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Quotes that I actually remember the sources of or which book I read them in or where I might have heard it or who may have said it:

"The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning" - Mark Twain 

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"No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren" - Henry Taylor 

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"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God" - Lenny Bruce... if you will permit me Lenny to add in "& turning their backs on the government (tho never on We-the-People)"... that wall we've built between "Church&State" doesn't really exist... ya'll go ahead and keep trying though, I'll watch from here... no I will not hand you that brick...

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"Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind" - ACIM #52:8

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"For the Oversoul is before Time, and Time, parent of all else, is one of Oversoul's children" - Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Commentary and Translation by Charles Johnston, pg 42, #26 in part 2 of Book One

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"If I should die in my sleep tonight I don't want to have wasted today worrying about the tomorrow that will never come" - Author Unknown (just gonna file that under Words-To-Live-By)

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"The fact is I am naysayer & hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I will gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi & King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression & retaliation. The foundation of such a method is Love. " - delivered with a superb righteous fervor by Miguel Ferrer, Twin Peaks S2E3

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"Democracy is Anarchy mixed with Polity" - Terence McKenna

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"Whenever we feel fear or experience suffering, it is an indication that we are giving validity to words that have no Cosmic basis" - page 10, The Psyche Revealed Through The I Ching, by Carol K. Anthony & Hanna Moog

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"But how does the inner No work?... The inner No is anything but passive; indeed, it is a weapon of a sort, and therefore should be treated with the care and circumspection that a weapon deserves" - pgs xiii-xiv, I Ching, The Oracle of the Cosmic Way, by Carol K. Anthony & Hanna Moog (get ready for more folks cuz I just started reading this book and it is very juicy)

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"Let Generosity Replace Taxation" - throw stones if you must, that one came outta me (unless you heard it somewhere else, in which case YAY!)... sure would look good on a bumpersticker...