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Post by Pac on Jun 2, 2006 15:34:18 GMT -5
Sweet.
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Post by Vable on Sept 18, 2006 21:28:33 GMT -5
"In this unamicable contest the cause of truth cannot but suffer. The really good arguments on each side of the question are not allowed to have their proper weight. Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
Thomas Malthus
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Post by Rabbit on Dec 19, 2006 13:49:20 GMT -5
To end world hunger, to rid the world of human atrocities, to bring peace to those in suffering…these things are the self-evident, patently obvious necessities of human existence. They are in fact, basic human truths. Yet, when one begins to preach on the Good Samaritan, we call his words ‘cliché,’ unrealistic, or we label him with that dreaded term…an idealist. But it is precisely because we do nothing for the betterment of others that we have come to trivialize those attempts, to call them ‘cliché.’ We have a way of looking at our responsibility towards those in need, and then finding a way of flippantly censuring the idealist in order to pacify our consciences, to pad ourselves from any moral (and perhaps spiritual) obligation; to alleviate the ethical dilemma between our conscience and our actions; to minimize our accountability towards serving the impoverished, to justify our desire to do nothing; to draw boundaries (however real, however imaginary) between nations, and then to sigh…our hands are tied.
Written after listening to Bush's speech on the African Aids epidemic
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Post by Vable on Dec 19, 2006 16:41:19 GMT -5
"Go see it and see for yourself why you shoulden't see it" Sam Goldwyn
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Post by Chad Manning on Apr 18, 2007 10:35:06 GMT -5
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone." --Audrey Hepburn, Academy Award-winning actress, humanitarian
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Post by dgarleigh on Jun 18, 2008 13:18:30 GMT -5
This is a Personnal Favorite movie Quote of mine It has impacted my life persception greatly. This quote was said by Dartannan from the muskateers in Alexander Dumbas'es Man In The Iron Mask to his tyrant King Louie his illegitamate son who was.
"I was once told by a friend of mine that everytime I draw my sword, I am not to consider what I am about to kill, but what I am allowing to live".
I highly recommend Lianardo Decaprio's "Man in the Iron Mask" movie quite possibly my favorite movie aside from Braveheart.
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Post by Rabbit on Jun 25, 2008 16:11:26 GMT -5
It is exceptional states that condition the artist- all of them profoundly related to and interlaced with morbid phenomena- so it seems impossible to be an artist and not to be sick.
~Nietzsche, Will to Power
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