Just trying to put a compassionate, truthful, interesting and somewhat different face on past and current events. I am mostly bored by the discussions on other threads. Or, in other words, I don't suffer fools very well as they don't add anything to human evolution, advancement or to the overall condition. I am n

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Albert Einstein--
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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And in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary ..1919-2008(today,01/10/08).. R.I.P. for you had a good run..
"Walk quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer" -John Muir
And I might add, that is so true..
"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." -Albert Einstein
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." -DH Lawrence
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