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The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is. John Casey	added by Normando 5 years ago
Include me out. Samuel Goldwyn	added by Normando 5 years ago
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying, It got lost, and say, I lost it. Sydney J. Harris	added by Normando 5 years ago
My Broken Pieces A few weeks back, a longtime friend asked if I would meet her for lunch to discuss a new job offer. We sat in the restaurant for forty-five minutes discussing her new job opportunity when her face grew solemn. She sighed, staring down into her plate. I asked, “is everything all right,” knowing she did not ask me to meet to discuss a job offer. She said, “everything is fine, but I cannot get your story or quote about the broken pieces out of my mind.” She took a deep breath raised her head and, in half whisper, said, “it really described the broken pieces in my marriage? I answered, “when promises, borders and commitment are broken, and especially betrayal, the relationship may be repaired but never return to what it once was or could have been.” Before she left, she thanked me for giving her a copy. I refer to the story, as “The Broken Vase.” The Broken Vase Love and marriage are often broken by betrayal, lies and unkept promises. Betrayal is the ultimate form of deceit and deception. It reminded me of something I wrote many years ago about a vase that was knocked off the shelf and broken into many pieces. For a moment you’re not sure what to do but then you decide to try and repair it. Imagine trying to pick up the pieces of your life, left behind in the wake of betrayal. You must be methodical and cautious because your path is covered with egg shells. You realize it may not be the same as it once was, but would vase be good enough to keep. After all, you’ve had it for thirty years. When you believe all the pieces have been collected and placed on the table, you do one last search for the smallest pieces you may have missed. You find two small pieces, place them on the table and stare down at the broken pieces of something you cherished and was beautiful. Something so precious you often proudly displayed it to friends Over a period of three weeks, you managed to glue the vase back together. You slowly turn it around on the table and realize it is an archaic reproduction of its original form. There are holes in it created by pieces you did not find and never will. Like the pieces missing from your relationship. Held together by history and commitment but still broken. And severely damaged. The vase will never hold flowers again because it cannot hold water. And like your relationship, it has become fragile as you watch a piece fall off the vase when you lifted off the table. And when you think about the broken pieces collected from your relationship, you know that will also never be the same. As you held up the beautiful vase to show people it’s beauty, that now is simply a collection of glued pieces that resembles your relationship. You can no longer showcase your marriage. Only because of its history you place the vase back on the self, but it seems out of place and detracts from the ambience around it. After a few weeks you take the vase to your home office and place it on a shelf. A few weeks later, you sadly change the location to the closet. And like your relationship it has been moved to a different place. A dark place. When people say to you, you and your wife seem to get along very well. You think about showing them the vase. All that remains of the relationship is held together by glue. After several years you are still seeking out the missing pieces from your heart knowing deep inside you will never find. There’s only one way to get them back and that is to leave. But leaving will also mean breaking more pieces. Those are your two choices. If you leave, you will get back some of the pieces you lost but you would lose others by virtue of leaving. RJ Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 5 years ago
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. Joseph Pulitzer	added by Normando 5 years ago
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals -- only of his rights. Judith Crist	added by Normando 5 years ago
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton	added by Normando 5 years ago
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds -- that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. Robert H. Jackson	added by Normando 5 years ago
When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson	added by davidb 5 years ago
A number of people love to have solar power in Melbourne for their home. Solar power is a hot topic and its popularity is growing. Taking advantage of an endless supply of energy from the sun to run home appliances do not require a huge amount of techniques knowledge or a big budget. Linked solar prepared easy skills, which can build own solar panels Melbourne and nay even are able to power the entire home. A large population that takes help of the environment by using solar energy. The various usages of solar planes powered system work equally well and are environment-friendly. Solar panels Melbourne are one of the most effective producers of energy for the home. Using selective wavelengths of light, solar planes are capable of powering an entire home, eliminating the electric completely. For More Info Visit: https://linkedsolar.com.au/ Solar panels Melbourne - Linked Solar	added by linkedsolar 5 years ago
Love is obsessed tolerance. Kenneth Fox	added by ken_f 5 years ago
I've been told by the Doctors that for someone in my position that suicide or employment are both signs of insanity. Kenneth Fox	added by ken_f 5 years ago
haha man I'm dead Kyrie Irving	added by adunn.23333 5 years ago
Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated. Russell Warren	added by Normando 5 years ago
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. Howard Ruff	added by Normando 5 years ago
If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole. Raglan Givens	added by Normando 5 years ago
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins	added by Normando 5 years ago
We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. Marilyn Monroe	added by Normando 5 years ago
Everyone is a genius. But, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. Albert Einstein	added by Normando 5 years ago
The best things in life make you sweaty. Edgar Allen Poe	added by Normando 5 years ago
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Neitzsche	added by Normando 5 years ago
I do not care what car you drive. Where you live. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone. If your clothes are this year’s cutting edge. If you are A list or B list or never heard of you list. If your trust fund is unlimited. I only care about the words that flutter from your mind. They are the only thing you own. The only thing I will remember you by. I will not fall in love with your bones or skin. I will not fall in love with the places you have been. I will not fall in love with anything but the words that flutter from your extraordinary mind. Andre Jordan	added by Normando 5 years ago
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. Howard Zinn	added by Normando 5 years ago
We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. Jesse Owens	added by Normando 5 years ago

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