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mariokiefer
Apr 22, 20241 min read
Sheer Terror
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ~Ronald Reagan #FavoriteQuotes
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mariokiefer
Apr 15, 20241 min read
Forgotten
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. - Robert Browning...
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mariokiefer
Apr 8, 20241 min read
Praise Be
“Usually we praise only to be praised.” ―François, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 146...
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mariokiefer
Mar 11, 20241 min read
Cogito Ergo Sum
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with...
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mariokiefer
Feb 26, 20241 min read
Obsolete
“We’re getting the language into its final shape – the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished...
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mariokiefer
Feb 5, 20241 min read
Treasure
"Now they stood beside the treasure, On the mountain, dark and red, Turned the stone and looked beneath it . . . ‘Peace on Earth’ was all...
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mariokiefer
Jan 29, 20241 min read
Perversion
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who...
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mariokiefer
Jan 22, 20241 min read
My Pleasure
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he's really selling himself to it." - Benjamin Franklin #FavoriteQuotes
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mariokiefer
Jan 15, 20241 min read
Overthrow
“This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Governments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together;...
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mariokiefer
Jan 8, 20241 min read
Rainbows
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” — Dolly Parton #FavoriteQuotes
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mariokiefer
Jan 1, 20241 min read
New Year
“Second verse, same as the first” ~Peter Noone
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mariokiefer
Dec 25, 20231 min read
Chains
I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will...
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mariokiefer
Dec 18, 20231 min read
Pity
“It Doesn’t Feel Pity, Or Remorse, Or Fear . . .” ~ th character Kyle Reese, Terminator
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mariokiefer
Dec 11, 20231 min read
Plumbing
“Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.” – George Meany
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mariokiefer
Dec 4, 20231 min read
Drunk
"An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do." ~ Dylan Thomas
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mariokiefer
Nov 27, 20231 min read
Final Sin
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”...
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mariokiefer
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Forbidden
“Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”...
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mariokiefer
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Statues
“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.” – Marcus Ports Cato (Cato the Elder) From Plutarch, Lives,...
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mariokiefer
Oct 23, 20231 min read
The Throne
“To give the throne to another man would be easy; to find a man who shall benefit the kingdom is difficult.” – Mencius, From the Chinese...
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mariokiefer
Oct 16, 20231 min read
History
“History . . . Is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” ~ The History of the Decline and...
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