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My wife "They are happy as a clam.

Me. How happy is a clam?

My wife "clams are the happiest creatures in the world until they get STEAMED"

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Come, get out of the way, boys... Quick, get out of the way. You'd better watch what you say, boys, you'd better watch what you say... we've rammed in your harbour, and tied to your port, and our pistols are hungry and our tempers are short, so bring your daughters around to the port, 'cause we're the Cops of the World, boys, we're the Cops of the World... We pick and choose as we please, boys, pick and choose as we please... you'd best get down on your knees, boys, best get down on your knees... Please stay off of the grass, boys, please stay off of the grass... here's a kick in the ass, boys, here's a kick in the ass... we'll smash down your doors, we don't bother to knock, we've done it before, so why all the shock? We're the biggest and the toughest kids on the block, and we're the Cops of the World, boys, we're the Cops of the World... and when we butchered your sons, boys, when we butchered your sons, have a stick of our gum, boys, have a stick of our bubblegum... we own half the world, o' say can you see, and the name for our profits is democracy, so like it or not you will have to be free, 'cause we're the Cops of the World, boys, we're the Cops of the World..."

- 'Cops of the World' by Phil Ochs

Time is relevant in everything. You are either too early, to late, or just in time: unknown

"once again we are tied to the tracks of time by the invisible hand of fate, and left to perish in the path of the locomotive of dashed dreams under the hard, cold wheels of reality." [wise/aldrich, from "real life adventures" comic strip]

Like a Phoenix burning bright in the sky,
I'll show there's another side to me you can't deny.
I may not know what the future holds, but hear me when I say
That my past does not define me cuz my past is not today.

“There is no genius free from some tincture of madness” -Seneca

In responses to allegations from the Mexican government that Subcomandante Marcos was gay in an attempt to discredit him:

"Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, Black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying 'Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable — this is Marcos."

- Subcomandante Marcos

"Your land is my land, the land that we call home, just bring as back the gauntlet to kill the Tory gnome."

One I heard from all sides of the debate. From Galloway and Salmond, to Angela Eagle.

" Royal Britania, Britania rulres the waves,
Brtiain never will be slaves"

Taken from the U.K anthem.

"100 years ago, they used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms, they've traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing."

- Malcolm X

If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. --Carl Sagan

Destroy all rational thought.

-William Burroughs.

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. - greek saying

"As I look at the full stream, the vivid grass, the delicate bright-green powder softening the outline of the great trunks and branches that gleam from under the bare purple boughs, I am in love with moistness, and envy the white ducks that are dipping their heads far into the water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above."
--George Eliot

"A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain."
-Abraham Cowley