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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
quote by Herbert Butterfield
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Joyride
You got to get it to give away
You got to give it to get away
Outside feelin kind of faded
Inside Im holdin conversations
You got to give it to get away
You got to get it to give away
You got to get some
Come on and get some
You know you want some
Come on and get it then
Landslide comin up behind you
Joyride hope they never find you
You got to get it to give away
You got to give it to get away
Get it to give away
Give it to get away
Get it
song performed by by Oleander
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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All I Need Is You
Find the lonelist girl in a thousand find the saddest eyes you've ever seen
Find someone who's always longing for you find that man and you found me
And all I need is you all I want is you to give my loving to all I need is you
Find a man who wakes up every morning and lives in a world of make believe
Find someone who's arms are aching for you you find that girl and you found me
And all I need is you all I want is you to give my loving to all I need is you
You're with me now so let the world forsake us
I've found my heaven here within your arms
And nothing in this world can separate us you're all I ever wanted all along
And all I need is you all I want is you to give my loving to all I need is you
song performed by by Dolly Parton
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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What is to Be Done
'Readers attempting to associate the poem’s ideas with its writer’s life or thoughts will be wasting their time; readers attempting to find a moral in it will sadly find nothing.'
I say nothing to be done
They retort, “Where have hope and happiness gone? ”
I persist: noting to be done
No fun; everything is gone
Nothing to be done
Your son has gone
Your son has a gun
Your son has run
Your son won a gun
What is to be done?
“Faith can do the job,
Faith can be the beacon of hope
Faith can lift the burden of stress”
I respond:
Faith can be faked by some
Faith can be exploited by some
Faith can be the pretext for killing some
What is to be done?
Where have people gone?
Tell me where they have gone!
Enlighten me where they have run!
Do not you dare say “they still have sons and guns! ”
But in the end, something can be done
With faith everything can be done
But it has to be carried out by everyone
Otherwise, nothing to be done
poem by Refai Tommas
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Texarkana
20,000 miles to an oasis
20,000 years will I burn
20,000 chances I wasted
Waiting for the moment to turn
I would give my life to find it
I would give it all
Catch me if I fall
Walking through the woods I have faced it
Looking for something to learn
30,000 thoughts have replaced it,
Never in my time to return
I would give my life to find it
I would give it all
Catch me if I fall
All alone
Waiting to fall
40,000 stars in the evening
Look at them fall from the sky
40,000 reasons for living
40,000 tears in your eye
I would give my life to find it
I would give it all
Catch me if I fall
song performed by by REM
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Somehow, I've Never Really Been Mad At A Woman
I want to find God and meaning
On my own terms of arrogance and confusion,
For my love and devotion
To be precisely my own idea.
I want to enthusiastically
Run through the rain of this existence,
To embrace my suffering with a smile
To laugh in glee at all the darkness
Enveloping me.
Loneliness has been my companion
Down the pathways of this
Expedition of despair,
But she is a fine lady
Who never disappoints.
I no longer make use
Of any pretext of civility
When it comes to dealing with myself
Or gazing into a mirror,
It is straight-up self-loathing
Without a chaser.
I don't know if there is destiny
Or deity-guided fate,
But whatever must be will be
Until I find my way to a silent grave.
When she told me she was leaving,
I told her everything was happiness between us,
What else could I possibly say?
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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Find Life
Find Love
It is the beauty of this life.
Find Peace
It is the anchor in any strife.
Find Hope
It will carry you through.
Find Friendship
They give joy, who are true.
Find Laughter
It is health for your mind.
Find Comfort
Even when you have been left behind.
Find Forgiveness
It always will set you free.
But the most important really
Never ever find... Fault.
poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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The wolf never wants a pretext against the lamb.
My Way Home
I will give it all
We've all been down the dusty road trying to see around the bend
In search of something
Lots of faces different places, emptiness had settled in
And then I saw him
I'm the lover of your soul
Deep inside this man that I know
Vision picture perfect world as you focus in the lens
Fairy tale begins
I'm so happy that I found you
I just wanna break down and cry and laugh and hug and kiss
I'm the lover of your soul
Deep inside the man that I know
I will give it all and let go
Through his eyes I find my way home
He can take me to heaven
That's why I need him, and I want him
That's no one I'll ever love, no other can touch him
I will promise you with all I am
I'm the lover of your soul
Deep inside this man that I know
I will give it all and let go
Through his eyes I'll find my way home
I will find my way
I will find my way
I will give it all
I'm the lover of your soul
Deep inside this man that I know
I will give it all and let go
(go go go go)
I will give it all and let go
song performed by by Jessica Simpson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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On every small pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.
Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep.
Give Up
(bernard edwards/nile rodgers)
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
You better listen well
When I tell you
To be on the look out
You cant call for help
cause I know you inside out
Despite all your hideouts
Im no great pretender
Ill make you surrender
So come along quietly
Heres a thought to remember
I have not met a man yet
To escape from my drag-net
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Ill give you just the facts man
And you can draw all your own conclusions
Ill keep your mind surrounded
With chains of love so strong
You cant break through them
My arsenal is stocked
With all kinds of seductive weapons
Although your hearts locked up
My love will assist me
So that you cant resist me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
No, no, no
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
Give up, give up
Give up youre love to me
song performed by by Diana Ross
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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
quote by Leslie Stephen
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If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
quote by Robert M. La Follette
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Give Me Time
Give me time to be
Give me time to live
Give me time to see
Give me time to give
Let me reach my goal
Let me find my way
Let me have a role
Let me learn today
Give me time to use
Give me time to make
Give me time to lose
Give me time to wake
poem by Peter S. Quinn
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
quote by Ludwig Quidde
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
quote by Friedrich August von Hayek
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