Largest

"The largest group of killers is obviously the military-industrial complex bringing us violent and messy death, closely followed by the pharmaceutical industry bringing us quiet and drugged death."
--Dhane Blue

Measure III

"You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him."
--Robert C. Savage

Paranoid

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine."
--William Blum

Signs II

"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
--Albert Einstein.

UPDATE/CORRECTION, March 1, 2024

I saw the same quote attributed to someone else, so I decided to look it up on Quote Investigator's website.  Interesting history.  And no, it wasn't originated by Einstein, who probably never made the comment.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/02/clutter/

"Dinner"

Imagine if some omnipotent malevolent force decided that your and your child's corpses were really tasty.

They think, they feel, they love...and they die because by the billions because they can be murdered for pleasure without consequences.

TLC

Pity

Sometimes I go about pitying myself
And all the while I am being carried across the sky
By beautiful clouds.

--Ojibway Indian Poem

Entry

"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come."
--Paul Joseph Goebbels

Everyday

"Every day brings a chance to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
--Oprah

Gold

"Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision."
--Hsi-Tang

Might II

"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected;
they are contented serfs.
Far from being active critics of government,
they assume that its might makes it right."
--Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist

Six

"If you're not on at least a half-a-dozen government 'watch lists', you're part of the problem."
--TLC

Truth

"The truth is more important than the facts."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

First III

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
--Judy Garland

Sweetie

From: Tiffany Jourdain

Date: Jul 16, 2008

Subject: I'm in Tears, & pleading for help from Fellow Rescuers.

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OK, so today I went against my logical thinking side, a rescue agreement not to take more than we can afford, & advice from a now very angry mother.

I'm involved with a newly formed rescue, Project Paws, Inc. We are newly started, and are still working on our 501 C3. It's pending. We basically formed because recently animal control for this county was stopped & strays have no place to go. They will now be hit by cars, shot & poisoned.

We have done 3 fundraisers in the 3 months we have been formed, and have saved over 35 animals so far. We are Extremely full... all 7 of our foster homes, and just don't have enough money in our bank account to take any more.

So... we got a call from this old lady, who was crying & pleading for our help. A stray dog had been in the neighborhood for the past 3 weeks... all the neighbors were throwing sticks & rocks at it...trying to make it go away, even going as far as shooting at it...hoping to get rid of it. The dog kept coming to her house & she kept chasing it away.

On Sunday, the dog collapsed & fell down her steps. The dog was too malnourished, skinny, weak & dehydrated to go on any longer. so she fed it a meal finally. Her husband told her if it wasn't gone by tonight...he was shooting it in the head.

So today, the Treasurer of Project Paws & I went & got the dog. If anything...to have her humanely euthanized.

This is what we found: an extremely skinny, sad looking dog, with the sweetest personality & a strong will to live. Right now she is sleeping on my bed. I bathed her, she was covered in blood from fleas, and very matted. You can't tell in the picture...but I can feel EVERY bone in her body. Her skull is even sunk in! She has little to NO muscle mass, and has hair loss from no nutrition.

This is where I need help! Project Paws has no money in our accounts. We have medical bills that have to be paid from other rescue dog & cats. I want to prove to my mom, and help give Project Paws a little inspiration in this dark time. I need to some how, get donations to have her spayed, Heartworm tested, dewormed, and get her shots.

The total price is about $120 dollars. Is there any way, we could spread the word & have everyone just donate $5 to help toward her medical costs.

I named her Sweetie! That's all she is! She is about 5 yrs old & has nearly been starved to death & shot in the head. She needs help & Project Paws is in terrible need of funding to help her.

We are working on setting up a Paypal account...but donations can also be mailed to:

Project Paws
PO Box 1646
Murphy, North Carolina 28906

Clutter

"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"

--Og Mandino, Author

Vegan

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
--A. Whitney Brown

Free II

"A hungry man is not a free man."
--Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American Statesman

Cat Wisdom

Always give generously-- a small bird or rodent left on the bed tells them, "I care."
--Author Unknown

Inventions

"Look at those cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk."
--Michael Pupin, inventor

Control

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
--Jack Welch, executive

State

"The state remains, as it was in the beginning,
the common enemy of all well-disposed,industrious and decent men."
--H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

Guess

"An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks."
--Ogden Nash (1902-1971) US poet

Dangerous

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
--Albert Enistein

More

"There is more to life than just increasing its speed."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Waiting II

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
--Anne Frank

Deja Vu

"These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,
in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
but he that stands it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us,
that the harder the conflict,
the more glorious the triumph.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;
and it would be strange indeed,
if so celestial an article as Freedom
should not be highly rated."

-- Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
December 19, 1776
Source: The American Crisis, No. 1

"Mental Health"

"During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics.
This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation
through brainwashing and fake mental health."
-- Kenneth Goff
Author and a one time dues-paying member of the Communist Party
Source: in his book, "THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING - A Synthesis of the Russian
Textbook on Psycho-politics"

[And now a training manual for the elites in the US?--TLC]

Free

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
--Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American Statesman

Farms

"The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."
--William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold", Speech given at the Democratic National Convention, July 9, 1896