Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
quote by Camillo di Cavour
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President Obama-Nobel Peace Prize
Did you hear?
'Hear what? '
President Obama!
He was selected to win,
A Nobel Peace Prize.
'Laaawwwddd...
The bigots and his detractors
Wont like that.
Especially the ones who question
His eligibility.
And whether or not he is deserving.'
He may be the first President to receive it!
'Let's just say the 'first' black president
Elected in the United States to receive it.'
I know he is intelligent.
I know he is wise and has the 'vision'.
But I 'still' can not believe it.
'Me either.
He has only been in office less than a year.'
And he could have done 'anything' he wanted.
ANYTHING other than run for president of this country.
Why would he want to sacrifice his talents like that?
Put himself in jeopardy to represent such imbeciles.
'Careful!
You talk about me too, you know! '
Did I say 'idiot'?
I said 'imbeciles', fool!
'There you go...
Being judgemental again.
That's what I don't like about you.
You have one of those bi-polar personalities.'
I like to refer to it as 'eccentric'.
You know...
Some of this and some of that.
'Oh yeah!
Like the different colors of MARBLES! '
AND whatchu tryin' to say, huh?
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
quote by Scott Adams
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The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
quote by Rosa Bonheur
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I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
quote by Alexandre Dumas
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
quote by Vanessa Paradis
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
quote by Alexandre Dumas
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The imbeciles never do brain concussion: they lack the organ...
aphorism by George Budoi (2011)
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
quote by Camille Pissarro
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As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
quote by Ernest Renan
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
quote by Billy Wilder
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
quote by C.S. Lewis
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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
quote by Jeanne Moreau
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They Solicited 'My' Response
I'm not apologizing for my comments or actions.
And I do not think it disrespectful to call them fools.
They solicited 'my' response.
If jerks do something stupid they are fools.
They weren't offended at all,
When I called them imbeciles.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
quote by Constantin Brancusi
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A notable scratcher in the wilderness
The scrawny who comes early in the morning
And scratches the lotteries here till noon for good luck.
I hear the creaking inner scream of his misery
And everything was written on his jaundice face.
He doesn't cry perhaps all the tears could have dried.
The wildfire brought him the catastrophe to his doorstep
And he lost his all valuables.
He is a newcomer to the homeless of this ugly world.
The burgeois river of democracy still flows silently
And he cuddles his beloved wife and the pet chihuahua in his fading dreams.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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A Longshoreman's mentality
Unionist, the man in his fifties and near by sixty
loose heart, loose oneself, loose one's way
and finally loose his weight.
He walks lop-eared, lopsided
but very loquacious and try to maintain his Lordship.
Running at a lost he always dreams of lotteries.
Still a lover in a lounge.
With his lounge suit wanders in parks
in lonely evenings.
A book of loose-leaf memories in hand
and the loner who is mending
the patches of life.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Thank you for shopping with us!
We sell magical Lotteries
A pauper could be a Billionaire
at once?
Also we purchase High Spirits
He could be vanished to another World.
If he wants to rest in peace?
Our amalgamate sister company
makes cheaper & durable caskets.
We could arrange you the payments
in installment basis with a small interest?
We're not chasing behind a profit margin
and our entire motto is your welfare!
[When you're born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.]
-Old Indian saying
nimal dunuhinga
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Salvationists
I
Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection
We shall get ourselves rather disliked.
II
Ah yes, my songs, let us resurrect
The very excellent term Rusticus.
Let us apply it in all its opprobrium
To those to whom it applies.
And you may decline to make them immortal,
For we shall consider them and their state
In delicate
Opulent silence.
III
Come, my songs,
Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities-
Beginning with Mumpodorus;
And against this sea of vulgarities
Beginning with Nimmim;
And against this sea of imbeciles
All the Bulmenian literati.
poem by Ezra Pound
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………….. Afraid of whom?
Coming out of the cemetry,
Faith, does not tell you the truth.
Becomes chaste innocence,
Of imbeciles.
How shabbily life treats you sometimes?
Tossing you on garbage, squeezing
your brain, smashing your marrow
and turning you into pulp.
We are all eyes, but no vision.
Ownership of a spinning pain,
does not entitle you for a liberation
and a gift of guardian pendant does not protect you.
Brutal hanging to sever off the neck
was not crucial.
I wanted to know
who was afraid of whom?
poem by Satish Verma
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Little of That Had Been Exposed
The one they declare great who led them...
Had to be awakened and reminded of it.
And he is given credit for delivering a message,
He read.
With his lines highlighted.
But the entire script,
He had nothing to do with.
He was there to portray the role with believability.
He succeeded.
But his part did not breakdown any walls.
Or pave fresh paths to discoveries.
Those who had viewed this from distances...
Still saw them all as representing imbeciles.
And this new young guy appointed,
They suspect...
As being sent from another planet.
Since he makes attempts to present a credibility...
Where little of that had been exposed or shown,
Ever!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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