11 Monday Mar 2013
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charlatans, free will, God, humility, perspective, thought, understanding
We are only allowed to grope in the dark in reference to all that inspires our incomprehensible machine.
~Voltaire, 1764
…but no sooner than we stop our fumbling about, ever the happy better appears with a torch.
~tdv
27 Wednesday Feb 2013
Ask me what’s honour? I’ll the truth impart:
Know, honour then, is Honesty of Heart.
[…]
Dignities and high sounding names have different effects on different beholders. The lustre of the Star and the title of My Lord, over-awe the superstitious vulgar, and forbid them to inquire into the character of the possessor: Nay more, they are, as it were, bewitched to admire in the great, the vices they would honestly condemn in themselves. This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine, 1775 [full text, citation below]
Now, prefix this to the every introduction. I’m talking to you; I’m talking to myself. What portion of ours is shackled to ignorance by notions of title, or bound to the betterness of fame, or even incarcerated by the slander of string-pullers?
~tdv, un-struck
21 Tuesday Feb 2012
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destiny, freedom, government, liberty, poem, politics, random, thought, will, wisdom, women?, work
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“Regret is a mechanism of survival.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“We firmly believe what we believe… until somebody convinces us otherwise.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“Work can suck, til it’s done, or til you get paid. That’s just two rewards.” ~tdv (@subconch)
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“When faced with a female inquiring as to your favorable opinion on the manner of her attire, it is ill-advised to respond with “I guess”.” ~tdv (@subconch)
Congratulations! Gov’t runs the rest of your life, too ~tdv (@subconch): 50-Cent Stamp
“We only have but a life’s limit of destinies of will to explore.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“Freedom aint easy. Liberty aint lazy.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“We were free to speak, but our souls were washed to silence, comforted to amnesia. O’polit persuade our identity away.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“IF eyes are the Window To The Soul THEN ears are the channel to wisdom.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“Soul universe, illusive illusions, subtiny reflections living sphere, but a life’s limit of destinies to explore.” ~tdv (i know…) (@subconch)
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