Manbird wrote:
this is for you...

"you can always tell the difference between a hobo and a hawk, because one of them is a hawk"

~miamizsun

(i know what you're thinking, this could be in the deep thoughts forum and you'd be correct)

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

“The universe is simple; it’s the explanation that’s complex.”

-Anonymous

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. They are not (however) entitled to their own facts.

-Daniel Patrick Moynihan

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Vladimir Putin


I thought this was interesting coming from Putler.

 oldviolin wrote:
ƒ=∞ you too

Swirl the numbers...

David Lynch

 oldviolin wrote: 

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Italo Calvino

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life can't always be all catfish and honeysuckles.

Chester Goode

 miamizsun wrote: 
If the universe has a center then it must be here. If it has an origin then it must be there. If it doesn't exist then we must be making it up as we go along...

~oldviolin   ƒ=∞

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

Tyson

You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down
to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.

Joe Frazier

"That man's got an open mind, I can feel the breeze from here."
 Groucho 

"the center of the universe knows i'm trying to read/follow people that i don't agree with"

~miamizsun

For every true statement there is an opposite one that is also true; that language and the confines of time lead people to adhere to one fixed belief that does not account for the fullness of the truth.

Show me an atom and I'll show you the universe

Brian Cox

Nature holds the beautiful for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Plato

Not a favorite but a cautionary trail...

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Benito Mussolini