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Quotes of the Week Archive
Previously the quote of the month, started in July 2004 with
the quote,
"Sacrificing liberty for security creates
tyranny."
Now the Quote of the week started August 4th and is generally updated whenever the moment strikes. |
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| 8/4/04 - 8/15/04 |
"A‘ohe i pau ka ‘ike i ka hālau ho‘okahāhi" -
'Think not that all wisdom lies in your school.' So you have no time to
criticize the next person. I teach my students, if you see somebody dance
and you think it's junk or not right, you pa‘aka waha. 'keep your mouth
shut' and enjoy it because you know how hard it is. Everybody has his own
way of teaching. We all have our own style.
-George Nā'ope
Voices of Wisdom |
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8/16/04 - 8/23/04 |
"The European attitude had conceived of a
supernatural sphere separate and apart from and hierarchically above
the natural sphere, and man had a role halfway in between, below the
gods and angels, but above the beasts.
Polynesians did not share the European vision. To them,
all spirits were a part of nature and ancestral to nature. So, if you
can grasp a world view with no concept of the supernatural, then
you're beginning to grasp the Polynesians.
The major spirits were their natural ancestors, as well
as the progenitors of everything in the universe; hence humankind was
related by ancestry to everything else. Religious thought was so
inseparable from life that no separate word for religion was needed."
-Herb Kāne
Voices of Wisdom Hawaiian Elders Speak |
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8/23/04 - 8/30/04 |
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and
pride is taking less than you need."
-Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Poet and Novelist |
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8/30/04 - 9/06/04 |
ARGUMENT TWO
The Colonization of Experience
"It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of
corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to
re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial,
commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors
made this inevitable and continue to."
-Jerry Mander
1977,
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television |
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| 9/6/04 -9/13/04 |
"Our subconscious minds have no
sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality
and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually
will manifest in our lives."
-Sidney Madwed
Author and Consultant
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|
| 9/13/04 9/20/04 |
"The political choice is easy. If you
earn more than
$15 million a year then you are a Republican."
-Stephen Luksic
Editor |
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| 9/20/04 9/27/04 |
"There is guidance for each of us, and by
lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. Certainly there is a
right for you that needs no choice on your part. Place yourself in the
middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into your life.
Then, without effort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect
contentment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 9/27/04- 10/04/04 |
"A spring will cease to flow if its source be
dried up; a tree will wither if its roots be destroyed. In its main features
the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a
document not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty,
popular sovereignty, the rights of men–these are not elements which we can
see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and roots in the
religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of
the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the
principles of the Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the
result if we neglect and abandon the cause."
President Calvin Coolidge
Third Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1925
Messages and Papers of the Presidents p. 9581 |
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| 10//04- 10/11/04 |
"I predict future happiness for Americans if
they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them. "
Thomas Jefferson |
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| 10/11/04 - 10/25/04 |
"When a white army battles Indians and wins,
it is called a great victory,
but if they lose it is called a massacre."
Chiksika, Shawnee |
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10/25/04
11/7/04 |
"It's funny how the colors of the real world
only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen."
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange |
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| 11/7-11/14 |
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires
than him who overcomes his enemies;
for the hardest victory is victory over self."
-- Aristotle |
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| 11/14-11/21 |
"First, God created idiots. That was just for
practice. Then He created school boards."
--Mark Twain |
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| 11/21- 11/28 |
385 "The good or the
universal, then, as it comes to view there, is what are called gifts,
capacities, powers. It is a mode of the spiritual, in which it is
represented as a universal, which requires the principle of
individuality to give it life and movement, and in this principle has
an actual experience. This universal is put to good use
by the principle of individuality, in so far as this principle lives
in the virtuous coconsciousness, but is misused in so far as it
clings to the 'way of the world.' - a passive instrument which,
controlled by a free individuality which is indifferent to the use it
makes of it, can also be misused for the production of an actual
existence which destroys it: a lifeless material lacking an
independence of its own, which can be formed this way or that, even to
its own ruin."
--G.W.F.Hegel as translated by A.V. Miller in "Hegel's Phenomenology
of Spirit" |
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| 11/28-12/5 |
"If you are not with us, then you are with the
terrorists."
--G.W.Bush
Click here to check this link out. |
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| 12/5-12/12 |
"When you make a mistake, don't look back
at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look
forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power."
Phyllis Bottome
1884-1963, Writer |
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| 12/13 -12/20 |
"In the battle of perception management, where
the enemy is clearly using the media to help manage perceptions of the
general public, our job is not perception management but to counter
the enemy's perception management,"
Chief Pentagon spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita , from NY Times
12/13/04 |
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| 12/20-12/26 |
"Like a prisoner cast into a deep and empty
well, I know not where I am, or what awaits me here. All I know is
that I am destined to struggle with the Devil, and in cruel and
stubborn battle to conquer the principle of material force, after
which matter and spirit will merge in beautiful harmony and the
Kingdom of Cosmic will will come into being. But this will only happen
after a long succession of millennia during which time the moon,
bright Sirius and this earth will all have been been gradually turned
to dust. Until then horror, horror..."
Nina - From Act I of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" - A
comedy in four acts. |
|
| 12/27 - 1/2 |
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of
wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the
companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering
with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."
Rachel Carson
1907-1964, Marine Biologist and Author |
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| 1/2 - 1/16 |
"People may harbor secret doubts about the
honesty of government or the authenticity of news, but what good would
it do to express those doubts? Who would listen? What could be done?
It is unpleasant for people to admit their own helplessness,
particularly when comforting social illusions are available. Thus the
public, like politicians and journalists, reap certain benefits from
endorsing the news myth. It is unfortunate that the "benefits" in the
case of the public are so counter to the real interests of the
people."
1983,
"NEWS, The Politics of Illusion"
- W. Lance Bennett |
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| 1/17-1/31 |
Since the beginnings of the technological
juggernaut, the only consistent opposition has come from land-based
native peoples. Rooted in an alternative view of the planet, Indians,
islanders, and peoples of the North remain our most clear-minded
critics. They are also our most direct victims. That technological
society should ignore and suppress native voices is understandable,
since to heed them would suggest we must fundamentally change our way
of life. Instead, we say they must change. They decline to do so."
-Jerry Mander
In the Absence of the Sacred |
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| 1/31-2/20 |
"The spirit of resistance to government is so
valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be
exercised at all. I like little rebellion now and then. It is like a
storm in the atmosphere."
-Thomas Jefferson- |
|
| 2/20 -2/27 |
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man
to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, Essayist, Poet and Naturalist |
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| 2/27-3/6 |
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It
is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench
through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway
where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no
good reason."
-Hunter S. Thompson |
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| 3/7 -3/20 |
"The teacher is more than a technician. He
is the representative as well as the interpreter of mankind's most
sacred possessions. Learning is holy, an indispensable form of
purification as well as ennoblement. By learning I do not mean
memorization, erudition; I mean the very act of study, of being
involved in wisdom.."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel -
"The Insecurity of Freedom" |
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| 3/21-3/28 |
Part IV
World War Against the Indians
"In the later stages of an epic worldwide
struggle, the forces of Western economic development are assaulting
the remaining native peoples of the planet, whose presence obstructs
their progress. In some places the assault is violent; elsewhere, as
here in the United State, it is legalistic. Given the lack of public
awareness and the misreporting by the media, a "final solution" for
the native problem is deemed likely. Upon the ultimate outcome of this
battle will depend whether a living alternative would view, rooted in
an ancient connection with the Earth, can continue to express what is
insane and suicidal about the
Western Technological project."
-Jerry Mander- "In the Absence of the Sacred"
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|
| 3/28 -4/4 |
"You are never given a dream without also being
given the power to make it true."
- Richard Bach
Author |
|
| 4/4 -4/10 |
"Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of
the system to the attainment of human purposes?"
Joseph Campbell |
|
| 4/10- 4/17 |
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"A flame rescued from dry wood has no
weight in its luminous flight yet lifts the heavy lid of night"
Karol Wojtyla
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|
| 4/18 -7/25 |
"The principle difference between an
adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a
margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).
A margin whose width and breadth may be determined by unknown factors,
but whose successful navigation is determined by the measure of the
adventurer's nerve and wits."
-Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
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| 4/25 - 5/2 |
"We lift ourselves by our thought. If you want to enlarge your life,
you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the
ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."
Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, Author and Founder of Success Magazine |
|
| 5/3 -5/10 |
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and
rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
-- Lin Yutang |
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| 5/11-5/22 |
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you
a pill that can make you happy.
-Al Franken |
|
| 5/22 - 6/20 |
"If you can't find happiness along the trail
you're not going to find it at the end of the trail."
-Tom Beck
www.sinisterbrand.com |
|
| 6/20-7/2 |
"Look not mournfully into the
past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine.
Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) |
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| 7/2-7/10 |
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled
[poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime
messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato |
|
| 7/10 -7/25 |
"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not
the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's
the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for
its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
Napoleon Hill
1883-1970 |
|
| 7/26 - 8/11 |
"When the power of love overcomes
the love of power the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) |
|
| 8/12 - 8/21 |
"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do
nothing
because you can do only a little. Do what you can."
Sydney Smith
1771-1845, Writer and Clergyman |
|
| 8/21-8/29 |
"Behold the turtle: He only
makes progress
when he sticks his neck out."
James Bryant Conant
1893-1978, Educator and Diplomat |
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8/26/2005 |
My Testimony to
the Akakū Board
August 26, 2005 |
|
| 8/29-9/5 |
"Banking establishments are
more dangerous than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson |
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| 9/5-9/12 |
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an
hour, or a day, or a year,
but eventually it will subside and something else will take its
place.
If I quite, however, it lasts forever."
Lance Armstrong
Cancer Survivor and Athlete |
|
| 9/12-9/20 |
“The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.”
Antiphanes, ancient Greek dramatist
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|
| 9/21-9/30 |
"Thought and its verbal utterance are usually taken directly as one;
for the mind that thinks and the tongue that speaks belong to
essentially together.
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|
| 9/30-10/10 |
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I do
not believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if
they cannot find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Playwright |
|
| 10/11-10/20 |
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered.
But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a
dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the
church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer.
We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our
lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
-Charles Bukowski, - In Religion |
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| 10/21-10/26 |
"He who seeks God to suit his
astuteness, to appease his vanity, to satisfy his curiosity, will find
at the end a figment of his imagination. He who goes out to seek God
on a bridge of abstract demonstrations will arrive at a castle in the
air. Only a bridge made of life itself, of deeds of compassion, of
instants of wonder, of moments of reverence, will lead us to an
understanding of what faith has to say."
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|
| 10/26-10/29 |
"Sonic may be required by law enforcement or
judicial authorities to provide information on individual users to the
appropriate governmental authorities. In matters involving a danger to
personal or public safety, Sonic may voluntarily provide information
to appropriate governmental authorities. If you are a member of the
military, you should not register any personally identifiable
information at the Sonic Web Sites in the eventuality that it may
be subpoenaed."
- A section from the license
agreement from Sonic, A DVD Authoring software Company. |
|
| 10/30-11/4 |
"We brought those cases because we realized that
the truth is the engine of our judicial system."
- PATRICK J. FITZGERALD, the special counsel in the C.I.A. leak
inquiry. |
|
| 11/4- 11/8 |
"Choices is individuality,. Suppression of
choices is a malicious republican ploy to oppress the Spirit of
humanity. Well, the Spirit is Pissed Off!!."
-Stephen Luksic
Editor |
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| 11/9-11/19 |
"The place to begin is with Dick Cheney, the
dark force behind many of the administration's most disastrous
policies, like the Iraq invasion and the stubborn resistance to energy
conservation. Right now, the vice president is devoting himself to
beating back Congressional legislation that would prohibit the torture
of prisoners. This is truly a remarkable set of priorities: his former
chief aide was indicted, Mr. Cheney's back is against the wall, and
he's declared war on the Geneva Conventions."
-Editorial, New York Times, November, 8 2005 |
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| 11/20-12/1 |
Image During the Moment
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| 12/1-12/8 |
“What people call the
spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times
mirror themselves.”
— Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe,
German statesman, poet, novelist and dramatist (1749-1832) |
|
| 12/10 - 12/17 |
"When the tyrant has disposed of
foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to
fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in
order that the people may require a leader."
- Plato |
|
| 12/24 - 1/15/06 |
"Each man must for himself alone decide
what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which
isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your
conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to
yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may."
-Mark Twain |
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| 1/16/06 - 2/11/06 |
"Throughout all history, the great wise
men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one
another on many different things. It is only on this one point that
they are in complete and unanimous agreement. - We become what we
think about."
-Earl Nightingale
1921-1989, Author of "The Strangest Secret" |
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| 2/11/06 - 3/13/06 |
Balance has been set and defined, by those who
operate under self indulgent falsenesses contrived and implemented
by selfish, money gluttonous campaigns manifested through
Government."
-Stephen Luksic
Editor |
|
| 3/14/06 - 3/21/06 |
"The prospect of long flights to wherever
in search of whatever are not quite as appealing."
- MIKE WALLACE, on his decision, at age 87,
to retire from "60 Minutes."" |
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| 3/22/06 - 4/5/06 |
"The more severe the pain or illness, the more
severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad
habits, or acquiring some new and better ones."
Peter McWilliams, Life 101 |
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| 4/6/06-4/20/06 |
"The story of modern America begins with the
discovery of the white man by the Indians."
- Marshall Mcluhan |
|
| 4/21/06 - 4/24/06 |
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those
who hunger and are not fed-those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending its money alone-it is spending
the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes
of its children."
- Dwight Eisenhower, Speech (1953) |
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| 4/25/06-5/10/06 |
"Humans rent space on this planet. Those who
sell rental space as ownership are Devils concerned more with their
own gains than the benefit of the human. Such Greed and self
servitude should be recognized, acknowledged and immediately eliminated without prejudice."
- Stephen Luksic -Editor |
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| 5/11/06-7/28/06 |
"I detest the man who hides
one thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another."
-- Homer |
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| 7/28/06-8/15/06 |
"A man travels the world over in search of what
he needs
and returns home to find it."
-- George Moore |
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| 8/16/06-9/2/06 |
A professional is one who does his best work
when he feels the least like working."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| 9/3/06-9/15/06 |
"They're into control,
they're into manipulation of fear,
and anyone who manipulates fear is, themselves, entrapped in fear."
-David Icke |
|
| 9/16/06-10/8/06 |
"There is no opportunity for
revolution in America...
America is essentially a country of pious peasants."
-Bertrand Russell
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|
| 10/8/06-11/13/06 |
"I have never been especially
impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to
change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one
small difference."
Ellen Goodman
Journalist
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|
| 11/14/06-11/20/06 |
"The world is divided into people who do things
and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the
first class. There's far less competition."
--Dwight Morrow |
|
| 11/21/06 -12/6/06 |
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your
actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make
the better."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 12/7/06-12/12/06 |
“Opportunities to find deeper
powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
-Joseph Campbell
See Oahu to Kaua'i
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|
| 12/13/06-1/19/07 |
"You can discover what your
enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983) |
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| 1/20/07 - 2/14/07 |
"If you attack the establishment long enough and
hard enough, they will make you a member of it"
Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007 ) |
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| 2/15/07 - 3/01/07 |
"Each of the media that
entered the electronic conversation in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries followed the lead of the telegraph and the
photograph, and amplified their biases. Some, such as film, were by
their nature inclined to do so. Others, whose bias was rather toward
the amplification of rational speech-like radio were overwhelmed by
the thrust of the new epistemology and came in the end to support
it. Together, this ensemble of electronic techniques called into
being a new world, a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now
that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is
a world without much coherence or sense; a world that does not ask
us, indeed, does not permit us to do anything; a world that is, like
the child's game of peek-a-boo, entirely self-contained. But like
peek-a-boo, it is also endlessly entertaining."
Neil Postman , 1985,
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the age of Show
Business
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| 3/2/07-5/24/07 |
"If you speak 3 languages you are tri-lingual;
2, bi-lingual; 1, American. It is essential for those who live in
Hawaii to learn the local language. Ā hoe wa'a."
- Stephen Luksic |
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| 5/25/07 - 6/09/07 |
Let us rise up and be
thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a
little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get
sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be
thankful.
-Buddha
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|
| 6/10/07-7/29/07 |
"Tyranny will come to your
door in a uniform"
-Jack MacLamb |
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| 7/30/07-8/09/07 |
""You think of yourselves as humans searching
for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings
attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from
the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why
you came here and what you came here to do."
-Unknown
Quotes Archive |
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| 8/10/07 - 12/30/08 |
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
-Kenji Miyazawa |
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