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We must stand up defiantly to any dark or divisive acts, and look out for the most vulnerable among us. It is more important than ever. George Takei — Tweet dated 9:47 PM – 8 Nov 2016 Saturday morning and I am on my way...
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Charles Caleb Colton I think for me it’s a mom thing,...
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Think of it as a large aquarium for parasitic predators!   (From Wikipedia: The adult lamprey may be characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth… well-known for boring into the flesh of other fish to suck their blood… )
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Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. Sociopaths cannot love, by definition they do not have higher values, and they almost never feel comfortable in their own skins....
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning! Abbie Hoffman I won’t lie. I’m desolated. I’m furious. I’m hurt and I am grieving hard. I am also trying and failing to reconcile myself...
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Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself. Aesop, Aesop’s Fables I’m thinking now that this story isn’t true and I can’t honestly remember where I read it, it was so long ago, but it goes like this: Sometime around the...
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They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. Red Cloud The other day, in the middle of a wonderful dinner out, my brilliant middle child said, “Y’know,...
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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. Claude McKay In the wake of the Trumpnado currently devastating our country even before the winds have truly picked up speed, I have...
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Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he’ll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had. Rocky Marciano Desperate times lead to epiphanies and if ever in...
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