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Re: Say What?
« Reply #130 on: November 29, 2010, 12:00:34 am »
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Re: Say What?
« Reply #131 on: January 20, 2011, 06:47:42 pm »
"Peace does not comes through strength.
Quite the opposite: strength comes through peace."

--Sargent Schriver (1915 - 2011)
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Re: Say What?
« Reply #132 on: January 21, 2011, 05:31:39 am »
"Peace does not comes through strength.
Quite the opposite: strength comes through peace."

--Sargent Schriver (1915 - 2011)

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Re: Say What?
« Reply #133 on: March 25, 2011, 05:58:41 pm »
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

-- Oscar Wilde
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Re: Say What?
« Reply #134 on: March 25, 2011, 06:00:24 pm »
"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine
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Re: Say What?
« Reply #135 on: August 23, 2011, 08:52:32 am »
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair.
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."

-- Jack Layton July 18, 1950 - August 22, 2011

 - Just 4 months ago, as leader of the New Democratic Party, he became the leader of the opposition after leading his party to a 103 seat showing, nearly doubling the best ever result by this 50 year old party, started by Tommy Douglas, the Father of universal medicare in this country and THE greatest Canadian.
 - Jack was also a staunch supporter of Gay right as a councillor on Toronto's city council and has participated in Gay pride parades for over 20 years.

"He was a friend of mine" - even if he didn't know me.
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Re: Say What?
« Reply #136 on: August 23, 2011, 10:27:45 am »
Thanks for sharing this Sheriff! He sounds like a real leader. I wish I could have known him better.
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Re: Say What?
« Reply #137 on: October 16, 2011, 10:41:04 am »
(on free speech vs hate speech)

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins"

-- ?? a jurist on Canada's Supreme Court (I think)
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Re: Say What?
« Reply #138 on: October 24, 2011, 01:09:00 pm »
"When you're my age, it's important to have goals"

-- Fauja Singh (centenarian athlete on becoming the world's oldest marathoner)

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Re: Say What?
« Reply #139 on: December 01, 2011, 05:24:50 am »
Watched Dead Poet Society again recently (I have it on DVD) and was completely taken aback by Todd Anderson's poem ...

I close my eyes and this image floats beside me:
A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
His hands reach out and choke me and all the time he's mumbling
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.

You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough.
You kick it, beat at it, it'll never cover any of us.
From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying
It'll just cover your face as you wail & cry & scream.
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