Too Heavy A Burden

We are one people with one family.  We all live in the same house… and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate.  For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.
—    Rep. John Lewis
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Press On

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
―     Napoléon Bonaparte
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Table Talk

We want to gently remind people that we don’t have forever.  In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast.  But they don’t take the time to sit down and talk to each other.  The last bastion of getting together is around the table.
—    Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia
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And / Or A Profound Falsehood

The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth.
—   Niels Bohr
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The Only Winning Move

President Biden is still being criticized for completing the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.  Here are some quotes and then some of my own passing thoughts about the last twenty years of neo-conservative hawkish foreign “action”…    —    KMAB
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of discussion.
—     Plato
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
—     Aldous Huxley
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing;  that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
—     Agatha Christie
Joshua / WOPR:  Greetings, Professor Falken.
Stephen Falken:  Hello, Joshua.
Joshua / WOPR:  A strange game.  The only winning move is not to play.  How about a nice game of chess?
—    A conversation between (Joshua) an A.I. system “programmed” to fight a thermonuclear war and its inventor (Falken).  The lines are from the movie:  “War Games“.
Invading Afghanistan was NOT a mistake.  The correct action should have concluded shortly after capturing / killing Bin Laden at Tora Bora, or not.  Either way, we should have withdrawn from Afghanistan within ninety days and told the the Taliban: “We don’t want to occupy or change your country, but you can be darn sure if you harbor terrorist again, we’ll be back.”  Iraq was a war of choice by the Bush / Cheney Administration.  They took advantage of the fear generated by “9/11” and manufactured reasons to invade there (Iraq).  I’m NOT saying either Saddam or the Taliban were “good” for their respective countries.  I am saying we had no business invading one and and trying to “nation build” in the other.  Both countries have a right to self-rule, no matter how poor we may view their choices.  The correct “moves” were “not to play” (in Iraq) and not to stay (in Afghanistan).  Nothing was settled in either country and it was (not) done at a tremendous cost to our military and their families.    —    KMAB
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Creation Without Reservation

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet;  one need only own a shovel.
―     Aldo Leopold
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Givin’ It All Away

The only way to get love is to be lovable.  It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money.  You’d like to think you could write a check:  ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’  But it doesn’t work that way.  The more you give love away, the more you get.
—    Warren Buffett
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And Fields Of Green

It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery.  But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red?  It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
—    Carl Sagan
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Bring The Void

Love brings a voiding of our ego, which allows us to fill it anew.  Unless your loving attains to this void or self-emptiness, you have no chance for renewal.  This is what Christ meant when he said unless you die, you cannot be reborn or begin anew.
—     Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s
From:  “The Brothers Karamazov“
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No Worries, Mate

It’s very strange.  Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. . .  That always worries me.
—     Charlie Brown
(A cartoon / character created, drawn and written by:  Charles Schulz)
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What Matters To Me

I continue to run because I like running.  I like to run even though I’m not, by their standards, any good at it.  What matters to me is that I like to run, not what they think about my running.
—     John “The Penguin” Bingham
From his book:  “No Need For Speed“
[LoL!!  Pretty much how I feel about learning to play guitar.    —    KMAB]
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Better To Lie, Get Rich And Destroy Your Country

The truer something is, the more penalized you are for articulating it.
—     Tucker Carlson
Quoted by:  Charlotte Alter
In her article:  “The Most Powerful Conservative In America“
Appearing in:  Time Magazine;  dtd:  2-9 August 2021
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Of Course The Term “Value” Is Undefined

The value of a telecommunication network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.
—    Robert Metcalfe
(aka:  “Metcalfe’s Law“)
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Chaos Theory

I love it when a plan comes together.
—     Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith
(A character on the fictional TV series: “The ‘A’ Team“)
[For about ten years, I said this any time something went wrong (or – more rarely – right).  My wife’s response was usually:  “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”  My alternate was:  “That’s life in the urban jungle…”    —    KMAB]
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Outside Yet?

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
—     Dutch proverb
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