------- One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it is possible, speak a few reasonable words. Goethe ----------------------------------------------- The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates ------------------------------------------ What does the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God? prophet Micah -------------------------------------------- There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory. Neil Postman ------------------------------------------ We have met the enemy, and he is us. Pogo the Possum. Walt Kelley-cartoonist ----------------------------------------- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." Mark Twain research Mark Twain (1835-1910) ----------------------------------------------- Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants Jack Handey ------------------------------ Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth ------------------------------------------ "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement." (Dan Quayle) --------------------------------------------- The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------- Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------- Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle -------------------------------------------- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle ---------------------------------------------------------- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. Aristotle ---------------------------------------------- Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Plato ----------------------------------- The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato ------------------------------------- Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. Plato ----------------------------------------- Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato ----------------------------------- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. Henry David Thoreau ----------------------------------------- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. Henry David Thoreau ---------------------------------------- It's a dangerous business going out your front door. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ------------------------------------------- "Whenever you have a secret, you have a vulnerability." -- Whitfield Diffie ------------------------------------------- "All of my work is directed against those who are bent, through stupidity or design, on blowing up the planet or rendering it uninhabitable. Like the advertising people we talked about, I'm concerned with the precise manipulation of word and image to create an action, not to go out and buy Coca-Cola, but to create an alteration in the reader's consciousness" William S. Burroughs ------------------------------------------------- "Because a man needs 2 cars, a tv set, 12 pairs of shoes for his wife, this signifies to me only an unhandsome sort of greed that is needed to fill a hole where something else should be" Charles Bukoski ---------------------------------- "The earth. Smog, murder, the poisoned air, the poisoned water, the poisoned food, the hatred, the hopelessness, everything. The only beautiful thing about the earth is the animals and now they are being killed off, soon they will be gone except for pet rats and race horses. It's so sad, no wonder you drink so much." dedicated to "bad writing," Charles Bukoski --------------------------------------------- "And the black void/Nothingness of night/Backdropping the fireworks/Is the omnipresent,/A priori mystery ./And the real beginning of education/Must be the experimental realization/Of absolute mystery" Richard Buckmister Fuller ---------------------------------------- "We are men of peace who work and we want no quarrel. But if you destroy our peace if you take away our work if you try to range us one against the other we will know what to do. If you tell us to make the world safe for democracy we will take you seriously and by god and by Christ we will make it so. We will use the guns you force upon us we will use them to defend our very lives and the menace to our lives does not lie on the other side of a nomansland that was set apart without our consent it lies within our own boundaries here and now we have seen it and we know it.... You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun" Dalton Trumbo ---------------------------------------- "I too think the intellectual should constantly disturb, should bear witness to the misery of the world, should be provocative by being independent, should rebel against all hidden and open pressure and manipulations, should be the chief doubter of systems, of power and its incantations, should be a witness to their mendacity. For this very reason, an intellectual cannot fit into any role that might be assigned to him, nor can he ever be made to fit into any of the histories written by the victors." Vaclav Havel ----------------------------------------- Tin-eared, graph paper-brained accountants instead of music fans call all the shots at giant record companies now, the lowest common denominator rules. Forget honesty, forget creativity, the dumbest buy the mostest, that's the name of the game. But sales are slumping, and no one will say why. Could it be they put out one too many lousy records? Dead Kennedys ------------------------------------------ "There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that, because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit." Robert Heinlien - Life-Line --------------------------------------------- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. H. L. Mencken --------------------------------------------- Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken ------------------------------------------ He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche ----------------------------------- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------- One of the important lessons of the day for you, dear Pisces, is to remember that emotions are a powerful thing and that they should be recognized and honored. Do not discount your feelings. In fact, it is most important that you embrace them with your entire being. Once you relax and settle in to your true emotions, you will find that your mind is clear and that you can make conscious and rational decisions about whatever issues come your way. ----------------------------------------- Dream Barriers look very high until someone climbs them. Then they are not barriers anymore. Lasse Viren ------------------------------------------ Insecurities about safety certainly slow people down. Mark Melvin ----------------------------------------- Stick you neck out once in a while it is good for the soul. Bill Wright ---------------------------------------------- God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Billy Mills ---------------------------------------------- What you are is Gods gift to you. What you make of your self is your gift to God. -------------------------------------------- Few places in the world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will eliminate care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. John Muir --------------------------------------- "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition." - Milton Friedman ------------------------- "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946 ----------------------------- "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) ----------------------------- "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat ---------------------------- "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -------------------------- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei ------------------------ "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - definition of"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) --------------------------- "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------ "The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) ----------------------------------- "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) ------------------------------------ "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) ----------------------------------- "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) ------------------------------------ "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ------------------------------------ "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince" --------------------------------- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) -------------------------------- "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ---------------------------------- "Sanity is a madness put to good uses." - George Santayana (1863-1952) ------------------------------- "Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ------------------------------- "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone (1899-1947) ------------------------------- Grace under pressure. - Definition of "guts" -------------------------------- Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ----------------------------------- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Churchill ------------------------------- Have a tendency, against which I should, perhaps, be on my guard, to swim against the stream. churchill ----------------------------- If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, nor being lied about, don't deal in lies, nor be hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor walk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master: If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with warn out tools:
If you can make one heap with all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and...which is more...you'll be a man, my son! Rudyard Kipling -------------------------------------- "I'm the Commander, see... I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President... [I] don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." - President George W. Bush ------------------------------------- "Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix." - President Harry S. Truman ----------------------------------------- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. --William Pitt (1759-1806) -------------------------------------------- Put your ambitions into action today. You feel energetic and positive. Make the most of this by taking steps toward achieving your goals. As you know, if you don't actively pursue them, nothing will happen. The years can pass by so quickly, and you wouldn't want to be sitting on a rocker wondering "what if?" Trust yourself and do what it takes. Everything starts with that first single step. ------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Edison on Solar Power Some day some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing up sunshine instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire...This scheme of combustion to get power makes me sick to think of - it is so wasteful....You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property. ---------------------------------------------------- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood Plasma. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older. -------------------------------------- "As we think ultimate reality to be, so we behave. Vision and action go together. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." - Radhakrishna (1940) ----------------------------------------- "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart- --------------------------------------------- keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut --------------------------------------------- Activity is the enemy of thought ---------------------------------- You dance with the Devil the Devil dosn't change he changes you. ----------------------------------- There never was a good war, or a bad peace. B. Franklin ------------------------------------ "The soldiers graves are the greatest preachers of peace" On a Germans grave in Russia ------------------------------------- "Haven't slept at all. I don't see why people insist on sleeping. You feel so much better if you don't. And how can anyone want to lose a minute - a single minute of being alive?" -- Think Twice -------------------------------------
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