Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.
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Too Late, Too Often
As myths go...
So too goes the darkness.
And an enlightened truth emerges!
Scientific, intuitive and evolution discoveries,
Appear to lift the shrouded mists...
For years that plagued and demonized reality!
And now comes the struggle,
For 'them' to recreate...
Other illusions to find an acceptance.
But as always...
They have come too late,
Too often to become effective solutions.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
quote by Donald Rumsfeld
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The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year.
quote by Lennart Nilsson
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
quote by Patricia Ireland
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It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
quote by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
quote by Dan Quayle
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Game of Life (Ka-ching!)
Come in here my good man, how bout some coffee?
Give me your land and I’ll loan you a donkey
Never mind 3 courses I’ll promise you eight
For the next 5 years or the next decade
Just sign here and initial there
Don’t read the fine print this bargain is fair
You’ll pay for the donkey and the eight courses
For the next 10 years and nature’s forces
Can’t relieve you of making your payments
Let me slow down and say this in laymen
You owe me somewhere around 500 large
Now will that be cash, check or charge?
The business of business has one bottom line
To split up your nickel and call it a dime
Money is money forget what you feel
If you want to make something, then let’s make a deal
poem by P.R. Prosper
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An Extremely Successful Campaign
Whether you like what has been said or done,
Has shown your choice of ignoring it...
As effective as the power you have,
To prevent its existence.
Or stop the facts in their tracks.
The only thing you have proven,
Is your unrelentless support for ignorance.
And 'that'...
I admit,
Has been an extremely successful campaign.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Glued To The Script
Stylish.
Impeccable taste.
And that shows in her public appearances.
Flawless diction.
Eloquent with undeniable intelligence.
Extremely cool under pressure.
And...
You must agree,
She has an engaging personality.
'And...
You must agree,
She has been noticeably absent of late.'
Give her a break.
Cut her some slack.
You know she has been traveling the world,
Patching up indifferences.
And easing volatile tensions at that!
'Who?
Who are 'you' referring to? '
Secretary of State!
'WHO?
I thought you were talking about Michelle Obama! '
She does not yet have a title.
She doesn't command an elected position.
'I know and she's doing all of that without having it!
You can not be talking about that Rice woman? '
Look...
Who said anything about expectations of her being effective?
For eight years she has done what she was suppose to do.
Give the 'image'!
After all...
Can you say,
Her deception revealed one hint of being disloyal?
Can you?
She was glued to the script!
Her smile and demeanor...
A class 'act'!
'...tress.'
Well...
Let's just say,
She was the best looking one who took centerstage.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Who Cares
They stand and look at things
with their eyes closed tight.
They claim to see just what others don’t,
branding someone a liar and deceiver.
Sadly, they are the ones
who deceive themselves all the time.
Who worries if someone uses a different name
whenever they sit down to write?
I personally don’t.
Who cares if they make up an age they want to be.
I personally don’t.
Who cares if they exaggerates
about what they may or may not have done.
I personally don’t care.
Everyone no matter who they are
wants to be someone different at sometime or other,
and there is nothing wrong in that.
Just so long at the end of it,
they are happy in their own way.
I have no quarrel
with what anyone does
and I don’t think
anyone else should do neither.
1 April 2008
poem by David Harris
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Care in the Community
SCARE in the community!
The psychopath is free to roam!
Grant the Public immunity
And put me back in a Mental Home!
I suppose you think you're very clever
Interfering in this way -
There are some of us who feel it will never
Be safe enough to come out and play! !
Of course, you think that you're 'enlightened',
You've 'set us free' because you 'care';
Personally I'm very frightened!
I was happier in hospital - I felt safer there! !
poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
quote by L. Frank Baum
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1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
quote by Alexander Haig
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Lost Within the Loop
Lost within the loop.
Giving up mentalities,
To TV programs and commercial teases.
Disconnected completely from world affairs.
And attached to that which keeps them latched...
Onto a lack of concern.
Lost within the loop to spin...
A regurgitation over and over again.
With such thoughtlessness that disregards a seriousness.
Burning to a crisp...
An effective comprehending consciousness.
And they all in conformity came to agree this activity...
Should not and would not be taken personally!
Leaving them to question and scratching their heads,
When the monotony interrupted...
Would for them return.
To continue a comfort they missed and yearned...
In a dumbed down and safe existence.
Managed and learned in a fantasized survival.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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With No Escapes From It To Exit
There is no other way to address truth,
But to be prepared to be stripped naked...
Bare,
With the exposing of every blemish.
Since truth is not seeking to be impressed.
Truth is on a mission to uncover honesty.
And many are still unbelieving,
The depth of which truth sees without explanation...
To deceive what is already revealed.
When truth is in one's presence and is fully awakened,
With no escapes from it to exit...
Foolish is the time taken to charade in masquerade,
To evade it with a wasting away of one's time.
With no escapes from it to exit,
Truth...
Is very effective!
With no escaping undetected,
Truth...
Is very effective.
Once fed truth it manifests.
And truth will not be neglected...
To reject!
With no escapes from it to exit,
Truth...
Is very effective!
With no escaping undetected,
Truth...
Is very effective.
Once fed truth it manifests.
And truth will not be neglected...
To reject!
With no escapes from it to exit,
Truth...
Is very effective!
With no escapes from it to exit,
Truth...
Is very effective!
And truth will not be neglected...
To reject!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
quote by Samuel E. Morison
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
quote by Stephen Covey
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