when the drum of death beats only it next victim dances to it's grave..
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As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night,
Let loose upon the Earth till it be light...
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. - Joseph Campbell
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A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. ~Erma Bombeck
it has always been a rule..that the weak should be subject to the strong.
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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
-John Quincy Adams
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton
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Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
when a man spit on air the spit will fall back on him and defile his face..
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. - Abraham Lincoln
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. - Sid Vicious
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
-William Arthur Ward
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill
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When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
-Nikos Kazantzakis
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams
the oak that resist the wind loses it branches one by one with nothing left to protect it.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso
Castiel: That is the Word of God, as written by Metatron.
Sam: You're telling me...that...the Word of God was...written by a Transfomer??
Dean: (cough)...um..Sam...you're thinking of MEGAtron, not Metatron. Megatron was the Transformer.
-Supernatural
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You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. ~Alec Waugh
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
-Lord Byron
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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
-William Shakespeare
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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-C. S. Lewis
That's one of my favorites. ^
“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Hugh Hefner
The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
-Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
― Neil Gaiman
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. - Isaac Asimov
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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. ~Henry Rollins
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. ~J.B. Priestly
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It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. ~Igor Stravinsky
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill
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People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. ~Ramsey Clark
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As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
~Homer, Iliad
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. ~Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Benjamin Franklin
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ~Paul Sweeney
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
- Seneca
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ~Hannah Arendt
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams
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The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I love Wilde's quotes.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
-C. S. Lewis
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ~Wendell Berry
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
-Usher
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lou Holtz
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The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. ~Ralph Blum
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
-Charles Spurgeon
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My soul is not a palace of the past... ~James Russell Lowell, "A Glance Behind the Curtain"
“Darling, my attitude is ‘f*ck it’; I’m doing everything with everyone.”
Freddie Mercury - 1979
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Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it. ~L.M. Montgomery
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well. - Bob Geldof
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Mark Twain
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? -
Marcel Marceau (famous mime)
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. - Bell Hooks
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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ~Jim Bishop
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
-Larry the Cable Guy
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
-Jeff Foxworthy
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The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
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One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. - Blaise Pascal
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ~Henry Ward Beecher
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
-Aristotle
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God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. ~Richard J. Needham
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When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi
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"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. ~P.J. Wingate
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ~Søren Kierkegaard
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a b*tch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. - Maya Angelou
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No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. ~Guy H. King
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. -Gary Snyder
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
-Mel Brooks
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. - Pope Francis
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy
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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ~Cicero
Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today, it was still worth it. Even
the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains
that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been
allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth,
back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above. - Angelina Jolie in the film "Gia"
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~Søren Kierkegaard