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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!
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 06:43

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'We are all ultimately responsible for our actions, and any organisation, religion, sect, cult, NGO, army captain or anyone else that tells you any different is lying.' - Peter Christopherson
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 11:56

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In his last novel, Timequake, the writer Kurt Vonnegut quotes his son, Mark: "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Fri, 09/07/2012 - 09:37

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Sat, 09/08/2012 - 18:10

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"what is to give light must endure burning". viktor frankl, concentration-camp survivor (subject title courtesy of baumgartner's..............serving classic limburger daily.......... :) )
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Sat, 09/08/2012 - 19:42

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"when you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. when you're born in america, you get a front row seat." george carlin
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Sun, 09/09/2012 - 19:17

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"common sense? that's nothing more than understanding that it doesn't take both hearing and smell to know the person next to you farted." gerald "shit liquor" mcknelly former friend, poet and all around grate guy.......4 yrs now.......rip funny friend :(
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Submitted by sherbear on Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:50

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"I bask in the lush grandeur of my ageless, birth-less,space-less, timeless, deathless, existance. I rest in the circulatory complete-ness that makes all things perfect, new, and good." -Science of Mind -Vol. 82 No. 7
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Wed, 09/12/2012 - 22:44

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'It is better to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.' - Arthur Machen
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 16:22

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do try to be happy, because no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. lily tomlin comedienne extarordinaire
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 20:43

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reality is the leading cause of stress...............among those in touch with it. lily tomlin (i love this one)
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Thu, 09/13/2012 - 19:38

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a word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones that need the advice. bill cosby
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Submitted by marye on Fri, 09/14/2012 - 08:48

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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:56

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Is giving up the claim to "Truth" better than fighting for it?
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:53

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Offering prayers 11 years after 9/11, realizing, by their very act of giving of up all claim to truth in the word, that they have found the key to defeat all that evil. (I think I just blew my mind!)
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 04:51

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Realizing that offering prayers to counteract evil in the world as evidenced by 9/ll, (by their very action of praying for an end to such evil acts) is in itself the end of evil.
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Mon, 09/24/2012 - 01:18

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'Christian fundamentalists and fundamentalists in general are viruses, and they're killing us, multiplying and mutating, and they're destroying us. Now, you know, you got to give strong medicine to combat a virus.' - John Giorno
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Wed, 09/26/2012 - 19:56

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"There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound."–John Cage
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 16:25

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"It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense."–Aldo Leopold
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 19:30

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where he lived and was inspired to write the "sand county almanac", are situated along the wisconsin river and,luckily,are a short drive from where i live. me and friends have hiked (and day-tripped :)) around there several times in past years and always get a wonderful vibe from that beautiful place. aldo's efforts have left a beautiful and thoughtful environmentally conscious legacy for future generations.
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 23:36

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'The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.' - David Bohm
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Submitted by lostsailot74@ on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 18:48

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If you get confused listen to the music play
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 02:39

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'The poets are supposed to liberate the words - not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are supposed to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? "Your very own words", indeed! And who are you?' - Brion Gysin
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Fri, 10/05/2012 - 11:18

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Don't bogart that joint my friendPass it over to me – Lawrence Wagner
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Sun, 10/07/2012 - 23:59

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'The ability to soft-boil an egg is not regarded as a virtue in Spain. The more pervious a culture is to Surrealism, the less preoccupied it is with the least imaginative thing you can do with an egg. It's a post-Protestant talent to stand around for four minutes watching water precipitate gastronomic banality.' - Jonathan Meades
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Submitted by cheskaty on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 19:55

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The world IS flat, until you go around it. -ALC-
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 00:43

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'If you were to put all the arteries and veins and capillaries out end to end, that man would probably die.' - Eric Morecambe
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 08:32

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." – Groucho Marx
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Submitted by marye on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 16:27

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this is a big anniversary of the publication of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, my copy of which is apparently in an alternate universe, so somebody weigh in with some immortal words from Douglas Adams here...
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 17:42

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"Don't panic." – Douglas Adams