Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. 
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"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but I still can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." ~Helen Keller~

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Reading someone else's  blog has 'all the sparkle of a second mortgage.'* They're really diaries written by amateurs and rarely rise to the level of mildly interesting to anyone not directly involved in the action or emotion or moral described. Even relatives must fight off the impulse to turn the page or click onwards in an optimistic, but futile hope, of a literary promised land.

Forty years?  Not enough time to find one. Stick to the classics and give up your wanderings in an empty desert.

If your life were really interesting someone else would have written about it**..

 “Unremarkable lives should go unremarked upon, the way God intended,”***

*Dick Cavett's phrase.
**Fran Lebowitz'
***.Neil Genzlinger, NY Times Book Review

Friday, April 15, 2011

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Meum Dictum Pactum

My Word is my Bond
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Is there honor among thieves? Some thieves would wholeheartedly say yes. Some would lie and say yes. While others would say no. When asking about honor among thieves, one also has to ask about the rules. Criminals break every rule when it suits them. If there is a buck to be made, the rules need to be broken like a safe filled with money or a glass shopping window showcasing expensive diamonds. When gangsters are breaking every rule in the book, lying, cheating, stealing, and murdering, how can one expect such men to uphold a code of honor? A code of silence? After a life of crime, isn’t that code just another rule that is meant to be broken?
 
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Today, Father, is Father's Day
And we're giving you a tie
It's not much we know
It is just our way of showing you
We think you're a regular guy
You say that it was nice of us to bother
But it really was a pleasure to fuss
For according to our mother
You're our father
And that's good enough for us
Yes, that's good enough for us.
 
Harry Ruby
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Martin Luther King

Friday, April 08, 2011

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An Oxford Don meets an old student and asks him what he's been up to --the student tells him that he's working on a doctoral dissertation about the survival of the class system in the U.S.  The Professor expresses surprise and says, "I didn't think that there was a class system in the United States."

"Nobody does," the student replies, "that's how it survives."
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It's not your job to control the world.  It's your job to live in it.

                                          Molly Goldberg

Thursday, April 07, 2011

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My home...
Is where there's no day, no night,
And no holy book in sight

To squat on our lives

Kabir, a mysterious figure from Northern India

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

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A landless man is no man; where is his pleasure? 

Yebamot 63a 

Sunday, April 03, 2011

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 After I completed a speed reading course I read War & Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.

Woody Allen