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Forgotten
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. - Robert Browning...
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Apr 15, 20241 min read
Praise Be
“Usually we praise only to be praised.” ―François, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 146...
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Apr 8, 20241 min read
Cogito Ergo Sum
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with...
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Mar 11, 20241 min read
Obsolete
“We’re getting the language into its final shape – the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished...
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Feb 26, 20241 min read
Legal Tyranny
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice." ~ Charles-Louis de ,...
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Feb 19, 20241 min read
Perversion
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who...
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Jan 29, 20241 min read
My Pleasure
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he's really selling himself to it." - Benjamin Franklin #FavoriteQuotes
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Jan 22, 20241 min read
Overthrow
“This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Governments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together;...
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Jan 15, 20241 min read
Rainbows
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” — Dolly Parton #FavoriteQuotes
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Jan 8, 20241 min read


The Path
“More often than not, it was the tiny things — the small, infinitesimal, meaningless choices they made that gave rise to their determined...
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Aug 28, 20231 min read


Monsters
“There ain’t no monsters, except for the ones that we make.” ~ the character Emma from The Ordinary Monster (2019) #FavoriteQuotes
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Aug 14, 20231 min read


Indifference
“Man had come to a point in time when the embers of long held resentment so easily fueled petty squabbles which in turn ignited the...
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Aug 7, 20231 min read
Maybe
“That’s on top of everything else that we know and don’t know yet, based on what we’ve just been able to see. And because we’ve seen it...
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Jul 31, 20231 min read


Manipulation
“How easily these creatures are manipulated, she thought. Their own sanctimony is the true sin, and this they do not fear.” ~ the...
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Jul 24, 20231 min read
Decisions
“. . . He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions,...
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Jul 17, 20231 min read
Culture
"Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment and our time. Right? And present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the...
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Jul 10, 20231 min read
Beginning
“. . . [T]he American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation, and the duty laid upon us by that beginning is the duty of bringing...
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Jul 3, 20231 min read
Ease
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." – Theodore Roosevelt #FavoriteQuotes
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Jun 19, 20231 min read
Memories
"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future." – Elie Wiesel #FavoriteQuotes
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Jun 5, 20231 min read
Privilege
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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May 29, 20231 min read
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