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kocevski — Sat, 05 May 2007 21:07:26 +0000

Come on all you freedom fighters
good news to you I’ll tell
of how the good old freedom ride has come in here to dwell
which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
They say in Hines county, no neutrals have they met
You’re either for the freedom ride or you’re tom for Ross Barnett
My father was a freedom fighter and I’m a freedom fighters son
and I’ll stick to the freedom ride until every battles won

-James Farmer, Co-founder of the Freedom Riders

Quote: Mentality of the Masses

kocevski — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:13:16 +0000

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813 – 1855)

Ah, a nice description of some of the people who live in Berkeley.

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kocevski — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:59:10 +0000

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

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kocevski — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:28:53 +0000

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And thus is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare

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kocevski — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:15:45 +0000

If you know what it is that you are looking for, then indeed there no need to undertake a search, and if you don’t know what it is that you are looking for then really there’s no basis upon which to conduct a search. Hence the search for truth becomes an idle activity.

-Mino in regards to Socrates’ search for truth. Of course Sacrate’s puts the smack down on Mino’s argument.

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kocevski — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:06:40 +0000

We are like puppets, and the Gods can move us any which way they will by pulling on these strings, but we have one string that we can pull back on, and that string is the golden string of reason.

-Plato

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kocevski — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:06:50 +0000

Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

-Richard Feynman

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kocevski — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:18:51 +0000

Having been attacked by al Qaeda, for us now to go bombing Iraq in response would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

Richard Clarke
Against All Enemies

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kocevski — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:40:24 +0000

Remove Justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a grand scale.

Augustine
The City of God

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kocevski — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:02:16 +0000

The way he condemned that match, the pathetic solemnity of his protest against the ignominy of being “insulted by a mere inanimate thing” lingers with me to this day.

- Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews