07-19-2010, 12:28 PM | #226 |
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A 17th century Japanese zen Poem
There is really nothing you have to be
and there is nothing you have to do There is really nothing you have to have and there is nothing you have to know There is really nothing you have to become However It helps to know that fire burns And after the rain the earth gets wet (quoting from memory...) |
07-19-2010, 12:30 PM | #227 |
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Human nature...
I have no trust in human nature, it's much too much like mine!
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07-19-2010, 12:38 PM | #228 |
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A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country...; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
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07-20-2010, 12:15 AM | #229 |
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"For children are innocent and love justice; while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy."
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07-20-2010, 08:03 AM | #230 |
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Maybe her book should be titled "The Joys of Penicillin."
.....I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.
..........— Chelsea Joy Handler (1975 - ), American comedian, actress, author. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (2005). |
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07-20-2010, 08:10 AM | #231 |
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I continue to wonder about that woman....she certainly has seemed to hit the big time....
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07-20-2010, 08:22 AM | #232 |
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Bit boring if you ask me ...
Only one night and only horizontal ..... "Joy Handler" is a nice name, though ..... |
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Geoffc you're a card.....or is that a cat?
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07-20-2010, 08:43 AM | #235 |
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I try my best .... mostly .... I have plenty of well mentioned peers of mobileread upon which to base experience and groupiness upon ....
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07-20-2010, 05:49 PM | #237 |
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