QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Andy_Shofar:
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! ~ Samuel F. Smith, (America).
Very fitting for the 4th of July!
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"My Father is of the sky...My Mother is of the earth...and I am of the universe" "And We Are All Together" 'In A Yellow Submarine"
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"I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar." ~ George Harrison
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?Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages? ~ Thomas Edison
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?Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.? ― Albert Einstein
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?A room without books is like a body without a soul.? ― Marcus Tullius Cicero ?So many books, so little time.? ― Frank Zappa
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?Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.? ― Anna Godbersen, Splendor ?The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.? ― Salvador Dalí ?The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.? ― Criss Jami
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~~ Mother Teresa
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"Don't surround yourself with yourself...move on back two squares..." ~ YES (The Amazing Rock Band)
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"Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination" ~ Plato
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?I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.? ― Rai Aren ?We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.? ― Gary L. Francione ?The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we're on auto-pilot and don't even realize we're following a course of action that we haven't consciously chosen. Most people who eat meat have no idea that they're behaving in accordance with the tenets of a system that has defined many of their values, preferences, and behaviors. What they call 'free choice' is, in fact, the result of a narrowly obstructed set of options that have been chosen for them. They don't realize, for instance, that they have been taught to value human life so far above certain forms of nonhuman life that it seems appropriate for their taste preferences to supersede other species' preference for survival.? ― Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others like
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"We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature." ~ Rachel Carson "In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people" - Ruth Harrison
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles!!! ~ Ed Sullivan, Feb. 9, 1964
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Roll up! Roll up for the magical mystery tour! Step right this way! ~ Paul McCartney
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He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God that loveth us He made and loveth all. - from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere. ~ Van Wilder
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It isn't homework unless it's due tomorrow. ~ source unknown, could have been many thousands