Tag: tia
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March 16, 2008 08:49 PM EDT --
All You Need Is Love, according to the Beatles song. What does that mean?
We can't eat love. The sexual version provides a limited amount of exercise, though better if done in bright sunlight . . . more
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September 17, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
"Circumstances do not make the man, they merely reveal himself to himself."
- Epictetus, Greek/Roman philosopher (c.55 – c.135 C.E.)
This assumes the desire and willingness to find out . . . more
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November 14, 2006 05:36 PM EST --
"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
- Rita Mae Brown, American . . . more
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March 10, 2007 04:58 PM EST --
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)
Hemingway, who took his own life in 1961, knew his share of both intelligent . . . more
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October 04, 2006 03:31 PM EDT --
"The thing that upsets people is not what happens but what they think it means."
- Epictetus, Stoic philosopher of ancient Greece (born into slavery, his real name is unknown--epiktetos in Greek . . . more
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March 13, 2008 07:20 PM EDT --
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who
is but a reflection of human frailty.
-Albert Einstein, . . . more
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August 30, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
- Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- )
"They" are bullies, though they may wear suits. Like more traditional . . . more
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September 10, 2006 05:02 PM EDT --
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
- John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)
Locke, an educated man, was concerned . . . more
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September 22, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
- Vincent Van Gogh
I am convinced . . . more
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October 17, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
The folks who know the truth aren't talking.
The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.
- Tom Waits
Why is that? Some say that people who don't know much need to talk to fill . . . more
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November 17, 2006 06:56 PM EST --
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little . . . more
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August 26, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
Everyone you meet seems normal until you really get to know them.
The better you know them, the more abnormal, or at least "different," they seem.
It's safe to conclude from this that no . . . more
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August 31, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller, best known for buckyballs and geodesic domes, disliked the common ways . . . more
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September 15, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
As odd as this quotation may sound, I believe it has merit.
In this case, "tolerance" . . . more
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October 05, 2006 10:44 AM EDT --
There are two ways to discuss religion. One is an intellectual discussion, with each party sharing facts (or "discoveries" believed to be facts) for the purpose of learning more—a shared . . . more
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October 25, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
- Shirley MacLaine, actor and positive thinker
And yet we do it.
Dwelling on the negative makes us the only species to do so and . . . more
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October 27, 2006 07:10 PM EDT --
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
- Robert Lynd, writer (1879-1949)
Aye, there's the rub.
How can I help others with their suffering if I . . . more
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November 05, 2006 04:37 PM EST --
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mohandas K. ("The Mahatma") Gandhi
Far be it for me to disagree with Mr. Gandhi, but I would . . . more
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November 15, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, . . . more
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November 20, 2006 06:33 PM EST --
"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and satirist (1742–1799)
Any belief is, almost by definition, . . . more
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