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July 11, 2014 at 12:39 am #810660
miwsParticipantJuly 11, 2014 at 1:34 am #810661
elikapekaParticipant“No matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius or Buckaroo Banzai
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”- Abraham Lincoln
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
July 11, 2014 at 3:07 am #810662
elikapekaParticipantI forgot my favorite!
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
– Mark Twain
July 11, 2014 at 4:55 am #810663
clark5080ParticipantChristianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
CS Lewis
July 11, 2014 at 4:55 am #810664
clark5080ParticipantJuly 11, 2014 at 6:51 am #810665
WSBKeymaster“Luminous beings are we – not this crude matter.” – Yoda
July 11, 2014 at 1:03 pm #810666
wakefloodParticipantJuly 11, 2014 at 1:15 pm #810667
wakefloodParticipantJuly 11, 2014 at 1:19 pm #810668
pelicansParticipant“Give ’em while they can smell ’em.”
-Ken Kesey
“The world won’t come to you. You must go to the world.”
-Unknown 98 year old woman
July 11, 2014 at 1:51 pm #810669
PibalParticipant“I gotta get me one of these!”
– Movie: “Independence Day”
“Build it and they will come.”
– Movie: “Field of Dreams”
“Go manual.”
– Movie: “Star Wars”
“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.”
– Captain Alfred Gilmer Lamplugh, British Aviation Insurance Group
July 11, 2014 at 8:12 pm #810670
wakefloodParticipant“Your mind is totally controlled
it has been stuffed into our mold
and you will do as you are told
until the rights to you are sold”
FZ
July 11, 2014 at 8:44 pm #810671
lindaParticipant“I’m an able person, I can do these things.” John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever
July 11, 2014 at 9:55 pm #810672
dobroParticipantIf you strive to become a good human being, with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life…just MAYBE you’ll become a great musician.
-Charlie Haden, a truly great musician, who passed away today.
July 11, 2014 at 11:21 pm #810673
wakefloodParticipantThanks for that post, Dobro. Another unsung hero of important music gone. So sorry to hear of his passing. I’ll go dig out some of his stuff this weekend and hoist a toast. Thankfully he passed along his great musical genes to his progeny. Truly, a life well-lived.
July 12, 2014 at 3:15 am #810674
metrognomeParticipant‘These are not the Droids you’re looking for’
– clerk in the cell phone store (apologies to whichever cartoonist I stole that from; Glenn McCoy who pens “The Duplex,” I think.
July 12, 2014 at 3:25 am #810675
metrognomeParticipantJust as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.
– John Steinbeck, ‘Travels with Charley’
outstanding book, well worth reading to get a perspective on American life from 50+ years ago before interstate freeways, commercial air travel and mega-corporations changed everything. Also recommend ‘Blue Highways’ by Wm. Least Heat Moon, who patterned the book after TWC.
July 12, 2014 at 3:29 am #810676
metrognomeParticipant‘To laugh often and much; To win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children. To leave the world a better place. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.’
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
July 12, 2014 at 3:38 am #810677
metrognomeParticipantand finally, at least for this go-around, my 3 favorites to counteract the constant noise and interruptions of our modern hyper-connected world:
With an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy
We see into the life of things.
– Wordsworth
Out in the shallows
a blue heron
suggested how
we ought to listen.
– Nelson Bentley (I think this is from a Metro Transit poetry competition)
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
– W. B. Yeats
July 12, 2014 at 4:03 pm #810678
redblackParticipantJuly 12, 2014 at 7:51 pm #810679
wakefloodParticipantTruly, the dude abides.
July 12, 2014 at 7:52 pm #810680
wakefloodParticipantJuly 12, 2014 at 9:37 pm #810681
JanSParticipantjust saw this….and liked it :)
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
–Winnie the Pooh
July 13, 2014 at 6:12 am #810682
seaopgalParticipantJuly 13, 2014 at 2:12 pm #810683
anonymeParticipantI hope in the future Americans are thought of as warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick “Americans” as their mascot.
If you ever go temporarily insane, don’t shoot somebody like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you’d really be surprised.
When you go for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.
–Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”
July 13, 2014 at 9:46 pm #810684
metrognomeParticipant“The poet is the wick in the lamp of the community. Not the oil, and not the flame; but the simple piece of cloth that unites the two so that the people can see their own light.” (Irish proverb; quoted in Jody Aliesan’s obituary)
álíesan: to loosen, set free, deliver, liberate, redeem, release, ransom, absolve (Old English).
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