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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
Maybe, just maybe thing were not meant to be equal!!!
You can only say things areequal or unequal if you know what they are for. What are people for?
excessive frugality equals greed and fear and points to a displacement of what really matters in life with what doesn't matter at all.
-arcturus88
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis
- C. S. Lewis
"I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe, that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God, who is alone able to protect them"
-George Washington
-George Washington
“The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he’s but one human among five billion others - all feeling themselves to be the center of things - scratching out an existence on the surface of a medium-sized planet circling a small star among countless stars in a galaxy lost among countless galaxies. The person with the sacred mentality, on the other hand, does not feel herself to be the center of the universe. She considers the Center to be elsewhere and other. Yet she is unlikely to feel lost or insignificant precisely because she draws her significance and meaning from her relationship, her connection, with that center, that Other.”
- M. Scott Peck
- M. Scott Peck
The logical individual has a realists mentality, and knows he is but one unique creature in a Universe to large for him to understand. This allows for the acceptance of inevitable death and decay without feeling the need to miss the life he lives. Instead he lives it in full, watching closely as it winds down the road of adventure and inevitability.
~tecoyah
he is a brilliant psychiatrist and well renown author. I feel quite certain you can trust his analysis on this.
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For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
-David Rockefeller
-David Rockefeller
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
- Jeremiah Wright (Obama's pre-presidential pastor)
- Jeremiah Wright (Obama's pre-presidential pastor)
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