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Related Topic(s): Civil Disobedience; Cowardice; Justice; Peace; Protest; Violence; War; War Military
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The higher power with whom I try to stay in touch is concerned first and foremost with justice and then (only then) peace. In the biblical sense, peace is no more nor less than the experience of justice.
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Cowardice; Strength
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Cowards always find a way not to doubt. Only strong have doubts
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Related Topic(s): Distraction; Downfall; Temptation
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What leads us astray in morality is excessive love of pleasure. What pulls us up and delays us in metaphysics is the love of certainty.
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Related Topic(s): Habits; Quotations
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Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.
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Related Topic(s): CUSTOM; Habits; Letting Go; RELEASE; TRADITION
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What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, though we prize it not."
SAFETY, DANGER, RELEASE, RESCUE"
You are come off now with a whole skin.
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| Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervantes; Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, often considered the first modern novel, |
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Related Topic(s): Freedom; Weakess
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It is my certain conviction that no man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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Related Topic(s): Avoiding; Caution; Decision; Moderation; Pleasure
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One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
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Related Topic(s): Avoiding; Breathing; Ethics; Nothingness; Spirituality; Thinking; United States; Words
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May i suggest for the new year avoiding all tittles such as liberals, rep, demo, progressives, races, color, educational idiots,etc. and come to a realistic confederation of humanistic individuals understanding and taking over this country and changing it to a better, healthier, educated, spiritual, hard working, united place to breath in. love and light." (Wisest words I've heard this morning.)
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Related Topic(s): Addiction; Numbness; Pleasure; Substance Abuse
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There is an element of callousness in every kind of dissipation; it is a deliberate willful abuse of pleasure.
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Related Topic(s): Addiction; HABIT; Pleasure; Slavery
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705]- April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity, and as a political writer and activist, he supported the idea of an American nation. As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence of the United States possible.Franklin is credited as being foundational to the roots of American values and character, a marriage of the practical and democratic Puritan values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of Henry Steele Commager, "In Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin, "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."
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Related Topic(s): Addiction; Corruption; Excuses; Flaws; Integrity; Luck; VIRTUE; Weakness
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Mind is the great presiding principle that regulates human life. If the mind chooses the road of virtue, and aspires to true glory through that path, there will be no complaint of innate imbecility or the dominion of accident. The human character will then shine forth, in all its lustre, superior to fortune, and independent of her gifts. For over integrity, diligence, and other qualities, fortune is possessed of no power: She is unable to bestow...
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust, (86-34 BC), a Roman historian, belonged to a well-known plebeian family, and was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines. Throughout his career Sallust always stood by his principle as a popularis, an opposer of Pompey's party and the old aristocracy of Rome. |
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Related Topic(s): Addiction; Battle
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The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
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| Chris Hedges |
Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont) is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. His most recent book is Death of the Liberal Class (2010).
Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quotation from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quotation reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug."
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Related Topic(s): Addiction; Arts; Creativity; Dreaming; Imagination; Passion; Writing
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But to come back to poets and artists;-- if they really are more prone to the abuse of stimulants,-- and I fear that this is true,-- the reason of it is only too clear. A man abandons himself to a fine frenzy, and the power which flows through him as I once explained to you, makes him the medium of a great power or a great picture. The creative action is not voluntary at all, but automatic; we can only put the mind into the proper attitude, and w...
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Related Topic(s): Addiction; Alcoholism; Self Control; Substance Abuse
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Empty heads,-- heads without ideas in the wholesome variety and sufficient number to furnish food for the mental clockwork,-- ill regulated heads, where the faculties are not under the control of the will,-- these are the ones that hold the brains which their owners are so apt to tamper with, by introducing the appliances we have been talking about (alcohol, bad habits) Now, when a gentleman's brain is empty or ill-regulated, it is, to a great ex...
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