The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
quote by John Buchanan Robinson
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But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
quote by John Buchanan Robinson
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Every Strand Of Fiber Grey
It is too late to captivate my interest.
The moment I knocked on your door,
There was an opportunity for the both of us...
To explore possibilities and stop immaturities.
But no!
Instead you adopted,
A chase you wanted me to follow as if to enjoy.
I must remind you of the other little boys you tease?
Look at me...
Every strand of fiber grey on my head you see,
I have earned.
Hoping to flatter me by saying I look distinguish,
Does not a peaking up of my interest do!
With a staying power that will suit either one of us.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Pay You Back With Interest
(clarke / hicks / nash)
Too many people need me
Ive got so much, so much to do
But when my travelling is over
Ill pay you back with interest
Ill pay you back with interest
It seems unfair to leave you
And sell myself the way I do
But when my wandering is over
Ill pay you back with interest
Ill pay you back with interest
Most of my life Ive been moving
And when I tire out Ill come home to you
But until then Ill be waiting
Ill pay you back with interest
Ill pay you back with interest
How cold is my room, (how cold is my room)
Without your love beside me
We look at the same old moon (looking at the moon)
But youre not here beside me
Ill pay you back with interest
Ill pay you back with interest
Break
Too many people need me
Ive got so much, so much to do
But when my travelling is over
Ill pay you back with interest
Ill pay you back with interest
song performed by by Hollies
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Surprise in Japan - New Suit
bad laundry work
the fashion store gives me
a new suit
Quite a surprise. The laundrette I sent the suit to for dry cleaning did a bad job. The suit became like a three year old piece of junk. I showed it to the fashion store in Kinshicho where I bought and strangely the manager gave me a new suit.
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
quote by Helen Rowland
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Bliss is Creation
mirror of man's illusions-
Numb stood egoist...
haiku by Mamta Agarwal
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Fooled Again
Strange voice on the telephone
Tellin' me i better leave you 'lone
Why won't somebody say what's goin' on
Oh, oh, i think i've been through this before
Looks like i've been fooled again
Looks like i'm the fool again
I don't like it, i don't like it
You never said you had no longer to
I need to know 'bout it if you do
If two is one, i might as well be three
It's good to see you think so much of me
Looks like i've been fooled again
Looks like i'm the fool again
I don't like it, i don't like it
You never said you had no longer to
I need to know 'bout it if you do
If two is one, i might as well be three
It's good to see you think so much of me
Looks like i've been fooled again
Looks like i'm the fool again
I don't like it, i do n't like it
song performed by by Tom Petty
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He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'
quote by Joe Viterelli
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Entertained With Ideals to Match
I do understand,
The lost of interest in reality.
And I can sympathize with those,
Who have chosen to manifest...
And let grow their delusions.
Those who have dealt with the reality of things...
Have seemed the most disrespected,
For professing the obvious.
While those deluded,
Have always been detached.
Preferring to be entertained with ideals to match.
The mavericks and the nonconformists,
Have long lived lives referred to as fools.
And few of them seem saddened...
To have been separated with a peace of mind,
For them that soothes.
I do understand,
The lost of interest in reality.
And I can sympathize with those,
Who have chosen to manifest...
And let grow their delusions.
Although I do wish,
They someday will find solutions...
For their mental conflicts!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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SWIM SUIT GIRL...by Talile Ali
I WANNA TAKE A WHIRL
WITH MY RED HEADED
FUNKY WALKIN
SWIM SUIT GIRL
RUN AROUND THE BASES
AS SHE GIVES ME A WHIRL
MAKE IT WITH
MY SWIM SUIT GIRL
DANCE AND ROMANCE
IN HER PANTS
IN A TRANCE LOVIN
MY SWIM SUIT GIRL
OH I CAN'T HELP BUT WANNA
GO FOR A WHIRL
DANCIN WITH
MY SWIM SUIT GIRL
SHE LIKES TO BOOGIE
AND LIKES TO ROCK
SHE'A A BAD ASS ROMANTIC
WITH THE SWEETEST LEG LOCK
AND I LIKE
TO TAKE HER FAR AS I CAN
AND I LIKE
TO DO HER BECAUSE I'M HER MAN
SO I CAN'T WAIT
CAUSE I GOT A DATE
WITH MY SWIM SUIT GIRL
DANCIN AND ROMANCIN
AS SHE GIVE'S ME A TWIRL
SPINNING WITH MY SWIM SUIT GIRL
poem by Talile Ali
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All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
quote by Billy Bragg
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Everybodys Fool
Perfect by nature, icons of self-indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world
That never was and never will be
Have you no shame, dont you see me?
You know youve got everybody fooled.
Look here she comes now -
Bow down and stare in wonder.
Oh, how we love you
No flaws when youre
But now I know she -
Never was and never will be
You dont know how you betrayed me
And somehow youve got everybody fooled.
Without the mask
Where will you hide?
Cant find yourself,
Lost in your lies
I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I dont love you anymore
Never was and never will be
You dont know how you betrayed me
And somehow youve got everybody fooled.
Never was and never will be
Not for real that you can save me
And somehow now youre everybodys fool.
song performed by by Evanescence
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Self Defeating Foolishness
No interest they have in politics.
Believing that and religion do not mix.
No interest expressed in local business.
And yet they insist...
Changes must come to exist!
No interest do they have,
With the lack of discipline shown.
And the disrespect accepted and known.
No one wishes to participate,
In doing those things that are right.
But quick they are to pass judgements.
And witness those in conflict...
As they sit and gossip as if to benefit!
No interest in progress or moving ahead.
As those who do this among them...
They do their best to keep them down instead.
And when they notice they are all of the same mind...
Knitted together by the same common thread.
They want to come together and unify!
Crying they've been left behind...
To entertain themselves,
With more nonsense to spread!
And this is done not 'some'...
But all of the time!
And they come together,
To denounce others who express,
No interest in them...
Or their self defeating foolishness.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Twixt And Between Ideals
Twixt and between ideals.
With a wish to select those most appealing.
And give a toss to the ones...
Many will not welcome to approve them done.
Some ideals are too complex.
Especially those that connect,
To self reflection and accountability.
They are the ones the most distasteful..
The ones more acceptable,
Are those with counterfeited empathy.
You know...that kind no one commits to,
But forges upon others to believe.
Twixt and between ideals.
With a wish to select those most appealing.
And give a toss to the ones...
Many will not welcome to approve them done.
At least not the ones,
Remotely associated with reality.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Leisure Suit Serenade
Wearin old t-shirts and grubby jeans
People say I look kinda odd
Well, Im never accepted in the social set
cause they say that Im a clod
But once in a while, I go to my closet
And I put on something mod
And when I step out in my leisure suit
People stand up and applaud
Leisure suit serenade
Slip one on and you got it made
You better hope and pray that the colors dont fade
Thats the leisure suit serenade
Now, it dont matter if the collars bent
If its got nylon twenty percent
Now Im as cool as the asb president
Leisure suit serenade
Leisure suit serenade
Slip one on and you got it made
You better hope and pray that the colors dont fade
Thats the leisure suit serenade, oh yeah
Thats the leisure suit serenade
song performed by by Weird Al Yankovic
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Time and Eternity
YOUR smile is old,
and time has changed a lot
even a hundredfold
you snob me
you smirk, you tighten your
laughter into
a frown,
it does not work
ditto,
it just does not tick anymore
you've got to change
somehow
i do not really know how
or what or when
time has a way of changing
what it needs,
it discards expectations,
it hates the monotony of never changing rules
it has a style of its own
and no one knows what is really next
taste of passion
i like time,
i like its way of experimenting
moments,
with all of us, its subjects
and objects
of its hours and
days
i do not wish that it may like me too
on such a
vested interest of
a mutuality
i hate to accept this
but time is with me
(booooo! do i hear boooo?)
it likes the way i dislike it
and it dislikes me for liking it
and claiming that it is with me
there is fire in my coldness
there is fame in my persistence
let the rain come,
i am ready with my own
cracked dryness
let time pass, i like its opposite
anyway:
ahhh! eternity.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Never Was Never Will Be
Perfect by nature,
Bygones of self indulgence.
Just what we all need,
more lies about a world that
*chorus 1*
Never was and never will be.
Have you no shame,
Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled.
Look here she comes now.
Bow down and stare in wonder.
Oh! How we loved you.
Too bad we didn't know she
*chorus 2*
Never was and never will be.
You don't know how you've betrayed me.
You know you've got everybody fooled.
*chorus 2*
*chorus 3*
Never was and never will be.
You're not real and you can't save me.
Somehow now you're everybody's fool.
song performed by by Evanescence
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The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
quote by Georges Rouault
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Taxidermists
To the calf-less cow, a stuffed calf
Serves as a stimulus. She is in fantasy
To squash her teats.
To a thirsty man, a woman in photo
Or in thought is held in fantasy
To release his seeds.
Cow is fooled. Man is self-fooled.
09.08.2000, Paralakhemundi
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Impressed by the Edifice
Impressed by the edifice constructed by Tim
LaHaye; distilling the essence of what he says:
dealing with our temperament enables us to
rectify problems with anger and depression;
empowering individuals to take responsibility
for what happens to them
As pastor of a Church he provides community
context within which people can apply their new
gifts, I like the society he depicts where people
find joy in serving each other, the philosophical
question whether God exists, is irrelevant when
those who dream up such ideals
Improve the lives of people who follow their pre-
cepts, an intelligent stream of love creates the
benevolent universe and manifests as thinking
people who inhabit it and can think up religion
and rational self-interest; and who can mould
themselves to represent any Deity
Every individual is free to choose where he wants
to be, a person with integrity lives morally superior
whether as atheist or by following Muslim, Buddhist,
Christian or Hare Krisna systems; one with evil intent
will manage to bend the ethical system of any faith
to suit his own purposes…
Why You Act The Way You Do - Tim LaHaye,
Tyndale House Publishers, Living Books
edition,1984
poem by Margaret Alice Second
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