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Quote from Michelangelo
01 year ago
by Dave
in Uncategorized
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
George Washington’s warnings about the danger of political parties
0Read George Washington’s warnings about the danger of political parties:
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/pages/Baneful_Parties.htm
Excerpt: “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.“ – President George Washington, September 19, 1796
Such Cheer
0Everyone is so depressing and looking on the bad side of everything. I thought I would offer this poem to cheer everyone up:
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Such characters in colour dim I mark’d
Over a portal’s lofty arch inscrib’d:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import.
Jennifer’s Body
0On my rating scale this was a 5.2 – rent it if there is nothing else to do and don’t pay more then $2 for the rental.