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<blockquote data-quote="alcesgigas" data-source="post: 604346" data-attributes="member: 34925"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Nothing is so hard to contemplate; difficult to obtain; problematic to comprehend; bring under control; be rid of; feared by many; despised by more; and rejected by most than something new.</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">That statement is a Machiavellian paraphrase.</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Here's a couple of ticklers:</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Most of us fortunate have two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, <em>two exhausts for unused intake</em>, two brain lobes, but only one mouth. Too many of us use the last far more frequently than the former. We forget that even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Learning is living, it's the heart's beat; disable either of the former and the latter's deceased.</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">How many lives were, and are, lost to preserve our way of life, to retain our freedom of choice. We don't have to eat everything at the table--or even what's on our plate.</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So I'm on Facebook, but I only enter that which I determine is propitious, safe, and harmless. Or so I may think at the time, but I own my mistakes just as I do successes. Mostly I'm a watcher, listener, and I'd like to think--learner. I still like to avail myself the experiences of others and how better to do that than stay connected?</span></strong></p><p></p><p> <strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Best of all I make the decision (s) when to visit, what to enter, and when to sign off. That's why <em>I chose</em> to live where I do.</span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alcesgigas, post: 604346, member: 34925"] [B][FONT=Verdana]Nothing is so hard to contemplate; difficult to obtain; problematic to comprehend; bring under control; be rid of; feared by many; despised by more; and rejected by most than something new.[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]That statement is a Machiavellian paraphrase.[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]Here's a couple of ticklers:[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]Most of us fortunate have two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, [I]two exhausts for unused intake[/I], two brain lobes, but only one mouth. Too many of us use the last far more frequently than the former. We forget that even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]Learning is living, it's the heart's beat; disable either of the former and the latter's deceased.[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]How many lives were, and are, lost to preserve our way of life, to retain our freedom of choice. We don't have to eat everything at the table--or even what's on our plate.[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]So I'm on Facebook, but I only enter that which I determine is propitious, safe, and harmless. Or so I may think at the time, but I own my mistakes just as I do successes. Mostly I'm a watcher, listener, and I'd like to think--learner. I still like to avail myself the experiences of others and how better to do that than stay connected?[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]Best of all I make the decision (s) when to visit, what to enter, and when to sign off. That's why [I]I chose[/I] to live where I do.[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/B] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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