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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2007 - 09:09pm PT
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Figure out who you are and then do it on purpose. -Dolly Parton
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2007 - 09:17pm PT
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He who hesitates is a damned fool. -Mae West
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Ouch!
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Oct 12, 2007 - 09:27pm PT
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“Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.”
Mort Sahl
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pud
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Sportbikeville
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Oct 12, 2007 - 09:32pm PT
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"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
-George W. Bush
A real favorite of mine:
"Everyone dies, but not everyone lives"
-unknown
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2007 - 09:53pm PT
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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. -Scottish Proverb
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john hansen
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Oct 12, 2007 - 10:09pm PT
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"There you stand with your Judges, here I stand with my guns,,, you tell me who is right."
Adolf Hitler
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2007 - 10:29pm PT
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Shh! Don't talk so loud! Now everyone will want death. -Joel Robinson
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2007 - 10:32pm PT
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The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts. -William Lyon Phelps
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2007 - 11:56pm PT
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
...Abraham Lincoln
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2007 - 11:57pm PT
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"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
...George W. Bush (Speaking during "Perseverance Month")
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Mtnmun
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Top of the Mountain Mun
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Oct 13, 2007 - 12:16am PT
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My names Chuck
I drive a truck
I don't give a F#@k
-Chuck
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2007 - 12:18am PT
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What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrifically witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties. -Dave Barry
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2007 - 12:35am PT
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Without music, life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche
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bachar
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Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Oct 13, 2007 - 12:53am PT
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"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe."
-Muhammad Ali
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Sparky
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2007 - 12:55am PT
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“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere” -John Coltrane
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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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Oct 13, 2007 - 01:12am PT
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
San Fernando Lamas
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Oct 13, 2007 - 01:32am PT
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Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?
--Adolph Hitler
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10b4me
climber
halfway from the center of the climbing universe
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Oct 13, 2007 - 01:46am PT
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it's not what you think you know that's important....it's what you do know that's important-John Wooden
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
San Fernando Lamas
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Oct 13, 2007 - 01:55am PT
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We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions". In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
--Neil Postman
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Oct 13, 2007 - 01:56am PT
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"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."--George Orwell
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