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    'But it's not for us, darling, it never was. I don't believe in a higher meaning, nor do I need a purpose to live for. I believe in us, in life, in the magical reality of everything around us. Look at it, then look again, look harder because I can't make you see it until you want to. This is it. This is all there is to it, and it's wonderful enough as it is. I don't believe in god or praying. I don't believe in heaven or hell. There's no afterlife I'm hoping for, no deadline I'm dreading. I don't need to know what we're put on earth for - I don't believe we were put on earth to begin with. We became and here we are. Insignificant to the universe, we could easily not have been here and all would still be as it is. But we're here now and for that we're infinitely blessed. You get to feel the cherry blossoms in your hands. Swim in cold water while the sun rises and warms your shoulders. Make love and cry because you're sad or cry because you're happy and never have to explain because the tears stain all the same. You get to grow and dance and drink and see the world in every place you travel to. If you take us all apart, you'd find we're all made of stardust - as are the trees, the frogs, the grass as well as the dew on it - why would we be any more special? I've never seen a tree stop mid-sway to contemplate why it's moving and if it'll ever get any closer. It sways and sways and sways and pretends it makes the same wind blow that it is rocking to. We hold remnants of long lost stars in our veins. That's not an answer, but it's still magnificent and nothing can ever be both pointless and magnificent.' - Eva Faber
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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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Submitted by bolo24 on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 10:36

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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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Submitted by bolo24 on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 10:37

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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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Submitted by Cubanz on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 13:19

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"The constructive use of riches is better than their possession." - unknown
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Submitted by amohring on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 13:43

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin/D.R. Davenport/Gurney Norman
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Submitted by sherbear on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 09:42

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Words To Live By acceptance affirmative case antecedent argument argumentation argumentative context argumentative argument from direction argument from function argument from principle argument from quality case categorical arguments complementary reasons conclusion connectives consequent consideration cues deductive diagramming dilemma disjunctive distributed terms emotional appeal end term enumeration evidence evidence case indicator words inductive arguments infer / inference intermediate conclusion linguistic consistency logical sense middle term modus ponens modus tollus necessary condition pluralism poisoning-the-well population premises presumptions proposition of fact proposition of value proposition of policy question begging reason rebuttal refutation repudiation reservation scanning slippery-slope-argument standardizing statement status-quo stipulations sufficient condition support universal affirmative validity values virtue Words are so plentiful, like a... Thanksgiving cornucopia, enjoy some today, xo!
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 18:03

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Well said, sherbear.
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 11/15/2012 - 00:18

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'Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?' - Noël Coward
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 06:57

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"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." – H.D. Thoreau
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Submitted by brennanhandyman on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 22:10

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Man is like athletes that keep on striving in order to win the race of life.
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Submitted by brennanhandyman on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 22:15

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Never tired of doing good if you want to sow the priceless trophy.
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Submitted by marye on Tue, 11/20/2012 - 09:11

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and found myself wishing some version of Weir's band would cover it. How's that bricklayin' comin'? How's your engine runnin'? Is that bridge gettin' built? Are your hands gettin' filled? Won't you tell me, my brother? 'Cause there are stars Up above We can start Moving forward --The Head and the Heart, Seattle band
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Submitted by Mike Edwards on Tue, 11/20/2012 - 18:36

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"You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant." – Arlo Guthrie
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Submitted by gratefaldean on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 04:22

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Well I moved into this room if you could call it that a week ago I never do what I'm supposed to do Hardly even know my name anymore When no one calls it out it kind of vanishes away Jason Isbell -- Alabama Pines
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 23:15

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'You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.' - James Duthie
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Thu, 11/22/2012 - 15:33

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"Look... Reality is greater than the sum of it's parts, also a damn site holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And The Scenes Gone By an The Scenes To Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look" (That is pure zen folks. RIP Ken Kesey. Died 2001)
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 00:42

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'The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless.' - Robert Aickman
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Submitted by sherbear on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 05:18

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"There was self-inflicted turmoil, on the subject, at hand. In a if-then experience... does one relate upon a truth or a lie as a deduction. Still there's always a card in play---until its like the last throw in a pitch game. Still if and still then. What is to be seen is then unchangeable when, if then applies." -SAB
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Wed, 11/28/2012 - 02:16

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'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you're worth, facing the sunshine.' - E. M. Forster
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First there is a mountain.Then there is no mountain. Then there is. - Donovan (mollomed)
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Mon, 12/03/2012 - 00:37

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'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.' - John Betjeman
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Tue, 12/04/2012 - 16:35

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"look again at that dot. that's here. that's home. that's us. on it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. the aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. :))))))))))) -carl sagan
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Wed, 12/05/2012 - 05:52

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'An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.' - Iain Sinclair
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Wed, 12/05/2012 - 14:47

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Phil Lesh said at the Grateful Dead’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994: "Sometimes you don't merely have to endure. You can prevail."
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 23:45

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'At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if i'm not there I carry on as usual.' - Sir Patrick Moore
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Mon, 12/10/2012 - 13:36

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"all who joy would win must share it. happiness was born a twin". -lord byron
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Submitted by sherbear on Tue, 12/11/2012 - 10:23

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"A Divine Guide urges us as we go." -F. O'Mara Socrates felt he had a Divine Guide; an Oracle to him, for him, uniquely and unparalleled. The Oracle says human wisdom is worth little or nothing. Oh then, to be Divine, now a wish for every star.
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 04:59

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'Well, what was i to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.' - Mark Gatiss
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Submitted by sherbear on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 07:10

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-----------------------------------(----@--------------------------------------(----@ "The most powerful sex organ is your brain." -F. O'Mara
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Submitted by sherbear on Thu, 12/13/2012 - 05:59

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"Early in the morning, today, the sun shonemagnificently through the rain-stained window-pane. The light upon my skin must have a small shadow of the rain it passed through to reach me in it. There was a cool in the warmth of it. I am this light now and it is me, like vitamins and the beach." -sherbear
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Thu, 12/13/2012 - 07:12

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'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.' - E. M. Forster
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Submitted by sherbear on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 05:12

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"Today, I just went outside and let the lightshine right on to my skin. Then I went to shower." -sherbear
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Submitted by slo lettuce on Sat, 12/15/2012 - 08:44

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"if we have no peace,it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other". -mother teresa
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Submitted by Randall Lard on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 04:05

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'It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.' - Noël Coward