Tag: drugs
member name: Bill Allin
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June 30, 2006 07:40 PM EDT --
The purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone they become no more than beasts.
- Saint Sophia
Though Saint Sophia lived in the dying days of the . . .
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July 24, 2006 07:18 PM EDT --
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus, historian (c.55-c.120)
Human nature easily qualifies as the most peculiar characteristic of nature. Whether or not we . . .
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September 23, 2006 03:29 PM EDT --
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
- George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)
The subject of the fashion industry makes be uncomfortable . . .
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November 04, 2006 06:00 PM EST --
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
Margaret Mead was an . . .
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March 17, 2007 07:31 PM EDT --
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
- Norm Papernick
A sobering thought for consideration. Mr. Papernick is not someone around . . .
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February 17, 2008 05:52 PM EST --
If you want to know how powerful the pharmaceutical industry is, such that it gets the nickname Big Pharma, ask yourself why good health practices are not taught in schools and supported by curriculum . . .
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January 03, 2008 09:46 AM EST --
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us.
- Socrates , Greek philosopher (470 BCE-399 BCE)
Socrates didn't really . . .
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July 07, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
Blind and deaf from the age of 19 months, Helen Adams Keller knew what it was like to have . . .
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July 12, 2006 04:56 PM EDT --
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline for life would no longer teach me anything.
- Alyson Jones
Therein lies the secret to life.
While so many people . . .
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March 02, 2008 08:35 PM EST --
"He only did what he had to do," a line from Waylon and Willie's Poncho and Lefty , stands out from among the others as my earworm of the day plays over and over in my head.
I don't . . .
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March 03, 2008 06:22 PM EST --
I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you. . . .
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February 19, 2007 07:27 PM EST --
All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. And you have to be really self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.
- William Gibson
What is he talking about? . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:11 PM EDT --
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
- Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1804-81) . . .
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July 05, 2006 05:50 PM EDT --
"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."
- Howard Scott
Though this quotation was intended to be humourous in its original position, . . .
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February 11, 2007 05:25 PM EST --
"You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself."
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Most of us have wondered from time to time about people who never seem to be pleased with . . .
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December 22, 2007 06:05 PM EST --
The tourist business is overrun with people bored with themselves.
- Joan Clark, An Audience of Chairs
A majority of people on vacation have one of two possible objectives: to relax and have fun . . .
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June 04, 2008 05:47 PM EDT --
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
Let's look at some examples. . . .
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May 30, 2008 06:12 PM EDT --
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.
- Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar, American author, motivational speaker (b. 1926)
While I am . . .
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July 15, 2008 08:48 PM EDT --
As I write this I am experiencing a high level of anxiety brought about by stress from many different sources over a period of several weeks, my present purpose being to convey not my feelings . . .
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July 25, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. - Simone Weil , French philosopher, mystic, activist (1909-1943)
I have never met a person who, as a child, wanted to grow up to be a criminal, a drug . . .
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