QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Posted on 23rd February 2013 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘get by.’   The ordinary men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies.

Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, love small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you.

But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”

Sophie Scholl

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  1. Eddie says:

    As is the generation of leaves, so too of men:
    At one time the wind shakes the leaves to the ground
    but then the flourishing woods
    Gives birth, and the season of spring comes
    into existence;
    So it is with the generations of men, which
    alternately come forth and pass away.
    - Homer, The Illiad, Book Six

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    23rd February 2013 at 12:03 pm

  2. Eddie says:

    One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
    But the earth abides forever.
    The sun also rises, and the sun goes down,
    And hastens to the place where it arose.
    The wind goes toward the south,
    And turns around to the north;
    The wind whirls about continually,
    And comes again on its circuit.
    All the rivers run into the sea,
    Yet the sea is not full;
    To the place from which the rivers come,
    There they return again.
    All things are full of labor;
    Man cannot express it.
    The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
    Nor the ear filled with hearing.
    That which has been is what will be,
    That which is done is what will be done,
    And there is nothing new under the sun.
    Is there anything of which it may be said,
    “See, this is new”?
    It has already been in ancient times before us.
    There is no remembrance of former things,
    Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
    By those who will come after.

    Ecclesiates, chapter1

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    23rd February 2013 at 12:05 pm

  3. fool on the hill says:

    “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

    Thoreau

    Fool says:

    Effort cannot guarantee success.

    Absence of effort surely guarantees failure.

    “It is hard to beat a man who wont give up.”

    Babe Ruth

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    23rd February 2013 at 8:28 pm

  4. howard in nyc says:

    i learned about sophie scholl just a couple of years ago. i went over to jesse’s site, to dig through his archives to find the articles and links he posted about her.

    and, he has them all on his front page today. as he is honoring the 70th anniversary of her execution by the SS.

    http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-anniversary-of-death-of-sophie.html

    hers is an amazing story. and i really enjoyed the film linked over there.

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    23rd February 2013 at 10:32 pm

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