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maynardjameskeenan
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Buckthorn]
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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
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maynardjameskeenan
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“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks
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DividedQuantum
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"Simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competitions with nothing but world's champions.
The entire planet can get along nicely now with maybe a dozen champion performers in each area of human giftedness. A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap-dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers. We have a name for him or her. We call him or her an "exhibitionist."
How do we reward such an exhibitionist? We say to him or her the next morning, "Wow! Were you ever drunk last night!"
--Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23466935 - 07/22/16 06:01 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
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"My original vision was born out of revulsion, a disgust at what America had become, and at the way we were living. I saw Americans as being miserable because they had bought into a definition of success called the American Dream, which consisted of hustling, competing, getting ahead, and pursuing wealth or fame. And I knew that real success was a very different thing: it consisted in the relationship you had with yourself. As John Ruskin once put it, "There is no wealth but life." If you let yourself be defined from the outside, it will eventually make you sick. Unfortunately, this is what most Americans have chosen to do." --Morris Berman, from The Man Without Qualities
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
#23488245 - 07/29/16 04:50 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
Oscar Wilde
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Countossie] 1
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Communication is only possible between equals. --The Snafu Principle (Celine's Law)
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FlantasyFlan
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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(Take Gospel as is, or take it as a symbol...)
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: FlantasyFlan] 1
#23495084 - 07/31/16 10:00 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
--The Devil's Dictionary
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RJ Tubs 202


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum] 4
#23504031 - 08/02/16 11:37 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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"A soul mate is not the one who says he or she is your other half, but the one who shows you that you are whole."
David Richo
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The Cheshire Cat
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
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"It's Hip to be square" -Huey Lewis "All war is based on deception" -Sun Tzu
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: The Cheshire Cat] 2
#23515444 - 08/06/16 09:27 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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"You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet." - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: sausages]
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Whether you think you can or can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
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The Cheshire Cat
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: sausages] 1
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"The 2008 bank bailout of $750 billion was greater than all the money NASA had received in its half-century history; two years’ U.S. military spending exceeds it as well. Right now, NASA’s annual budget is half a penny on your tax dollar. For twice that–a penny on a dollar–we can transform the country from a sullen, dispirited nation, weary of economic struggle, to one where it has reclaimed its 20th century birthright to dream of tomorrow."
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: The Cheshire Cat] 3
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"The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect." --Edgar Allan Poe
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RJ Tubs 202


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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: DividedQuantum]
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94% of us think we do above-average work.
Michael Foley
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maynardjameskeenan
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#23523946 - 08/09/16 03:02 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
― Brad Meltzer
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After all, the fear is the thing which keep us alive, why do you want to get rid of it??
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Kuhl]
#23533218 - 08/11/16 10:49 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.
Cheri Huber
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23545192 - 08/15/16 08:02 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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"The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler's mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness." --Daniel Quinn
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