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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
After living with animals my whole life and working with them for over 2 years I can say with confidence that this statement is true.
After living with animals my whole life and working with them for over 2 years I can say with confidence that this statement is true.
Ms. Piggy- Posts : 570
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Along those lines, one of my favorite bits of Whitman:
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and
self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of
owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of
years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their
possession.
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That's such a great bit!! Thank you so much for sharing.
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Don't get me wrong I like animals, I just like to eat 'em more.
Fun to pet, even more fun to chew. -Jim Gaffigan
Fun to pet, even more fun to chew. -Jim Gaffigan
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Bibbity Boppity Bacon!!- Jim Gaffigan
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Martin Heidegger wrote:The nothing does not remain the indeterminate opposite of beings but reveals itself as belonging to the Being of beings.
balloon- Kimmy Gibbler
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Without music life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Who said it? Well, he...
Hails from Indiana (and his home is a National Historic Landmark)
Has been inducted to the Department of Labor's Hall of Fame
Ran for president while incarcerated (and captured over 900,000 write-in votes)
Here's another good quote:
"I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition"
Eugene V. Debs, American hero.
Who said it? Well, he...
Hails from Indiana (and his home is a National Historic Landmark)
Has been inducted to the Department of Labor's Hall of Fame
Ran for president while incarcerated (and captured over 900,000 write-in votes)
Here's another good quote:
"I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition"
Eugene V. Debs, American hero.
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After a somewhat questionable decision that many people thought put my mortality at the forefront of their minds, I found myself thinking about this quote quite a bit this weekend...
"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back." -Maximus Decimus Meridius
"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back." -Maximus Decimus Meridius
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There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.
Will Rogers
Will Rogers
Ms. Piggy- Posts : 570
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Ah that our Genius were a little more of a genius!
Emerson
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Temperament puts all divinity to rout. I know the mental proclivity of physicians. I hear the chuckle of the phrenologists. Theoretic kidnappers and slave-drivers, they esteem each man the victim of another, who winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being, and by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard, or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character. The grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness.
I love nothing more than when Emerson trashes the phrenologists.
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why are you dying to live if you're living to die?
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