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    • #47
      The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos.

      Timothy Leary
      God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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      • #48
        I Knew a Woman

        I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
        When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
        Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
        The shapes a bright container can contain!
        Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
        Or English poets who grew up on Greek
        (I'd have them sing in a chorus, cheek to cheek).

        How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin,
        She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and Stand;
        She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin;
        I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand;
        She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake,
        Coming behind her for her pretty sake
        (But what prodigious mowing we did make).

        Love likes a gander, and adores a goose:
        Her full lips pursed, the errant notes to seize;
        She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
        My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
        Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
        Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
        (She moved in circles, and those circles moved).

        Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
        I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
        What's freedom for? To know eternity.
        I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
        But who would count eternity in days?
        These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
        (I measure time by how a body sways).


        - Theodore Roethke

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            • #51

              ― Ken Kesey



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                  • #54
                    The Beginnings

                    by Rudyard Kipling

                    It was not part of their blood,
                    It came to them very late
                    With long arrears to make good,
                    When the English began to hate.

                    They were not easily moved,
                    They were icy-willing to wait
                    Till every count should be proved,
                    Ere the English began to hate.

                    Their voices were even and low,
                    Their eyes were level and straight.
                    There was neither sign nor show,
                    When the English began to hate.

                    It was not preached to the crowd,
                    It was not taught by the State.
                    No man spoke it aloud,
                    When the English began to hate.

                    It was not suddenly bred,
                    It will not swiftly abate,
                    Through the chill years ahead,
                    When Time shall count from the date
                    That the English began to hate.

                    Of course the Kipling quote that goes down in history as one of his most memorable lines:

                    "You're a better man than I am Gungda Din"
                    God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                    • #55
                      I held her
                      wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred,
                      centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and
                      sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted.
                      there was no creature living as foul as I
                      and all my poems were
                      false.

                      Charles Bukowski

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                      • #56
                        God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                        • #57
                          Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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                          • #58
                            God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.

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                            • #59
                              And would it have been worth it, after all,
                              Would it have been worth while,
                              After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
                              After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor -
                              And this, and so much more? -

                              T.S. Eliot

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                              • #60
                                I do not know which to prefer,
                                The beauty of inflections
                                Or the beauty of innuendos
                                The blackbird whistling
                                Or just after.

                                Wallace Stevens

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