Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
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0004 Love and law; law and love
Law of love? Sounds good… so, tell me more…
Love of law? mmm…maybe…not so sure…
You can disregard the ancients –
label them Not Applicable – bin that bulky file…
or try to make some sense; and they insist
that love and law are so close intertwined
that together, they may tell
more than each other taken individually.
What might this mean? Where can we start?
Those ancients say that all this universe,
all this creation, is one single act of love;
love brings it forth, sustains it, nourishes it,
and so ultimately, it merges into love;
and by the laws of love,
which hold all forms by law,
our natural state is naught but love;
and knowing this, knows no injustice in ourself;
knows all as equal; knows no pressures nor compulsions;
knows no darkness; and no partiality or preferentiality;
and partaking of this universal love,
we’re therefore just, and light of heart,
and ready of response..
and so, this love, which knows ourself as love,
(for every creature's nature is pure love)
may love the laws which make our nature thus;
love the laws of love, and live as love;
so out of love, comes law;
and out of law, comes love.
only in this fleeting moment of the present
is our life lived;
and only if, in this continuous now,
love and law are present in each action,
may we make our golden future;
live a golden life, where law has made us free.
this, the ancients say; the proof is ours to live.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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O Kid, What You Meditate Upon?
O Just born infant kid,
why you sleep all the time,
Not opening your eyes,
what you meditate upon?
You just not know were you are,
This world may change you,
Do you think how can you change the world,
Do you think what is around?
Do you know who brought you?
what is that you meditate on,
You are that,
yet ready to fall into MAYA,
And that you brought with your
own karma and samskaras, Egoless state is beautiful,
Not with ignorance,
But with all knowledge,
Crossing the ocean from this
shore of ignorance to other shore
of knowledge, Both shores, the ocean and boat
all being you!
Listen this kid,
Self is that which,
is beyond every form of energy,
Yet is the infinite source of all,
Beyond the stage on which every
perform its show,
There is the neutral enjoyer, Who is dreaming these world, Earth is that fertile womb,
Where this self entered with
desires,
Desire to know the nature!
Just as one wants to love another
to understand more, Or to have one to understand! Only way out is understand the
nature,
And understand your own
nature,
Let nature go in its own way,
let nature leave you to live in your own way,
For that understand what is Self,
Whether nature and self are one,
Or different from one another?
Without Self or nature no one can
be there, If someone is there,
He is that Truth which can't see
and understand Himself!
You came here to conquer,
Not anything, only to conquer
your own nature, Your own idiocy and foolishness!
poem by Ramdas Bhandarkar
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Are You Ready Girl?
Well in this new love that youve found,
Are you positive, are you sure,
And are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Though its fun you talk about[? ],
Its the night life you explore.
And are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
cause youre living with a man
Who will find no understanding.
Do you mind if I layed down and cried?
Do you ever know the way,
That I feel for you each day?
So are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Hell buy you diamonds, hell buy you rings,
Hell buy your time, hell buy you sin.[? ]
So are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Hell keep you laughing for a while,
Then hell leave you with a smile.
So are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
cause youre living with a man
Who will find no understanding.
Do you mind if I layed down and cried?
Do you ever know the way,
That I feel for you each day?
So are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Are you ready girl?
Are you ready?
song performed by by Kinks
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Give and take
In your helpless state
He will take
You; you will dine
On his table,
He will buy you a
Dress and what
You need, you
Will live in
His own house
He will take
Care of you
But there is no
Such thing as
A free meal
Nowadays, or a
Man with a
Hundred percent
Kind heart,
There will always
Be that element
Of give and take
And so when the
Night comes
He will, know this,
Undress you
And start eating
A little of you,
And you will give
In some parts,
That element
Of give and take,
This is a dog
Eat dog world,
My dear, so while
You are in such
A helpless state
Try the lizard’s
Way, start growing
Again those lost
Parts, and if you
Will, start growing
All those wings and
Then fly away…
Or if you will,
Start growing some
Scales and big
Crocodile teeth
And a long solid tail,
And you will know
In lizard’s name
What to do with him.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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A Joyful Festival of Lights!
Full of fun all enjoy from morn till night
Energy never dissipating in revelry...!
Such a happy occasion comes once a year
Thrilling celebration in fire works ever!
Invigorating elders and children in joy
Vital mood of joy immerses all in bliss!
Amazing display of friendliness all over
Love all the occasion in never ending joy!
Over and again all have time to share joy
Full of love and passion to live so year long!
Light of truth expels darkness of ignorance
In the blissful mood of divinity brilliant long!
Girls and guys give themselves in pure love
Highly elated to open and frank state of truth
That never hides any ill will ever to rottenness
Socially strengthening bond of affection forever!
poem by Ramesh T A
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A Night To Remember
Chorus:
Get ready tonight
Gonna make this a night to remember
Get ready, oh, baby, tonight
Gonna make this a night to remember
When you love someone, its natural, not demanding
And thats one thing Im proud to say Ive found in you
Im so glad weve reached an understanding
Now I know my heart is safe with you
So now my love to you, baby, I surrender
Repeat chorus
Celebrations in the heart cause were united
And theres nothing in the world could come between me and you
Were together, and it keeps me so excited
To think of what the power of love can do
And Im filled with a love thats, oh, so tender, yeah
Repeat chorus
Rap:
Yeah, get ready, get ready cause were gonna have some fun
Get ready, get ready cause youre with the 911
Gonna take this, break this, then were gonna make this
A night to remember cause, baby, I surrender
Celebration, toast the occasion
Talking about love and true dedication
The hand of love thats, oh, so tender is gonna give you a night to
Remember
Lets make a toast to those whove helped make this occasion
They turn their back on love, and thats what drove you straight to me
To you, I make a lasting dedication
Ill show you all the love and life can be
And each day that I live I will deliver, yeah
Repeat chorus to fade
song performed by by 911
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Get Ready
Never met a girl could make me feel the way that you do
Youre alright
Whenever Im asked what makes a my dreams real I tell em you do
Youre outta sight
Well twiddley dee, twiddley dum
Look out baby cause here I come
Im bringing you a love thats true
Get ready, get ready
Start makin love to you
Get ready, get ready
Get ready, cause here I come
Get ready, cause here I come
You wanna play hide and seek with love, let me remind you
Youre alright
Lovin youre gonna miss, and the time it takes to find you
Youre outta sight
Well fee fi, fo fo fum
Look out baby, cause here I come Im bringing you a love thats true
Get ready, get ready
Start makin love to you
Get ready, get ready
Get ready, cause here I come
Get ready, cause here I come
Baby all my freedoms should you want me to
I think Ill understand
Youre alright
Hope I get to you before they do, cause thats how I planned it
Youre outta sight
Well twiddley dee, twiddley dum
Look out baby cause here I come
Im bringing you a love thats true
Get ready, get ready
Start makin love to you
Get ready, get ready
Get ready, cause here I come
Get ready, cause here I come
song performed by by Hall & Oates
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State Of Mind
I was goin round the world
I was lookin for somewhere
I was searchin for someone
Who was gonna take me there
Didnt want to do it cause I knew what Id find
Yourre really only livin in a state of mind, yeah
I was thinkin of the past
I was tryin to rack my brain
I was looking at the future, looking at the future
I was tryin to play the game
Didnt want to do it cause I knew what Id find
Youre really only livin in a state of mind, yeah
Sometimes you get lost
Sometimes you get found
In a state of mind
Sometimes youre too high
Sometimes youre too down
Its just a state of mind
Didnt want to do it cause I knew what Id find
Youre really only livin in a state of mind, yeah
Sometimes you get lost
Sometimes you get found
In a state of mind
Sometimes youre too high
Sometimes youre too down
Its just a state of mind
You think you know it all
Then you think that you know nothing
Cant dance, cant crawl, crawl
Maybe you better forget it
Didnt want to do it cause I knew what Id find
Youre really only livin in a state of mind, yeah
Didnt want to it cause I knew what Id find
Youre really only livin in a state of mind, yeah
Didnt want to it cause I knew what Id find
Youre really only livin in a state of mind, yeah
State of mind
Its a state of mind
State of mind
State of mind
State of mind
State of mind
song performed by by Electric Light Orchestra
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Thirteen Lines
A brain peered through stoic eyes;
Yet all it saw was rendered into
Flawed interpretation –
No honoured contemplation of a
Gluon, muon, quark of any flavour;
Nor a vision or conception of its world
Within a universe anthropic in its physical laws,
Inside a boundless multiverse.
All it gleaned and modelled
Bore parochialism well beyond belief! –
Delusional perhaps.
Survival only matters here on planet Earth –
Evolution saw to that.
Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2010
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poem by Mark R Slaughter
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The Beautiful Side Of Somewhere
Tomorrow
Is gonna make you cry
It's gonna make you kneel
Before it breaks you
From inside
Still pressing on
Arm over arm
Still trying to
Get both feet back on to the ground
They are harvesting
these fields in autumn
We're different now
Than when we started
Chorus 1
And I am ready to wake up
We're in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere
Baby
There on the pavement
Underneath the yellow morn
Think of you
And just how easily we bruise
With folded address
In my pocket I have stopped
Trying to believe for you
That the bottom didn't drop
I am on a platform
Covered with dust
I pray they take the both of us
Chorus 1
Chorus 2
And I am ready to come down
To see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere
Someday
Somewhere
Someday
Beautiful side of somewhere
I am lighting matches
For the rescue
Some are candles
Some are fuses
Acting on my best behaviour
Switching over every breaker
As we're plowing through
These laws of nature
Disregarding every acre
I'm lying in my Sunday best
Assuming this was not a test
Chorus 1, then Chorus 2
Somewhere, someday
Beautiful side of somewhere
song performed by by Wallflowers
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The Beautiful Side Of Somewhere
Tomorrow
Is gonna make you cry
It's gonna make you kneel
Before it breaks you
From inside
Still pressing on
Arm over arm
Still trying to
Get both feet back on to the ground
They are harvesting
these fields in autumn
We're different now
Than when we started
Chorus 1
And I am ready to wake up
We're in the exodus
On the beautiful side of somewhere
Baby
There on the pavement
Underneath the yellow morn
Think of you
And just how easily we bruise
With folded address
In my pocket I have stopped
Trying to believe for you
That the bottom didn't drop
I am on a platform
Covered with dust
I pray they take the both of us
Chorus 1
Chorus 2
And I am ready to come down
To see us both somehow
On the beautiful side of somewhere
Someday
Somewhere
Someday
Beautiful side of somewhere
I am lighting matches
For the rescue
Some are candles
Some are fuses
Acting on my best behaviour
Switching over every breaker
As we're plowing through
These laws of nature
Disregarding every acre
I'm lying in my Sunday best
Assuming this was not a test
Chorus 1, then Chorus 2
Somewhere, someday
Beautiful side of somewhere
song performed by by Wallflowers
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Vicious Games
I never knew
How much I loved you
I never knew
How much I cared
So I played
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
I was afraid
To go under
Afraid to see
When I closed my eyes
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
I never knew
How much I loved you
I never knew
How much I care
I just played
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Now that youre gone
And you have left me
I had to learn
I had to learn how much it hurts
To play those vicious games
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
song performed by by Yello
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Vicious Games
I never knew
How much I loved you
I never knew
How much I cared
So I played
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
I was afraid
To go under
Afraid to see
When I closed my eyes
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
I never knew
How much I loved you
I never knew
How much I care
I just played
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
With different names, different names
Now that youre gone
And you have left me
I had to learn
I had to learn how much it hurts
To play those vicious games
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
Vicious games, vicious games
Different names, different names
song performed by by Yello
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Flashbacks
I see my past and scream
I feel the hand strike me and bleed
I hyperventalate
It was their words that put me in this state
I cry and slice my arm
and feel the trickle of blood give me warmth
all the lights are off and the curtains are closed
What I am doing in here no one knows
Suicide flashes in and out of my head
I start thinking I'd be better off dead
I can't handle the memories
They're taking control of me
I wish I could be in your arms so you can take my pain away
I wish you would catch my tears and help me to a better day
But you can't and you won't and that causes a depression overload
My body is losing all control
I shake violently and scream for help
but no one comes for they don't care about my health
So i get the noose ready and set up the chair
I get a brush and slick back my hair
I wrap the rope around my neck and take a deep breath in
I kick the chair and start suffocating
I go leaving with your memory and love
Even though you couldn't admit it and me you tried to get rid of
my body twirls on display for the world to see
Maye now you'll be happier after all there's no more me
poem by Jean Pullman
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Ready Now
(stewart, stocker)
I gave trust like an innocent kid
I believed everything you said
A parasite that fed on doubt
Yeah its you that Im talking about
You rode heavy on my fame
Then you scandalized my name
You robbed me blind with a ( )
You lacerated your closest friend
I dont know how you sleep at
Night with your conscience
Do they still kiss your feet
And is life as sweet in my absence
Im ready now, ready now for what I gotta give
Im ready now, ready now for how I want to live
I dont want no sweet revenge
Itll come and get you in the end
Laugh now while the truths unknown
Cause pretty soon itll be my turn
One of these days and it wont be long
I will find you
Lock up your gates
Youll need all of your snakes
To defend you
Im ready now, ready now for what I gotta give
Im ready now, ready now for how I want to live
Im bitter now, but wait and see
You aint heard the last of me
Ill dance on your grave
When they finally put you away
Whatd I do to deserve all this evil attention
A thousand years will never buy you redemption
Are you ready now, ready now for what you gotta give
Are you ready now, ready now for how you gotta give
Are you ready
song performed by by Rod Stewart
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If They Only Knew
If everyone knew you the way I do
they all would feel like me.
The things you do, the heart you possess
would be what they would see.
They'd rise to the occasion
with you around
and look up to you
for they would have found
the smile that you give
to all you meet,
the love of nature
right at their feet,
the caring that shows
by what you do,
the understanding
that makes you, you.
But not enough know you the way I do
so they can't feel like me.
What a sad, sad thing I think that is.
They've missed out unfortunately.
poem by Edwina Reizer
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
quote by Herbert Read
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Start Me Up
Now I don't need nobody's persuasion
To get this party off of the ground
So get the music jumpin' we'll all get down
Start me up !!
We'll take if off like we're in our bedroom
We'll turn it on like never before
And we'll sweat this joint just to make a point
Start me up !!
And we'll take no survivors
Hit the roof can't get much higher now
It's your turn... Start me up !!
I'll give ya all my riches
Are you ready for booty and kisses now
Here we go... Start me up !!
Chorus
Start me up !! Start me up !!
And if it takes all night - we can do it right
Start me up !!
Now I'm a girl that's on a mission
And I won't quit till I'm satisfied
So get your bod' in gear 'cause we got no fear
Start me up !!
'Cause dreams won't last forever
(But) as long as we just stay together.
You can always... Start me up !!
Chorus
song performed by by Kate Ryan
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All I Need Is You
Find the lonelist girl in a thousand find the saddest eyes you've ever seen
Find someone who's always longing for you find that man and you found me
And all I need is you all I want is you to give my loving to all I need is you
Find a man who wakes up every morning and lives in a world of make believe
Find someone who's arms are aching for you you find that girl and you found me
And all I need is you all I want is you to give my loving to all I need is you
You're with me now so let the world forsake us
I've found my heaven here within your arms
And nothing in this world can separate us you're all I ever wanted all along
And all I need is you all I want is you to give my loving to all I need is you
song performed by by Dolly Parton
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