“Weltschmerz is a German word which loosely means “world suffering deriving from the inevitability of reality to never match up with our expectations.”
— Chuck Lorre Productions #5
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Sigh, that’s what I’ve got now!
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“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
— attributed to Audrey Hepburn
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“Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the vital information economists call “price”. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.” — L. Neil Smith
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“The great secret of life lies in choosing the right woman. It’s a mother’s job to tell you not to play with fire. Marry the girl who tells you, “Go ahead.”” — L. Neil Smith
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“When you’re dead, they stick their hand in the coffin and rob you.” — Me in a discussion with my lawyer about the NJ Death Taxes.
I trick them. No coffin for me. I’ll escape to a non-tax state!
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When I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I’m emotionally moved, but on the other hand I’m Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.”
— Former U.S. General Barry McCaffrey
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“Foreign aid: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.” – Douglas Casey
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“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. “
— Viktor E. Frankl
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“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” – Milton Friedman
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http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/06/chris-otule-kevin-laue-remind-us-to-stop-complaining/
” …if you’re unhappy with something about it, you can work to change it. Most everything else is just excuses.”
— unknown writer on the RushTheCourt dot net website
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http://cafehayek.com/2011/01/an-open-letter-to-erin-ennis.html
“I am bound to say that it is our interest to buy cheap, whether other countries will buy cheap or no.”
— British Prime Minister Robert Peel’s 1843 statement to the House of Commons explaining his decision to support a repeal of the British tariffs known as “corn laws”:
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Like the correct rate for corporate taxes which is zero, so to the correct rate for tariffs is zero as well.
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“How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information, at that level, than the rest of the world press combined? It’s disgraceful.” – Julian Assange
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2010-12-18
“God gives you an answer for every test you’ll ever have, but just to make sure your paying attention to the lesson, he doesn’t give them to you in the order that they appear” – Lane Cavalier, some years ago
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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? … … …” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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http://nicholasnigro.blogspot.com/2010/11/drunks-and-lampposts.html
Legendary baseball broadcaster Vin Scully once said, “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost—for support, not illumination.”
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But come to think of it, uber-controversial chitchat and proselytizing are unwelcome and not encouraged by most of us.
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But then keep your goons from bothering the rest of us. Unfortunately, these costumed dolts seem to think they have some right to use force on anyone who, without injuring someone else, object to their “help”.
Argj!!!
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“If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.”
— Joe Sobran (1946–2010)
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“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.” –Polybius
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“The primary mission of all institutional managers (including school managers) is to cause their institution to grow in power, in number of employees, in autonomy from public oversight, and in rewards for key personnel. The primary mission is never, of course, the publicly announced one. Whether we are talking about bureaucracies assigned to wage war, deliver mail, or educate children, there is no difference.”
— German sociologist Robert Michel “Political Parties” (1911)
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“The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” –Timothy Ferriss
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“The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.” –Tony Robbins
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“The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.” –Tony Robbins
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“Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.”
–Wayne Dyer
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“School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.” -– John Taylor Gatto
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0568143/plotsummary
Plot Summary for “ER” True Lies (1996)
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Carter laughs at the idea of Benton going with his sister Jackie, asks Jeanie to go with him. Carter does everything he can to get rid of Mrs. and Mr. Rubadoux. Having finally stabilized Mrs. Rubadoux, Carter is able to have her transferred to a nursing home only to have her return soon after in a coma. Even at that, he can’t quite bring himself to tell her husband Ruby that she will never recover.
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[Ruby is mad at Carter for lying to him about his wife]
Dr. John Carter: What do you want from me?
Jules ‘Ruby’ Rubadoux: The truth!
Dr. John Carter: Fine, your wife is dying and she isn’t leaving this hospital!
Jules ‘Ruby’ Rubadoux: Thank you!
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Dr. John Carter: Ruby… I’m sorry.
Jules ‘Ruby’ Rubadoux: Call me “Mr. Roubadoux!”
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All I can think of is that ER episode?
SOOooo, am I just “Jules ‘Ruby’ Rubadoux”?
… … just like what the TV “john carter” did to a pathetic Red Buttons.
Channeling my inner John Wayne in “The Horse Soldiers” where Wayne (Marlowe) drinks heavily at the hotel bar and as his men blow up the depot, bitterly remarks to Secord that before the war he built railroads. When Hannah expresses puzzlement over Marlowe’s venomous attack on the exhausted Kendall, Marlowe confesses that the ineptitude of doctors killed his wife years earlier.
The line goes “held my wife while she died” and then “should have killed all of them”. Or like that!
Argh!
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“I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the school institution “schools” very well, though it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling ever to be the same thing.” –– John Taylor Gatto
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Gatto.html
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“If you think you can do it, or you think you can’t do it, you are right.”
– Henry Ford
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