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The World According To Donald Rumsfeld
"I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started."
"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things....stuff happens."
I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said."
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
"If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate, necessarily accurate. It might also not be inaccurate, but I'm disinclined to mislead anyone."
"There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist."
"I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know."
"I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty."
Monday , May 29, 2006 01:54
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
Sunday , May 28, 2006 02:00
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"All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you'll
be quite a lot"
Dr. Seuss
Saturday , May 27, 2006 09:26
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http://www.cayce.com/oakkeg.htm
Thursday , May 25, 2006 01:13
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“There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth”
Luis Munoz-Marin
Wednesday , May 24, 2006 05:26
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Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Luke 14: 12-14, King James Version
Tuesday , May 23, 2006 10:45
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Seventeen-year-old Molly Bloom, of East High School in Denver, lost a leg when she was run over by a limousine at her senior prom, this year.
When being interviewed by television reporters about the incident, one of Molly's profound and compassionate classmates had this to say:
"I think it's sad. I mean, that's our senior prom. you know? I mean, that's a horrible way to remember it."
Monday , May 22, 2006 08:49
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The US Senate has voted "to make English official"
(May 18). The Republican version requires immigrants
to pass an English test to legalize their status.
If the intention of the bill is to motivate immigrants
to acquire English, it is unnecessary. English already
is the de facto language of the US, and nearly all
immigrants are highly motivated to acquire English.
According to the 2000 Census, only 1.5% of the US
population cannot speak English, an improvement over
the past: In 1890, it was 3.6%. There is also evidence
that many illegal immigrants make rapid progress in
acquiring English, despite little education and the
pressures of daily life.
Cartoonist Tommy Tomorrow once pointed out that making
English our official language makes as much sense as
declaring the sun our official source of energy.
Politicians should spend their time with legislation
that serves the public interest, not with "feel-good"
proposals that do nothing.
Dr. Stephen Krashen
UCLA
Sunday , May 21, 2006 09:49
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
Friday , May 19, 2006 00:38
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My younger daughter, who lives in fear that her older brother will get away with something, ran to me yesterday yelling:
"Dad, Anthony called me a snitch!"
Wednesday , May 17, 2006 23:51
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"Live briefly but gloriously, One's evanescent life is but a preparation for death. The fall of the blossom is as moving as its beauty on the limb and the final moment, as ceremonialized in the ritual of seppuku, is indeed the moment of truth"
From Jack Seward's "Hara-Kiri" (1968)
Wednesday , May 17, 2006 00:35
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“When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake”
Plato
Tuesday , May 16, 2006 11:33
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Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?
Rush Limbaugh, before his own drug addiction and felonious behavior became public knowledge.
Monday , May 15, 2006 09:42
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Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
Eugene V. Debs (1908)
Sunday , May 14, 2006 01:52
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Alphonso Jackson, the Republican Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told a story recently during a talk he gave in Dallas. Here's what he said, according to the Dallas Business Journal:
Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor.
"He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years," Jackson said of the prospective contractor. "He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something ... he said, 'I have a problem with your president.'
"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' I thought to myself, 'Brother, you have a disconnect -- the president is elected, I was selected. You wouldn't be getting the contract unless I was sitting here. If you have a problem with the president, don't tell the secretary.'
"He didn't get the contract," Jackson continued. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don't get the contract. That's the way I believe."
Friday , May 12, 2006 01:38
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An online poll of 3,500 people, conducted by www.greatestwords.co.uk, asked respondents to name the "greatest words of all time." Here are the top twenty:
1. All you need is love. (John Lennon)
2. Unto thine own self be true. (Polonius, in "Hamlet," by Shakespeare)
3. All journeys begin with a first step. (Confucius)
4. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (Winston Churchill)
5. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (Jesus)
6. When you go home, tell them of us and say that for all your tomorrows we gave our today. (John Maxwell Edmonds)
7. I love you.
8. Man does not live by bread alone. (Jesus)
9. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.
10. I have a dream. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
11. Innocent until proven guilty.
12. Make love not war.
13. Bad governments are elected by people who do not vote.
14. Sorry.
15. I am the light. (Jesus, but they left off "of the world.")
16. Well done.
17. Knowledge is power.
18. Love your neighbour as yourself. (Jesus, et alia)
19. Evil results from good men doing nothing (Edmund Burke)
20. Honesty is the best policy. (Attributed to various people, but adapted from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. The original reads thus: "Honesty is more effective than dishonest scheming."
Wednesday , May 10, 2006 04:16
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"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . we need believing people."
Adolph Hitler, April 26, 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordant of 1933
Monday , May 8, 2006 02:16
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"Music was better when we were kids....We had longer attention spans back then. When we were young we had tapes, and you left them on. You didn't fast forward, in case you overshot; you listened to every track, and songs you didn't like turned out to be your favorite songs because the album became a person. It grew on you. Now, if kids don't like the first few bars, they're gone. You've got to grab them. I tell you what the problem is — it's downloading."
Deejay and producer Danger Mouse, 28, quoted in The Toronto Star
Sunday , May 7, 2006 05:52
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"Being a girl is awesome. There's so much – bags, shoes, makeup, accessories....I love putting lotion on – I'm obsessed with lavender. It's a lot of fun, and I think the older you get, the more you get into it."
Avril Lavigne, a very deep young woman.
Saturday , May 6, 2006 00:40
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Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 17
Friday , May 5, 2006 05:31
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