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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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"We can easily forgive a childwho is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -Plato
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Submitted by sherbear on Thu, 08/01/2013 - 20:30

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"My body is no older than my mind-and my mind is adolescent. It has never grown up. It never will, I hope. I'm as inquisitive as I was at eight." -Luther Burbank
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Submitted by sherbear on Thu, 08/01/2013 - 20:41

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"I salute the Light within your eyes where thewhole Universe dwells. For when you are at the center within you, and I am in that place within me, we shall be One." -Oglala Sioux Chief Crazy Horse
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Thu, 08/08/2013 - 16:25

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"Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves or our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self that enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe". - David F. Wells, Losing Our Virtue
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"The young man knows the rules butthe old man knows the exceptions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 16:19

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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. - Aldo Leopold
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Mon, 09/02/2013 - 20:44

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"Everyone speaks of peace; no one knows what peace is. We know at best a poisoned peace. No one has lived on earth without weapons, without war and the threat of war on a large and small scale." - Christina Thurmer-Rohr
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Mon, 09/02/2013 - 21:06

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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." - David Friedman
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Submitted by sherbear on Tue, 09/10/2013 - 08:11

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"Nothing stays the same. Everysecond in history occurred with out fail, as the future hath al- ready come and gone. My hair grows and my heart beats as I plead for them not to. It is then I am in amazement of control and my inability to possess it." Smoker Brain Candy "If you smoke... try to take 3 drags exactly the same; with face, lips, shoulder, arm, and hand in the same way." For Your Minds Only No Comments From Non-Smokers>>> please and thank you, xo! -sherbear
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Wed, 09/11/2013 - 17:04

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sherbear, so being an ex-cigarette smoker (the worst kind, I know, and by the way, Smokers Brain Candy = nicotine = nasty commercial spray-on pesticide. There, I said it; I'm done.) I tried this "3 drag" experiment with a "Hawaiian" cigarette Experimental notes: ...............I love scientific experiments of this sort ...............damn! one of these days I'm going to invent a rolling paper for old people ...............finally! ...............wait a minute ...............was that the 3rd drag or the 4th ...............can't remember...what did she say to do? ...............crappers! ...............do-over ...............perseverance ...............gotta love it :))))))))))) Words to live by: Enjoy cannabis while you still cannabis. (of course, only if you live where it's legalized). - {%}; ))))))))))
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Submitted by sherbear on Wed, 09/11/2013 - 08:01

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Nice...slo, xo! Could you do it was the question; -take 3 drags of anything lit... exactly the same each time. "The Sun actually touches your body and It brings to you a part of the Universe; that will be forever beyond your control. Once that happens it becomes an un-changable part of you. The green grass rejoices and bathing together isn't bathing together but, indeed bathing across a thousand miles." "How lovely is the thought of that-that is so incredible; I kissed the Moon and the Stars and I hugged the Sun... yesterday." -sherbear
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'The discovery that music is the fundamental atmospheric art has solved an old, annoying and yet inescapable problem of music theory, i.e. the question: of what does music's so-called emotional effect actually consist? In opposition to the helpless association theories and the theories that called upon fantasy to mediate, the Aesthetics of Atmospheres gives a simple answer to the question: music as such is a modification of space as it is experienced by the body. Music forms and informs the listener's sense of self (das Sichbefinden) in a space; it reaches directly into his or her corporeal economy.' - Gernot Böhme
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"May the spirit of peacebring gladness to you heart today and everyday." -LEANIN' TREE
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 09/17/2013 - 23:04

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'All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with "winning or losing this game of chess".' - Marcel Duchamp
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"Now, it's willingnesspersonally possessed willingness, to have more life in a state of lifelessness."
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"When you speak the "TRUTH", it enlightens and helps a few, but hurts and angers many...!!!"
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"In this digital age, to arrive at a truth,we must only look at the fingertips of a person...indeed anyone, anywhere, that is or has been on a keyboard; you can know a person by what they would say or what they would do. Fingerprints on a keyboard, yes, fingerprints on a keyboard...ahh what else could be so personally intricate as the self -exposed- by themselves neigh by another. It is only self...you and your keys and what you are because You have brought them together. Run, run and see who everyone really is and what they think as the keys make the page." Mmmmmmmm Before this time of now... "Some Artists use brush strokes to create beauty others use ink." Real ink forever. Signatures in ink.
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"This getting olderAin't for cowards This getting older Is a lot to go through" ~John Mellencamp~
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'The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.' - J.G. Ballard
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en·cap·su·late verb \in-ˈkap-sə-ˌlāt, en-\ : to show or express the main idea or quality of (something) in a brief way : to completely cover (something) especially so that it will not touch anything else en·cap·su·lat·ed en·cap·su·lat·ing Merriam-Webster w-m.com
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'(if you would see the stars clearly,look hard at the surrounding darkness).' - Ooka Makoto
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'Perhaps we should be happier in our cities were we to respond to them as nature or dreams; as objects of exploration, investigation and interpretation, settings for voyages of discovery. The "discourse" that has shaped our cities - the utilitarian plans of experts whose goal was social engineering - has limited our vision and almost destroyed our cities. It is time for a new vision, a new ideal of life in the city - and a new, "feminine" voice in praise of cities.' - Elizabeth Wilson
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"a sativa-dominant hybrid with a very strong effect, and it is said to be so strong that the jaw drops leaving the smoker shit faced." - Humboldt..... "pays good money, five dollars a day" :))))))))) (Actual description from the seed breeder of the strain Trainwreck)
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Dang.
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'What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.' - Sasha Grey
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"the cruelest trick of all came from the Taliban, who allowed plenty of drugs and then banned music." - Unknown
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash
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I am entirely non-religious.I am anti-war, anti-military. I am anti-capital punishment. I am anti-corporal punishment. I am anti-racism/xenophobia. I am anti-nationalist/anti-colonialist. I am pro-internationalist. I am pro-animal rights/welfare. I am pro-gay/lesbian. I am pro-choice (re. abortion). I am anti-censorship, pro-freedom of artistic expression. - William Bennett
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"In order to discover who you arefirst learn who everybody else is. You're what's left." -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 20, 32, 37, 16, 15, 53
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'I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognize it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.' - Björk
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"Your Imagination, should never serve you... stale bread and flat beer." -sherbear
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'Our bodies are surrounded by air. Air fills space completely. But we are not clearly conscious of the existence of air in our daily lives. We notice air's existence somehow by the actions of vibration, heat and light. Air appears as a medium in our observation. Air spreads physical vibration into a space like a spring. Next, a time difference appears in the sound depending on the form of the space. Movement of this medium is greatly concerned with space and time. Moreover, it is also concerned with movement from past to present and from far to near. It is interesting to observe movement of this medium by physical vibration even without discovering its cause. We can find beautiful order there.' - Toshiya Tsunoda