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11 years 10 months ago - 11 years 10 months ago #18023 by Sharkey
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Yasutani Roshi


Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old;
instead, seek what they sought.


Basho
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11 years 10 months ago #18027 by et1911rph
"It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield."

- Atilla the Hun

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11 years 10 months ago #18029 by Siscowet

et1911rph wrote: "It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield."

- Atilla the Hun

As true today as in 200 AD.

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11 years 10 months ago #18030 by et1911rph
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence

Exchange the United States for England in the first quote. The second has applied since Alexander the Great.

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11 years 10 months ago #18033 by Siscowet
An amazing man, T.E. Lawrence. He was one of my heroes growing up. I read his 7 pillars in Junior High. Before the movie.

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11 years 10 months ago #18035 by et1911rph
I too read the 7 pillars and should revisit it again - 45 years between readings is a bit too long.

Post WWI gerrymandering of borders in the Middle East and Africa led to many of the current issues. Unlike the British government, Lawrence understood the dangers of imposing European traditions in this area of the world.
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11 years 10 months ago #18036 by Siscowet
Establishing a nation state on an area who's heritage is tribalism is never going to work all that well.

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11 years 10 months ago #18127 by Dabu
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"Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lender. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime. ~Louis McFadden
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11 years 10 months ago #18132 by Siscowet
"Get there firstist with the mostest."
Nathan Bedford Forrest

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11 years 10 months ago #18146 by Sharkey
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Zen is not some kind of excitement,
but concentration on our usual, everyday routine.

Shunryu Suzuki

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