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Retired man. Enjoying life to the fullest and especially my friends. I do no cyber coin nor wish to hook up, those games are behind me. No room for hate and I include all as the tapestry of humankind. A weary warrior for peace and a livable world. PhD Geo Physics. I use the Ubuntu flavor of Linux. 24.04.
"If there were a god, Then there would be no religion."
Christopher Hitchen's
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“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do. Revolutionaries sometimes do intend to destroy institutions all at once. Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order."

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Gandhi ‑ Biography, Facts & Beliefs | HISTORY www.history.com
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“The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

Dalai Lama XIV

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“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

Carl R. Rogers

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For those, as me that do not have Youtube access. Lyrics included

Bruce Springsteen
Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

Roy T. Bennett

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"There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out."

James Randi

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“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”

Kurt Vonnegut

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“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens.”

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do. Revolutionaries sometimes do intend to destroy institutions all at once. This was the approach of the Bolsheviks. Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it.”

Timothy Snyder

Destruction of the historical East Wing of the White House is one more step towards normalization of Fascism in the so called United States. White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing www.dailykos.com
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“Nature doesn’t cheat – people do.”

James Randi

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"Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests."

Isaac Asimov

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"The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon."

Eugene Ionesco

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"Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism."

Hermann Hesse

A portrait of Hermann Hesse, the Author Hermann Hesse deepai.org
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@VeroniqueB99 ~ I lost a whole cup of coffee over this.

A cartoon of an Ice agent answering the door on Halloween and seeing a child in an inflatable frog costume is calling 911 to report on Antifa. "Yes, 911. We have antifa at our door. repeat: A-N-T-I-FA is at our door."
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"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

Frederick Douglass

Peaceful demonstrators confronted by the ICE goon squad UPDATE: Riot declared, three arrested at ICE protest in South Portland ... www.portlandtribune.com
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"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett

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"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."

Terry Pratchett

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“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

Kurt Vonnegut

A row of new borns in their swaddling clothes World Population Day: How will our planet cope with 10 billion people? www.thenationalnews.com
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“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy... We imbibed the myth of an “end of history”. In doing so, we lowered our defenses, constrained our imagination, and opened the way for precisely the kinds of regimes we told ourselves could never return.”

Timothy Snyder

A Fascist's Rogue Gallery; including the Cheeto, Hitler and Mussolini. New faces include Orban from Hungary Opinion | Fascism: A Concern - The New York Times www.nytimes.com
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@slashdottir ~ Now you see the appeal that religion held for monarchs and other power brokers. Great comment, thank you👍

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"Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it."

Bertrand Russell

Never demanding, but will take all the affection one can give and still desire more. Premium Photo | Small cute beagle puppy dog looking up www.freepik.com
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Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see is seen, and the person who sees it feels a little better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling on to others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep on going.

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

There is a magic to fine craftsmanship that fans out from the artist. A cobbler tends to his art Cobbler Hard at Work: Crafting Fine Leather Shoes Stock Illustration ... www.dreamstime.com
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“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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“Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

A young student cleaning up after a party. One of several she will be faced with. Post-party cleanup strategies - Cleaning By Carrie www.cleaningbycarrie.com
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“If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.”

Timothy Synder

At war with America, Nazi like goons attacking unarmed Americans to promote their evil agenda. Riot police, anti-ICE protesters square off in Los Angeles after raids www.thestandard.com.hk
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"Read books. Defend institutions. Contribute to good causes. and finally Believe in truth."

Timothy Synder

Young woman on a blanket on a sunny day reading a book. The image of cinfidence and mindfulness Best Books to Inspire Travel matadornetwork.com
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"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."

Ursula K. Le Guin

Graffiti depicting growing resistance. A masked man planting seeds(of discord) Resistance Grows - STREET ART UTOPIA streetartutopia.com
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"Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again."

Anais Nin

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I kept this watercolour painting loose and fresh like a summer garden...
Enjoy!

Three pink Zinnias
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Three pink Zinnias is a watercolour painting in a modern square format painted by artist Karen Kaspar. On a white background float three beautiful zinnia flowers in bright pink and rose, surrounded by fresh green leaves. I have kept this watercolour loose and fresh like a summer garden, with a vivid colour contrast between the pink flowers and the background of green leaves and the diagonal composition within the square format.
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@FruH @KarenKasparArt ~ We all do. 😍

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@FruH @KarenKasparArt ~ Not directly, agreed.

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@FruH @KarenKasparArt ~ They will not disappoint. Some elementary students planted our neighborhood and we have been watching the butterflies flourish here. 💕

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Early morning at the pond.

ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/early-morning-at-the-pond-deborah-league.html

Early morning at the pond. Morning has arrived. The air is still and crisply cool under a beautiful blue sky painted with wispy white clouds. Gently rolling earth rushes down to a calm pond where surrounding trees reflect. This soothing natural landscape provokes memories of cool spring mornings when there's still a bit of a chill in the air, and everything seems possible—calming, tranquil art for home and office.
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@DeborahLeagueFineArt ~ Exquisite ❤️

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@DeborahLeagueFineArt ~ All my pleasure. That is a fine piece indeed. ❤️

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"To think and to be fully alive are the same."

Hannah Arendt

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"By revolution we become more ourselves, not less."

George Orwell

Three women and their weopans during the resistance to Fascism in Europe during WWII. Vintage Photos of Beautiful Female Partisans and Resistance Fighters ... www.vintag.es
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"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

Terry Pratchett

A dystopian urban landscape. We can build anew and more sustainable via our community building. Dystopian City Wallpapers - Top Free Dystopian City Backgrounds ... wallpaperaccess.com
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“There used to be an intellectual class in America. . . . These people kept the world of ideas alive. But today the distinction between intellectuals and nonintellectuals doesn’t make any difference; celebrity is the only standard. . . . Everybody has become a talker of cheap philosophy that anybody can pick up.”

James Randi, The Faith Healers

Everything bite sized and made to fit a vacuous attention span, tyoical of Americans Premium Vector | Social media influence content advertising concept ... www.freepik.com
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“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so darn heroic.”

George Carlin

A orange bloom of a lovely wildflower growing through the concret ruins. Photo | A flower growing through a crack in a concrete wall www.freepik.com
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

Terry Pratchett

Delightful mushrooms in the forest in the various stages of development. via www.zastavki.com
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"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "

Douglas Adams

The Pumpkin King in another court appearance. This time awake. Trump asks Judge Chutkan to dismiss election interference case, citing ... www.cnn.com
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams

Typical backyard scene of a man stepping on a rake . . again Man Stepping On Rake Stock Photos, Pictures & Royalty-Free Images - iStock www.istockphoto.com
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"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."

Douglas Adams

Bottle nosed Dolphins on the wave break. Dolphins at play in winter – South Coast Herald southcoastherald.co.za
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"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."

John Brown

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Ursula K. Le Guin

A man is not spoiling a woman by giving her what she deserves;he is spoiling himself. Man Spoiling Woman Stock Photos - Free & Royalty-Free Stock Photos from ... www.dreamstime.com
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