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[PamfromCT]

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@Maudelynn wrote:

“You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders. "

Chris Rock

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I am loving this quote.  Hey, living in Connecticut, I really get this.  Hartford was named "the most dangerous city in New England."  Every day there are shootings in Connecticut, between Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven.  It is horrific.  One recent am news- one person shot in chest, another in the head in New Haven.  Another town, father and mother in argument - he killed mother, leaving infant son.  Just another day in Connecticut.  we live in an outlying affluent town of Hartford, so little violence here.  like living in another world, but I feel for those poor souls living in those areas.  No one is spared.  a while back, a minister was shot outside his church in Hartford.  No reason.  Luckily, he survived.

If anyone ridicules your quote, you can bet they aren't living where I live.  Or in any other place where innocent people are gunned down EVERY day.  It is easy to turn a blind eye to incessant killing of innocent people (no, these are not all gang-related killings) when it is not where you live.  I hate watching the local news.  But then aren't we all Americans and shouldn't be all concerned about what goes on everywhere?  It would be like me watching the horror of all the floods in the south, saying "Not my problem."  Well, I feel for everyone.  I don't feel that way.  Not my upbringing and my faith.  

[MaggieMack]

[Mominohio]

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@violann wrote:

" 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt".

Various attributions.

Frequently applicable.

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Certainly is!

[qualitygal]

"Happiness is when what you think,

what you say, and what you do

are all in harmony."

 --Mahatma Gandhi

[SaRina]

“You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.”  - Lucca Kaldahl

[hckynut]

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@Mominohio wrote:

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@hckynut wrote:

"Man was born to live, not to prepare for life"

hnj

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@hckynut

Leave it to you to find one that I agree with and struggle with at the same time LOL!

@Mominohio

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heard that when I was in my mid teens, and my mom hated it. she kept telling me, save, save, save, and i would say that quote. that is how i have pretty much lived my life. life is about the present, not about the tomorrows, which may never come, and i believed that same way when i was a teen.  I factored not having children partly for that reason.

Hey!  I got'cha thinking!

hckynut(john)

[dooBdoo]

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"The warrior who trusts his path
doesn't need to prove the other is wrong."
(Paulo Coelho)

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“You don't have to disrespect and insult others

to hold your own ground.

If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”

(Red Haircrow)

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[dooBdoo]

[dooBdoo]

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” "Doubt is the origin of wisdom." (René Descartes)

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"If everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking." (Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.)

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"I have never in my life learned anything new from any man who agreed with me."  (Dudley Field Malone)

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"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."  (Alvin Toffler)

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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."  (Doug Larson)

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."  (Winston Churchill)