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[Gouda]

Thought this was of interest:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have often been dubbed as an alien, and how I understand this is that I see not current Japan but always try to see future Japan...Local government, local communities should be the main actors. In five or ten years people of Japan will understand what I am talking about."

~ Resigning Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama ~

[psynapz]

Sometimes, when I'm in a rare funk, and I feel like the forum is populated by a group of the most foolhardy and gullible bunch of in-fighting and cantankerous crackpots to ever find purchase in one url on the conspiro-web, I come to this thread and quietly bask in the serenity brought by a consensus which considers that, whatever else may be dividing us, whatever insults and acrimony we may share, here, on this thread, we can come together in an expression of unity, and, as brothers and sisters, with all our hearts and in common bonding, raise our voices as one and say... "huh?"

[Gouda]

Precisely why assplugs like this head corporations. (Not to knock assplugs):

"I'm sure they were genuinely ill, but whether it had anything to do with dispersants and oil, whether it was food poisoning, or some other reason for them being ill. You know, there's a--food poisoning is a really big issue when you've got a concentration of this many people in ten pre-cabs, ten pre-accommodations. It's something we have to be very, very mindful of. It's one of the big issues of keeping the army operating. Armies march on their stomachs."

~ Tony Hayward, BP CEO, Medical and Armed Forces qualifications pending ~

[Allegro]

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• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

~ Simone Weil (b 1909), French philosopher, Christian mystic, social activist

[Gouda]

Sorry, last Tony Hayward (BP CEO, Chemical Oceanography credentials pending) quote, I swear:

"The oil is on the surface. There aren't any plumes."

Source: New oil plume evidence uncovered

[Jeff]

Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth.

[Simulist]

“No amount of public disgust at BP has moved Obama to behave as if he is beholden to the majority that elected him – for the simple reason that he is not.”

Thanks to Bruce Dazzling for this bulls-eye quote.

[Allegro]

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas… that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.[Refer.]

[Allegro]

…spend some time every day learning something new that is disjoint from the problem on which you are currently working (remember that the disjointness may be temporary), and read the masters. [Refer.]

[Allegro]

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don’t know what it’s a plan for. [Refer.]

[barracuda]

"You have a great need for other people to like and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. Disciplined and self-controlled outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. You have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be pretty unrealistic. Security is one of your major goals in life."

- Bertram R. Forer

[Allegro]

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. [Refer.]

[Jeff]

"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."

[Jeff]

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

[Ben D]

When you are confused and full of doubt, even a thousand books of learning are not enough.
When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much. - Fen-Yang