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RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 01-06-2024
Clint Eastwood turns 94 today. He is an Atheist. "No, I don't believe in God..... If you think that nothing happens after you die, maybe it makes you live life better"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood#Spiritual_beliefs_and_meditation
I remember Clint from "Rawhide" most of all, early TV.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-06-2024
ÔÇ£A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. It's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.ÔÇØ
George Carlin
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Roger
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 01-06-2024
(01-06-2024, 08:53 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Clint Eastwood turns 94 today. He is an Atheist. "No, I don't believe in God..... If you think that nothing happens after you die, maybe it makes you live life better"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood#Spiritual_beliefs_and_meditation
I remember Clint from "Rawhide" most of all, early TV.
Jeez, I remember him in that as well - we must be really old!
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 03-06-2024
ÔÇ£The only thing free is the freedom to think. Use it wisely.ÔÇØ
Neil de Grasse Tyson
ÔÇ£I offer my opponents a bargain; if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.ÔÇØ
Adlai Stevenson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 03-06-2024
ÔÇ£Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.ÔÇØ - 18th Century philosopher Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 04-06-2024
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump & make a speech for conservation.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.ÔÇØ
Adlai Stevenson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 04-06-2024
ÔÇ£The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,ÔÇØ a Quote Falsely Attributed to Edmund Burke
https://i.redd.it/22drum9f1i4d1.png
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 05-06-2024
So long ago...
ÔÇ£All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£It is often easier to fight for one's principles than it is to live up to them.ÔÇØ
Adlai Stevenson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 07-06-2024
ÔÇ£The human race is a family.Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£A hungry man is not a free man.ÔÇØ
Adlai Stevenson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 08-06-2024
ÔÇ£Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil & steady dedication of a lifetime.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, & then print the chaff.ÔÇØ
Adlai Stevenson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 08-06-2024
"In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat."
Leon Trotsky
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RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 08-06-2024
"Once youÔÇÖve been to Cambodia, youÔÇÖll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia ÔÇô the fruits of his genius for statesmanship ÔÇô and you will never understand why heÔÇÖs not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milo┼íevi─ç." - Anthony Bourdain
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 09-06-2024
ÔÇ£Change is inevitable.Change for the better is a fulltime job.ÔÇØ
ÔÇ£What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.ÔÇØ
Adlai Stevenson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-06-2024
ÔÇ£In quiet places, reason abounds.ÔÇØ
Adlai Stevenson
ÔÇ£Starvation & dignity do not mix well.ÔÇØ
Arthur Okin
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 11-06-2024
ÔÇ£Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.ÔÇØ - Dolly Parton
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-06-2024
ÔÇ£When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.ÔÇØ
Isaac Asimov
ÔÇ£You cannot be both the world's champion of peace & the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.ÔÇØ
Jimmy Carter
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-06-2024
ÔÇ£If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.ÔÇØ
George Orwell
ÔÇ£Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep & continuing needs, is good for him.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-06-2024
ÔÇ£History is written by the rich, & so the poor get blamed for everything.ÔÇØ
Jeffrey D Sachs
ÔÇ£The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.ÔÇØ
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-06-2024
"It takes a monster to kill children.But to watch monsters kill children again & again & do nothing isn't insanity ÔÇô its inhumanity.ÔÇØ
Amanda Gorman
ÔÇ£The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.ÔÇØ
Dr Paul Farmer
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 15-06-2024
ÔÇ£One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.ÔÇØ
C. S. Lewis
ÔÇ£War is a game played by maniacs who kill each other. Locate the man who profits by war & strip him of his profits - war will end.ÔÇØ
Woody Guthrie