~124C41


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~ "Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies : Love."
~ Patsy Cline

~ "To live in the hearts of those left behind is not to die."
~ Author unknown

~ "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it isn't the end."
~ Patrick Star

~ "The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in
the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed
in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in
order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how
it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy."
~ Andrew Sullivan

~ When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the
community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a
political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the
state itself. To hold otherwise - to deny the political character of
the modern corporation - is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to
disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are the students who
instruct in error. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it
is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the
arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he
or she is, or will be, governed.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

~ "Questions are a burden to others, answers a prison for oneself"
~ Author unknown but gleaned from a sign 'In the Village'

~ " I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!"
~ Number Six

~ " Who controls the past controls the future . . .
. . . who controls the present controls the past."
~ George Orwell

~ "Caro m' è 'l sonno, e più l'esser di sasso, Mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura:
Non veder, non sentir, m' è gran ventura;
Però non mi destar, deh! parla basso"
~ ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
Translation ~
~ "Welcome is sleep, more welcome the sleep of stone.
Whilst crime and shame continue in the land;
My happy fortune, not to see or hear;
Waken me not - in mercy, whisper low."
~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

~ "Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But it is nearly impossible for a man to try to live without hope, so I guess that leaves Man no choice but to walk around with despair as his companion."
~ Kagetoki Kariya, Samurai chanpurû

~"We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men."
~ Rudolph Rocker

~"Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour?"
~ Robert Owen

~ War is Peace
(War for the masses = Peace for the elite)
Freedom is Slavery
(Slavery for the masses = Freedom for the elite)
Ignorance is Strength
(Ignorance for the masses = Strength for the elite)
~ Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

~ "It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So man is an individual only because of his own undefinable memory. But memory cannot be defined, yet it defines mankind. The advent of computers and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought, parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization."
~ Puppet Master from "Ghost in the Shell"

~ "We shall pass this way on Earth but once, if there is any kindness we can show, or good act we can do, let us do it now, for we will never pass this way again."
~ Stephen Grellet

~ "Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once".
~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. ii

~ "By "nationalism" I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled "good" or "bad." ... By "patriotism" I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseperable from the desire for power.
~ George Orwell

~ "The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of
the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds
of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of
these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be
exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts,
wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change.
This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people
no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for
corporations. - How is this?"
~ Rutherford B. Hayes


~ "If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more
powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may
be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light
and a power."
~ Henry George

~ What voice revisits me this night? What face
To my heart's room returns?
>From the perpetual silence where the
grace
Of human sainthood burns
Hastes he once more to harmonise and heal?
I
know not. Only I feel
His influence undiminished
And his life's work, in me and many,
unfinished.
~ Siegfried Sassoon

~ All men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but
because love exists in man.

I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should
live; now I understood more than that.

I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore
he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he
wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what
is necessary for all.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by
care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He
who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
~ Leo Tolstoy

~"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the
greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."
~ Denis Diderot

~ The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to
express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity,
suppression, and obedience.
~ William O. Douglas

~ He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn,
or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one
grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential
service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put
together.
~ Jonathan Swift

~ Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets
their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful
soaring free.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold

~ They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the
sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no
dominion.
~ Dylan Thomas

~ "Just as luck appears in three, so does misfortune.
Because you dont wanna see it, you dont see it coming.
Even if you notice it, you dont say anything.
Even if you're told, you dont listen.
Then boom, the end comes!"
~ Author unknown

~ "All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who
utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases
are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who
blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an
existence."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

~ The God of glory called Abraham, and Abraham was attracted
and caught by that glory. The principle is the same with us
today. We all have been caught by the Lord in His invisible
glory. We have been captured by His glory, and we cannot
escape.

~ Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the
far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards
for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A
moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.☆
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Just a few random quotes that I found appealing."
~ 124C41

~ [Thanks to all that have given me a "Thumb's Up" ! I truly appreciate them . I try to verify all answers by cross-reference be it from the internet or paper mediums .
Anyone ever read this? - - just wondering .
The very best of health and happiness to you ! ]
~ 124C41