I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
quote by William John Wills
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Animal Boy
Gonna kill and destroy
I'm not an Animal Boy
Why don't they understand
I'm not an ape man
Don't have brain damage
I'm not an a wild savage
Don't push me around
Don't bring my head down
Animal Boy
Animal Boy
Animal Boy
I'm not an imbecile
Don't treat me like an animal
I'm not a creature in the zoo
Don't tell me what to do
Animal Boy
Animal Boy
Animal Boy
You don't know what it's like
You don't know how I feel
I don't have a monkey's brain
I'm not an animal
You can't lock me in a cage
This ain't the Stoneage
Better get out of my way
Someone's gonna have to pay
Animal boy
Animal boy
Animal boy
Animal boy
song performed by by Ramones from Animal Boy
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In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
quote by Paul Harris
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The Path and Wall
The path flexes and curves like a mountain,
Mirrors reflect the pain and suffering of rocks;
My experiment has begun like fire and stone,
The risks of height and weight are small.
Flitting into different directions creates disorder
In the rows of mountains and towers.
The wall condemns us when being faced,
Flexing our muscles and facial characteristics.
Treachery is against the law and laws of all,
Thieves predominate here, not near the wall.
poem by Naveed Akram
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My Life
after Henri Michaux
Somehow it got into my room.
I found it, and it was, naturally, trapped.
It was nothing more than a frightened animal.
Since than I raised it up.
I kept it for myself, kept it in my room,
kept it for its own good.
I named the animal, My Life.
I found food for it and fed it with my bare hands.
I let it into my bed, let it breathe in my sleep.
And the animal, in my love, my constant care,
grew up to be strong, and capable of many clever tricks.
One day, quite recently,
I was running my hand over the animal's side
and I came to understand
that it could very easily kill me.
I realized, further, that it would kill me.
This is why it exists, why I raised it.
Since then I have not known what to do.
I stopped feeding it,
only to find that its growth
has nothing to do with food.
I stopped cleaning it
and found that it cleans itself.
I stopped singing it to sleep
and found that it falls asleep faster without my song.
I don't know what to do.
I no longer make My Life do tricks.
I leave the animal alone
and, for now, it leaves me alone, too.
I have nothing to say, nothing to do.
Between My Life and me,
a silence is coming.
Together, we will not get through this.
poem by Joe Wenderoth
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They've Chosen To Be Winners
Picking up those pieces from a running done.
Now taking time when before they gave none.
Less they find offensive too.
With fresh sentiments meant,
They've improved.
Sticking to a purpose with a focused aimed
With minds more open.
And those attitudes changed.
A new day dawning has to them been sent.
To send defensive motives flushed,
With their fluxing minds now rinsed.
And...
They've chosen to be winners!
With those sentiments meant.
Winners.
With those sentiments meant.
Winners.
With those sentiments meant.
To leave behind their indifference.
They have chosen to be winners.
With those sentiments meant.
Winners.
With those sentiments meant.
They're winners.
With those sentiments meant.
To leave behind their indifference.
Picking up those pieces from a running done.
Now taking time when before they gave none.
Less they find offensive too.
With fresh sentiments meant they've improved.
And...
They've chosen to be winners!
With those sentiments meant.
Winners.
With those sentiments meant.
They're winners.
With those sentiments meant.
To leave behind their indifference.
They are winners.
With those sentiments meant.
Winners.
With those sentiments meant.
They're winners.
With those sentiments meant.
To leave behind their indifference.
To now say and to claim that they are...
Winners.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
quote by Jerome Bruner
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Animal Instinct
(Music: DirkschneiderKaufmannWienhold - Words: DirkschneiderKaufmann)
I don't wanna be another retro-man
I don't wanna be no part of your plans
I don't wanna be no diamond king
I just wanna pull the detonation pin
I won't give up a life of sin
You'll never tame the beast within
You can't abuse what I've got in here
My animal instinct is what you fear
And I howl - and I prowl
I am a raptor in time
And I howl - and I prowl
I am unbroken - creature of the wild
I've got an animal instinct
I've got an animal instinct
I don't wanna lead nor even dominate
Not a top-dog leader that only devastates
You know I'm free and I stand so proud
My animal anger - I shout it aloud
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
Animal - animal - animal - animal - instinct
Animal - animal - animal - animal - instinct
[Chorus]
song performed by by U. D. O.
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A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
quote by Leland Stanford
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For the Betterment and Goodwill of All People
The advice that helps best...
Is to stay away from each other.
I do not want to accuse you of being opinionated.
And hearing you call me ignorant...
Does not increase my respect for you.
Especially since neither one of us,
Are running for public office...
With the pretense that we do so,
For the betterment and goodwill of all people!
Those comments...
Are generally made by 'christians'.
Who usually spend their time defining,
The characteristics of those who live in sin!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Lack of evidence
Late last night I found a significant piece of evidence of you -
evidence of your past existance
i found it odd how little i cared, but how much i still remembered.
i have no pictures of you, only those in my head
i often dream about you, but when i wake up i no longer remember what you look like
silly and repetitive i catch my image in the mirror
you name still etched in my naked skin like a branding - of a caged animal
an animal DYING to be free
but thats just the case, no matter how free an animal may appear, one who's been branded really only means they are owned by someone or something.
i'm branded - for life
but i never was and never will be yours................. ever again
poem by Carolyn Vuletic
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
quote by Adlai E. Stevenson
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When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
quote by Sargent Shriver
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So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
quote by Victor Hugo
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
quote by Victor Cousin
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Higher And Higher
All your love lifting me higher
Than i ever been lifted before
So keep it up, quench my desire
Then ill be at your side forevermore
Chorus:
You know your love keeps on lifting me higher
Higher and higher
I said your love keeps on lifting me
Higher and higher
Now once i was downhearted
This little loneliness my foes and friend
But when you came, he soon departed
And he never showed his face again
Repeat chorus
Im so glad i finally found you
Yes that one in a million girl
And now with my loving arms around you
I can stand up and face the world
Fade:
Repeat chorus
song performed by by Dolly Parton
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Higher & Higher
All your love lifting me higher
Than I ever been lifted before
So keep it up, quench my desire
Then Ill be at your side forevermore
Chorus:
You know your love keeps on lifting me higher
Higher and higher
I said your love keeps on lifting me
Higher and higher
Now once I was downhearted
This little loneliness my foes and friend
But when you came, he soon departed
And he never showed his face again
Repeat chorus
Im so glad I finally found you
Yes that one in a million girl
And now with my loving arms around you
I can stand up and face the world
Fade:
Repeat chorus
song performed by by Dolly Parton
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Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.
The Mind's Eye
In this world you will find it does mostly seem
that ignorance and darkness both reign supreme.
But to one who has a clear, discerning and penetrating eye
this isn’t the case even though others may question: why?
For the one who sees with the eyes of wisdom
there’s a higher intelligence working in freedom
that underlies and pervades all we see of nature
which is also one of an infinite, almighty stature.
The cosmic forces, energies or powers that rule this world are
all much the same elsewhere in the universe no matter how far.
The magnitude and scale of things surpasses most people’s vision
though the underlying similarity found may be subject to derision.
We have some means at our disposal to see things without the naked eye
and this may involve using sophisticated equipment to penetrate the sky.
There is a saying we have all probably heard that ‘the sky’s the limit’
which indicates vaguely the extent to where we can go physically in it.
But there is also another way to see, which can be done with the mind's eye,
that requires an inner awakening on a higher level, beyond the normal sky.
Various other people great and small have spoken or written somewhat about it
and is what in part the telescope, television or clairvoyance are products of it.
There are other worlds and a bigger sky
that one can see within their mind’s eye.
First one has to clear away those obscuring clouds
of ignorance and darkness that cover it like shrouds.
poem by George Krokos
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Heaven
Written by kim & ricki wilde
Tonight Im gonna fly
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of love
Towards the open sky
Gonna spread my wings and circle above
Ive been too long on the ground
My head looking down
I dont want to be there again
You gave me a love so real
Now I cant believe how youre making me feel
You take me to heaven baby
Youre taking me higher and higher
You take me to paradise
Don you know it feels so good
You take me to heaven, higher, higher
The sweetest liberty is a heart in chains that love sets free
And so you came my way
And I knew Id found my destiny
The pain and the tears have all disappeared
And now I wont be crying no more
I never felt so sure
Cos Ive found what Ive been looking for
You take me to hea
song performed by by Kim Wilde
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