It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
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How Fortunate the Man with None
From the play "Mother Courage"
You saw sagacious Solomon
You know what came of him,
To him complexities seemed plain.
He cursed the hour that gave birth to him
And saw that everything was vain.
How great and wise was Solomon.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's wisdom that had brought him to this state.
How fortunate the man with none.
You saw courageous Caesar next
You know what he became.
They deified him in his life
Then had him murdered just the same.
And as they raised the fatal knife
How loud he cried: you too my son!
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's courage that had brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.
You heard of honest Socrates
The man who never lied:
They weren't so grateful as you'd think
Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried
And handed him the poisoned drink.
How honest was the people's noble son.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's honesty that brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.
Here you can see respectable folk
Keeping to God's own laws.
So far he hasn't taken heed.
You who sit safe and warm indoors
Help to relieve our bitter need.
How virtuously we had begun.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's fear of god that brought us to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.
poem by Bertolt Brecht
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We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.
quote by William Kunstler
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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
quote by Michael Ondaatje
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
quote by Dan Rather
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
quote by John F. Kennedy
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
quote by Anthony Trollope
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The events of our lives happen in a sequence of time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.
quote by Eudora Welty
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Do We Have An Independent Canadian Politician?
When politicians go to Ottawa, they take on airs,
They become the establishment and it’s none of our affairs,
Isolated from constituents with pompous party agendas,
While their media moguls will produce their propaganda.
Binding referendums, euthanasia and recall not mentioned,
And they’d like to stay in Ottawa until they are pensioned,
You are merely an observer in these events so stay cool,
Not a chance that the establishment will ever change some rules.
We need changes up there and not just some window dressing,
Unknown number of incoming refugees to keep us guessing,
Is it possible for Canadians to have a tea party?
Is the UN Security Council without us, feeling hearty?
Nov 4th,2010
poem by James Bredin
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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Transcend
The cosmos, including humans, consists of
superimposed waves in various frequencies
forming beats by peaking together in regular
sequence of rhythmic patterns
Human life is a dance governed by patterned
rhythms, directed by the sun's electromagnetic
fields of radiation, which are determined by
the planets' configurations
Everything on earth consists of cosmic energy -
pattern pictures in series, all things in existence
are electromagnetic phenomena formed by
these patterns of waves frequencies
In a universe of effervescence, liquid water forms
ice crystal regions in remembrance of its frozen
existence, fragile water directs all forms of life
by means of chemical reactions
Chaos is free, uses paths formed by patterns to
create unique directions for life to transcend
the present in unheard-of new innovations…
Lyall Watson "Supernature" pp.1-100
poem by Margaret Alice Second
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
quote by Henri Bergson
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For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task
quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
quote by Eudora Welty
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
quote by Felix Adler
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
quote by Louis D. Brandeis
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
quote by Louis D. Brandeis
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I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.
quote by Steven Runciman
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Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.
Le Corbusier in Vers une architecture (1923)
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
quote by Peter Ackroyd
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