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"Overgrown military establishments are, under any form of government, inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."

George Washington

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."

Albert Einstein

"I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I had always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's okay, too. It's whatever suits you."

Clint Eastwood

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."

Ronald Reagan

"No one who has had Taps played for them has ever been able to hear it."

George Carlin

"You cannot change the world - you can only change yourself. And that is your greatest contribution to changing the world."

Lorena Johns
Science of Mind magazine

"Where Liberty is, there is my country."

Benjamin Franklin

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

Coco Chanel

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."

Benjamin Franklin

"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for it's interests as opposed to the interests of others."

Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY
1903 September 7

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There Is A Battle Of Two Wolves Inside Us All.

One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority, and ego.

The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and truth.

The wolf who wins?

The one you feed.

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"Let's celebrate Freedom, let's kill a little creature!"

Sheena Kaye Needham
(On Thanksgiving)

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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

"It is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."

~~~Thomas Henry Huxley

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Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.?

- The Imitation Game

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

--Bob Marley

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"....when a man is in turmoil, how shall he find peace,
save by staying patient till the stream clears?
How can a man's life keep its course if he will not let it flow?
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force:
They feel no wear, they feel no tear. They need no mending, no repair."

~~ Lao Tzu

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Conflict of the Opposites

I wonder if there is such a thing as evil? Please give your attention, go with me, let us inquire together. We say there is good and evil. There is envy and love, and we say that envy is evil and love is good. Why do we divide life, calling this good and that bad, thereby creating the conflict of the opposites? Not that there is not envy, hate, brutality in the human mind and heart, an absence of compassion, love, but why do we divide life into the thing called good and the thing called evil? Is there not actually only one thing, which is a mind that is inattentive? Surely, when there is complete attention, that is, when the mind is totally aware, alert, watchful, there is no such thing as evil or good; there is only an awakened state. Goodness then is not a quality, not a virtue, it is a state of love. When there is love, there is neither good nor bad, there is only love. When you really love somebody, you are not thinking of good or bad, your whole being is filled with that love. It is only when there is the cessation of complete attention, of love, that there comes the conflict between what I am and what I should be. Then that which I am is evil, and that which I should be is the so-called good.You watch your own mind and you will see that the moment the mind ceases to think in terms of becoming something, there is a cessation of action which is not stagnation; it is a state of total attention, which is goodness.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti
1895-1986
kfa.org
The Book of Life

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"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid."

~~Albert Einstein

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"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The real self is dangerous;

dangerous to the established CHURCH,

dangerous to the STATE,

dangerous to the CROWD,

dangerous to TRADITION,

because once a MAN knows his REAL SELF;

HE BECOMES AN INDIVIDUAL.

Osho

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"There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

Pablo Picasso