amazing things
i've found this week../ that i like and wish to share.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and
smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more
problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too
little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our
possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and
hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to
life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but
have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer
space but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air,
but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold
more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less
and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small
character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of
two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one
night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer,
to quiet, to kill.
~George Carlin
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THE man.
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds…"
“ Revelation reveals the truth … ”
“ It takes a revolution to make a solution … ”
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The View i wish i had right now.
McNight
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"From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw;
I could not bring my passions from a common spring." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."
Gene Brown
"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."
Shirley Chisholm
"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."
William Faulkner
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Aristotle
"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
Aristotle
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and
smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more
problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too
little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our
possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and
hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to
life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but
have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer
space but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air,
but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold
more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less
and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small
character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of
two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one
night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer,
to quiet, to kill.
~George Carlin
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
THE man.
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds…"
“ Revelation reveals the truth … ”
“ It takes a revolution to make a solution … ”
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The View i wish i had right now.
McNight
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"From childhood's hour I have not been as others were; I have not seen as others saw;
I could not bring my passions from a common spring." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."
Gene Brown
"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."
Shirley Chisholm
"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."
William Faulkner
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Aristotle
"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
Aristotle