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Guernica
Commemorating Sixty Nine Years Of Terror Bombings
By Bob Higgins April 27, 2006
Today or yesterday is an anniversary of sorts, a day of commemoration, a day to reflect on what it is in man that dooms him to endless repetition of his mistakes.
Maybe it's just a day to spit on the sidewalk, hitch up your pants and say, "same shit, different day" and let man worry about himself.
Sixty nine years ago Hitler and Mussolini decided that propping up their soul mate Francisco Franco would offer them a great opportunity to test out all the new high tech military hardware they had amassed.
This was bad news for a Basque city called Guernica and 1500 or 6000 or 16,000 of it's inhabitants. The number is uncertain, record keeping tends to go out the window when the entire universe is a collage of blood and body parts.
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Mark Twain
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For in a Republic, who is 'the country'?
Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle?
Why, the Government is merely a servant,
merely a temporary servant,it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide
who is a patriot and who isn't.
Its function is to obey orders,
not originate them.
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain On Cats
You may say a cat uses good grammar.
Well, a cat does, but you let a cat get excited once;
you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights,
and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw.
Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating,
but it ain't so;
it's the sickening grammar they use.
Mark Twain
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood.
Of all the tyrannies that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in, but this attempts a stride beyond the grave and seeks to pursue us into eternity.
Thomas Paine
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Georgia O"Keeffe
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-things I had no words for."
"I hate flowers...I paint them because they're cheaper than models
and they don't move."
"I've been terrified every day of my life but that's never stopped me from doing everything I wanted to do."
"The days you work are the best days."
Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.
If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small.
So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. ...
Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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"...Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
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President John F. Kennedy
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"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
James Madison,
Federalist 47,1788
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Harry S Truman
When voters are given a choice between voting for a Republican, or a Democrat who acts like a Republican, they'll vote for the Republican every time.
"I don't like bipartisans. Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know that he's going to vote against me."
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix."
The Republicans believe that the power of government should be used first of all to help the rich and the privileged in the country. With them, property, wealth, comes first. The Democrats believe that the power of government should be used to give the common man more protection and a chance to make a living. With us the people come first.
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There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions.
Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell.
Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond
(this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose 1980
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"...should the present foment in Europe not produce republics everywhere, it will at least soften the monarchical governments by rendering monarchs amenable to punishment like other criminals." Thomas Jefferson .. on hearing the news that the French had guillotined the king and established a republic 1793
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Like they do every Saturday night, two elderly Jewish couples are going out to dinner. The guys are in front, the girls riding in back. Irv says to Sid, "Where should we go tonight?"
Sid says, "How about that place we went about a month ago. The Italian place with the great lasagna."
Irv says, "I don't remember it."
Sid says, "The place with the great lasagna."
Irv says, "I don???t remember. What???s the name of the place?"
Sid thinks. But can't remember. "A flower. Gimme a flower."
"Tulip?" Irv says.
"No, no. A different flower."
"Magnolia?"
"No, no. A basic flower."
"Orchid?"
"No! Basic.
"Rose?"
"That's it!" Sid turns to the back seat.
"Rose. What was the name of that restaurant ..?"
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