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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.– Thomas Jefferson

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
–Robert Greene

When the "gods" wish to punish "us" "they" answer "our" prayers. :doh: :D
–Oscar Wilde

The Fourth Amendment applies to all invasions on the part of the government and its employees of the sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life. It is not the breaking of his doors, and the rummaging of his drawers, that constitutes the essence of the offense; but it is the invasion of his indefeasible right of personal security, personal liberty and private property, where that right has never been forfeited by his conviction of some public offense.– Justice Joseph P. Bradley, Boyd v. United States [1886]

“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”—George Orwell, author, c. 1945

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“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”—Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Ashcroft V. Free Speech Coalition (00-795) 198 F.3d 1083, affirmed.

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”

― Plato

Unfortunately, here in the U.S.A. very few politicians deal with reality!! Here is a quote that sums it up nicely!!

Prohibition was a grand failure at resisting evil. It called so much attention to alcoholic beverages and engendered so much rebellion against legal constraints that when it was repealed, far more alcohol was being consumed than before prohibition went into effect. Now we are repeating the same folly by our "war" on narcotics, which simply makes it the "forbidden fruit," drives up the market price, turns it into a business far more lucrative than any alternative form of employment, leads to the recruitment of children as sellers, lookouts, and deliverers, prompts gang wars over turf and mindless murders and robberies to obtain cash to buy the coveted drugs.– Walter Wink

Explanation of Brexit from some redditor :D

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So, let me get this straight… the leader of the opposition campaigned to stay but secretly wanted to leave, so his party held a non-binding vote to shame him into resigning so someone else could lead the campaign to ignore the result of the non-binding referendum which many people now think was just angry people trying to shame politicians into seeing they’d all done nothing to help them.
Meanwhile, the man who campaigned to leave because he hoped losing would help him win the leadership of his party, accidentally won and ruined any chance of leading because the man who thought he couldn’t lose, did – but resigned before actually doing the thing the vote had been about. The man who’d always thought he’d lead next, campaigned so badly that everyone thought he was lying when he said the economy would crash – and he was, but it did, but he’s not resigned, but, like the man who lost and the man who won, also now can’t become leader. Which means the woman who quietly campaigned to stay but always said she wanted to leave is likely to become leader instead.
Which means she holds the same view as the leader of the opposition but for opposite reasons, but her party’s view of this view is the opposite of the opposition’s. And the opposition aren’t yet opposing anything because the leader isn’t listening to his party, who aren’t listening to the country, who aren’t listening to experts or possibly paying that much attention at all. However, none of their opponents actually want to be the one to do the thing that the vote was about, so there’s not yet anything actually on the table to oppose anyway. And if no one ever does do the thing that most people asked them to do, it will be undemocratic and if any one ever does do it, it will be awful.
Clear?

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If you could burn sand, we'd be over there in a flash.

--Miss Owen (a schoolteacher in Englandshire), commenting on the government's apparent lack of interest in human suffering in parts of Africa while "we" rushed to defend Kuwait from oppression by Hussein's Iraq.

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Update: Solar Roadways’ Passes $2.1M in Remaining Hours of Indiegogo Campaign

May not be the best for roads (time will tell) but the technology has and is moving so fast why not roofs and don't say anything stupid! :p

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show greatness themselves....– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.-Voltaire

The above quote came from an article full of quotes at:http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/06/29/cla...his-about-you/

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
–Bruce Lee

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All is well and everything is unfolding as it should. ~ Robert Adams

“Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.”-Samuel Johnson

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Its all perception. It’s how you perceive things. For instance, when you look at me what do you see? If I ask each one of you I get seven, eight, nine different answers, but the truth is you are seeing yourself.

—Robert Adams