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Category: Scribbles

  • Quote: Rosalynn Carter

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    If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, and you don’t branch out, you don’t try — you don’t take the risk. — Rosalynn Carter

  • Societal Symbology

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    Ooooh it could be a deep one. I’m going to throw this link out to those who like to read. The author, John Zerzan, of the article Running on Emptiness, the failure of symbolic thought ties together a lot of historical philosophical points and languange/cultural/artistic anthropology views to make the case that we’ve become trapped…

  • Quote: Benjamin Franklin

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    “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

  • Quote: George Bernard Shaw

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    Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. —George Bernard Shaw

  • Quote: John Keats

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    The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. -John Keats

  • Quote: Thoreau

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    >”Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.” —Thoreau

  • Quote: Albert Einstein

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    “There is only one road to true human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.” — Albert Einstein