The dating pool has tested positive for pond scum -jessica lemmon-
Mowed grass A single daisy remains -Haiku Kin-
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I don't believe in corporal punishment. If the child was bigger than the parent
would the parent strike him or her? -E. Omaye-
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Eyes at half mast Jessica Lemmon
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive Walter Scott
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That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. Arundhati Roy
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The pink of dawn, of the heart, a bird feather, of a peach or a flower petal, the different shades of the blue of the sky and the sea -T J Brennan
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Pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts 2 Peter 1: 16-21
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If you are being driven to madness, we might as well carpool. -DW- http://postpoems.org/authors/AngryLaughter
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Does one seek to vent or to persuade? EKB 9
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(re Covid etc) We are living in a world in which smart people need to be quiet so they don’t offend ignorance. Robert J. O'Neill
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The silence lingered like a frozen video frame -Stephen Brewerton
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My memory is worse but my forgettery is stronger every day. -Irma Mason-
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Lisa Jewell: The sea unfurls its carpet rolls (of blue onto the shore)
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Why do nuns but not priests take vows of poverty? EKB
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Unseen they suffer. Unheard they cry. In agony they linger. in loneliness they die. -Jeremy Bentham
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"He who is used to a cage will weep for a cage" -Yevgeny Yevtushenko- after visitng a N American mink raising and slaughtering business
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Re Ichabod Crane: With his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him ....for some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield...... As his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings - Washington Irving
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Baba Hari Das: Silence brings siddhis (spiritual powers). 18
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Is the wolf who cries when he eats the lamb better than the wolf who does not? Leo Tolstoy
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He spoke with a voice of thunder; he laughed like the sunrise and his deeds were strong as the rock and as sweet as the fragrance of roses. The angels appeared to his mother and predicted that the son whom she would conceive would become the greatest the stars had ever seen. He was so great that he even forgave the crimes of his greatest enemies and shook brotherly hands with those who had plotted against his life. A Caucasian leader of the Circassians to Leo Tolstoy about Abraham Lincoln *
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"He wanted to be the baby at the baptism, the bride at the wedding, the corpse at the funeral." Alice Roosevelt Longworth about Theodore Roosevelt's love of attention
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As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. -unknown-
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Honeybee hive is swaying in storm. -Satish Verma-
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on a willow....where love was born so long ago, but for now, in the failing of age,
only its scars still survive. -G F Thompson- re lover initials carved on trees
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Guilt is like a bank of low dark clouds that seem to be a solid wall before the sun. ...It is not strong enough to stop a button’s fall, nor hold a feather -Course In Miracles (all 1500 pages are free and online)
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They grovel at his feet, surround him excitedly Like mice gathered around foul-smelling cheese Little understood the mousetrap on which it rests
These little groveling groupies, his worshippers -Stephen Brewerton
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Elephants eat only plants…from this diet they never will cheat..and as a vegetarian…how can I not love an animal who refuses to eat meat -Jim Yerman- 27
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Time was a specter I could not outrun Rudy Palma
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Like a princely star, we consume our very soul to throw light into the darkest voids -J Christopher Spinoza-
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V Lieske; Slime aspires to be pond scum.
-Emily Dickinson (Those who harm no bee need worry about no sting)
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"The burial grounds of the boneyard. Where we laid the seeds of love from our hearts." from Ashes_twisted
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Don't go into the mirror house. Only the simple light
of truth will get one through. -Donald W Wilson-
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'A beam of Sunshine pierces through leaves kissing dappled blades of grass
- Sylkie Smoothie-
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Anyone can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count the apples in a seed. -Robert Schuller-
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One never has enough data to assign value to any action -Starseed Transmissions- 36
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Others come to drink the mountain's heart like sassafras tea, perhaps absorb its wisdom and wild strength -Patricia Joan Jones-
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Beyond the thickness of the trees what is embedded in the most..
a vertical glacier of vapors rising from the ground
leaving tiny signatures of signatures on the barks -Rainer Bukowski-
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Sun-kissed mornings turn into charcoal nights, White lies form a dark truth,
Innocent love becomes a hidden desire -Rebecca Hamilton-
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They were men before they were monuments Jon Meacham
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When the flowers blossom, the bees come. When the student is ready the teacher appears. -Ram Dass and the Bhagavad Gita-
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Our neighbor is sick. She has come to the fence
walking like a woman who is balancing a sword inside her body. -Mary Oliver-
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Lovers face to face, friends side by side C S Lewis
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Kriyananda paraphrased: Those who have been awakened by a spiritual master must be careful to think only positive thoughts, for their thoughts materialize faster than
other people's. Kriyananda paraphrased
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like a sunny day happening in the middle of the night.. and in that firmament of the sky, lightning with no rain. Yogaraj Gurunath Siddhanath: re darshan of Babaji: 45
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Yogaraj Gurunath Siddhanath: Break the bonds of the space time continuum
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EO and BB: Psilocybin the mushroom removes the fear of death revealing that all are brothers and sisters in one family. it grows on cow manure which in a dry state is said to have antiseptic qualities
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth's couch pillow had a sewn script on it; "If you have
nothing good to say about anyone, sit next to me."
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Abandon all varieties of dharma (righteousness) and only surrender unto Me (God) -Bhagavad Gita- Interpretation: God is beyond all the duality of right and wrong. Only God knows all the factors of and consequences of any action.
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If they ask why we died tell them that our fathers lied. -Rudyard Kipling- re the death of his son in WW1, a war for which his father had propagandized.
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to pursue beauty to its lair -Arundhati Roy-
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
The clouds are all cracked tonight like brittle icing leaving a beautiful
deep blue cake underneath -EKB-
How grand to be a toucan — Just think what Toucan do -Dorothy Sayers- 54
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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. —Alan Valentine
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the diner... at every table Ptomaine has a prior reservation Starward
Some women around men cower, unwilling to exercise their own power. R Cull
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Drunkenness is tempoerary suicide Bertrand Russell
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I communed with my own heart -Ecclesiastes-
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Without you there's no me Dave Browder
'Break a heart to drop the pride of
climbing pink rose on the white wall Satish Verma
i shall rise up for anyone deemed imperfect...who may seem a little odd...
for anyone who doesn't look like me... or prays to a different God Jim Yerman
We cut down the trees Emptied the seas Wiped out the bees A case of the Me s Killed all the We s M Clarissa 63
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i didn't mind that corporation making a living off of me. i did mind they're
making a killing off of me. James M Grubb
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A problem shared is a problem halved.
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Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we
love horror movies. Thaddeus Golas, author of Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment
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Asked about his opinion on working with Douglas MacArthur
ike said 'i studied dreama under him for several years'.
Footnote: MacArthur faced with all his soldiers going off on the Bataan death march as he prepares to boat to safety in Australia... announces "i shall return."
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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until,
in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
-Aeschylus- quoted by Robert F Kennedy on the evening of April 4, 1968 to
an indiana group after confirming the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King jr.
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L Kleypas: I love you without limit, beyond forever.
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The shadow moves as the sun commands.
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Death is a canoe slipping into a stream Jan Freundschuh
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Red ve;vet room, red velvet room, rolls me in its mouth and swallows
me to sleep Barbara Feldon 72
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i like to go in Marietta to the shore of the Ohio River and listen. It is the quiet flowing sound of awesome power. James M Grubb paraphrased. The power will only grow as it flows into the Mississippi.
Lies are like bunny rabbits. They keep having babies
-Michael Tepping-
When one crosses the threshold of a US hospital, he loses all his
rights. -Michael Tepping-
No cockroach fetuses were harmed in the production of this
product. -Dick Slocum-
I prefer winning to fighting -Eloise Sue Vance-
Does one seek to vent or to persuade -E K Bertsch-
My body carries famine insurance -overweight comedian-