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"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."
-- Stephen Colbert
 
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

-plato

wise people learn from other peoples mistake. smart people learn from their mistakes and fools just never learn----Goodlove
 
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Tarshi said:
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


Happiness is your Nature.
It is not wrong to Desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi ~


I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque

~ Bugs Bunny ~​
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"No, we do not love humanity; but on the other hand we are not nearly "German" enough, in the sense in which the word "German" is constantly being used nowadays, to advocate nationalism and race hatred and to be able to take pleasure in the national scabies of the heart and blood poisoning that now leads the nations of Europe to delimit and barricade themselves against each other as if it were a matter of quarantine. For that we are too open-minded, too malicious, too spoiled, also too well-informed, too "traveled": we far prefer to live on mountains, apart, "untimely," in past or future centuries, merely in order to keep ourselves from experiencing the silent rage to which we know we should be condemned as eyewitnesses of politics that are desolating the German spirit by making it vain and that is, moreover, petty politics:—to keep its own creation from immediately falling apart again, is it not finding it necessary to plant it between two deadly hatreds? must it not desire the eternalization of the European system of a lot of petty states? ... We who are homeless are too manifold and mixed racially and in our descent, being "modern men," and consequently do not feel tempted to participate in the mendacious racial self-admiration and racial indecency that parades in Germany today as a sign of a German way of thinking and that is doubly false and obscene among the people of the "historical sense." We are, in one word—and let this be our word of honor!— good Europeans, the heirs of Europe, the rich, oversupplied, but also overly obligated heirs of thousands of years of European spirit: as such, we have also outgrown Christianity and are averse to it, and precisely because we have grown out of it, because our ancestors were Christians who in their Christianity were uncompromisingly upright; for their faith they willingly sacrificed possessions and position, blood and fatherland. We—do the same. For what? For our unbelief? For every kind of unbelief? No, you know better than that, my friends! The hidden Yes in you is stronger than all Nos and Maybes that afflict you and your age like a disease; and when you have to embark on the sea, you emigrants, you, too, are compelled to this by— a faith! ..."

~ Excerpt from The Gay Science ~
 
"I think we make our own luck out of the coincidences that make up the fabric of every day living. People who have 'bad luck' tend to make self-damaging decisions in the face of those coincidences. People with average 'luck' see the really outstanding opportunities, and those with perpetual 'good luck' know how to take advantage of even the less obvious coincidences found in life." —Ben Sharkley
 
Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome." -Arthur Ashe
 
hntr18 said:
"Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome." -Arthur Ashe
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You have to have a certain kind of luck in order to carry optimism into your old age. It's easier to hold on to your optimism if you've been blessed...but if you've had some untimely deaths, if you have failed at romance, if the laws of probability have dropped some unfortunate stink bombs in the middle of your space, well, each one of those things sucks a little air out of the optimism balloon." —Bill Withers
 
It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." -Whitney Young
 
Very few now deny the probability of secession by the Cotton States, and South Carolina is given up as hopeless. Our national mottoes must be changed to “e pluribus duo” (at least) and “United we stand, divided we stand easier.” It is generally conceded, moreover, that if federal coercion be applied to a single seceding state, the whole South will range itself against the government.
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George Templeton Strong - November 19, 1860
 
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