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Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children.” ~~ Socrates
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A 3-fer today due his passing and the pertinence of the quotes to the current situation nationally and internationally. The third one is especially apropos.
“When nature is viewed solely as a source of profit and gain, this has serious consequences for society.” ~~ Pope Francis
“The extreme right always reconstructs itself; it is the triumph of selfishness over communitarianism. … I am terrified of saviors of the nation without a political party history.” ~~ Pope Francis
“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor…” ~~ Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, 2013
Anyone who is even an occasional reader of my absurd, obscure blog knows that I am no fan of religion. However, wisdom is where you find it, and I truly believe Pope Francis was a good man trying to do the best he could given the hidebound hierarchy of the institution he led. May he rest in peace.
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” Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.” ~~ P. J. O’Rourke
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“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” ~~ Anonymous
It has been attributed to Albert Einstein, but a search of the da’Net revealed that it has been around as long as there have been cars, and gentlemen taking ladies out for a drive. Plus it was a common vaudevillian joke.
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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”~~ Turkish Proverb.
A little research revealed that this is not an actual Turkish proverb, but that the proverb has been adopted from a Circassian proverb:
“When an ox moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king, but the palace becomes a barn.”
Either one works for me to describe the current cluster f*** in Washington.
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“Don’t give up, don’t give in, don’t give out. Don’t get lost in a sea of despair.” ~~ Rep. John Lewis
Howsomever, that hand with three fingers raised that you can barely see bobbing in the Sea of Despair belongs to yours truly. Since they have given my country to a con man, I have lost all hope.
It is a nice thought though.
But so it should not go. We are a better people than the cluster f*** that happened last election… or so I used to think.
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“… I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free.” “ Robert A. Heinlein in Revolt in 2100
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“I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability”. ~~ Oscar Wilde
I don’t generally put out two postings a day, but I stumbled across this quote I had queued up and I could not resist.
Heaven forbid I should question such a wordsmith as Oscar Wilde so I am assuming the ambiguity is intentional. Did God overestimate his own ability or that of Man?
Want to know more about Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde – His Life and Confessions by Frank Harris
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Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.” ~~ Thomas More
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Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. ” ~~Franklin Delano Roosevelt during a campaign speech… which, though given 88 years ago in the Garden on 31 October 1936, rings remarkably contemporary, a speech for “the restoration of American democracy” and its “preservation”.
For an interesting read on the parallels of Trump and Adolph Hitler check out The Guardian article: A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet
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