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struggle4progress
Nov 2013
OP
Yeah, that says something important about not lettin the idiots strangle your self
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#6
Only $39.95! And if you call in the next 10 minutes, we'll double your order! Free!!
petronius
Nov 2013
#8
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)1. From Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)2. "There is...no taste possible."
Marcel Duchamp.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)3. One of my favorites
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
- Groucho Marx
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)4. "The creative adult is the child who survived." -Ursula K. Le Guin
This spoke to me earlier so much that it jumped right off the page and I created an OP based on it.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)6. Yeah, that says something important about not lettin the idiots strangle your self
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)5. Propaganda
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
― Lysander Spooner
― Lysander Spooner
The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.
― Ward Churchill
― Ward Churchill
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.
― Joseph Goebbels
― Joseph Goebbels
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
― John F. Kennedy
― John F. Kennedy
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
― B.W. Powe, Towards A Canada Of Light
― B.W. Powe, Towards A Canada Of Light
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
― Criss Jami
― Criss Jami
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
― Howard Zinn
― Howard Zinn
onestepforward
(3,691 posts)7. From Lily Tomlin:
"Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past."
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)11. +
Excellent!
petronius
(26,602 posts)8. Only $39.95! And if you call in the next 10 minutes, we'll double your order! Free!!
Not one, but two pithy statements! Not one, but two inane smileys!
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)9. "If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun." ~Katharine Hepburn
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)10. "Hell is other people" ~ Sartre
MissMillie
(38,560 posts)12. “There are only two ways to live your life.
...One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
― Albert Einstein
Rambis
(7,774 posts)13. 'The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they don't know the game.' Bill Shankly
Walk away
(9,494 posts)14. "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth" Mike Tyson