"We've learned from history that we do not learn anything from history" - unknown
"Nothing succeeds more often than failure" - unknown
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"We've learned from history that we do not learn anything from history" - unknown
"Nothing succeeds more often than failure" - unknown
that's a good quoteQuote:
Originally Posted by xtristessax
ha, well, thank you, but it should say 'when they', not 'we they'...lol!
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. "
"He who laughs, lasts!"
--Both by Mary Pettibone Poole
I asked the same thing when I read that.Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
Maybe the quoter means that questioning myself daily will allow me to discern reality from fantasy. Maybe the main point is that truth can withstand endless questioning, but falsehood cannot. Dunno... just taking a stab.
I like that explanation betterQuote:
Originally Posted by Wheeljak
It's about waking from the dream.Quote:
Originally Posted by wendyful04
I think the truth is that delusions are always surface, and that the "deep down" is actually the understanding of their falseness.
Yes... but what it points to also is that the darkness of illusion (or delusion) cannot withstand the light of your consciousness. So, you may actually eliminate your delusion by constantly being aware of it and being more conscious. In short... wake up! Pay attention!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeljak
God does not play dice- Albert Einstein
"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual." - Walt Whitman
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. " --Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is Science. -Wendy B
In memorum: (s'cuse the spellings)
"I'll have the Friggin' Chickasee - I mean, the Chicken Frigasee".
Dom.
Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
"Everything in life has to be beaten into submission." -Louis85
"you can stuff a weasel into a jet engine but that wont make your tires squeak"...debbie boone...
"The absolute truth is that we do not have control even over our next breath. So why worry at all? " -SUMA VARUGHESE
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson
Sorry. The Libertarian in me is screaming right now.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil.
They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?"
Sister Miriam Godwinson
[fictitious character in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]
good one, DJ. We've been talking about that one lately in my house.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Another excellent one! A theme in my life.
"I'm not sure if it's me vs. the world or if it's me vs. myself. The only thing I know for sure is that I'm losing." - A friend of Louis85
"Follow your bliss and the Universe puts doors where once there were walls" Joseph Campbell
"music should be like flight.... while thousands of elephants are stampeding on the ground" ...iggy pop..
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -James Thruber
ODES TO HAPPINESS:
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Hemingway
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton
Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs. -Moliere
I found these quotes on http://stories.barackobama.com/healthcare.
James from Phoenix, AZ:
"...I find it incredible that those who are leading the charge against national health insurance are often closely aligned with the religious community. How can they wail about the elimination of a clump of fetal cells but stand by idly while there [sp] fellow humans suffer. "
DJ, Olympia, WA:
"...Canadians pay no more taxes than we do here in the U.S. .... and they are 100% covered for health care. These same Canadians have voted the man who designed their health care system as the greatest Canadian who ever lived! There's something wrong here in the U.S. ... and it's spelled PROFIT..."
Anne, Lansing, MI:
"...If the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and many other progressive nations, can have a health care system that is fair to all patients, doctors, and professionals, so can the United States. What are we waiting for? The only reason why this hasn’t yet passed is because of the lobbying that takes place by the owners of our healthcare system, big pharma and the insurance companies. They are the problem don’t want you to change they way they line their shareholders’ pockets..."
The stories are endless.
Not sure I trust the gov't to run healthcare....all I need to do is look at the VA hospitals to glimpse into that scenario....
Yeah. My dad goes to the VA twice a week. He was in-patient there for a few months, too.
However, I believe an overhaul of every aspect of our health care system is long overdue. As far as I have learned, that's what's planned.
Here's my take: they will spend countless dollars on often-unnecessary tests (to cover their asses) and then, once you are diagnosed with something, it's deny, deny, deny as far as treatment goes.
The cost of uninsured masses going into public facilities to try and get care and not being able to pick up the tab gets paid by ?????
Everyone anyhow, good answer.
Preventative care is almost non-existent, particularly for those without health insurance, but even for those with insurance.
Pharmaceutical companies donate major cash and books, etc to many medical schools.
" So what's the solution? So what do we do? Just be aware of the problem and then learn to be true. Don't hide under your pillow. Don't hide under your bed. Stand up fight for what's right in your head.Trust in your spirit. The spirit of the world." -Masonicchronic
Then keep your private healthcare. If I have NO healthcare and would rather have government healthcare than NONE why would you deny me?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chief
Cuz Im a dick...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cozmo D
lol
Wendy, those quotes were perfect.
BINGO!!! :clap: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Chief
We almost entered Firing Line territory. Too bad we didn't. I miss that.
"Fuck the system where we're idealized. Fuck idols. Fuck Fame. Fuck the system that makes you listen to corporate rock. Fuck the labels that want to make a fast buck. Fuck MTV who sold out to Top 40. Fuck VH1. Fuck everyone. Fuck musicians that make music just for greed. Fuck the system that breeds greed." -"Fuck Fame", Marta Wiley
Here ya go then Wendy......
Why should I have to cover anybody else's health care?
Well.... I guess if you think that you are not paying the price for an unhealthy country already, then you're good, aren't you?
argument finished then
mmmmmmmmmkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy...is that all you have?
I laid down a few good ones back there. (That came out weird.) So you agree, wholeheartedly?