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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.

    - Indian proverb

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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.

    -Boehner

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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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"Shut the fuck up." – Bob Weir
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i couldn't agree more. the next time it happens Mr. Weir, don't walk off stage. encourage others to punch the offenders in the throat. anyone talking throughout a performance is a cunt.
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really offends people, Lard. You've been told before.
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I have most certainly not been told before, my dear. Besides, they are just letters. No letters are offensive. Apart from bills. Fuck and not Cunt, eh? How quaint of you.
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"Sunrise doesn't last all morning." – George Harrison
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quaint early 13c., "cunning, proud, ingenious," from O.Fr. cointe "pretty, clever, knowing," from L. cognitus "known," pp. of cognoscere "get or come to know well" (see cognizance). Sense of "old-fashioned but charming" is first attested 1795, and could describe the word itself, which had become rare after c.1700 (though it soon recovered popularity in this secondary sense). Chaucer used quaint and queynte as spellings of cunt in "Canterbury Tales" (c.1386), and Andrew Marvell may be punning on it similarly in "To His Coy Mistress" (1650). "quaint." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 08 Mar. 2013. < Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quaint >.
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this is not the venue for thrashes. Please stop. Thank you.
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"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas." -Emo Phillips
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Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed - that is human.When you are born, where do you come from? When you die, where do you go? Life is like a floating cloud which appears. Death is like a floating cloud which disappears. The floating cloud itself originally does not exist. Life and death, coming and going, are also like that. But, there is one thing which always remains clear. It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death. Then what is the one pure and clear thing?
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Oh, a sleeping drunkardUp in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British queen-- All fit together In the same machine. Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice-- So many different people In the same device. – Kurt Vonnegut
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had a way with words...
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'It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more that Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.' - William S. Burroughs
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"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, andimpossible to forget." Anonymous @@@@@@@@@@ --------------------------(------@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury,pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
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'There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.' - Bertrand Russell
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My 8 year old son loves to give me the business whenever things are going bad for the Leafs. Right now with Winnipeg up 4-1, it's hard not to agree.
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'Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit - not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.' - William S. Burroughs
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"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."
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"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." -Lyndon B. Johnson
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"What we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that any attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail." – Samuel Beckett
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"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." I first encountered a fragment of this speech--a fragment in itself of a much larger Presidential address--through the song "Honour 2003" by the band VNV Nation, and it's a powerful piece of oration. It was a long, forgotten time when the United States of America weren't foaming at the mouth to jump into another international quarrel.
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"War is nothing more than old men standing in fields and waving their pricks at one another. It all boils down to this: men are insecure about the size of their dicks so they have to kill one another over the idea. That's what all of that male posturing, macho, asshole, jock-bullshit is all about........dick fear. .....You don't have to be a historian or political scientist to see the bigger dick-foreign policy theory at work...What? They have bigger dicks? Bomb them!! And of course all of the bombs and the rockets and the bullets are all shaped like dicks. It's a subconscious need to project the penis into other people's affairs. It's called fucking with people!!" -George Carlin
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An interesting, irreverent wit who almost drove himself over the edge. Owed a lot to Lenny Bruce...
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"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident that they are acting on their own free will." - Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1945
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My brethen, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. -James, a bondservant
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"The instrument is the man,and he... the music. Like rain you cannot return to the sky." Signed with the kiss of friendship, -sherbear, xo
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