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Post by Darren Dirt on Feb 24, 2005 18:59:29 GMT -5
Just saw that as an avator on a forum completely unrelated to the issue of freedom etc.  *edit* darn, the link is gone and not on archive.org - it was a comic character "Snuffy Smith", single panel, with him upset yelling (in his hick-English) "!@%^ ALL THEM GUBMINT REGLATIONS!" or something like that. Was priceless; I shoulda kept a copy.  Found it again; put it on a free image hosting site: Called it "gubmint.jpg" ;D img13.exs.cx/img13/1323/gubmint2dh.jpgI'll return to normalcy now...  |
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Post by scottinalaska on Mar 1, 2005 16:23:04 GMT -5
Larken Rose just posted this on his "Taxing Saga" newsletter. From Ray Brabury's "Fahrenheit 451": "Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now it's too late." This is chilling to think it was written so long ago. Well, that could never happen today...... Scottinalaska |
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Post by sagas4 on Mar 3, 2005 14:56:17 GMT -5
"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out. You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've go to re-evaluate the world for yourself."--Dr. Mae C. Jemison, physician, astronaut
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Post by marc stevens on Mar 3, 2005 15:35:22 GMT -5
"One of the best ways to have lots of disappointment in your life is to construct an image of how you would like things to be, and then try to make everything that way. You will feel disappointment as long as the world doesn’t match your picture. That is one of the best ways I know of to keep yourself in a constant state of disappointment, because you are never going to get the world to match your picture." Bandler and Grinder, Frogs Into Princes, page 46.
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Post by sagas4 on Mar 3, 2005 17:12:57 GMT -5
"One of the best ways to have lots of disappointment in your life is to construct an image of how you would like things to be, and then try to make everything that way. . . . This is true. One needs a realistic image of the way things are, but it does not mean one cannot work in a positive way to change things. Is it wrong to? "Challenge defeatist attitudes; If you say, "I need to try harder, maybe I can do it," you'll do better after failure. The really good news is that people can learn to interpret failure as a sign they need to work harder (not a lack of ability), can draw from their experience to learn a better approach, and can develop their own self-instructions to achieve success (Diener & Dweck, 1978). |
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Post by sagas4 on Mar 3, 2005 17:30:39 GMT -5
From Matrix Reloaded:
Architect:
Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
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Post by Harry on Mar 3, 2005 19:05:52 GMT -5
Response to Sagas:
I may not like what is, but wisdom counsels I accept that it is what is.
Only if I do that, can I move from what is, to what-is-not-but-can-be.
The only alternative is to try to start my journey from somewhere other than where I am. THAT's what causes disappointment.
This is the core of my long-running dispute with KT.
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Post by sagas4 on Mar 3, 2005 19:45:23 GMT -5
Harry,
Great statement!
In other words:
A=A
or
A equals A
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Post by Neo on Mar 3, 2005 20:49:12 GMT -5
Politics is show business for ugly people.
A man with a new idea is a crank until that idea is successful.
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Post by Camino on Mar 11, 2005 19:18:44 GMT -5
Came across this one that says it all, IMHO. Don't know who coined it.
Slavery is the legal fiction that a Person is Property. Corporations are the legal fiction that Property is a Person.
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Post by sagas4 on Mar 11, 2005 23:25:02 GMT -5
"Democracy is indespensible to socialism"
- V.I. Lenin
"Socialism leads to communism" - Karl Marx
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Post by KaosTheory on Mar 12, 2005 9:05:28 GMT -5
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
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Post by leatherlips on Mar 16, 2005 11:54:19 GMT -5
This is on the board where I work.
Never under estamate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
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Are you paraphrasing Rand
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Post by Are you paraphrasing Rand on Mar 16, 2005 12:55:23 GMT -5
In other words: A=A or A equals A are you paraphrasing Ayn Rand, i.e. "What is, is"? "A thing is a thing"? Apparently Ayn might have been working off the wisdom of previous philosophers - for example, look at the quotes by " MOORE, G E (1873-1958)" |
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ThereAintNoSuchThingAsAState
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Post by ThereAintNoSuchThingAsAState on Mar 16, 2005 13:01:51 GMT -5
"[Law] is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by the authority who has the care of the community, and promulgated." - AQUINAS, Thomas 1224-75, Summa Theologica (1274) found among other gems at www.rsweb.org.uk/ethics/philosophers.html- - - TANSTAAS! ^ inevitable neologism from combination of the Wisdom of Heinlein ( Tanstaafl) and the Wisdom of Stevens |
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