Originally posted 14 April 2016
Oh so true! This applies to the vast majority of politicians whichever the country.

Celtic Yokel $ad but true, and "law."


Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

Add: if we are older than 25 we should be smart enough to rather die than kill, "IMH:p."
Plus:
Alden's Laws:

(1) Giving away baby clothes and furniture is the major cause
of pregnancy.
(2) Always be backlit.
(3) Sit down whenever possible.

http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscel...pregnancy.html

It's the 8th of may again.

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And my mother in law really made me think. She's long gone, but the 8th of may is still not a holiday in Germany. It makes me less confused than downright furious, now. You made it. Here is the day that keeps me occupied each year anew.

My grandmother used to tell me, every time a fool speaks, they are just advertising their own ignorance. Let them talk.- United States President Barack Obama

There is no money in poetry, but there is no poetry in money either.

Thanks. "To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. "
 

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. Is it necessary for us the height of our power to stoop to such self-deceiving nonsense?– Walter Lippmann, former advisor to Woodrow Wilson

“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.”-John Lennon

5. Yoko kinda-sorta entertains conspiracy theories of John’s murder: “I’m not saying it was definitely just a deranged person.”

1. Her most frequent request is religious people asking her to change the lyrics in the song “Imagine” that go “No religion, too.” Thankfully, Yoko has always said “no” so far.

Jessica Wakeman | December 14, 2010 - 1:50 pm (http://www.thefrisky.com/2010-12-14/...Speed=noscript)

There is no social engineering that can radically renovate a civilization and change its character, and at the same time keep it going, for civilization is an affair of the human spirit, and the direction of the human spirit cannot be reset by means that are, after all, mechanical. The best thing is to follow the order of nature, and let a moribund civilization simply rot away, and indulge what hope one can that it will be followed by one that is better. This is the course that nature will take with such a civilization anyway, in spite of anything we do or do not do. Revolts, revolutions, dictatorships, experiments and innovations in political practice, all merely mess up this process and make it a sadder and sorrier business than it need be. They are only so much machinery, and machinery will not express anything beyond the intentions and character of those who run it.– Albert Jay Nock

The loss of liberty, to a generous mind, is worse than death. And yet we know that there have been those in all ages who for the sake of preferment, or some imaginary honor, have freely lent a helping hand to oppress, nay to destroy, their country.... This is what every man who values freedom ought to consider. He should act by judgment and not by affection or self-interest; for where those prevail, no ties of either country or kindred are regarded; as upon the other hand, the man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery....– Andrew Hamilton, The Trial of John Peter Zenger [1735]

I like liberty, it's that justis we could do without!"Mencius (371-289 B.C.) was a pupil of a pupil of Tzu-Ssu, Confucius' grandson."
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cp28/confuc.htm

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid. - A. Einstein

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Misquotations [edit]
Many quotations are routinely incorrect or attributed to the wrong authors, and quotations from obscure or unknown writers are often attributed to far more famous writers.

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It’s just another day in America, brought to you by an electronic news press that must stoop to the bizarre to gain web traffic.-Bill Sardi