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05 May 2017 11:42 PM
#401
Oliphaunt
"Something something put on a sweater something something. You gay old woman."
--Carter
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06 May 2017 01:41 PM
#402
Member
"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?" - Gov. Ronald Reagan, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park, California, as quoted in the Sacramento Bee (March 3, 1966)
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07 May 2017 10:22 AM
#403
Oliphaunt
"In every age there have been people who considered that an individual had one overriding affiliation so much more important in every circumstance to all others that it might legitimately be called his " identity." For some it was the nation, for others religion or class. But one has only to look at the various conflicts being fought out all over the world today to realise that no one allegiance has absolute supremacy."
--Amin Maalouf, *On Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong* (no, I don't agree with the corruption of the title in English, IMHO, but it's better to read the book one has found than not at all).
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07 May 2017 02:22 PM
#404
Member
"I never knew, I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was waiting on a queue
To turn and run when all I needed was the truth
But that's how it's got to be
It's coming down to nothing more than apathy
I'd rather run the other way than stay and see
The smoke and who's still standing when it clears and
Everyone knows I'm in
Over my head, over my head
With eight seconds left in overtime
She's on your mind, she's on your mind
Let's rearrange
I wish you were a stranger I could disengage
Just say that we agree and then never change
Soften a bit until we all just get along
But that's disregard
You find another friend and you discard
As you lose the argument in a cable car...."
The Fray, "Over My Head (Cable Car)"
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08 May 2017 05:37 PM
#405
Oliphaunt
"Elsewhere, far from here! too late! never maybe!
I didn't know to where your flight, you don't know where I'm headed,
Ye whom I should have loved, ye who knows it."
--Baudelaire, "A une passante"
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08 May 2017 10:08 PM
#406
Member
"There is no higher honor than to serve free men and women, no greater privilege than to labor in government beneath the Great Seal of the United States and the American flag. There is nothing more fulfilling than to serve your country and your fellow citizens and to do it well. And that's what our system of self-government depends on." - George H.W. Bush (1989)
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16 May 2017 12:59 PM
#407
Oliphaunt
"*Polyeucte*...It's the story of a religious partisan, fully convinced of the righteousness of his convictions, who abandons his pals in order to try a suicidal action against the symbolic values of the opposing religion. Arrested, subject to an interrogation, he does not weaken in his determination and accepts, without renouncing his act, the death which is promised to him."
--Claude Bourqui and Simone de Reyff, "Introduction" to *Pocket Theater* edition of Corneille, *Polyeucte* Here's my eurocentric piece of hate speech of the day: grumble grumble academic journals regularly print articles in the standard languages of English, German, and French (and very occasionally Italian, but I don't care about that, because nobody reads Italian, really, except for the dagos) and I think it was only recently that translating citations in Latin went out of fashion. Grumble grumble, kids these days. Well, that's my excuse -- I've spent my whole adult life reading these types of publications and, for me, that's just the way it is and the way I like it. White male of European descent OUT!
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16 May 2017 11:18 PM
#408
Member
"Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." - Bill Clinton, First Inaugural Address (1993)
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24 May 2017 09:41 PM
#409
Oliphaunt
"Rather, [Democrats] go back to the ancient Aristotelian tradition in which humans can achieve moral standing only in the context of a political community. In short, whereas for liberals the individual is prior and the community derived, for democrats it is the community that has priority, and individuality is realizable only in that context: it is this original (nonderived) entity—the 'people'—that can and should impose legitimate limits on the potentially endless desires of its component individuals, thus endowing them with moral status and dignity."
--Karol Berger, *Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity* (I don't know why I was reading that -- it's a pretty amusing read, but it seems like someone was regurgitating material from a dissertation at times, also, I think the author is probably a royal cunt IRL, for some reason. His tone is unacceptably pedantic and 'lofty,' so I'd recommend punching him in the nads a few times).
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Reason: size aside
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25 May 2017 10:30 AM
#410
Member
"The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet [of Beowulf] has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected." - J.R.R. Tolkien (1936)
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25 May 2017 08:12 PM
#411
Oliphaunt
"In the last years of the century, Dante was prompted by his ardent temperament and also by religious zeal to take an active role in the political life of his town."
--The New Catholic Encyclopedia, "Dante Alighieri"
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25 May 2017 09:27 PM
#412
Member
"I've been here before
But always hit the floor
I've spent a lifetime runnin'
And I always get away
But with you I'm feeling something
That makes me want to stay
I'm prepared for this
I never shoot to miss
But I feel like a storm is coming
If I'm gonna make it through the day
Then there's no more use in runnin'
This is something I gotta face
If I risk it all
Could you break my fall?
How do I live? How do I breathe?
When you're not here I'm suffocating
I wanna feel love, run through my blood
Tell me, is this where I give it all up?
For you I have to risk it all
'Cause the writing's on the wall...."
Sam Smith, "Writing's on the Wall"
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27 May 2017 04:10 PM
#413
Oliphaunt
"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand - he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard."
--Mike Tyson
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27 May 2017 08:39 PM
#414
Member
"We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. When our Founders declared a new order of the ages; when soldiers died in wave upon wave for a union based on liberty; when citizens marched in peaceful outrage under the banner "Freedom Now" - they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled. History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty and the Author of Liberty." - George W. Bush, Second Inaugural Address (2005)
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27 May 2017 11:25 PM
#415
Oliphaunt
"even though I prefer it to the grandness of the empire, as the supreme good, and the only one to which I aspire, I believe, to satisfy a just and holy love to be able to put it off a little, and do so for a day."--Corneille, *Polyeucte*, I.1. Did I mention I fucking think it's ridiculous to have to translate? Woman's work.
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28 May 2017 03:05 AM
#416
Oliphaunt
"One of the amazing things about the way we celebrate the key mysteries of our faith is that we don’t just celebrate it for a day, but we celebrate them in “seasons.” Easter for us is not just the day Christ resurrected from the dead, but it is the continuous fifty days after the resurrection day, culminating next Sunday with theSolemnity of the Pentecost. Yes, we are still in Easter! Today, within this season of Easter, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. Traditionally, this Solemnity is celebrated on Thursday of the 6 th Sunday of Easter but, in most of the dioceses in the US just like ours, it is moved to the 7 th Sunday of Easter to ensure greater participation among the faithful and to underscore the theological importance of this solemnity. " -- homily, St Cecilia ( a new parish to me, which I'm glad to encounter this morning)
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28 May 2017 07:10 PM
#417
Member
"I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, 'The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.' And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library." - Barack Obama, speech in Cairo (2009)
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28 May 2017 08:31 PM
#418
Oliphaunt
"One could ask oneself the question: have French intellectuals gone massively right-wards and become reactionary? [...] This swerve to the right is not so clean. The truth in my opinion is that they have abandonned the left without having gone so far as to join the right. They have found something whose memory, and even the very notion, they have completely lost, namely freedom of thought." -- Michel Houellebecq, "The Elites Hate The People," 18-ii-2017 opinion piece in *Valeurs actuelles*
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29 May 2017 01:00 PM
#419
Member
"Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted." - Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
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29 May 2017 01:27 PM
#420
Oliphaunt
"You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.” -- Mike Tyson
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29 May 2017 05:23 PM
#421
Oliphaunt
Or, from a slightly more respectable source, IgnatiusL: "Pray as if everything depends on God, work as if everything depends on you." I see some word pussies on the internet think it is not from Ignace, but it is quoted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, with a footnote attributing to Ignatius, so that's good enough, as though it matters.
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29 May 2017 08:59 PM
#422
Member
"Lying here with you
Listening to the rain
Smiling just to see the smile upon your face
These are the moments I thank God that I'm alive
These are the moments I'll remember all my life
I found all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more
Looking in your eyes
Seeing all I need
Everything you are is everything to me
These are the moments
I know heaven must exist
These are the moments I know all I need is this
I have all I've waited for
And I could not ask for more
I could not ask for more than this time together
I could not ask for more than this time with you
Every prayer has been answered
Every dream I have's come true
And right here in this moment is right where I'm meant to be
Here with you, here with me...."
Edwin McCain, "I Could Not Ask for More"
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29 May 2017 09:23 PM
#423
Oliphaunt
"Thus by the time he arrived at Congress, [Andrew] Jackson understood that his Federalist colleagues had revealed 'their wish to Cultivate a close friendship with Britain at the Expence of awar with the French Republick [sic].' He wrote to his trusted friend, his wife's brother-in-law, Robert Hays, and bemoaned the course of events."
--Andrew Burstein, *The Passions of Andrew Jackson*
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30 May 2017 02:17 PM
#424
Member
"...That garden sweet, that lady fair,
And all sweet shapes and odours there,
In truth have never passed away:
'Tis we, 'tis ours, are changed; not they.
For love, and beauty, and delight,
There is no death nor change: their might
Exceeds our organs, which endure
No light, being themselves obscure."
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"
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01 Jun 2017 03:27 PM
#425
Oliphaunt
Good choice. I don't know if it's by suggestion or by aptitude, but that's always been one of my favorites of Shelley.
"Whether we know it or not, most of us are influenced by ancient Greek philosophy. The Greeks draw a sharp distinction between the material and spiritual, between heaven and earth, between the body and the soul. Body bad. Soul good."
--Msgr. Pat's published homily on Ascension Day, from my own parish.
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01 Jun 2017 10:55 PM
#426
Member
“I’m not insane, sir,” I said. “I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.” - John Scalzi, Old Man's War (2005)
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06 Jun 2017 02:28 PM
#427
Oliphaunt
"Read the TV guide, you don't need to watch TV." -- crazy grandpa in the motion picture *The Lost Boys*
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06 Jun 2017 03:24 PM
#428
Member
"I was the third brother of five
Doing whatever I had to do to survive
I'm not saying what I did was alright
Trying to break out of the ghetto was a day to day fight
Been down so long, getting up didn't cross my mind
I knew there was a better way of life that I was just trying to find
You don't know what you'll do until you're put under pressure
Across 110th Street is a hell of a tester
Across 110th Street
Pimps trying to catch a woman that's weak
Across 110th Street
Pushers won't let the junkie go free
Across 110th Street
Woman trying to catch a trick on the street
Across 110th Street
You can find it all in the street...."
Bobby Womack, "Across 110th Street"
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07 Jun 2017 05:10 PM
#429
Oliphaunt
“Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don’t have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.” --Mike Tyson
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08 Jun 2017 02:18 PM
#430
Member
"I still hang around, neither lost nor found
Hear the lonely sound of music in the night
Nights are always bright
That's all that's left for me, yeah
I play the street life
Because there's no place I can go
Street life, it's the only way I know
Street life, and there's a thousand cards to play
Until you play your life away
You dress and walk and talk
You're who you think you are
Street life, you can run away from time
Street life, for a nickel, for a dime
Street life, but you better not get old
Or you're gonna feel the cold...."
Randy Crawford and Joe Sample, "Street Life"
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08 Jun 2017 03:31 PM
#431
Oliphaunt
"[Schoenberg] said, 'Play it at the proper tempo and do not make mistakes.' She began again, and he stopped her immediately to say that she was making mistakes. She then burst into tears and between sobs explained that she had gone to the dentist earlier that day and that she'd had a tooth pulled out. He said, 'Do you have to have a tooth pulled out in order to make mistakes?'"
--John Cage, "Indeterminacy," from *Lectures and Writings by John Cage*
oh you protestant alternative sectarians will like this, I notice on the back of the book published by Wesleyan UP. Hardehar.
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08 Jun 2017 10:56 PM
#432
Member
"Let me ask you something. Why don't people trust their instincts? They sense something is wrong, someone is walking too close behind them... you knew something was wrong but you came back into the house. Did I force you, did I drag you in? No. All I had to do was offer you a drink. It's hard to believe that the fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain. But you know what? It is. And they always come willingly. And then they sit there. They know it's all over just like you do but somehow they still think they have a chance. Maybe if I say the right thing? Maybe if I'm polite. If I cry, if i beg. And when I see the hope draining from their face like it is from yours right now, I can feel myself getting hard. You know, we're not that different, you and I. We both have urges. Satisfying mine requires more towels." - The villain in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (name withheld because spoilers)
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09 Jun 2017 03:43 AM
#433
Oliphaunt
"The artist pours out his creative spirit into a work; the philosopher measures his knowing spirit by the real."--jacques MARITAIN
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09 Jun 2017 11:31 AM
#434
Member
"You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on." - Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987)
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09 Jun 2017 02:22 PM
#435
Oliphaunt
Fine, since u quote a Trump, i feel no need to translate from the language of Europe
"La vengeance du dieu, ou sa pudeur, en tout cas sa Némesis, est alors de *manquer* ŕ la prise męme qui le déchire"--gérard GRANEL, an essay from Écrits logiques et politiques
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09 Jun 2017 09:55 PM
#436
Member
"Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen we got you down on your knees
So polite, you're busy still saying please
Frenemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes-Benz
First we run, and then we laugh 'til we cry
But when the night is falling
You cannot find the light
You feel your dreams are dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give...."
New Radicals, "You Get What You Give"
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14 Jun 2017 12:01 AM
#437
Oliphaunt
I think that periods when you have an oppressive, right-wing government in power tend to be very conducive for rebel music from the underground.
--interview w Thomas Dobly in latest TapeOp Magazine
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14 Jun 2017 12:41 PM
#438
Member
I doubly appreciate Thomas Dobly. ;-)
"The sun can't remember how to shine
And the colors all have faded into shades of grey
There's no life in this hollow heart of mine
Ever since you went away
...If time could find a way to turn around
I would walk along the stars 'till I was back at your door
Every word, every word
Was spoken but without a sound
And I found out what my heart is for
Close your eyes and feel me hold you
Can you lead me through this ordinary world
Let the sky cry restless rain
To wash away the miles between us
'Cause without you it's just an ordinary world...."
"Ordinary World," Katharine McPhee
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14 Jun 2017 12:45 PM
#439
Oliphaunt
now that I'm at a computer, not a tardPhone, explains my dumb-ass joke. The quote was real, though -- grabbed from the back of my toilet, noticed a few moments earlier. Not being a fan of pinkeye or fecal matter in my eyes, I waited until I'd washed my hands as usual after any anal or genital contact. Eh, whatever.
ETA that was a simulpost -- I'll have to wait until I'm actually reading something to do a good reply. I confess, I don't really understand many of these song lyrics, except in a vague way, but sometimes I get ideas that resonate with something I'm reading the moment.
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15 Jun 2017 01:11 PM
#440
Member
"You can't catch me, boy
I'm overseas at about a hundred Gs, for sure
Don't test me boy, 'cause I rap with the best
Fo' sho three oh five to the death of me
Cremate my body, let the ocean have what's left of me
But for now, forget about that
Blow the whistle, baby you're the referee
You put it down like New York City (I never sleep)
Wild like Los Angeles (my fantasy)
Hotter than Miami (I feel the heat)
Oh oh oh oh it's international love
Oh oh oh oh it's international love
I don't play football
But I've touched down everywhere (everywhere?) everywhere
I don't play baseball
But I've hit a home run everywhere, everywhere
I've been to countries and cities I can't pronounce
And the places on the globe I didn't know existed...."
Pitbull, "International Love"
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15 Jun 2017 04:43 PM
#441
Oliphaunt
"in his pteface to *The Golden Bowl* Henry James describes the aithor's selection of apprppriate terms and sentences, using two metaphors. One is a metaphor of plant growth
Nussbaum, intro to collection *love's knowledge* oxford up i cant tupe the patagraph pn a yardphone
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15 Jun 2017 04:53 PM
#442
Oliphaunt
"in his pteface to *The Golden Bowl* Henry James describes the aithor's selection of apprppriate terms and sentences, using two metaphors. One is a metaphor of plant growth
Nussbaum, intro to collection *love's knowledge* oxford up i cant tupe the patagraph pn a yardphone
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15 Jun 2017 09:38 PM
#443
Member
"Easy come, easy go, that's just how you live, oh
Take, take, take it all, but you never give
Should have known you was trouble from the first kiss
Had your eyes wide open, why were they open?
Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, you did
To give me all your love is all I ever asked 'cause
What you don't understand is:
I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah)
Throw my head on a blade for ya (yeah, yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah)
Oh oh, I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for ya baby
But you won't do the same...."
Bruno Mars, "Grenade"
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16 Jun 2017 01:49 AM
#444
Oliphaunt
"i'll never regret, the years i'm giving,
They're easy to give, when you're in love
And happy to do whatever ı do for you"
--robin & rainger 'easy living' (best in Eb, but F will do in a pinch)
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16 Jun 2017 12:54 PM
#445
Member
"What do I do... stop, go, fail, succeed?
Live or die? I just got to believe
Believe it's worth saving
And to get lost, lost in a daydream
So why hesitate?
Take me to another place
So far, far away
So I can get out of the dark
High speed, like I'm racing
It's like lighting, sky is blazing
But you've lost your way, you've been led astray
Are there better days for my fallen dreamer?
Calling a dreamer
Calling a dreamer
You don't sleep no more
You don't even dream no more
Dreamer, why don't you just dream again?
Believe in you
You got something to prove
You're a star
Watch you shine bright, on your way to the limelight
Finish line
The sweat and tears
You can channel all of your fears
Open your eyes
Your eyes
And it will be all right...."
Chris Brown, "Dreamer"
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20 Jun 2017 02:02 PM
#446
Oliphaunt
Pater noster, qui es in caelis
Sanctificetur nomen tuum,
adveniat regnum tuum,
fiat voluntas tua, sicut caelo, et in terra
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie
et dimitte nobis debite nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris
et ne inducas in tentationem,
sed libera nos a malo.
--Anonymous, "Wishful thinking"
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22 Jun 2017 10:30 AM
#447
Member
As I've said before, translations of non-English postings are much appreciated.
"There are certain people you just keep coming back to
She is right in front of you
You begin to wonder, could you find a better one
Compared to her, now she's in question
And all at once the crowd begins to sing
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
Maybe you want her, maybe you need her
Maybe you started to compare to someone not there
Looking for the right one, you line up the world to find
Where no questions cross your mind
But she won't keep on waiting for you without a doubt
Much longer for you to sort it out
And all at once the crowd begins to sing
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...."
The Fray, "All At Once"
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22 Jun 2017 12:46 PM
#448
Oliphaunt
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23 Jun 2017 12:19 PM
#449
Member
Ah, thanks.
"Well, there's a little boy waitin' at the counter of a corner shop
He's been waitin' down there, waitin' half the day
They never ever seem to have the time
He gets pushed around, knocked to the ground
He gets to his feet and he says
'What about me, it isn't fair
I've had enough now I want my share
Can't you see? I want to live!
But you just take more than you give...'
Well, there's a pretty girl servin' at the counter of a corner shop
She's been waitin' back there, waitin' for her dream
And dreams walk in and out, they never stop
Well, she's not too proud to cry out loud
She runs to the street and she screams
'What about me, it isn't fair
I've had enough now I want my share
Can't you see? I want to live!'...."
Moving Pictures, "What About Me?"
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29 Jun 2017 10:37 AM
#450
Oliphaunt
"Boxing as we know it today tends to foster the brutish tendencies in man by provoking him to take pleasure in the sufferings of another."
--"Prize-fighting," *The New Catholic Encyclopedia*
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