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    marye
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    Sometimes you come across a quote, a line, a statement that just nails it, at some level. Cosmic, comic, whatever. If you'd like to share it, post it here, duly credited!

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    .....they'll take my thoughts away - Megadeth- Holy Wars.

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    not like any other...

    We didn't realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.

    - Winnie the Pooh

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    take care of yourself and think of others...

    A healthy person has a thousand wishes. A sick person has but one.

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    A Pink Floyd song.

    If I were a swan, I'd be gone
    If I were a train, I'd be late
    And if I were a good man
    I'd talk with you
    More often than I do
    If I were to sleep, I could dream
    If I were afraid, I could hide
    If I go insane, please don't put
    Your wires in my brain
    If I were the moon, I'd be cool
    If I were a rule, I would bend for you
    If I were a good man, I'd understand
    The spaces between friends
    If I were alone, I would cry
    And if I were with you, I'd be home and dry
    And if I go insane
    Will you still let me join in with the game?
    If I were a swan, I'd be gone
    If I were a train, I'd be late again
    If I were a good man
    I'd talk with you
    More often than I do

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    If ifs and buts were fruits and nuts, every day would be Christmas.

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    ....that word can be found on dry river beds and on trails long overgrown by weeds. What's more important are the paths we follow now.

    -Jessup

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    Dear Marye - in response to your question, one of the many lyric lines that always nailed it for me is one we have all heard and sung a hundred times: Now the die is shaken, now the die must fall. My knowledge of artistic expression would fit in a thimble, but that always seemed to be such a strong statement of us being little more than a cork bobbing in the stream and being pushed along. Your thoughts?

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    Jerry

    Thank you for the kind words and afirmation, daverock. There is always an upside to any situation, even a bad one, from the perspective of gathering strength and wisdom.

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    I hope I am not being insensitive, but to me, Jerry lives on through the vast amount of wonderful live recordings we have. I only saw him 5 times, and that over a period of 9 years, so he wasn't a physical presence as such for me, like he must have been for people who were lucky enough to see and hear him play in person many times.

    I was listening to "Eyes of the World" from 8/1/73 yesterday-his 30th birthday show. The music and message comes across as strongly now as it ever did, and reaches more people than could ever have been anticipated when they first started. Almost every day, the magic weaves out of my stereo, here in a town in England he had possibly never even heard of.

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    It's been 20 + years, but I have been overwhelmed with sadness lately over the loss of JG and what was essentially the end of the band. I know some permutations have cropped up and many members have carried on, but for some reason I cannot explain, I have been overwhelmed with the absence of the Grateful Dead. Maybe it is due to some big changes that have happened in my own life, and others that are scheduled to occur soon. I have realized that one of the most steady and permanent companions I have had throughout my entire life has been the music of the Grateful Dead. Anyone else running into this?

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Sometimes you come across a quote, a line, a statement that just nails it, at some level. Cosmic, comic, whatever. If you'd like to share it, post it here, duly credited!
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When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me. RIP Andy Griffith...
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Was listening to 'On the Beach' the other day and heard the famous lyric from Ambulance Blues And there ain't nothin' like a friend Who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind. How true that is!
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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those guys said.
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'Coherence in contradiction expresses the force of a desire.' –Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
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I have a ticket stub from a New Haven CT show, 11/28/78. This show is not listed in the archive on Dead.net or in my copy of Dead Base Jr. The ticket is ripped in half so the show did go on, I am not hallucinating! (As has happened back in the day!)The show was put on by John Scher and WPLR. Can someone please tell me why this show seems to have disappeared into the blue? What a long strange trip it has been and it continues to get stranger all the time. Rock on.
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this is the wrong topic for that question. You might try the Report Shows and Setlist Errors thread. This is for Words to Live By.
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You havedone what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So, I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?" -Philip K. Dick, preamble to "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
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..that's a beauty. Now here is something much more frivolous 'When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you'. Nora Ephron (RIP)
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"We could take a walk. The pier's longer than it seems." ~ Avett Bros
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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' Live fast....keep going'
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'If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning’ Catherine Aird
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I love Catherine Aird!
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits" Albert Einstein Mary, as a person who suffered from strong depression for years (much happier now), you're quote several pages back from william gibson has me laughing and laughing. Never thought of it that way. Thanks!
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does have a way with words!
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"My peace I give unto you...Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" John 14:27 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Let peace abound inside your mind... Like a waterfall washing away the things you house that could never be~ peace and love. Effort needed and a good teacher. But um yeah let's party! ---------------------------------------(-----@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. I was just reading an Antonin Scalia justification for the Citizens United decision when this one popped into my head. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was... (courtesy David Byrne)
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i thought this would fit better under "words to live by" ; it's beautiful. SLOW DANCE have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round? listened to the rain slapping on the ground? ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? or gazed at the sun into the fading night? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won't last do you run through each day on the fly? when you ask how are you do you hear the reply? when the day is done do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won' last ever told your child we'll do it tomorrow and in your haste not see his sorrow? let a good frienship die cause you never had time to call and say hi? you better slow down don't dance so fast time is short the music won't last when you run so fast to get somewhere you miss half the fun of getting there when you worry and hurry through your day it's like an unopened gift thrown away. life is not a race do take it slower hear the music before the song is over Author unknown
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'A singleminded tenacity that is not compromised by public opinion is an essential prerequisite of the elevation of the human(e) spirit by Art.' Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
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"it helps to remember that all the bad headlines and all the good headlines are made from the same twenty-six letters" Sy Safransky founder, editor and publisher of The Sun magazine
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"May your mind forever sparklelike a star, Your heart remain pure as newfallen snow, And your spirit forever sense the wonderment of a child." -Mary Summer Rain
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"Humor characterizes consciousness. For me, life would be so empty without humor—it would be unbearable, it would be like life without music." —Jerry Garcia (From a 1995 interview)
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"The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class. The rulers soon learn to capitalize the reverence which the State produces in the majority, and turn it into a general resistance toward a lessening of their privileges. The sanctity of the State becomes identified with the sanctity of the ruling class..." Thanks for the link, Mike Edwards
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In speaking about creativity, E. L. Doctorow said... "It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
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“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.” ― Philip K. Dick
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“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him. And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals. And if, when it happens to you over and over again in life, too much of your heart does finally go away, then you can't feel grief any more. And then you yourself are ready to die. You'll walk up the inclined ladder and someone else will remain behind grieving for you.” ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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"I first met Rolling Thunder, a medicine man who livesin Nevada, in 1970 and have since observed him conduct several healing sessions and consultations. Once I listened to him give instructions to a client who had come for dream interpretation. Instead of telling the client what the dream meant, Rolling Thunder asked the client to imagine himself as each of the characters in the dream so that he would be able to interpret the dream himself. He gave him the tools rather than the answers." -Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
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"He who learns must suffer."—Aeschylus
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'Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity.' - Austin Osman Spare
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No-no, no, no-no, no-no-no-noNo, no-no, no, no, no-no, no-no, no-no No-no-no-no, no-no, no, no-no, no Human Beinz version of the Isley's song "Nobody But Me." Or the motto of the GOP in Congress. Sorry, this has been banging around in my head this morning, and I couldn't resist...living in a swing state during a hotly-contested Presidential election cycle, being bombarded with media messages -- it has pushed me over the edge, I think.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx