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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -- Bertrand Russell
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Retired Math, Physics, Computer…teacher. Music and Movie fan. Pragmatic Progessive. Romantic Realist. Agnostic. Philomath.
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Kirk
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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -- Bertrand Russell
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They confuse Communism with Stalinism quite a lot
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." -- Nikita Khrushchev
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." -- Sidney J. Harris
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"There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them." -- Casey Stengel
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Myandra, Graceless Lady and Proud of it.
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This... right here. Another reason I can't stand CNN.
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"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust." -- E. B. White
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"All phone calls are obscene." -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." -- Voltaire
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@rbreich.bsky.social Happy Birthday!
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." -- Henry Fielding, English dramatist & novelist (1707 - 1754)
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"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." -- Walter Lippmann
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash
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"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." -- Charles Bukowski, From "Betting on the Muse"
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Two things I don't understand: Why aren't "real" Christian churches denouncing the non-christianity of the Christofascists? Why isn't the ABA speaking out about the attacks on the legal system by those who don't like the results and vow to change it?
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"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." -- Franz Kafka
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"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." -- Jeff Valdez
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"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich von Schiller
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Juneteenth in Pride Month… no better day to listen to…
youtu.be/i7iQbBbMAFE?...
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"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down." -- Hector Berlioz
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"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." -- W. C. Fields
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"The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them." -- Kin Hubbard
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Why, oh why, does Business always try to cover things up instead of just fixing the problems? It always costs them more in the end.
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lotta great people born on June 18: James Montgomery Flagg Bud Collyer E. G. Marshall Red Adair Richard Boone Ian Carmichael Paul Eddington Denny Hulme Lou Brock Roger Ebert Gordon Murray Carol Kane and Sir Paul McCartney to name a few
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CarlyJA22
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The Kentucky clown.
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Today's parenting tip: a child kept from all dangers never learns to be prudent.
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""I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient." -- Cyra McFadden
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"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." -- Kurt Vonnegut
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like… "Let's swallow to see if that strep throat still hurts."
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George Takei
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Every. Time.
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"Blacks for Trump" is like "Chickens for KFC" or "Gun Victims for the NRA"
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Robert Reich
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Your periodic reminder that Medicare For All would save $450 billion in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.
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Meredith Willson, best known as the creator of 'The Music Man' but so much more than that, died this date in 1984. He wrote 3 autobiographies "And There I stood With My Piccolo", "Eggs I Have Laid" and "But He Doesn't Know the Territory" -- all 3 are a hoot!
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"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." -- Christopher Lasch
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"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." -- H. L. Mencken
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One of the teacups from Grandmother Goldie's collection:
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"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." -- Robert Frost
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -- Chinese Proverb (had it posted in my classrooms, but very few students took heed)
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"Things are only impossible until they're not." -- Hannah Louise Shearer
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." -- Bob Edwards
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"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." -- George Bernard Shaw
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"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive." -- Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984
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"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." -- Sidney J. Harris
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The best way to honor the heroes of D-Day is to make sure we destroy fascism once and for all. The easiest way to do that is by voting every single Republican out of office. The GOP is a total disgrace. It’s infested with morons, zealots, and traitors. Vote Blue.
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Convicted felon Donald Trump has succeeded in getting his three remaining criminal trials postponed indefinitely. If he really thought he was innocent of the 54 remaining charges, don't you think he'd want the trials to happen before the election so he could clear his name?
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." -- Doctor Who
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