Thank YOU For My Star * " In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars. "

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Thank YOU For My Star * " In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars. "

" We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. "
Anais Nin

Thank YOU For My Star
:toast: :hi: :loveya: :pals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeIc7EzJNo&videos=9kOOotteSe8&playnext_from=TL&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuTYOB53xE0

A hint for those tired of "PC" :yoiks: (Political Correctness) the solution is simple.
Ye just need to RESET your attitude about PC. Yer just missing a few letters.

P C + R E S E T = R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Easy as A-B-C, 1-2-3, Do-Re-Mi, Baby You and Me!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo3aeXZFZkg

Nobel Lecture 7 December, 1983, William Golding
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/golding-lecture.html
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I don't feel hopeless myself. Indeed I tried to reverse the process by explaining myself. Under some critical interrogation I named myself a universal pessimist but a cosmic optimist.

I should have thought that anyone with an ear for language would understand that I was allowing more connotation than denotation to the word 'cosmic' though in derivation universal and cosmic mean the same thing. I meant, of course, that when I consider a universe which the scientist constructs by a set of rules which stipulate that this construct must be repeatable and identical, then I am a pessimist and bow down before the great god Entropy. I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.
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 Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders. It performs no less an act than the rescue and the preservation of the individuality and dignity of the single being, be it man, woman or child. No other art, I claim, can so thread in and out of a single mind and body, so live another life. It does ensure that at the very least a human being shall be seen to be more than just one billionth of one billion.
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  Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.  
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MORE:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/golding-lecture.html
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/literature/golding/

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" Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. "

" The great enemy of clear language is insincerity "

" To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. "

" Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. "

" All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. "

" Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. "

" Good writing is like a windowpane. "

George Orwell

" A picture is worth a thousand words. "
Napoleon Bonaparte

" All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. "
John Ruskin

" All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. "
Oscar Wilde

" There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. "
Anais Nin

" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "
Alexander Pope

" Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it. "
Mark Hollis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHUDNZD5N88&NR=1