Speed 'in

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"My parents shared not only an improbable love,
They shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.
They would give me an African name: Barack means blessed__
Believing in a tolerant America... Your name is no barrier to success!"

Li'Lacs Win

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"The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, wine–win solutions instead of win–lose solutions.... Because we find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well — so we find ways that we can all win, we have to accommodate each other." - Bill Clinton

Dr.jaD

}W:W{

In about 1718__
"Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to others,
By the joint exertion of skill and humanity are above all...
The great of the earth.
They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew,
is almost as noble as to create." so said Voltaire.
(and Thanks! Dr.D')

Keep Me

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" From recitals of endless possessive detail__
give me wings to fly to the point!
From cravings to make right of others affairs__
in vast store of wisdom's reward!
From inclines to tell of more aches and pain__
grows sweeter with time gone by! "

Lord Thou knowest...I will keep me__
More friends at the end!  Amen.

Buddy Boy

~}|{~ I heard the old, old men say:
"Every thing alters,
And one by one we drop away."
They had hands like claws, and their knees
Were twisted like the old thorn trees
By the waters.
I heard the old, old men say:
"All that's beautiful drifts away
... Like the waters."

~ The Old Men admiring themselves in the Water ~ W.B.Yeats

Exquisite : Everywhere

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"Man lives in the midst of imaginary emotions, in hopes and fears,
In illusions and disillusions, in his fantasies and dreams:
'What disturbs and alarms man,' also said Epictetus,
'Are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about these things!'"

by Ernst Cassirer