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Sometimes you come across a quote, a line, a statement that just nails it, at some level. Cosmic, comic, whatever.
If you'd like to share it, post it here, duly credited!
Andy Taylor
When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.
RIP Andy Griffith...
Neil Young
Was listening to 'On the Beach' the other day and heard the famous lyric from Ambulance Blues
And there ain't nothin'
like a friend
Who can tell you
you're just pissin'
in the wind.
How true that is!
On a Good Day
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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"Everyone laughs and cries in the same language." -Unknown
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." -John Keats
Glues Your Illusions
'Coherence in contradiction expresses the force of a desire.'
–Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Missing Show
I have a ticket stub from a New Haven CT show, 11/28/78. This show is not listed in the archive on Dead.net or in my copy of Dead Base Jr. The ticket is ripped in half so the show did go on, I am not hallucinating! (As has happened back in the day!)The show was put on by John Scher and WPLR. Can someone please tell me why this show seems to have disappeared into the blue? What a long strange trip it has been and it continues to get stranger all the time. Rock on.
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You havedone what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities crept in; forget them as soon you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely
with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your
old nonsense."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philip K. Dick
"I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So, I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?"
-Philip K. Dick, preamble to "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
Nice Emerson quote Sherbear
..that's a beauty.
Now here is something much more frivolous
'When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you'.
Nora Ephron (RIP)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail."
Deeper than you'd think
"We could take a walk. The pier's longer than it seems." ~ Avett Bros
A Winning Pair
These two go together, I think:
"Every child begins the world again."
—Walden, Henry David Thoreau
"Culture is not your friend."
—Terence McKenna
thought for the day
'If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning’
Catherine Aird
uncle albert
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits"
Albert Einstein
Mary, as a person who suffered from strong depression for years (much happier now), you're quote several pages back from william gibson has me laughing and laughing. Never thought of it that way. Thanks!
and now one from the irreverent king george
"fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity"
George Carlin
rip georgey, rip
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"My peace I give unto you...Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid"
John 14:27
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Let peace abound inside your mind...
Like a waterfall washing away the
things you house that could never be~
peace and love. Effort needed and a
good teacher. But um yeah let's party!
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although this is a poem
i thought this would fit better under "words to live by" ; it's beautiful.
SLOW DANCE
have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
listened to the rain
slapping on the ground?
ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
you better slow down
don't dance so fast
time is short
the music won't last
do you run through each day
on the fly?
when you ask how are you
do you hear the reply?
when the day is done
do you lie in your bed
with the next hundred chores
running through your head?
you better slow down
don't dance so fast
time is short
the music won' last
ever told your child
we'll do it tomorrow
and in your haste
not see his sorrow?
let a good frienship die
cause you never had time
to call and say hi?
you better slow down
don't dance so fast
time is short
the music won't last
when you run so fast to get somewhere
you miss half the fun of getting there
when you worry and hurry through your day
it's like an unopened gift
thrown away.
life is not a race
do take it slower
hear the music
before the song is over
Author unknown
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"If the will knows not what to will,it will not be able to will."
-Lao-Tze
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"Ladies and Gentlemen...The Grateful Dead."
-Bill Graham
Words We Live With
"War Is the health of the State."
—Randolph Bourne
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"May your mind forever sparklelike a star,
Your heart remain pure as
newfallen snow,
And your spirit forever sense
the wonderment of a child."
-Mary Summer Rain
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The light residing in sun, moon, and fire,through which the entire universe is illuminated,
is my light."
-Krishna
A Funny Guy
"Humor characterizes consciousness. For me, life would be so empty without humor—it would be unbearable, it would be like life without music."
—Jerry Garcia (From a 1995 interview)
From Bourne's "War Is The Health of the State"
"The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class. The rulers soon learn to capitalize the reverence which the State produces in the majority, and turn it into a general resistance toward a lessening of their privileges. The sanctity of the State becomes identified with the sanctity of the ruling class..."
Thanks for the link, Mike Edwards
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"May Father Sky light all your trails,And may Earth Mother keep them
straight."
-Mary Summer Rain
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In speaking about creativity, E. L. Doctorow said...
"It's like driving a car at night.
You never see further than your
headlights, but you can make the
whole trip that way."
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"Judge a man by hisquestions rather than
by his answers."
-Voltaire
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SUSTAIN
SHOCK
AND
CARRY
THE
CHARGE
(((+)))
GO SEE LIVE MUSIC
I LOVE YOU ALL
THANK YOU FOREVER
IT'S EVER-LASTING, XO!
Philip K. Dick
“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.” ― Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go.
But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him.
And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals.
And if, when it happens to you over and over again in life, too much of your heart does finally go away, then you can't feel grief any more. And then you yourself are ready to die. You'll walk up the inclined ladder and someone else will remain behind grieving for you.”
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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"Any activity becomes creative whenthe doer cares about doing it right,
or doing it better."
-John Updike
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"Creativity requires the courageto let go of certainties."
-Erich Fromm
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"I first met Rolling Thunder, a medicine man who livesin Nevada, in 1970 and have since observed him conduct
several healing sessions and consultations. Once I
listened to him give instructions to a client who had come
for dream interpretation. Instead of telling the client what
the dream meant, Rolling Thunder asked the client to imagine
himself as each of the characters in the dream so that he
would be able to interpret the dream himself. He gave him
the tools rather than the answers."
-Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
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"Creativity comes from trust.Trust your instincts."
-Rita Mae Brown
Normal Is Perverse
'Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity.'
- Austin Osman Spare
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to beable to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
And your point is?
No-no, no, no-no, no-no-no-noNo, no-no, no, no, no-no, no-no, no-no
No-no-no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no
Human Beinz version of the Isley's song "Nobody But Me."
Or the motto of the GOP in Congress.
Sorry, this has been banging around in my head this morning, and I couldn't resist...living in a swing state during a hotly-contested Presidential election cycle, being bombarded with media messages -- it has pushed me over the edge, I think.
On books and dogs
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
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"Pain is weakness
leaving the body."
-The Marines