[EnviroEngr]

Truth is given, not to
be contemplated, but
to be done. Life is an
action, not a thought.

F. W. ROBERTSON

[EnviroEngr]

We must be able to let things happen in the psyche.
For us, this actually is an art of which few people know
anything. Consciousness is forever interfering, helping,
correcting, and negating, and never leaving the simple
growth of the psychic processes in peace. It would be
simple enough, if only simplicity were not the most
difficult of all things.

CARL GUSTAV JUNG

[NevadaGhosts]

"Criminals prefer unarmed victims."
-me

"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it."
- Jeff Cooper

"If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective."
- Ted Nugent

"If you look like prey, you will be eaten."
-Clint Smith

"A free people ought to be armed."
-George Washington

"Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense."
-John Adams

"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
-Col. Jeff Cooper

""No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle."
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The right to buy weapons is the right to be free."
-A.E. Van Vogt

"Gun Control means using both hands."
-Unknown

"If the price I must pay for my freedom is to acknowledge that the government was granted the power to infringe on them, then I am not free."
-Pol Anderson

"It is because the people are civilized, that they are with safety armed."
-Joel Barlow

"An armed society is a polite society."
-Robert Heinlein

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
-Aristotle

"If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?"
-Clint Smith

"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law."
-John Dryden

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!"
-Sir Winston Churchill

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

[Oilgood]

Dennis Leary, Asshole:

Folks
I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream
About me,
About you,
About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottoms of our chests,
About that special feelting we get in the cockles of our hearts
Or maybe below the cockles,
Maybe in the sub cockle area,
Maybe in the liver,
Maybe in the kidneys,
Maybe even in the colon,
We don't know

I'm just a regular joe,
With a regular job.
I'm your average white,
Suburbanite slob.
I like football, and porno, and books about war.
I've got an average house,
With a nice hardwood floor.
My wife, and my job, my kids, and my car,
My feet on the table,
With a Cuban cigar.
But sometimes that just ain't enough,
To keep a man like me interested,
Oh no, no way, uh uhh.
No I gotta go out and have fun,
At someone elses expense,
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,

I drive really slow,
In the ultra fast lane,
while people, behind me, are going insane.

I'm an asshole
(he's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole
(he's an asshole, such an asshole)

I use public toilets,
And I piss on the seat,
I walk around in the summer time,
Sayin' "How about this heat?"

I'm an asshole
(he's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole
(he's the worlds biggest asshole)

Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces,
While handicapped People, make handicapped faces,

I'm an asshole
(he's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole
(he's a big fucking asshole)

Maybe I shouldnt be singing this song,
Ranting and raving and carring on,
Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong.
NAAAHHHHH

I'm an asshole
(he's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole
(he's the worlds biggest asshole)

You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadaliac Eldarado Convertable,
Hot Pink!
With whale skin hub caps,
An all leather cow interior,
And big brown baby seal eyes for headlights.
YEAH!
And I'm gonna drive around in that baby,
At 115 miles per hour,
Getting one mile per gallon,
Sucking down quarter pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old-fasioned non-biodegradable styrafoam containers.
And when I'm done sucking down those grease ball burgers,
I'm gonna wipe my mouth in the American flag,
And then I'm gonna toss the styrafoam containers right out the side,
And there ain't a God damn thing anybody can do about it,
You know why?
'Cause we got the bombs, that's why.
Two words, Nuclear Fucking Weapons OK.
Russia, Germany, Romania,
They can have all the democracy they want.
They can have a big democracy cake,
Walk right through the middle of Tienemen Square,
And it won't make a lick of difference,
Because we got the bombs OK!
John Wayne's not dead,
He's frozen.
And as soon as we find a cure for cancer, we're gonna thaw out the duke.
And he's gonna be pretty pissed off,
You know why?
Have you ever taken a cold shower?
Well multiply that by 15 million times,
That's how pissed off the duke's gonna be.
I'm gonna get the duke,
And John Cassavetes,
And Lee Marvin
And Sam Peckinpah,
And a case of whiskey,
And drive down to Texas,
And,
(hey, Hey, You know you really are an asshole)
Why don't you shut up and sing the song pal,
You know the whole time I thought I was that asshole,
And it turns out it was him,
What an Asshole

I'm an asshole
(he's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole
(he's the worlds biggest asshole)

A, SS, HO, LE
Everybody,
A, SS, HO, LE

I'm an asshole, and I'm Proud of it!

[EnviroEngr]

Curious, that. Grist for the mill.

[EnviroEngr]

To understand the heart
and mind of a person, look
not at what he has already
achieved, but what he
aspires to.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

[EnviroEngr]

In order to arrive at that which thou
knowest not,
Thou must go by a way that thou
knowest not.
In order to arrive at that which thou
possesseth not,
Thou must go by a way that thou
possesseth not.

ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS

[EnviroEngr]

To know that you do
not know is the best.
To pretend to know
when you do not know
is a disease.

LAO TZU

[EnviroEngr]

Learn to hold loosely
all that is not eternal.

A. MAUDE ROYDEN

[chargrove]

God sleeps in the rock,
dreams in the plant,
stirs in the animal,
and awakens in man.

Old Sufi Proverb

[EnviroEngr]

Earth’s crammed with
heaven,
And every common
bush afire with God.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

[EnviroEngr]

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- “What are you doing?â€

[EnviroEngr]

To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich;
to listen to stars and birds,
babes and sages, with open heart;
to study hard; to think quietly,
act frankly, talk gently, await occasions,
hurry never;

in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden
and unconscious, grow up through
the common—this is my symphony.

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING

[EnviroEngr]

Our reason has
driven all away. Alone
at last, we end up by
ruling over a desert.

ALBERT CAMUS

[EnviroEngr]

Truly, the greatest
gift you have to give
is that of your own
self-transformation.

LAO TZU

[EnviroEngr]

Where is the knowledge
that is lost in information?
Where is the wisdom that
is lost in knowledge?

T. S. ELIOT

[EnviroEngr]

- The mountain of release is such that the
ascent’s most painful at the start, below;
the more you rise, the milder it will be.
- And when the slope feels gentle to the
point that climbing up sheer rock is effortless
as though you were gliding downstream in a boat,
- then you will have arrived where this path ends.

DANTE

[EnviroEngr]

Is it then not a mistake to precipitate the
time of awakening? Not the greatest master
can go even one step for his disciple; in
himself he must experience each stage of
developing consciousness. Therefore he
will know nothing for which he is not ripe.

DE LUBICZ

[EnviroEngr]

One inch ahead is
all darkness.

ZEN SAYING

[EnviroEngr]

Seek simplicity and
distrust it.

ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD