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D's notes
In support of free speech, education and plain old love of literature these notes are my favourites from the information stream we have around us. Be they lyrics, poems, book extracts or script lines here be those that tickled my fancy.
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By words the mind is winged.
- Aristophanes
 "Did you know ....
The Earth is 4600 million years old.
Imagine that it's a 46 year old man.
We know nothing about the first seven years of this man's life.
At the age of 42 he began to flower.
At the age of 45 Dinosaurs and reptiles were around.
8 months ago mammals appeared.
In the middle of last week apes came out of the trees
and began the transition to the humanoid we now know.
The last ice age was on the weekend.
Humans as we know them have been around for 4 hrs.
Man learnt agriculture 1 hour ago.
The Industrial Revolution is 1 minute old, and in that time man has made a rubbish tip of paradise erasing over 500,000 species."
- eco pamphlet.
"When the last fish dies and all the rivers and oceans are dead and poisoned only then will people realise that money can't be eaten."
- - Red Indian saying.
"I just wanted some meaningless sex and it turned into something sleazy."
- - Sam Malone - Cheers sitcom.
"Keep your eye on important issues,
with crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues.
I got a feeling I'm gonna get a lot of grief.
Once this seemed so appealing,
Now I am beyong belief.
Thursday to Saturday
Money's gone already!
I don't want to hear your whole life story
or about my strange resemblence to some old flame.
All I want is one night of glory,
I don't even know your second name.
White knuckles on black an' blue skin
Didn't mean to hit her but she kept laughin'.
If we lived in a world were everyone was equal,
I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel."
- - Elvis Costello,
- from various songs of
"SOME people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animal as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighbourhood."
- - Phil Donahue
"STOP! The Answer is Blowing in The Wind!"
- - Bob Dylan
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us a universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something seperate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The delusion is a land of prison for us. Restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- - Albert Einstein
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"If I were reincarnated I'd like to come back as a buzzard. nothing worries him or envies him or wants him or needs him. he is never bothered and he can eat anything."
- - William Faulkner
"We can never discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
- - Andre Gide
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"I refuse to be a member of a club that would have a person like me as a member.
I find television very educational. Everytime somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
Somebody said to me once ..
We call television a medium because none of it's WELL DONE!"
- - Groucho Marx
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"The object of all human life is to play.
The Earth is a Task garden, Heaven is a Playground."
- - from the film 'Heaven'.
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"Take the public by the throat
give em a reason to give you a vote.
Let em know that your well read,
quote the things that Jesus said.
Take the woman in the heat of the night.
Make her think your RIGHT."
- - Chris' Hines, The Pretenders.
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Howlin' at the Moon
"Well muh house burnt down,
Muh dog left town
I got beat up by muh Mother
My darlin' wife has threatened my life
An' she just run off with muh lover!
I got fired today
An' muh car towed away.
It seems muh whole life's hexed
I'd cut off muh ears
and drown in muh tears
but I gotta live to see what's next!"
- - from a Comic I can't recall the name of,
- may have been Captain Goodvibes
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- - Seneca
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"There's no such thing as Adventure and Romance.
There's only Trouble and Desire!"
- - from the film 'Simple Men'.
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- - Socrates
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"Better to be looking down into a grave than looking up from the bottom of one."
- - sitcom 'Waiting for God'.
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