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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 09:31 AM Jun 2012

A thought

"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing -- for the sheer fun and joy of it -- to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it."

-- I.F. Stone (1907-1989)
Investigative journalist

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jwirr

(39,215 posts)
3. I am old enough to remember a time when bills in congress started years before and took many
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 10:54 AM
Jun 2012

tries to get them passed. Someone like Bernie Saunders would be far ahead of his time and understand what was needed and introduce a bill that everyone else thought was stupid. As the need became more apparent each year it gained votes until finally it got passed. Of course we did not have an obstructive gop then.

mopinko

(70,260 posts)
4. i was bitching to a friend about some troubles with the city,
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 11:22 AM
Jun 2012

expecting sympathy for the idiotic policies i am dealing with, but he just looked up at me and said "you love that stuff".
dang. caught.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
12. ALDONZA: Why do you do these things?
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 04:25 PM
Jun 2012

DON QUIXOTE
What things?

ALDONZA
These ridiculous... the things you do!

DON QUIXOTE
I hope to add some measure of grace to the world.

ALDONZA
The world's a dung heap and we are maggots that crawl on it!

DON QUIXOTE
My Lady knows better in her heart.

ALDONZA
What's in my heart will get me halfway to hell.
And you, Señor Don Quixote-you're going to take
such a beating!

DON QUIXOTE
Whether I win or lose does not matter.

ALDONZA
What does?

DON QUIXOTE
Only that I follow the quest.

ALDONZA
(spits)
That for your Quest!
(turns, marches away; stops, turns bock
and asks, awkwardly)
What does that mean... quest?

DON QUIXOTE
It is the mission of each true knight...
His duty... nay, his privilege!
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go;
To right the unrightable wrong.

To love, pure and chaste, from afar,
To try, when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!

This is my Quest to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for the right
Without question or pause,
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause!

And I know, if I'll only be true
To this glorious Quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest.

And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach the unreachable stars!


--From 'Man of La Mancha'

tex-wyo-dem

(3,190 posts)
13. Thanks for the quote, pinboy3niner....
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 12:19 AM
Jun 2012

Perfect...

It's not winning and losing that is necessarily important...if the cause is just and is rooted in compassion for other's well-being, then there is no "losing."

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