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To: unclewest who wrote (305932)	5/20/2009 3:37:02 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 793731

Interesting times we live in….and depressing only if we let that happen. One one hand today we see: IRAN TESTS ADVANCED SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE... GATES: SUCCESSFUL... 'PLAYING WITH FIRE'... While on the other hand we see: Dems seek financial rescue of minority-owned broadcasters... I thought of Eric Hoffer…a man not educated in Harvard nor Yale, nor any of the Ivys…but rather self educated man who worked as a longshoreman, and read every free minute he could find…. Obama isn’t in his league, nor does he deserve to be. Obama is filled with envy and hate…..Hoffer offered his views and is well known for them. He offered real hope to man, while Obama offers fear. A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. Eric Hoffer Eric Hoffer Quotes ________________________________________ The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. ________________________________________ The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ________________________________________ People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. ________________________________________ What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ________________________________________ You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. More here: phnet.fi

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