Archive for the 'Quoteball' Category

28 May

No return

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“I can’t go back to yesterday — because I was a different person, then.”
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~ Lewis Carroll

28 May

Quote of the day

“A man that would sacrifice his freedom for security deserves neither. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.”
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-Charles Louis de Secundat, the Baron of Montesquieu

04 May

Quote of the day

“When you are separated from a soul mate, you miss your partner every minute of the day and most days are nothing more than a torture of aching and needing. The soul mate connection is unlike a conventional relationship for, in these cases, the pain of separation doesn’t lessen. Some days it feels as if [...]

13 Apr

Quote of the day: M. Scott Peck

If we seek to be loved – if we expect to be loved – this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping, not genuinely loving. But when we nurture ourselves and others without the primary concern of finding reward, then we will have become lovable, and the reward of being loved, which we [...]

03 Apr

Quote of the day

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
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~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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02 Apr

Quoteball: Rainer Maria Rilke

Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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A person isn’t who [...]

01 Apr

And so it begins…

Protestors and rioters on eve of G20, today, in London.

A protester holds a placard depicting, Chinese President Hu Jintao, US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, during a rally in central London’s financial district, Wednesday April 1, 2009. Some 4,000 anarchists, anti-capitalists, environmentalists and others clogged the streets of London’s financial district [...]

01 Apr

Quote of the day

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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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~Carl Gustav Jung

19 Mar

Quote of the day

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“The adventures first… explanations take such a dreadful time.”
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~The Gryphon (Lewis Carroll, “Alice In Wonderland”)

18 Mar

Quoteball: “I can’t believe it’s not insurance!”

Representative Gary Ackerman (D-NY), at today’s House Financial Services Subcommittee meeting on AIG bonuses:

“Most members of Congress didn’t know what CDS is. I want to make sure I understand it.
Two guys on a life raft. A storm blows up. There are sharks in the water and waves 10 feet high.
First guy says, I’m scared, so [...]


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