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"Webster's Dictionary defines team as, together everyone achieves more." :)
http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/last-...episode-8.html

Tense up!

"your beyond our reasoning" - "takes one to know one"
http://rickandmorty.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot/Transcript

Quote:

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In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on a closer
scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a
great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may
believe. In the search for certainty, it is natural to begin with our
present experiences, and in some sense, no doubt, knowledge is to be
derived from them. But any statement as to what it is that our immediate
experiences make us know is very likely to be wrong. It seems to me that
I am now sitting in a chair, at a table of a certain shape, on which I
see sheets of paper with writing or print. By turning my head I see out
of the window buildings and clouds and the sun. I believe that the sun
is about ninety-three million miles from the earth; that it is a hot
globe many times bigger than the earth; that, owing to the earth's
rotation, it rises every morning, and will continue to do so for an
indefinite time in the future. I believe that, if any other normal
person comes into my room, he will see the same chairs and tables and
books and papers as I see, and that the table which I see is the same as
the table which I feel pressing against my arm. All this seems to be
so evident as to be hardly worth stating, except in answer to a man who
doubts whether I know anything. Yet all this may be reasonably doubted,
and all of it requires much careful discussion before we can be sure
that we have stated it in a form that is wholly true.

...

For most practical purposes these differences are unimportant, but to
the painter they are all-important: the painter has to unlearn the habit
of thinking that things seem to have the colour which common sense says
they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they
appear. Here we have already the beginning of one of the distinctions
that cause most trouble in philosophy--the distinction between
'appearance' and 'reality', between what things seem to be and what they
are. The painter wants to know what things seem to be, the practical man
and the philosopher want to know what they are; but the philosopher's
wish to know this is stronger than the practical man's, and is more
troubled by knowledge as to the difficulties of answering the question.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5827/pg5827.txt
https://archive.org/details/problems...sophy_librivox

(Close your eyes enjoy that blood flow!)
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ | .| ||>>>> > .> ..> ....> .......> ... s p e e d ... me ... up ... or.

We must choose between freedom and fear--we cannot have both. If the citizens of the United States persist in being afraid, the real rulers of this country will be the fanatics fired with a zeal to save grown men from objectionable ideas by putting them under the care of official nursemaids.– Zechariah Chafee, Jr., The Blessings of Liberty [1956]

politics definition (google:)
pol·i·tics
ˈpäləˌtiks/
noun
the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.
"the president's relationship with Congress is vital to American politics"
synonyms: government, affairs of state, public affairs; diplomacy
"a career in politics"
the activities of governments concerning the political relations between countries.
plural noun: politics
"in the conduct of global politics, economic status must be backed by military capacity"
the academic study of government and the state.
"a politics lecturer"
synonyms: political science, civics, statecraft
"she studies politics"

Build a wall around bad ideas and bad policy, not borders.– Abigail R. Hall Blanco

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

If man is to continue his self-improvement, he must be free to exercise the powers of choice with which he has been endowed.… He must be free to either enjoy or endure the consequences of each decision, because the lesson it teaches is the sole purpose of experience -- the best of all teachers.– F.A. Harper

Quote:

I stopped yelling at old people wasn't getting a damn thing done!

Can't teach an old dog new bull !!!

While the last resort of the competitive economy is the bailiff, the ultimate sanction of the planned economy is the hangman.– Wilhelm Röpke

We should not aspire to be a great nation. We should aspire to be fully free persons.-Sheldon Richman

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.– Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” [1849]

If you didn't know their dumbing us down, you maybe dumbed down!

“People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say and stay, when they are told to leave.” (Howard Zinn)