Quote of the day..........

"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment 

on our liberties.

We hold this prudent jealousy to be 

the first duty of citizens,

and one of the noblest characteristics of 

the late Revolution.

The freeman of America did not wait till 

usurped power had strengthened

itself by exercise, and entangled 

the question in precedents.

They saw all the consequences in the principle,

and they avoided the consequences 

by denying the principle."

-- James Madison (1751-1836)
Father of the Constitution for the USA.
4th US President
Source: "A Memorial and Remonstrance".

Equal among Humans....Tu Tu.. Mi Mi.....

In matters of Human equality... 

One's actions are as arbitrary as that of others. 

Confession / Clarification...

Confession/clarification is 

One of the cleansing process of 

Inner thought ( self) and actions of a person :

A choice there remains is how 

One chooses to address it....

As a journey to regain 

One's lost innocence

That is humble and vulnerable.

Not as being insignificant Or indifferent Or

A manipulation of  the conscious self

That leads one to be delusional 

With a distortions of reality 

Where one is lost even more 

In to the trappings of falsehood 

An undoing.......

Where nothing is left for imagination 

And without such cleansing

There is neither freedom nor 

Evolution of the self

From its past.

The myth of wolf child......

Every intelligent life form 

Is equally capable of knowing 

what is known and that is to be known.

Commonsense....

Lacking in commonsense

Even the most complex calculations fall short.

Quote of the day..........

Our ultimate freedom

is the right and power to decide

how anybody or anything

outside of ourselves will affect us.

-- Steven R. CoveyAmerican author

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Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of

the safety with which error of opinion

may be tolerated,

where reason is left free to combat it.

-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father,
3rd US President.
Drafted the Declaration of Independence.

Quote of the day.........

I think what motivates people is not great hate,

but great love for other people.

-- Huey P. Newton (1942-1989) 
Founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Source: paraphrasing Che

Quote of the day........

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet 

broke a chain or freed a human soul.

-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens1835-1910]

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Reaching consensus in a group is often 

confused with finding the right answer.

-- Norman Mailer(1923-2007) American novelist, 
journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, 
screenwriter, and film director.

Quote of the Day.........

There is a principle which is a bar against

all information,

which is a proof against all argument, and

which cannot fail to keep a man

in everlasting ignorance --

that principle is condemnation

before investigation.

-- Herbert Spencer(1820-1903) .
British author, economist, philosopher

Quote of the day.....

Education is not to reform students or 

amuse them or to make them expert technicians. 

It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, 

inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, 

if possible.

-- Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977).

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"The capacity to learn is a gift; 

The ability to learn is a skill; 

The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice.

-- Unknown

Quote of the day.........

To act without clear understanding,

To form habits without investigation,

To follow a path all one's life

Without knowing where it really leads --

Such is the behavior of the multitude.

-- Mencius
[Mengzi Meng-tse] (c.371 - c.288 B.C.) 
Chinese Confucian philosopher

Quote of the day.........

An Idler says , A lion in the street !

A fierce Lion in the alley....!

---Sant Kabir.

How long? Not long.............

 Like an idea whose time has come, 

not even the marching of mighty armies can halt us. 

We are moving to the land of freedom.

  How long? Not long,  

  because no lie can live forever. 

  How long? Not long,  

  you shall reap what you sow.

  How long? Not long ...  

  How long? Not long, 

 Because the arc of the moral universe is long, 

But it bends toward justice.

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote of the day.........

Free inquiry requires that we tolerate 

diversity of opinion and that we respect 

the right of individuals to express their beliefs,

however unpopular they may be, 

without social or legal prohibition or 

fear of success.

-- Paul Kurtz
Source: “A Secular Humanist Declaration,”
 in On The Barricades, 1989

Quote of the day.........

Without freedom of thought,

there can be no such thing as wisdom;and 

no such thing as public liberty,

without freedom of speech.

-- CatoJohn Trenchard (1662-1723) & 
Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
Source: Letters, 1720
    
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If a man will begin with certainties, 

he shall end in doubts,but 

if he will be content to begin with doubts, 

he shall end in certainties.

-- Francis Bacon(1561-1626) Philosopher, 
British Lord Chancellor.

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Compared with the totality of knowledge 

which is continually utilized in 

the evolution of a dynamic civilization, 

the difference between the knowledge 

that the wisest and that which the most 

ignorant individual  can deliberately employ is 

comparatively insignificant.

-- Friedrich August von Hayek(1899-1992), 
Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

Quote of the day..........

To forbid us anything is to make us

have a mind for it.

-- Michel De Montaigne(1532-1592) 

Quote of the day........

It is not the critic who counts;

 not the man who points out how

the strong man stumbles, or where 

the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man

who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;

who strives valiantly; who errs,

who comes short again and again,

because there is no effort without error and

shortcoming;

but who does actually strive to do the deeds;

who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;

who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of

high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, 

at least fails while daring greatly, so that 

his place shall never be with those cold and timid

souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

-- Theodore Roosevelt(1858-1919)
26th US PresidentApril 23, 1910

Exodus.......Quote of the day.....

"Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat,

populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth --

 are never basic criteria.

The human race divides politically into those

who want people to be controlled and those

who have no such desire."

~ Rober t A. Heinlein
(1907-1988) American writer
Source: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Violence..........Andha Yug....

All violence,

for it to make sense to Human condition

Is not only to be witnessed but experienced

As tragic loss...

Even that of slaying the villains and

beings that are irredeemable..

Otherwise it entails oneself to folly.

From the book of My name is Asher lev............

He should be careful of 

the influence of those 

with whom he consorts,

and he runs a great risk in 

becoming a member of 

a large society,

for large bodies then towards 

the leveling of individuality to 

a common consent,

the forming and adherence to 

a creed.

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You can do anything you want to do,

what is rare is this actual wanting 

to do a specific thing:

wanting it so much that you are 

practically blind to

all other things,

that nothing else will satisfy you.

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An artist has got to get acquainted 

with himself

just as much as he can.

It is not easy job

for it is not a present-day 

habit of humanity.

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Every great artist is a man

who has freed himself from 

his family

his nation, his race.

Every man who has shown 

the world the way to beauty,

to true culture, has been rebel

A "universal with out patritiosm", 

with out home"

Who has found 

his people every where.