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A)
Antiques
Antiques are things one generation buys, the
next generation gets rid off, and the following generation buys at auction at
amazing prices."
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Actions
"No action can really
be understood apart from motive which prompted it."
Arthur Schopenhauer. 1851.
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Algebra
Algebra was easy for the
Romans because "X" was always 10."
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B)
Brother
"No one could tell me where my soul may be; I
sought for God, but God eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three -
my soul, my God and all humanity".
C)
Change
Always changing and always the same
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Church
Don't gripe about church, if it was perfect, you
wouldn't be a member."
The Catholic Church is the only thing
which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
GK Chesterton
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Communism
No matter what is its assumed name, Communism is
always vowed against humanity.
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Compromise
Compromise is like a recipe with a
few ingredients in it, minus one - the one you like most.
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Conspiracy
The ‘cat’ does not want the ‘pigeons’ to notice.
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"It is also important for the State to
inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history;' for
a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of
responsibility for historical misdeeds."
--Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State
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Or you say: Oh! I do not believe it. So....
"When a truck is heading at you at 90 miles an
hour, do you try to get out of its way, or do you just say, “Oh, I can’t think
about that truck hitting me. It’s just “fear based” information.”
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"If something looks like a conspiracy,
sounds like a conspiracy, acts like a conspiracy, feels like a conspiracy, and
smells rotten like a conspiracy, it probably is a conspiracy."
My
denouement follows the classic description of a duck that we know so well.
From Doug's Denouement.
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For in much wisdom is much grief; and he
who increases knowledge increases pain. ...but the excellency of knowledge is
that wisdom gives life to those who have it.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 7:12
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Conscience
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad
memory.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other
parts feel so good.
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Conservative
"The business of Progressives is to go on
making mistakes.
The business of Conservatives is to
prevent mistakes from being corrected."
G.K. Chesterton
Leo C. Rosen proclaims that: “A
conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead”.
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Control
"Who controls the food supply controls the
people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls
money can control the world."
~ Henry Kissinger
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The most secret knowledge, a science which
outdates history, is the science of control over people, governments and
civilizations. The foundation of this ultimate discipline is the control of
wealth. Through the control of wealth comes the control of public information
and the necessities of life. Through the control of news media comes thought
control. Through the control of basic necessities comes direct physical control
of people.
An Anonymous Transcriber
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Crime
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Alfred E. Newman
D)
Deception
"The voice is of Jacob, but the hands...they are
Esau's". [Gen 27:22]
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Democracy
Karl
Marx said that democracy is the fastest route to socialism.
"Let the
people think they govern and they will be governed." William Penn
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual
ignorance." Henry Louis Mencken
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on
what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
~ Benjamin Franklin, leader of the American
Revolution
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"The best argument against democracy is a
five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill
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Death
[and taxes]
There will always be death and taxes;
however, death doesn't get worse every year.
..........
"They said: even when I am five years old,
death is telling me that I can profit by it. If I keep it in mind, I live my
life fully. If I accept the trumped-up values of a culture that wants to conceal
death, I will die without ever having truly lived."
Seneca Socrates (?)
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Disaster
[on economy & finance]
"A thing long expected takes the form of the
unexpected when at last it comes." (Mark
Twain)
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Discernment
"The practice of discernment is part of higher
consciousness.
Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's
curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man
reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one
reveals what he has mastered."--
Quote from 'Love Without End' by Glenda Green
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Disinformation
"We'll know our disinformation program is
complete when
everything the American public believes is false."
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
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Doctors
"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the
sea, it would be that much better for our patients and that much worse for the
fishes." Oliver Wendell
Holmes, M.D.
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"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you
anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within."
Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
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Doctors give drugs of which they know little,
into bodies, of which they know less,
for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
Voltaire
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The carpenter desires timber, the physician
disease.
Rig Veda IX. 7.9)
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Duty
"Duty is the
sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more.
You should never wish to do less." (Inscribed beneath Robert Edward
Lee's bust in the Hall of Fame)
E)
Economics
[Politicians & Bad economics]
An old
joke has a farmer telling
his newly elected congressman as he boards the train for Washington, "Remember,
Bill, that you can't cure dysentery with adhesive tape!" Today, the answer would
be, "If you use enough tape, Sam, nobody will be able to tell the difference!"
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All wars are economic in origin.
-- Bernard Baruch
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Education
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
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Effects
No doubt, this chain of events in the housing
market will be described as a side effect of the new bankruptcy law. The
biologist Garrett Hardin once wrote that there are no side effects. There are
only effects. Those effects that are both unpleasant and unexpected are called
side effects.
From “Looming Credit Squeeze On American Banks”
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Entertainment
It now
cost more to amuse a child that it once did to educate his father
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Evil
He who passively accepts evil is as much
involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it
--- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I believe all of history is just one big battle
between good and evil. I
don't want to be on the sidelines."
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"Chi è causa dei propri mali pianga
sè stesso"
un antico adagio
F)
Facts
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are
ignored."
-Aldous Huxley
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Feto
«Sai quando un feto ebreo diventa
umano? Quando si laurea in medicina ».
Woody Allen
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Food
"One fourth of what you eat keeps you alive.
The other three-fourths keep your doctor alive." (Hieroglyph
found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.)
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Freedom
There is no such thing as freedom of choice
unless there is freedom to refuse.
David Hume
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Friend
Don't walk in front of me, I may not
follow. Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
[Please keep this candle alive]
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A true friend reaches for your hand and touches
your heart
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"The most beautiful discovery two friends can
make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
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Fruit
"Forbidden fruit developed a sweet fragrance".
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Future
"Who controls the past controls the future".
George Orwell
G)
God
(Wisdom teaches) “God writes straight with
crooked lines.”
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Good
"I believe all of history is just one big battle
between good and evil. I
don't want to be on the sidelines."
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Gospel/Vangelo
Ego vero Evangelio non crederem, nisi me
Catholicae Ecclesiae
commoveret auctoritas
Saint Augustine
I
wouldn’t believe the Gospel, had it not been given to me by the authority of the
Catholic Church.
Invero io stesso non crederei al
Vangelo, se non mi spingesse a credere l’autorità della Chiesa cattolica
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Governments
"How fortunate for governments that the
people they administer don't think"
(Adolf Hitler)
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“Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like
fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master!” —George Washington
H)
Health
"One fourth of what you eat keeps you
alive. The other three-fourths keep your doctor alive."
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"And
we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names
for our diseases." Plato
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How can I get thinner? Give up lunch and dinner.
Alan Sherman
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"It is no measure of health to be sane in an
insane society." Krishnamurti
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Heart
When your heart speaks take good notes.
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"You cannot be in two places at once, they say.
Then how is it that you are there and in my heart at the same time?"
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Help
If you really want to help this world, what you
will have to teach is how to live in it.
Joseph Campbell
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History
History has been written in blood, not
with ink. Harold Wallace Rosenthal [theNeo-Kahn]
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"I believe all of history is just one big
battle between good and evil. I
don't want to be on the sidelines." Tom Monaghan [founder of Domino's Pizza]
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“God writes straight with crooked lines.”
*************
"He
who controls the past controls the future." George Orwell
'History is a set of agreed-upon lies.' Napoleon
[Or this one:]
History is a string of lies!
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History Of Man:
From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to
Great courage
From courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to selfishness
From selfishness to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependency
From dependency back to bondage. -
Alexander Tytler
HUMAN RESPECT
"I have less to fear from open impiety than from
religious indifference and human respect."
Pope
Pius XI in relation to La Salette secrets c. 1851
I)
Idea
"The resistance to a new idea increases as the
square of its importance." Bertrand
Russell
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Immigrant
Thought for the day: Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is
like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
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Injustice
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint
the great ones to public office." Aesop
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INTEGRITY
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
and knowledge without integrity is dreadful. Samuel Johnson
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Information
“The
information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend
newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think
this is the time to put some restrictions on it.” —U.S. Senator James Exon
J)
Jew
[Ebreo]
«Sai quando un feto ebreo diventa
umano? Quando si laurea in medicina ».
Woody Allen
Justice
{It opposite: injustice}
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint
the great ones to public office." Aesop
K)
Knowledge
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he
who increases knowledge increases pain. ...but the excellency of knowledge is
that wisdom gives life to those who have it.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 7:12
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It's not what we don't know, that gets
us in the end - it's what we do know,
that just ain't so.
Author Unknown
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There is no bar to knowledge greater
than contempt prior to examination.
— Herbert Spencer
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"He who
knows nothing is nearer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"Arming yourself with Knowledge is the best form
of defense."
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“My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you
have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have
ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.”
—Hosea 4:6
"Our vision is more obstructed by what we
think we know than by our lack of knowledge".
[Kristen
Stendahl]
"Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens".
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L)
Law
"Those who forsake the law praise the wicked;
But such as keep the law contend with them."
Proverbs 28:4
"When you go into court you are putting your
fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury
duty." - Norm Crosby
(JUDGE:) A law student who marks his own papers. - H. L. Mencken
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its
efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who
don't know anything and can't read." - Mark Twain
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a
good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the
table." - Jean Kerr
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning
to tolerate fools."
- Doris Lessing
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." - Benjamin Disraeli
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Liberal
"The business of Progressives is to go on
making mistakes.
The business of Conservatives is to
prevent mistakes from being corrected." G.K. Chesterton
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Lie
A lie is like the pupil of the eye; the more
light you shed upon it, the more it will contract.
Elanah K. Mijosa
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"The reality is, if
we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to
keep lying forever." -- Rabbi
Wayne Dosick
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Lives
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another
one in the bank. (Ben
Irwin)
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Lobby
"A lobby is like a night flower: it thrives in
the dark
and dies in the sun."
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Love
"When the power of love becomes stronger
than the love of power, we will have peace."
Jimi Hendrix
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If you have it [love],
you don't need to have anything else.
If you don't have it,
it doesn't matter much what else you do have.
- Sir James M. Barrie -
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"You cannot be in two places at once, they
say. Then how is it that you are there and in my heart at the same time?"
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For one human being to love another that is
perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof;
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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The person who tries to live alone will not
succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds
no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck
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Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
~ Steve Winwood
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Luck
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets
opportunity.” 1st century
AD philosopher, Seneca
M)
Marriage
Trouble in marriage often starts when a man is
so busy earning his salt that he forgets his sugar.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife,
you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-- Socrates
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Medicine
I find medicine is the best of all trades
because whether you do any good or not you still get your money.
(Moliere: "A Physician in Spite
of Himself," 1664)
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Minds
"The third-rate mind is only happy
when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy
when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when
it is thinking."
-A.A. Milne (1882-1956)
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Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss and gossip about other people.
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Don't let your mind wander. It is too little to
be left alone."
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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss
events; Small minds discuss people”
[Eleanor
Roosevelt quotes:
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotations/mind/]
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Miracles
'There
are only two ways to live your life. One, is as though there are
no miracles. The other is as though everything is a miracle.'
Albert Einstein
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Mistakes
The same mistakes are made endlessly, if a
price-tag is not put on them.
[Recollections: on 'Vi']
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Money
"If I can print the money, I don't
care who makes the laws." [Rothschild]
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I am having an out of money experience.
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Mother
A mother holds her children's hands for a while,
their hearts forever.
N)
Nation
“A nation can survive its fools and even
the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within...”
Cicero (106-43BC)
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News
"We'll know our disinformation program is
complete when everything the public believes is false."
William Casey, CIA Director (first staff meeting, 1981)
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New World Order
{or Mondialismo}
Il Mondialismo
{by} Maurizio Lattanzio
«Il mondo si divide in tre categorie
di persone: un piccolissimo numero che produce gli avvenimenti; un gruppo un
poco più numeroso che vigila alla loro esecuzione e ne segue il compimento, e,
infine, una stragrande maggioranza che non conosce mai ciò che si è prodotto in
realtà»
P)
Party
Till nine, everybody is happy to stay;
Till eleven, everyone is as kind as to be
gay;
Till midnight, everyone is tipsy enough,
ending up in a hay stay
[brothel, Stew, Cathouse].
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Passions
"A man who governs his passions is master of the
world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them."
Saint Dominic
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Peace
"When the power of love becomes stronger than
the love of power, we will have peace."
Jimi Hendrix
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People
"Hurt people hurt people. Whole people heal
people."
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Picture
A picture speaks louder than a thousand words.
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Place
"You cannot be in two places at once, they
say. Then how is it that you are there and in my heart at the same time?"
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Prayer
To pray better you have to pray more. To pray
more is your decision, but to pray better is a grace from God given to those who
pray more. Ivan Dragicevic
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Print
The small print takes away what the big print
grants!"
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Politics
Politics is the art of the possible.
Aristotle
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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Alfred E. Newman
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"Appeasers believe that
if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a
vegetarian." Heywood Brown
La politica è l'azzuffarsi dei
cani sull'osso del potere, gettato loro dai banchieri.
-- anonimo inglese, 1896
Politics is a dogfight over the bone of
power, thrown by the bankers.
-- anonimo inglese, 1896
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'If something happens in politics, you can bet
it was planned that way". Roosevelt
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Politicians
Politicians and diapers have one thing in
common.
They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
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[Politician & bad economics]
An old joke has a farmer telling
his newly elected congressman as he boards the train for Washington, "Remember,
Bill, that you can't cure dysentery with adhesive tape!" Today, the answer would
be, "If you use enough tape, Sam, nobody will be able to tell the difference!"
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POLITICAL POWER
"In a developed society...the seizure of
political power is not possible until after the seizure of cultural power."
Antonio Gramsci [Italian Party Communist leader]
*****
I politici non sono altro che i
camerieri dei banchieri.
Politicians are nothing but the bankers’
stewards --
Ezra Pound
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Path to Power
"It gives
me great secret pleasure to know the people are unaware of what is really
happening."
(Adolf Hitler)
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Picture
A picture says a thousand words - good or bad
A picture is worth a thousand words
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Power
"History confirms the fact that the passions of
an aroused minority, no matter how small a group, have exerted enough power to
topple the greatest empire. The movements that control destiny are not those
that rest on the inactive majority; but on the sheer force of an active
minority. Will is power, not numbers, for a strong will always rule the masses!"
(In examining the extent of Jewish power and control over America Henry Ford
stated this control "can be explained only by the Jewish Will to Power."
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"Public Opinion"
"If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is
still a foolish thing."
--Anatole France
Problems
"The significant problems we face can never be
solved at the level of thinking that created them" ... Albert Einstein
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend
to see every problem as a nail.
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Propaganda
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their
minds while
withholding some of the facts." Harold
Evans
R)
Rainbow
"If there are no tears in the eyes, there will
be no rainbow in the soul."
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REVOLUTION
Revolutions are effected in two ways , by force and by fraud.
Aristotle
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Radical
“A
conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead”. Leo
C. Rosen
The notion that a radical is one who hates his
country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his
country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us
when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a
good citizen driven to despair.
H.L. Mencken
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Right and wrong
"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing
it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it."
-St. Augustine Doctor of the Church
S)
Salvation
Three things are necessary for the salvation of
man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to
know what he ought to do... Saint
Thomas Aquinas
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Scandal
St.
Thomas teaches: It may be necessary to expose scandals “in order that they who
are reproved may be made manifest.”
(II, II, q. 43, a. 2, ad 1).
School
"School Is the advertising agency which
makes you believe that you need the society as it is."
Ivan Illich
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Sickness
The old Chinese saying is: "When you are sick of
sickness, you are no longer sick."
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Silence
"Qui
tacet consentire videtur" - "He who keeps silent apparently approves".
Simplicity
"Simplicity without a name
Is free from all external aim.
With no desire, at rest and still,
All things go right as of their will."
Tao Teh King by Lao-Tzu
Slavery
The
Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery
of being a child of his age.
GK Chesterton
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Socialism
Karl
Marx said that democracy is the fastest route to socialism.
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Society
"It is no measure of health to be sane in an
insane society." Krishnamurti
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"School Is the advertising agency which
makes you believe that you need the society as it is."
Ivan Illich
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Soul
"No one could tell me where my soul may be; I
sought for God, but God eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three -
my soul, my God and all humanity.”
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SOLDI
Un detto popolare afferma: in cielo
regna il Dio trino, in terra il dio quattrino. In verità anche in cielo, cioè
nell'elemento celato dell'interiorità umana, domina oggi ancora il "dio
quattrino".
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Seeing
"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Specialist
The specialist is one who never makes small
mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy."
-- Marshall McLuhan
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Stupidity
As Einstein once said, "Only two things are
infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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Success
"The secret to success is to own nothing, but
control everything."
--Nelson Rockefeller
T)
Tears
"If there are no tears in the eyes, there will
be no rainbow in the soul."
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Think
"Formerly no one was
allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any
more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this
they consider freedom."
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Treason
“A nation can survive its fools and even the
ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within...”
Cicero (106-43BC)
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Treason never prospers; what’s the reason?
For when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
Sir John Fortescue.
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TRUTH
Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.
[from the Talmud quoted in Polano, p. 92]
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It is one thing to put a man in possession of
the truth, to get him to understand it is another, and to get him to act upon it
is another still. Truth by itself has no value unless used or applied in some
way.
[From Harold Wallace Rosenthal - NeoKahn]
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How do we distinguish truth from lies?
The truth does not need protection!
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"He
who knows nothing is nearer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
Thomas Jefferson
*****
I speak the truth
Not as much as I would,
But as much as I dare.
And.....I dare
a little more as I grow older.
(Source unknown)
*****
"The exact contrary of what is generally
believed is often the truth."-
Jean de la Bruyère
*****
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the
truth is a revolutionary act."
--George Orwell
________________
"Never tell the truth to people who are not
worthy of it." - Mark Twain
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TELLING PEOPLE....
Tell people something they know already, and
they will thank you for it. Tell them something new, and they will hate you for
it.
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"In our search for truth let us not be
influenced by what is easiest to believe."
*********
Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.
If you can't talk about it, it must be true.
La verita' e' odio per coloro
che odiano la verita'
Se tu non puoi parlarne, allora
deve essere vero.
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Taboo
In the words of Sigmund Freud, "The violation of
the taboo makes the offender himself taboo."
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Taxes
There will always be death and taxes;
however, death doesn't get worse every year.
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"The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only
have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever." -- Rabbi Wayne Dosick
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Tyranny
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for
people of good conscience
to remain silent"
-- Thomas Jefferson -
U)
UNITED NATIONS
"No one will enter the New World Order unless he
or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age
unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation."
David Spangler,
Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations
V)
Voting
"It's not the votes that count, it's who counts
the votes."
-- Josef Stalin --
W)
Weeds
What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Emerson
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Wind
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
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Wisdom
Knowledge speaks, wisdom listen".
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Wishes
(But, alas,) "if wishes were horses, beggars
would ride."
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WORLD
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not
because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do
anything about it." - Albert
Einstein -
Write
“God writes straight with crooked lines.”
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Wrong and right
"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing
it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it."
-St. Augustine Doctor of the Church
Y)
YOUTH
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to
instruct him to hold in
higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality Check By Gary North 8-23-5
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