What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
-Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch. 2, 1963

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
~Anna Quindlen

~I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.~

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
- e e cummings

Conferred the Walrus Memorial Award - 6th April, 2004.

"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot."
-- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, American playwright (1888-1953)

~I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.~

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
- e e cummings

Conferred the Walrus Memorial Award - 6th April, 2004.

If the truth becomes too difficult to handle, and the expression of one's opinions of truth aren't what you want to hear, then silence those opinions, silence the voice of truth.....for then and only then will you no longer have to face it, and truth no longer exists.
~Song_bird 2-13-09

~I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.~

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
- e e cummings

Conferred the Walrus Memorial Award - 6th April, 2004.

"My door is always open-bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.”

Robert F.

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/robert_f._six/

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.
~ Stephen Colbert

~I intend to live forever -- so far, so good.~

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
- e e cummings

Conferred the Walrus Memorial Award - 6th April, 2004.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
~Abraham Lincoln

February 12, 2009, was 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

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Brevity is the soul of wit.
~William Shakespeare

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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John F. Kennedy

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

EVOLUTION OF NATIONS
Great nations rise and fall.
The people go from bondage to spiritual truth,
from spiritual truth to great courage,
from great courage to liberty,
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to selfishness,
from selfishness to complacency,
from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependence,
and from dependence back again to bondage!
-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881).

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

In dealing with cunning persons, we must ever consider their ends, to interpret their speeches; and it is good to say little to them, and that which they least look for.-Francis Bacon

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.
~ Michael Lerner, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers

There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path.
Already you are the monarch of your own skin.
Your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs.
A politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.
-- Hakim Bey

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~
We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

"You ain't no kind of man if you don't own land."

Delmar, (from the movie, Oh Brother Where art Thou [inspired by the Odyssey])

Charles Eastman: And now you speak of coercion. I don't understand.
Henry Dawes: If we don't put that land into the hands of individual Indians in five years- less-homesteaders and ranchers will demand it all... for nothing. The Indian must own his own piece of earth, Charles.
Charles Eastman: Did you know that there is no word in the Sioux language for that, sir?
Henry Dawes: For what?
Charles Eastman: To "own the earth." Not in any native language.
-- from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The HBO Movie.


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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ananya:
Charles Eastman: And now you speak of coercion. I don't understand.
Henry Dawes: If we don't put that land into the hands of individual Indians in five years- less-homesteaders and ranchers will demand it all... for nothing. The Indian must own his own piece of earth, Charles.
Charles Eastman: Did you know that there is no word in the Sioux language for that, sir?
Henry Dawes: For what?
Charles Eastman: To "own the earth." Not in any native language.
-- from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The HBO Movie.

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."


John Donne (1572-1631). It appears in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII:

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at ones existence, ones misfortune, or ones discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
~Leo Calvin Rosten (1908 – 1997)
[may be a definition of 'gallows humor']

Any more quotes on 'gallows humor', please post.

"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept."
-- Kahlil Gibran from Sand and Foam.

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
~ Victor Borge

"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."
-- Madame Marie du Deffand

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."
-Indira Gandhi