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Quote of the day: Life

By fpp ⋅ 9-December-2007 at 12:49 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

I‘ve been around quite a bit and seen people from many walks of life.
There have been good times and not so good ones, but when I could and saw fit I’ve always tried to give back and helped others.
And they have been taking freely when things were going well but left me for [...]

Quote of the day: Trouble

By fpp ⋅ 19-November-2007 at 23:59 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

To all of you who still remember humanistic ideas and believe that ethics differentiate us from the hairy things living on trees, may today be a long time jubilee for you or not…
..if trouble’s coming your way, just keep on smiling and say - it will not matter - a hundred years from today… [...]

Quote of the day: Moderation

By fpp ⋅ 14-November-2007 at 10:34 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

The moderation of happy people comes from the tranquility that good fortune gives to their disposition.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 17, Reflections on Aphorisms and Moral Maxims

Quote of the day: TAIAAMAI

By fpp ⋅ 11-November-2007 at 22:40 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

TAIAAMAI

Speaks of this place where the birds and trees are always smiling and provide us with warmth in both good and bad times.

Maori prayer, seen in New Zealand, Northern Island, Taiamai region

Quote of the day: Future

By fpp ⋅ 8-November-2007 at 10:31 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

I have seen the future, and it’s very much like the present, only longer.

Woody Allen

Quote of the Day: Truth

By fpp ⋅ 1-November-2007 at 10:26 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

H. L. Mencken

Quote of the Day: Secrets

By fpp ⋅ 29-October-2007 at 22:06 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided—it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Henry Wheeler Shaw - aka - Josh Billings

Quote of the Day: Foreign Policy

By fpp ⋅ 26-October-2007 at 9:49 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

Yee-ha Is Not a Foreign Policy…
seen on a wall inside the Emerald City, Baghdad, Iraq

…is this the end of the yellow brick road…

Quote of the Day: Joseph Gerrald

By fpp ⋅ 25-October-2007 at 0:17 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

From a sign in the Sydney Botanical Garden put up close to the place where Joseph Gerrald’s (one of the “Scottish Martyrs”) grave once was:

For myself, my friend, whatever destiny awaits me, I am content. The cause which I have embraced has taken deep root, and must, I feel, ultimately triumph. I have my reward. I see through the cheering vista of future events the overthrow of tyranny, and the permanent establishment of benevolence and peace. It is as silent as the lapse of time, but as certain and inevitable.

Joseph Gerrald, 17 May 1795
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Quote of the day: Arabia

By fpp ⋅ 22-April-2007 at 12:39 (UTC) ⋅ Post a comment

We have been rather lazy to put up new content on this site (sorry for that, but we are preparing for a quite large project in the moment) so now just another short one (much more to come the next weeks):From the prologue of one of the books we are currently reading (Imperial Life in [...]

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