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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.

    -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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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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"The constructive use of riches is better than their possession." - unknown
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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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Well said, sherbear.
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Man is like athletes that keep on striving in order to win the race of life.
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Never tired of doing good if you want to sow the priceless trophy.
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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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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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"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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'The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless.' - Robert Aickman
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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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'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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"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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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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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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"all who joy would win must share it. happiness was born a twin". -lord byron
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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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'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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-----------------------------------(----@--------------------------------------(----@ "The most powerful sex organ is your brain." -F. O'Mara
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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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