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Friend & Friendship

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard                                                        A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson   A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to ...

Propaganda - "Beware of Peace"

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? Bertrand Russell All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.  Adolf Hitle   This is the secret of propaganda : To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. Paul Watzlawick   Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Noam Chomsky  Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.   Adolf Hitler    The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. Jacques Ellu l The oblique paradox of ...

Life and death..."All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on". H. Ellis

Oscar Wilde "Alas I am dying beyond my means "Life is just one damned thing after another." Elbert Hubbard  "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."   Josh Billings "Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering." Theodore Roosevelt "Life is to entered upon with courage." Alexis de Tocqueville "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." Carl Jung "Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."  D.H. Lawrence "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."  Leonardo da Vinci "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."  Isaac Asimov "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your yea...

Money, money, money...

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein "What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class." Alexis de Tocqueville  "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." Plato "Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent." Marlon Brando "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." Frank Lloyd Wright "It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." Bertrand Russell Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.  Unknown "I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes...