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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 Wed, 12/19/2012 - 07:42

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Submitted by slo lettuce on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 23:00

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"like a welcome summer rain,humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you" -langston hughes "yesterday, i caught a fish at the beach. i was going to mount it, but suddenly, people showed up." -emo phillips **happy holihaze ya'll :)
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 01:37

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'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!' - Charles Dickens
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Thu, 12/20/2012 - 14:51

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"Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm." – Henry Miller
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Submitted by sherbear on Fri, 12/21/2012 - 18:17

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"Try to be the kind of personwhom God - Himself... would choose as an Ambassador of Heaven." hmmmm... "Elections and Appointments Hammocks and Rivers Wasted Printer Ink and Paper Red lights on a Bus and Neon Signs Were all sewn into the scarf from Walmart and worn with boots that could never keep your feet warm in the snow because they were made in snowless office. Rolling down the highway listening to a song that will never be what it was because it had become something is was not. Oh so like a the free stream in which to drink from- from which to judge from. Commercial...the word is so versatile. The ad for Heaven is Silent Night." In Heavenly Peace, -sherbear
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Submitted by sherbear on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 11:14

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"Twenty years from now you willbe more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Tue, 12/25/2012 - 03:26

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Happy Christmas (War Is Over) So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun Ans so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let's stop all the fight A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas And what have we done Another year over And a new one just begun Ans so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear War is over over If you want it War is over Now...
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Thu, 12/27/2012 - 11:21

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"for eleven months and maybe twenty days each year,we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the new year we look at our own. it is a good habit." -arthur hays sulzberger
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 04:55

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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Tue, 01/08/2013 - 16:58

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"The teacher must be capable of being more teachable than the apprentices." – Martin Heidegger
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Submitted by sherbear on Sat, 01/19/2013 - 21:29

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"That Death be the bitter, barrenWinter of Life is but illusion. For, upon crossing Its shimmering white Threshold, do we then perceive Death as the refreshing Spring of Life Eternal." --from Dreamwalker, 1988
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 07:11

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'Music is a language, you see, a Universal language.' - Sun Ra
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 09:19

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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire." – Roland Barthes
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Sat, 02/02/2013 - 11:31

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"i believe in the compelling power of love. i do not understand it, however, i believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence." -theodore dreiser
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 04:29

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'For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.' - Carl Sagan
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 18:40

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Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with. – Theodore Sturgeon
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 03:00

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'I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what, at last, I have found.' - Bertrand Russell
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'The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love.That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros, Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.' - Stephen Fry
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 08:08

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"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage? "Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere." – Emma Goldman
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"blessed is the influenceof one true, loving human soul on another." -george eliot
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 02:08

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'Burn worldly love,rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.' - Guru Nanak