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While Housman wrote of the futility of Christ’s death, another two thousand years of war has consistently shown such futility in the death of everyone who died in a war: no matter how noble the cause, success is never achieved and the hatred spreads. Perhaps achieving Peace Within, one by one, will render such hate redundant along with wars and armaments.

Damilos

Posted February 11, 2007

Concise Quotation 134:

William Blake's 19th century poetic critique of Newton was not anti-scientific but rather anticipatory of 20th-century quantum physics.

Wai Chi Dimock

Literary Critic

"Nonbiological Clock”

SAQ 102/2 /03:153-77

Concise Quotation 135:

I hope you will live a life that keeps many angels employed!

Victoria Naumann

quoted from a personal exchange in Durham, Ontario

Concise Quotation 136:

The power of this geomantic ley corridor (the 42^nd parallel of North Latitude) carries the emotion of megalomania and the self-righteousness of Empire. Countries along this ley-line that are not necessarily empires nonetheless act as such. Here we find Serbia acting out this dream of empire, a dream more appropriate to another era.

Peter Champoux

The Gaia Matrix, p. 23

Concise Quotation 137:

"Seek not to fight evil-- do not fight it-- let goodness take its place."

from

An Alaskan Prophecy

Http://www.viewzone.com/alaskan.html

Posted October 24, 2007

Concise Quotation 138

“protect and serve” or “serve and protect” - the motto of most police services

"When you protect something, you control it. When you continue to serve the people you control, they are lulled into complacency. In this Edenic complacency, that group which is being protected never realizes it is controlled. Therefore, to control something, you must protect and serve it very well. You must be sure that what and who you are protecting stays so happy and complacent that they never think about freedom... let alone seek it."

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=4286

Concise Quotation 139

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

-- H.L. Mencken

Posted June 1, 2008

Quotation 140

Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told. Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right.

Elka Ruth Enola

Oakville Poetry Alliance

www.oakvillepoetry.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2009

Quotation 141

There is a disconnect between what we know intellectually and what we feel viscerally.

Dan Hill

In a CBC Radio 1 Interview

On Feb. 25, 2009

Quotation 142:

"To love unconditionally toward a conditioned being is the presence of your divine heart"

Richard J. Lipscomb

Inspired by Tao Huang

Posted March 26, 2009

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