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member name: Bill Allin
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October 04, 2006 03:31 PM EDT --
"The thing that upsets people is not what happens but what they think it means."
- Epictetus, Stoic philosopher of ancient Greece (born into slavery, his real name is unknown--epiktetos in Greek . . .
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September 17, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"Circumstances do not make the man, they merely reveal himself to himself."
- Epictetus, Greek/Roman philosopher (c.55 – c.135 C.E.)
This assumes the desire and willingness to find out . . .
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October 05, 2006 10:44 AM EDT --
There are two ways to discuss religion. One is an intellectual discussion, with each party sharing facts (or "discoveries" believed to be facts) for the purpose of learning more—a shared . . .
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October 17, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
The folks who know the truth aren't talking.
The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.
- Tom Waits
Why is that? Some say that people who don't know much need to talk to fill . . .
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November 15, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, . . .
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August 30, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
- Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- )
"They" are bullies, though they may wear suits. Like more traditional . . .
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September 15, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
As odd as this quotation may sound, I believe it has merit.
In this case, "tolerance" . . .
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November 14, 2006 05:36 PM EST --
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
- Rita Mae Brown, American . . .
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March 16, 2008 08:49 PM EDT --
All You Need Is Love, according to the Beatles song. What does that mean?
We can't eat love. The sexual version provides a limited amount of exercise, though better if done in bright sunlight . . .
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August 26, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
Everyone you meet seems normal until you really get to know them.
The better you know them, the more abnormal, or at least "different," they seem.
It's safe to conclude from this that no . . .
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October 06, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
- Douglas Adams
Why on earth should we offer sincereity and . . .
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October 25, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
- Shirley MacLaine, actor and positive thinker
And yet we do it.
Dwelling on the negative makes us the only species to do so and . . .
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November 06, 2006 11:19 AM EST --
Wine and people can improve with age. But wine gets better only when it begins with good grapes.
Bill Allin
Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems, striving to grow . . .
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March 10, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent . . .
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December 02, 2007 06:19 PM EST --
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward
People like people who try to bring out the best in them. They may resent the methods . . .
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December 04, 2007 07:26 PM EST --
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And
few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward
restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more . . .
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December 24, 2007 07:32 PM EST --
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
As I write this on the eve of Christmas Day, 2007, I am reminded that peace across our . . .
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January 08, 2008 10:39 PM EST --
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968)
The irony of a blind woman advising people to look the world straight in the face delighted . . .
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January 17, 2008 07:24 AM EST --
Today I am sufficiently exhausted that I can understand and empathize with people who want to die.
What I have trouble with is understanding why people fear dying. I don't.
Following a . . .
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February 22, 2008 07:08 PM EST --
Gold doesn't do much, it just sits there looking pretty. Not its beauty so much as its inertness gives gold a large part of the value we place on the mineral.
Gold isn't unique to earth by . . .
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