Great & Meaningful Quotes

[officerripley]

 

[oldaunt]

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[officerripley]

"...I think it's a sin when I feel like I'm winning when I'm losing again."
~~from "Sundown" by Gordon Lightfoot

 

[squatting dog]

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And then......

 

[horseless carriage]

And then......


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America, that's those that govern, not the poor workers who pay through the nose with taxes on this, that and the other. Those that govern have really missed a trick from their British counterparts.

Do you know why the fuel at the pump is so high in the UK? Because we pay tax on a tax. It works like this. By the way, I'm sure that you all know we call Gas, Petrol, but just in case you didn't.

UK Pump price (pence per litre) of which:	161.93p	175.89p
Wholesale fossil fuel price (comprising oil production & refining)	56.39p	66.4p
Wholesale biofuel price (comprising biodiesel and ethanol production & refining)	11.38p	17.65p
Delivery and distribution	1.7p	2.1p
Retail margin (forecourt costs & profit)	11.87p	6.8p
Duty	52.95p	52.95p
VAT (Petrol 20%, Diesel 20%)	26.99p	29.31p
Greenhouse Gas Obligation & Development Fuel Obligation	0.654p	0.676p
Percentage of the pump price that is duty, VAT & environmental taxes/fees	49.77%	47.16%

Note the word: "Duty." It's another word for tax. So of the 52.95 duty imposed on fuel, we pay a further 20% VAT, that's value added tax. Now look at the percentage of tax at the pump. Almost half the price is tax. It's crazy, the UK has both the cheapest and dearest fuel in Europe. Cheapest before taxation, dearest after.

 

[officerripley]

“Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's [the government's], and to God the things that are God's.”~~Jesus (King James version of Christian Bible). Or: "Give therefore to the emperor [government] the things that are the emperor's [government's], and to God the things that are God's." ~~Jesus, New Revised Standard Version of Christian Bible

 

[JonSR77]

Quotation Anthologies...

https://www.bartleby.com/quotations/

 

[officerripley]

"To resist radical evil is to be a lifelong heretic."
~~Chris Hedges, from talk “The Price of Resistance” at Princeton Univ., 4/17/2017

 

[JonSR77]

Isaiah 1:23

"Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows."

https://biblehub.com/isaiah/1-23.htm

 

[officerripley]

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."​

- Coretta Scott King

 

[officerripley]

…I have never admired the 'natural' or believed in the 'wisdom of the body.' Death is as 'natural' as anything gets, and the body has always seemed to me like a retarded Siamese twin dragging along behind me, a hysteric really, dangerously overreacting, in my case, to everyday allergens…I put my faith in science.
from Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

 

[officerripley]

"A meaningful world is one that holds a future that extends beyond the incomplete personal life of the individual; so that a life sacrificed at the right moment is well spent, while a life too carefully hoarded, too ignominiously preserved, is a life utterly wasted." ~~Lewis Mumford

 

[squatting dog]

Nothing as powerful as music, is there?
It’s takes us places where we become lost in it.

 

[officerripley]

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"I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile." ~~Alan Shepard

 

[officerripley]

“The whole people must take upon themselves the Education of the Whole People and must be willing to bear the expenses of it.”
~~John Adams, 2nd U.S. President 1797 to 1801

 

[SmoothSeas]

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[PamfromTx]

 

[squatting dog]

The man who know's his time on earth is almost up, is to be the most feared man... ALWAYS.

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[officerripley]

“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”—Thomas Jefferson, in an 1816 letter to a friend

“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gain.”
~~Thomas Jefferson, in an 1814 letter

 

[squatting dog]

 

[FastTrax]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dogs_of_war_(phrase)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dogs_of_War_(song)

 

[officerripley]

"[Every war is] always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It’s always about one thing: which group of rich men get to divvy up the spoils."
~~from The Atlantis Gene by A. G. Riddle

 

[win231]

Happiness is the new rich.
Inner peace is the new success.
Health is the new wealth.
Kindness is the new cool.