Tag: tia
member name: Bill Allin
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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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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 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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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 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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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 10, 2006 05:02 PM EDT --
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
- John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
Locke, an educated man, was concerned . . .
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September 22, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
- Vincent Van Gogh
I am convinced . . .
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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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October 23, 2006 03:36 PM EDT --
Nobody has died of old age in the USA for the past half century. That category of cause of death was eliminated in 1951.
Now everyone must die "from" something.
There is only one real cause . . .
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November 17, 2006 06:56 PM EST --
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little . . .
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February 10, 2007 07:47 PM EST --
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Since Mencken's time medical science . . .
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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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March 13, 2008 07:20 PM EDT --
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who
is but a reflection of human frailty.
-Albert Einstein, . . .
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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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August 31, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller, best known for buckyballs and geodesic domes, disliked the common ways . . .
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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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October 01, 2006 09:03 PM EDT --
Doubt everything at least once, even the proposition that two times two equals four.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
Are you serious, Georg? [pronounced Gay - org] . . .
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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 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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