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    was the man! Among many others. ;-) And since was raised in the only place in the US that Abe actually stood and christened in his name with the juice of a watermelon, I have to say, so was Abe.
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    ... a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom
    'The Western notion that the body is simply a holding bay for some other thing called consciousness seems to me to be a literally archaic and often reactionary idea, harking back to notions of the soul, the spirit etc. Cyberspace seems to have ushered in a new era of interest in gnosticism, the mind/body split, and disembodied notions of consciousness, but I see the implications of cybernetics working in completely different directions - erasing the mind/body distinction rather than reinforcing it. As the complexity and intelligence of both organic and inorganic matter becomes increasingly apparent, the notion that the materiality of the body renders it passive and inert becomes increasingly redundant. And much of the current research on neurochemistry, neural networks, and complex systems of many kinds seems to suggest that many of what were once thought to be idealist, immaterial, intangible constructs are in fact the products of extremely complex material events. Add to these more subtle developments the possibility of prostheses blurring the boundaries of the supposedly natural and individuated body, and the increasing interconnectivities of neural and information networks, and a very different notion of the body begins to emerge. Change comes to both the reality and our perceptions of both sides of the equation: the mind seems more material, and the body acquires a sense of its own intelligence.' - Sadie Plant
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    "You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'You keep losing when you oughta not bet You keep samin' when you oughta be a'changin' What's right is right but you ain't been right yet These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you" Lee Hazlewood
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    Culture is not your friend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYB0VW5x8fI
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    In the words of the lyricist we all love: "There are things you can replace And others you can not The time has come to weigh those things..." "experiment with your own consciousness" "Of all the things I miss the most" Bazinga, Slo
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    isn't that what 'pursuit of happiness' means?...
    "If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." - Terence McKenna
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    "You have no oath registered inHeaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." -Abraham Lincoln
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    logic revisited...
    'They say, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." But I think the guns help. Just standing there saying, "Bang!" doesn't really hurt anybody.' - Eddie Izzard
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    unlimited firepower...
    'The most violent element in society is ignorance.' - Emma Goldman
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    'Techno's operation as a meditative force can process darkness, and in their place, the ideal of a non-threatening, transcended, sexually charged headspace emerges and the downtrodden can be turned hopeful, can be turned into an activating force.' - Laurel Halo
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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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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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"The constructive use of riches is better than their possession." - unknown
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin/D.R. Davenport/Gurney Norman
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Words To Live By acceptance affirmative case antecedent argument argumentation argumentative context argumentative argument from direction argument from function argument from principle argument from quality case categorical arguments complementary reasons conclusion connectives consequent consideration cues deductive diagramming dilemma disjunctive distributed terms emotional appeal end term enumeration evidence evidence case indicator words inductive arguments infer / inference intermediate conclusion linguistic consistency logical sense middle term modus ponens modus tollus necessary condition pluralism poisoning-the-well population premises presumptions proposition of fact proposition of value proposition of policy question begging reason rebuttal refutation repudiation reservation scanning slippery-slope-argument standardizing statement status-quo stipulations sufficient condition support universal affirmative validity values virtue Words are so plentiful, like a... Thanksgiving cornucopia, enjoy some today, xo!
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Well said, sherbear.
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'Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?' - Noël Coward
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"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." – H.D. Thoreau
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Man is like athletes that keep on striving in order to win the race of life.
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Never tired of doing good if you want to sow the priceless trophy.
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and found myself wishing some version of Weir's band would cover it. How's that bricklayin' comin'? How's your engine runnin'? Is that bridge gettin' built? Are your hands gettin' filled? Won't you tell me, my brother? 'Cause there are stars Up above We can start Moving forward --The Head and the Heart, Seattle band
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"You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant." – Arlo Guthrie
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Well I moved into this room if you could call it that a week ago I never do what I'm supposed to do Hardly even know my name anymore When no one calls it out it kind of vanishes away Jason Isbell -- Alabama Pines
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'You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.' - James Duthie
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"Look... Reality is greater than the sum of it's parts, also a damn site holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And The Scenes Gone By an The Scenes To Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look" (That is pure zen folks. RIP Ken Kesey. Died 2001)
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'The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless.' - Robert Aickman
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"There was self-inflicted turmoil, on the subject, at hand. In a if-then experience... does one relate upon a truth or a lie as a deduction. Still there's always a card in play---until its like the last throw in a pitch game. Still if and still then. What is to be seen is then unchangeable when, if then applies." -SAB
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'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you're worth, facing the sunshine.' - E. M. Forster
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First there is a mountain.Then there is no mountain. Then there is. - Donovan (mollomed)
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'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.' - John Betjeman
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"look again at that dot. that's here. that's home. that's us. on it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. the aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. :))))))))))) -carl sagan
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'An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.' - Iain Sinclair
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
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Phil Lesh said at the Grateful Dead’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994: "Sometimes you don't merely have to endure. You can prevail."
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'At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if i'm not there I carry on as usual.' - Sir Patrick Moore
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"all who joy would win must share it. happiness was born a twin". -lord byron
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"A Divine Guide urges us as we go." -F. O'Mara Socrates felt he had a Divine Guide; an Oracle to him, for him, uniquely and unparalleled. The Oracle says human wisdom is worth little or nothing. Oh then, to be Divine, now a wish for every star.
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'Well, what was i to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.' - Mark Gatiss
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-----------------------------------(----@--------------------------------------(----@ "The most powerful sex organ is your brain." -F. O'Mara
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"Early in the morning, today, the sun shonemagnificently through the rain-stained window-pane. The light upon my skin must have a small shadow of the rain it passed through to reach me in it. There was a cool in the warmth of it. I am this light now and it is me, like vitamins and the beach." -sherbear
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'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.' - E. M. Forster
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"Today, I just went outside and let the lightshine right on to my skin. Then I went to shower." -sherbear
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"if we have no peace,it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other". -mother teresa
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'It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.' - Noël Coward