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    you want the cup but you're chicken to race don't waste your breath to save your face when you have done your best. when even more is asked of you, fate will decide the rest work hard in the daytime, sho' get stoned at night
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    "All of this was sung beforeand shall be sung again Forgotten songs reclaim their tunes when leaving Terrapin Orion sparkles overhead but just a bit misplaced Visions rescued from the dead speak from your living face" -Hunter
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    IF- 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, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk 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 impostors 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 worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of 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! R. Kipling
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    Eat anything bigger than your head...
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    “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.” -Tom Robbins
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    "I don't know if you have found this yet but for me it's like you reach the point where your accumulated knowledge is there and you realise: actually, I don't know the answer to much at all anymore. Because I've accumulated so much that has contradicted what I thought, or what I thought I thought, along the way, that I'm beginning now to ask more questions rather than think I have got answers to anything. I now accept that I know nothing.Looking back you always wanted things explained. You wanted to know things, to have a stance on something or the option of a stance. Now I want the opposite of that. I want to keep the discussion open. I don't want to limit it. I don't want to close it down like that. I'm not into closing my life down at all. I want to embrace knowing nothing." - Cosey Fanni Tutti
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    Without LOVE in the dream it will never come true!
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    It takes dynamite to get me upToo much of everything is just enough One more thing that I just gotta say I need a miracle every day
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    'In a deeply experienced life, things are always entering us. I think this is wonderful. The mountain goes inside us. The table goes inside. The river goes inside. The words go inside. All of our immediate experience goes inside us... and simply vanishes. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that enough?' -David Hinton
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    What if one's passion is illegal? Might it be better to just be sane then?
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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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"It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness....... a gratefulness........ open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. .....I think in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be." -Dr Albert Hofmann, part of a speech given by him on his 100th birthday Today marks the 70th anniversary that chemist extraordinaire Dr. Hofmann - on a hunch! - synthesized LSD 25 at Sandoz Laboratories for the second time in human history and accidentally absorbed an amount small enough to produce a couple hours of effects, which led him to intentionally take 250 mcg. 3 days later and take his famous bicycle ride home. "Thank you" seems so shallow......
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For the quote from Mr. Hofmann. All of us owe a large debt of gratitude to him. He gave us the soma of the gods and we launched a revolution to change the world. And, as Hunter S. Thompson said, "With the right kind of eyes you can look out into the Pacific Ocean and see where the wave peaked..." Jerry bore the psychedelic cross Albert created for 30 long years. In the end even he couldn't turn the tide. Did we help enough?
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'A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.' - Hermann von Helmholtz
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"Farmers and gossipers both spread shit, but for completely different reasons." -me (hope Bob's ok; feel sorry for his family and loved ones that read the speculations spewed from assholes)
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"out of sight, out of mind" -the words engraved onto a large piece of red granite at the entrance to a local cemetery; I just noticed it today.
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'Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.' - Alfred Wallace
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'The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.' - Gilles Deleuze
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The seeming contradiction of a rising accumulation of wealth and a rising amount of poverty is an interesting phenomenon that it is a very central theme. If human beings are basically good, then why don't the more capable share with the less capable? In the Western industrialized countries they do, to a greater or lesser extent. And it is a never-ending debate. Some people say that if he rich are forced to share with the poor then they are less inclined to be productive (and dominate nature so much). Isn't that a good thing? More animals, less global warming and a whole lot more go along with that. I like to believe that human beings are good but this very thing Wallace talks about leads me to believe that, on average,we are selfish and would destroy ourselves and our planet rather than share with the less fortunate. Human beings are the number one bad-ass animal on the planet, no doubt.
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'Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.' - Jean Baudrillard
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& dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void! Loves these quotes you are coming up with, Lard!
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'Larks are the sparks torn from the revolving Earth as it turns like a wheel through the night.' - Ronald Duncan
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'Larks are the dance in which the dancer is still.' - Ronald Duncan
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'When winter whips, old men discover their life is a dream they can't remember.' - Ronald Duncan
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'The sun bleeds on the horizon till the day, like a fallow deer, is bled and the light is devoured and the lake is dead.' - Ronald Duncan
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“If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? " - Jon Stewart
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Put me on the plane.Hurry, hurry, hurry, Before I go insane! I want to be sedated.
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'If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.' - Antonin Artaud
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"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it." -Haim Ginott
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"Most of us are inattentive. Now, next time you are conscious of inattentive, you are attentive." -J. Krishnemurti, from: You Are the World
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" I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous." - Robert Brault
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"It's the young person's prerogative to be noisy." - a line from the character Tom in the movie "Another Year"
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"If we gaze longingly at joy, it willmake its home with us, and we shall enter its portals and be happy." -The Science of the Mind page 491
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"Joy does not come from what you do;it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you." -Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
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"Inamuch as you have done it untothe least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." -Matthew 25:40
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"Love one another and you will be happy.It's as simple and as difficult as that." -Michael Leunig
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"Only in a spirit of love, understandingand unity can there be wholeness." -How To Use The Science of Mind, page 138
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"The basic principle ofspiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love." -Jack Kornfield
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"Don't forget love; it willbring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe." -Mira
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"5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor the destruction that lays waste at noonday." -Psalm 91 5 and 6 The Gideons International Nashville, Tennessee
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"Love is at the center of man's being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love." -The Science of Mind, page 238
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Exchanging compliments isintellectual back scratching. -Fortune Cookie Lucky numbers 50, 47, 1, 35, 20 (imagine that) You are so beautiful, xo!
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Fearless courage is the foundationof victory. -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 20, 5, 15, 51, 27, 13
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"Corn can't expect justice in a court composed of chickens." - African proverb Eric Holder, US Dist. Attorney promises Edward Snowden that he will not be given the death penalty or tortured if he returns to the US for trial. Kinda has all the feeling of that creepy guy driving slowly by the school sidewalk with his window down offering candy to the kids.
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"There is nothing on this earthmore to be prized than true friendship." -Sir Thomas Aquinas