Smokin Djinn's blog: "Favorite quotes I stumble across."

JOSEY: You be Ten Bears? TEN BEARS: I am Ten Bears. JOSEY: (Spits tobacco) I'm Josey Wales. TEN BEARS: I have heard. You're the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace. JOSEY: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go. TEN BEARS: Then you will die. JOSEY: I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain't so hard for men like you and me, it's living that's hard; when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don't live together, people live together. With governments you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I've come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here like this so you'll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. Now, we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, he can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That's my word of life. TEN BEARS: And your word of death? JOSEY: It's here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I'm here for either one. TEN BEARS: These things you say we will have, we already have. JOSEY: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another. TEN BEARS: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life. (He takes his knife and cuts his hand. Josey does the same and they grasp each other's hand.) So shall it be.

*What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. *When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. *The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. *The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. *Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. *By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. *To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. *Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. *What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. ~The Confucian Analects

When I arrived home from work yesterday. I had noticed my 11's were reset. At sometime Fubar switched servers or some sh*t. I was wishing I was home for the extra 11's then I saw this bulletin. Now its even sweeter a deal for all for us.

It seems that even though your picture ratings have stayed the same and NOT reset, ALL of the people who have rated your pictures are able to re-rate them, and you get full credit for the second rate.

That means that you can also re-rate ANY picture that you had rated prior to the reset this morning... So go back and re-rate your friends, and maybe they will do the same... EVERYBODY WINS!!!!! -- We ALL get credit for the rates we receive, as well as the rates we give

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"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1919 Theodore Roosevelt wrote these wordsin a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died. "Americanization" was a favorite theme of Roosevelt's during his later years, when he railed repeatedly against "hyphenated Americans" and the prospect of a nation "brought to ruins" by a "tangle of squabbling nationalities." He advocated the compulsory learning of English by every naturalized citizen. "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country," he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. "English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools." He also insisted, on more than one occasion, that America has no room for what he called "fifty-fifty allegiance." In a speech made in 1917 he said, "It is our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to the one flag which floats over all of us."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is the most representative non-religious Westerner to comprehend solitude and the hermit life. His philosophy of transcendentalism, which paralleled romanticism but was free of its excesses and defects, combined with his scholarly attitude and astute observations on society, politics, and nature, make Thoreau's writings essential to a contemporary application of solitude and the eremitic life. Add to this his willingness to experience this life, his natural curiosity into nature and human psychology, and his very readable style, as reflected by this series of aphorisms from his various writings, and Thoreau offers a perennial voice. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Walden By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude. -- Journal I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it. -- Journal I feel the necessity of deepening the stream of my life: I must cultivate privacy. It is very dissipating to be with people too much. -- Journal I do not know if I am singular when I say that I believe there is no man with whom I can associate who will not, comparatively speaking, spoil my afternoon. --- Journal Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. -- Walden Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality disturb us. -- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks. -- Journal I am tired of frivolous society, in which silence is forever the most natural and the best manners. I would fain walk on the deep waters, but my companions will only walk on shallows and puddles. -- Journal Why will you waste so many regards on me, and not I of my silence? Infer from it what you might from the pine wood. It is its natural condition, except when the winds blow, and the jays scream, and the chickadee winds up his clock. My silence is just as inhuman as that, and no more. -- Familiar Letters You think that I am impoverishing myself by withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society. -- Journal

You, too, may have met your hermit, or perhaps something else equally marvelous. Maybe it was a rock, a tree, a star, or a beautiful sunset. The hermit is the Buddha inside of you. --Thich Nhat Hanh, The Hermit and the Well Hell is other people. --Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit To drift like a dead leaf fallen from the tree and taken up by the wind, knowing not if the wind carries you or if you are carrying the wind ... -- Michel Jourdan (French hermit writer) I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word, And the silence of the woods before the winds of spring begin, And the silence of the sick When their eyes roam about the room. And I ask: For the depths Of what use is language? ... -- Edgar Lee Masters: [from his poem] Silence About three hundred years ago, an Indian chief said to the governor of Pennsylvania: "We love quiet; we suffer the mouse to play; when the woods are rustled by the wind, we fear not." Silence is part of the traditional way of living for the Native American. It is an easy way, for it gives the soft distance between spoken words, body signals, and action choices. To live with Indian people is to discover a beautiful enhancement of the spirit through silence. Unless they have succumbed to the rush and noise of the mainstream style of life in this country, Indians still reveal this gift of silence. . . . -- Mary Jose Hobday (Catholic nun and Seneca elder) Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it along. -- Thomas De Quincey Great things are done when men and mountains met. This is not done by jostling in the street. --William Blake The Tao cannot be sought from others; it is attained in oneself. If you abandon yourself to seek from others, you are far from the Tao. -- Huainan-tzi Solitude is sometimes the best society. --John Milton, Paradise Lost He is a solitary figure, robed in simplicity and kindness. He sits upon the lap of Nature to draw his Inspiration, and stays up in the silence of the night, awaiting the descending of the spirit. --Khalil Gibran, from The Poet Not all who wander are lost. --J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: 1. Fellowship of the Ring I am never lonely. A lonely person is one who is not aware of the complete fullness within. When you become dependent on something outside without having awareness of the reality within you, then you will indeed be lonely. The whole search for enlightenment is to seek within, to become aware that you are complete in yourself. You are perfect. You don't need any externals. No matter what happens in any situation, you need never be lonely. -- Swami Rama, Living with the Himalayan Masters For the most part it [Walden Pond] is as solitary where I live as on the prairies. It is as much Asia or Africa as New England. I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, chapter 5: Solitude A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. -- Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. -- Tao Te Ching, 42 Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. -- Francis Bacon Your life dwells among the causes of death Like a lamp standing in a strong breeze. -- Nagarjuna

Brian: Hola, me llamo es Brian ... Nosotros queremos ir con ustedes.. uhhhh ... Bellboy (Spanish): Hey, that was pretty good, except when you said "me llamo es Brian," you don't need the "es," just me llamo Brian. Brian: Oh, oh you speak English! Bellboy (sigh): No, just that first speech and this one explaining it. Brian: You .... you're kidding me, right? Bellboy (Spanish): Que? Peter: So did your therapist figure out what the problem was? Brian: Yeah. He thinks I'm in love. Peter: Oh my God...you can talk! Brian: Hey, barkeep, whose leg do you have to hump to get a dry martini around here?

"Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside." Stewie: Hello, mother. I come bearing a gift. I'll give you a hint. It's in my diaper and it's not a toaster. Meg: Everybody! Guess what I am? Stewie: Hm, the end result of a drunken back-seat grope-fest and a broken prophylactic? Stewie (in car with Brian, says to police officer): We met on the Internet. He lured me into the car with promises of candy and funny stories. Bill Cosby: Stewie, what do you think candy is made out of? Stewie Griffin: Sunshine and farts! What the hell kind of question is that?! Guy on Airplane: Oh great, I always end up sitting next to a damn baby. Stewie: What did you just say? Lois: Stewie, stop fussing. Stewie: Pipe down Lois. (Slaps guy on head.) Hey big man, turn around. Oh you can't hear me now. I was going to watch the movie, but forget it. For the next 5 hours, you're my bitch.