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Congratulations Mr Tsipra (SYN)!! Congratulations Mr. Alavanos (Sy.RI.ZA)!!

You managed very well your civil war organisation. Probably your masked army was not only Greek University students and School joung teens pupils but also foreigners with special barbar disposition to distroy the Greek cities. Because I do not think that Greek joung people can hate so much their own cities to make them ashes. Indeed between them were recognised joung teens and foreigners.

Do you know what did you managed?

1. To distroy the Greek and Goverment reputation over all the world (this was your aim);

2. Distroy the Democratic sysmbol of Greece internationally;

3. A joung teen Alexis be killed accidentally;

4. 100s families whose shops are distroyed now remain more poor than before in this crisis periods;

5. You intensified the economical crisis in the country seen that European Central Banks because of luck of trust to the goverment they increased the interest rated to govermental credits needed to save our economy.

How things are really happen? What is the truth? Here are in short:

1. First the pacific demonstrator of SY.RI.ZA in Omonoia place Athens

at the end of the long file of people you could already recognise some masked people following.

2. Some hours later started the riots on the street from masked extreme anarchics and vandalisms simultaneously in various Greek cities (Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Volos, Larisaa, etc..). Among them you could recognise (as later made known by the police from arrested extremists) foreigners, some pupils and university students. Later from the 176 people arrested 100 were foreigners with agressive and violations insticts and 76 Greeks.

3. Lot of Albanians and other emmigrants with no job started stealing the distroyed shops following behind the masked anarchists.

4. A child Alexis has been kild; On purpose or accidentally his death was a justice case. SY.RI.ZA profited from this and using flying papers distributed at schools try to engage pupils to go into the streets and demonstrate against the police and goverment with stones and what ever they could find in memorial of Alexis murder as they say (not yet defined if was a murder or an accident). Pupils has no right to take the law in their hands and demonstrate in the streets.

5. Tsipras comes back from Mytilini where there started new riots on the streets during his presence there.

6. Commerciants took the law in their hands to protect their properties from the vandals fighting aagainst them and pushing them far from their properties.

So, we have three waves of psople acting these days: The masked anarchic vandals, the unmasked pupils, and the commerciants.

 

Where have you been Mr. Tsipras all these days during the events? Mr. Tsipras was dissapeared. Because he was first somewere in the Polytechnic school in his head quarter to play the war captain (Alavanos was the war general) and guide strategically his barbar amy to make chaos and distroy the Greek cities. And he just also moved to Mytilini to move the joung people there as 2 days ago just started same anarchic events in Mytilini. And today Mr. Tsipras comes back, when now things are calmed down, to speak in the camera and support SYRIXA against the accuses received from LAOS and KKE that Mr. Alavanos “caresses the ears of the masked anarchic” (means that he supports these movements).

In all your speaches you both try to move joung people and now even students (as Mr. Alavanos did at the TV press) agasinst the goverment. And your wish was done. Today 1000s joung pupils of 15 years old stopped their lessons and make invasion in their schools and the Greek police offices. Are you outttt of yourrrrr mindddddd Mr. Alavanos and Tsipras!!!!!!!!! You are both monsters. Dangerous monsters for the Great Greek Democracy.

And you chose the good periods! Just after the Vatopedi scandal. To exterminate the Greek goverment, and create conditions for new elections. Certainly not for you. You are too small for that. Certainly to support PASOK for Mr. Papandreou. Is the only partei which did not react against you as did LAOS and Communists KKE.

And this barbar distructions and extreme anarchic behaviour is not the first time hapenned. Some years ago same hapenned but still the goverment is in its place. Last year you and PASOK asked your people to fire the whole Greece (Peloponese fires, etc..) in order to accuse, as you did, the Govemerment that can not do its job. Now you do the same.

World must know that Greek Democrasy is not easy to break. People like you try to distroy your own country for private benefits for your pockets. You must stop it.

I accuse you and Greek Press to be so stupid to transmit your wills and war messages to joung people. The death of Alexis Grigooropoulos is not due to a policeman. You are the moral responsible of this. The child was death from a broken trajectroy bullet and was God’s will or was pre-written to die. Came his moment. Pitty for the child. You must be in the place of the accused policeman.

And the Press talking against the police, every body was telling his short and his long (Greek expression) accusing the police that they were barbars. Against whom?? Against the barbars?? When the police had a pathetic attitude (just watching) all the time you accused them that they do nothing to save the properties of innocent commerciants. But when they did something (shutting on the air, throughing gas capsules, shuting at the air, etc) you accused them as barbar. Have you the sense of logic?? What must polish then do? Some others said “Police should not be weapenned or not use chemical weapens (gas)”. How then, according to you, they should arrest the barbars?? You expect that they should ask them gently “Please enter in the police truck to be arrested!!”? You created a unsecure situation for the whole Greek people who was watching news. They didn’t know what ‘to consider as correct and what not.

Why press is so negative against police? Why they call the vandals and anarchists simply demonstrators (diadilwtes) instead extreme anarchic vandals? They accuse continuesly barbar behaviour of the police against the demonstrators who are burning shops, throw molotof bombs and stones against them, breaking banks, distroying everything they can and have in front of them. Are you out of your mind Greek Press and TV? And what hapenned when a police guardian was fired entirely from a bomb molotof in Athens and another wounded from a stone thrown by a teen? Nothing hapenned. Police didn’t react violently as pupils and student stupidly did. (Kounia pou sas kounagie esas kai tis rimades ideologies). You know why press behave as that? To make more readers of their press or have more audity of their TV programs. Some of them even support vanddalism as they telephonically interviewed in their TV program (yellow Press) Mr. Ksiros (a dangerous extremist who is actually in gail for several accuses) and also telephonically invited in interview a vandalist and caresse him with sympathy. Are you out of your mind Yellow Press? What money does. No morality. They need everything to make more vewbility of their program even if they confuse and make angry the Greek people with these their actions. They exagerated in everything.

 

All demonstrations now against police offices in all abroad countries are due to your stupidities said in your transmitions. That’s why International Press gave so negative reports about Greece,the Greek events and the Greek Democracy. They say what you put in their mouths. Congratulations Greek Press!!! You have inconsciently contributed in succeeding the goals of these two gentlemen “the monsters generals of the anarchic autonoms” in our country.

This must be done known to all International Press.

Is not the uncapability of the Greek Goverment and of the Police to stop the anarchy. It was too much sudden and unexpected for everybody. Press managed to stop the police in doing their job (feared to be accused as barbars against the anarchists).

Now all Political Parties ask the Goverment to go. Yes this was their goal. Karamanlis and N.D must not go. Only the dangerous elements of our anti-politics must go and even dissapear from the political scene.

Scandal about Vatopedi does not exist in this sense. It was a theme which is going to be closed and it started during the PASOK govermental period. PASOK are the initiators. Siemens scandal is also started during PASOK goverment and discovered during Karamanlis N.D goverment. Some from goverment were accused but they are innocent in the Vatopedi “question”. They only accepted to sign an exhange between gound and a lake for the eremites of Athos manastry as they convinced the ministers that they need the ground to build buldings to help and give spiritual support to Greek people. I do not accuse the ministers for that (see my blog about this subject http://www.gooblogg.com/index.php/2008/11/28/holy-mountain-at-athos-monastery-vatopedi-scandal-in-greece/).

Mr. Karamanlis didn’t sale the Greek Telecom to Germans (who simply invested money under secure for Greece conditions) or didn’t sale the Pereus port to China (who is ony rended with a good year income for the Greek people), or didn’t sale Olympic Airways to foreigners as Olymic was a negative business and money loss for the goverment and needed external support as many other European Air companies (Air France, Italian Airway company etc..).

CONSEQUENTLY, all these so called by the anti-politics scandals in detriment of Mr. Karamanlis and his goverment ARE NOT SCANDALS. These are accuses of the un-moral politics who instead to collaborate positively with the giovernent to bring the country out of the economical crisis they create instead conditions in detriment of the welbeing of the Greek people in order to satisfy their political goals and their personal benefits.

BBC wrote that Greece has a easy-broken democracy. What about the UK police who killed an innocent Brasilian men during the anti-terror attacks? What about the scandal of strictly confidential data which has been difused out last year? And what about the political crisis in Italy and Mafia? What about the terror Basques in Spain killing inncovet people? What about the French vandalstic demonstrations of joung people last year? Are those stable democracies?

We can not speak therefore for an easy-broken Greek Democracy.

The morality is that so long goverments in Europe accept to have emmigrants in their countries without being able to offer them job and food, Europe will affront always this kind of riots and aggressions in the local national societies. A strong measure against this emmigrants invasion must be taken before is for Europe too late.

This report is destinate to the International Press and TV stations to know the truth.

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I as many who have read my articles may gather am a tremendous opera fan though in all sincerity I can not claim to be an equal devotee of the ballet, however this should not be interpreted that I do not take joy from it. Perhaps it is because my tastes lean more to the passion of the singers and the drama in the opera rather then the grace of the ballet dancer. What ever the reason I must claim to be a bigger opera fan then ballet fan but in all truth I am a lover of the ballet however I did not become one till I in Santiago, Chile met the members of the Bolshoi ballet. This was a time I will never forget as it made me see all the grace of the ballet however before this encounter with the Bolshoi I had seen them perform in Moscow and perhaps it is there that I was introduced to the ballet. My decision to visit the Soviet Union came during the fall of 1988. It was the time of perestroika, glasnosts and Michael Gorbachov, the new leader of the Soviet Union who many Americans had taken a liking to as they could see a certain honesty in him. I for my part can not claim that my desires to visit the Soviet Union were influenced in any way by Gorbachov as the real reason for my trip was based on my wanting to travel the world, in search of all those cities and places I had read about in my extensive readings of history. Of course this was also at a time in my life when I was entertaining dreams of becoming a professional photographer and had it in mind to take photographs of Leningrad (previously called Petrograd, presently Saint Petersburg) and Moscow. These cities seemed ideal for this purpose, both having architecture that was so diverse from New York and the feeling of history would be enormous. After all these were two cities that had been almost in the center of World War II and the Russian revolutions of 1917. The first of which overthrew Nicholas II while the second in October (though the Russian Orthodox calendar marks this day as having been in November) put the Bolsheviks in power. I had even wanted to visit the Soviet Union before but the matter had not been so simple as I would have wanted it. First off all because the Soviet Union was a closed society I needed a visa; not that this was an inconvenience as I had already visited many other communist countries such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the DDR, and Yugoslavia. These countries also requiring me as an American to have a visa. I can even add how there was a time in 1987 in which I as an American was required to have a visa in to order to enter France as opposed to being given one automatically upon entrance as was the case with most European countries. The Soviet Union however was different, even from other communist countries which only required me to go to their embassy or consulate, naturally with my passport, two photographs and the money to pay for the visa. The Soviet Union not only required me to have the already mentioned but a prepaid hotel where I would be staying, which basically meant that I would either have to reserve a hotel in the cities I wanted to go to before departing New York or go on what is commonly referred to as a “guided tour”. I not so much by my own choice took the second option of going on the guided tour even if in all truth I would have preferred to go alone. It was with the intension of spending Christmas and New Year’s day in the Soviet Union that I in early November booked myself on a tour that would include Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, in that order. It was while visiting these cities in the Soviet Union that I observed many things, some of which were even strange or at least in my opinion for a communist country (me having already visited several) for instance, in the Soviet Union there were stores which only accepted hard currency (this meaning any currency which could be converted outside its country of origin) and were off limits to Soviet citizens. Yes, passports were checked upon entrance in to the stores. It was not that stores like this did not exist in Poland or other communist countries I had visited but contrary to the Soviet Union in those countries anybody could buy what they wished so long as they had the right kind of currency, in the Soviet Union it was a case of Soviets not even being allowed to enter the stores, let alone make purchases of any kind. Naturally just as there were stores in which only foreigners such as myself could enter, there were also stores in which foreigners were banned from as only Soviets could enter and again passports or documents were checked. I even recall how on one occasion, somebody I met asked me to buy him something in the store for foreigners only. The Soviet Union also had other factors which made it different from any of the Communist countries I had already visited for instance again only guests of hotels were allowed to enter as a control was set up at the entrance where one was obliged to show one’s card from the hotel. This however did not present so much of a problem for me nor for many Soviets (I refer to them as such as I can not in all honesty claim to have known who was Russian or from one of the many republics that made up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) who managed to get in to the hotel in spite of not being a guest of the hotel. Where the card required to enter the hotel was not a problem the fact that I was required to pay everything in hard currency was however more then slightly annoying as this made prices higher then they would have been had I been allowed to buy drinks or other such niceties in Rubbles, which I could get a lot more of on the black market. This however was not to be as hotels wanted hard currency not only for the cost of the room but even for what one purchased in them, this being in contrast to Polish hotels were one was only required to pay for the room in hard currency. It was in Moscow that I stayed in a hotel called “Cosmos” which I might add was the most exclusive at the time, though in all truth its standards were lower then those which I had known in the west. I arrived at the hotel on the 24th of December and on my second day of being in Moscow after having spent the first two sightseeing; I had what could be called my first experience in the Soviet Union. Two young men who must have been about my age at time (me being 21) knocked on the hotel room which I was sharing with one of the members of my tour group. It was in the company of another member of my tour that these two young men came asking if my roommate and I cared to barter trade. At first neither my roommate nor I knew what these two men had in mind and being in a country we knew not to be democracy; my American roommate, whose name completely escapes me and I were slightly apprehensive. It was one of these two young men who asked us if we had any blue jeans or anything we cared to trade such as American cigarettes or basically anything. I for my part felt I had nothing that would be worth their while as all I had was my cameras (which I was not ready to trade for anything), a couple of packs of cigarettes (me being a smoker at the time), the clothes I had brought with me (which included a pair of grey blue jeans that frankly speaking I was even slightly ashamed to even show given the condition they were in) and my cassettes which included some pop music. It did not take long with these two men and all those from my tour group who had come over to pick up a bargain; for the room I was sharing with a history teacher from Phoenix to become an national or international black market. Blue jeans were being exchanged for Russian fur hats, caviar (this being a French word as the Russian word is “ikra”) and other Russian goodies. It was inspired by the way these two Russians or so I think they were apparently willing to take just about any and everything we had that I decided to show them the old grey jeans I had bought over a year ago in London. Much to my near shock they accepted to take them for a black fur hat though given they were old they did ask me to throw in something extra which I did in the form of a pack of Marlboro which they accepted but however my having guilty feelings over the old jeans compelled me to add a tape by the British band known as “Led Zeppelin”. During these transactions; I noticed how people from two different countries and ways of life could trade and do business and though the English spoken by these two gentlemen was not exactly perfect it was understandable, making me think how even in a communist system it was always possible to find entrepreneurs. I even recall how one of the members of my group wanted to get something in exchange for a Jimmy Hendrix tape only to find out that neither of these two men (who had brought so much stuff with them as to make one believe they had a whole store with them) had the slightest idea who he was. Naturally we explained that Jimmy Hendrix had been a guitar player and they did take the tape though I do not recall what they gave for it. Of course it should be understood that these young men were not getting these things for themselves but to sell to others. One thing did strike my roommate at the time as being curious which prompted him to ask if they were staying in the hotel to which he was told by one of these two young men that they were not. It was then that I asked how they managed to get in the hotel, me having been told that only hotel guests who showed a card from the hotel were allowed in. It was then that they told us that because their English was not bad and in fact it was not and they dressed like westerns they could get in and obviously they had. Later on I would meet two other young men in the hotel who were also trying to do what ever business they could and it was from them that I really learnt a lot about how people in the Soviet Union felt toward not only Americans but many things. It might seem strange to some how I do not even remember the names of these two young men or even what they looked like but I remember almost everything that transpired between the three of us. First I went with them to Red Square instead of going with my group; after all if I had wanted to associate with other Americans, one can imagine where I would have stayed. Many things had I seen through out my travels in many countries, from the Coliseum in Rome (now one of the world’s seven new wonders) to the Eiffel Tower but neither of these two monuments or any other which I had seen for that matter could surpass the grandness of “Red Square”. The place as I observed it on that frozen day in the month of December seemed so overwhelming that I honestly was at a loss for words. It was not that the Kremlin or any of the buildings surrounding it; such as the one being hailed as the world’s biggest toy store or even Saint Basel’s cathedral were that large but the composition created by all that was Red Square had such a strong initial impact on me that I will never forget. It was mesmerizing to see this place and all its features that for a moment gave me the impression of being in a city above the clouds. The ornaments on the buildings being such that they almost seemed unreal. I naturally after having recovered slightly from my near shock took out my trusty Minolta to photograph this place and all it included; which in all honesty even looked like a small town rather then a large monument. It was in the process of photographing this place that I started with a wide angle lens; as to capture it all in one shot and then moved on to a zoom to get Saint Basil’s cathedral; the beauty of which in my opinion is most underrated. Needless to say my camera captured all of Red Square’s points of interest but none fascinated me as much as Saint Basil’s which to my mind was the typical Russian cathedral. Naturally in all that was Red Square one could not ignore the presence of the mausoleum dedicated to Lenin; which was visited by the thousands who would bare the cold and heat just to see the body of a dead man. As for myself personally I had neither the time or the inclination to stand on a line; even a short one as was the one for foreigners (as opposed to the other one for Soviet citizens) just to see a man in what in my opinion was an act of idolatry. Unsurprisingly by then the Soviet Union having long gone through a process of change had removed the remains of Joseph Stalin from Lenin’s presence, not that this made any difference to me at the time or even now for that matter. After their acting as my personal tour guide, they took me to a small neighborhood restaurant in Moscow, sort of like a bistro (this French word having its roots in a Russian word meaning fast) where we had some sausage and tea. It was there as opposed to the hotel that I discovered how cheap life could be in Moscow for someone who had US dollars or any other kind of western currency, so much so that I wanted to treat my tour guides to what they had consumed only to discover it was them who wanted to do likewise for me. At first I did not really know what to say and asked if I could pay at least for myself but was told it would be a good idea not to offend them by refusing their invitation. This I did agree to. It was during our time together that we discovered many things about each other’s countries, for instance they discovered that New York was not as dangerous a place to live in as they had been lead to believe by American television and their own media while I was also not excluded from finding find out many interesting things. First off all that Soviets, at least the people were not as anti-American as I had thought they would be and what really surprised me was that despite his popularity in America, specially after his last trip which had taken place a few weeks before; Gorbachov was not really liked in the Soviet Union by the average citizen, specially those who were not in the party. This at first seemed almost hard to believe as during his last trip to America (which had taken place on the 8th of December) people had literally lined the streets by the thousands in spite of the cold just to get a glimpse of him, in scenes reminiscent of “Beatlemania” at its peak. I for my account had even gone to where I knew his car would be passing in the hope of getting a photograph. Mine however was done more out of wanting to be a photographer then adoration, this in part motivated by the success I had had the same year in London when on Queen Elizabeth’s birthday of the 10th of June I managed to get a great shot head shot as she was coming down “The Mall” in her open carriage. Gorbachov however was a different matter all together as he was being driven in a closed limo, which made it impossible for me to be able to get any kind of photograph other then one of his car. I even remembered hearing on the news, how he while being driven through Broadway had actually gotten out of his car (much to my regret for not being there to capture on film this historic moment) on a day of extreme cold to shake the hands of some of the thousands who were lining the streets just to get a glimpse of him. This naturally caused joy to a lot while panic to his security guards who were as surprised as those who found themselves shaking hands with Gorbachov. It had been a case that Gorbachov had not informed his security of what he would do beforehand and due to this many of the security cars had driven on only to discover after a few seconds that Gorbachov’s car had stopped and that Gorvachov now found himself in the middle of a mob shaking hands with all those who were running up to him. As expected his security had to backtrack themselves to get to him in fear that something might happen which of course did not but I can imagine what anxiety they might have been going through at the time. Among these people there were also protestors from some of the Soviet republics such as Armenia; who even claimed that they felt for the first time that there was a man who at least was willing to hear what they had to say. After hearing that Gorbachov for the most part was not liked I asked what was it about him that most people did not like and to this question I encountered an answer that I did not really understand at the time and that was that most people did not like Gorvachov simply because his personal standard of living was a lot higher then their own. It was not because of political reasons or ideology or anything of the sort but the luxury he had surround himself in. They mentioned how he flew around the world and they could not, how he had a fur coats, a credit card by American Express (given to him I imagine mostly as publicity), expensive clothes while they did not. I at that point did not see anything strange or unusual in this as in America most Americans did not live as well as our president (Ronald Reagan at the time) and if some did not like him; it definitely was not for that reason. There might have been other reasons such as the “Iran Contra scandal” but that was another matter but not because he made more money then they did as this was and still is the case in most countries. This however was a case of what most people had come to accept in most countries that it did not matter that their leaders were financially better off then they were so long as their own standard was acceptable to them. However here in the Soviet Union people did not even want to know that their leaders had more then they did even if it was the top leader. This perhaps was the explanation why Soviet citizens were not allowed to enter certain stores, restaurants or hotels, as they would be exposed to what they could not afford anyway and perhaps that their system of financial equality was not really working all that well. I for my own did not comment on what I had heard; preferring to say nothing since I had not really understood the mentality behind the words and rather then get in to a quarrel with those who had treated me to this humble but pleasant lunch I asked what they thought of American films. This they told me they had seen some but several were being banned such as had been the case with “Red Heat” staring Arnold Schwarzenegger due to a scene in which the character played by Arnold (a Soviet policeman) trades a 10 dollar watch for a 1,000 dollar watch with an American policeman, played by Jim Belushi. I was curious how these two young men even knew about this scene, if they had not seen the film but this I did not ask. It was after having a nice meal (which was no worse then what I was getting in the hotel) in this friendly neighborhood place that I took a chance and went to the apartment of one of these two young men to get what they had promised me which was a Soviet military winter coat and a Jersey of the national football team. I having not much of anything to trade offered them American dollars which they did not refuse however we would have to go back to my hotel to get as I did not have them on me. It was when going back to the hotel that I rode the Moscow subway for the first time and was amazed at how often the trains came and how deep it was, a factor which I knew had not been undesirable during World War II given the bombing this city had been submitted to by the German air force. Upon return to the hotel I paid them the money I had promised them plus a pack of “Life Savers” in a gesture after theirs which had been to pay for my sausage and tea. Once concluded, the business of trade by barter with the hour being not far from an evening one I decided to shower and get ready for a night at the ballet. The bolshoi; it would be as if it could be any other being in Moscow, naturally at the Bolshoi (this word meaning great in Russian) theatre. With this in mind I put on my suit, the only one I had brought with me, a nice Cardin (him still being fashionable at the time) on top of which I put on my newly acquired military coat courtesy of the Soviet Union however; it was on the advise of our tour guide that I chose to wear another one. Him telling me that we were in a country were civilians specially foreigners were not allowed to wear Soviet military attire; meaning that it would be wise if I were to put on another coat which I did. The Bolshoi, I must say was something amazing, not so much the theatre which granted was large but not really impressive or at least not as much as the performance given by this magnificent group of dancers whom both my father and grandfather had always told me so much about. Tchaikovsky’s “The Nut Cracker” was what those in my group as well I were privileged enough to see that evening and though I was already familiar with the wonderful music; I was not so much with the dancing that went with it and as I watched, it seemed that this was the most radiant of all the performing arts in regards to its visual aspect. After the ballet, it was back to Hotel Cosmos for a night cap which I took at the bar; shots of Vodka accompanied by caviar which in America was so expensive but in the Soviet Union was literally cheaper then peanuts. The hotel had several bars, and it was in each that there were women, some I could imagine were there to exchange other then just souvenirs for money, while others went in groups looking for any westerner to buy them a drink. By “them” I mean all of them as they came in groups though this did not interest me other then just to see that women in the Soviet Union wore what I would call an excessive amount of make up; despite most of them being much more attractive then the average American woman. The following day came and off to Kiev it was on a plane by Aeroflot. It was something I will never forget; being on the runway and dozing off in my seat during the long wait which was required before take off, when suddenly I was awaken by the feeling of my ears getting blocked by the pressure. I remember being slightly upset; thinking that we had probably spent all that time on the ground and only then was the plane going to take off when the reality was that it was already going to land. Such a smooth take off and flight it was that not only had it not awaken me, I had not even noticed it or it could have been the fact that my cold was making my very drowsy along with my lack of sleep from the night before. Kiev was an interesting city though perhaps not as much as Moscow; but on that particular visit the only thing I recall was being far away from my hotel; me always the one to wonder from the rest and asking a Soviet policeman if he could find me a cab which much to my surprise he did. It being on one that was taking several passengers; in a sort of improvised transportation like I had known in countries like Argentina and Peru. As for the policeman, he told me in broken English how he was from Armenia, a place that had suffered from the effects of an earthquake the previous month, which made me tell him how I had in fact donated 20 USD to a relief organization. I do not know if this man really understood me but when saying goodbye in gratitude for his having found me this means of transportation I handed him one of my packs of cigarettes; which made him give me a small pen knife (which did not even open) in the shape of a fish as he said the word “souvenir” and went off. With Kiev being smaller then both Leningrad and Moscow, our stay was planed to last only one night after which we would be departing for Leningrad. I really can not say what it was in me that night which I was to stay in Kiev that made me do what I eventually did. This being to get what could be classified as extremely drunk. Vodka did I consume and plenty of it; perhaps to show that Italian Americans like their Soviet counter parts could also hold their liquor but what ever it was I did get sauced. In this elbow bending I do seem to recall a Soviet who also engaged in the same as I did after which we started a conversation in trying to solve who were more daft? Me claiming that it was Americans (me referring to those in my tour group) while he made the case for Russians; only to settle the issue by proclaiming a draw between Americans and Russians as to who were the more dippy. In this night that would go down with a certain degree of perhaps over joy my Soviet comrade and I also entertained ourselves by smashing our vodka glasses on the ground, which only managed to draw the attention of some policemen. Police however were called Militia at the time in the Soviet Union and two of them did approach us and when I could not understand what they were saying one of them, caught my off guard with a punch to the stomach. That by all accounts should have knocked the wind out of me. This probably would have been the effect during other circumstances but on that day after half a bottle of Vodka, I did not feel the blow which showed on my face as I did not even bend over in pain. This my reaction which almost sent this policeman in to shock as was clear on his face before I tried to strike at him with my camera, after all he was much bigger then me who only stands at 5’6”. Fortunately nothing became of the incident as the receptionist informed these policemen that I was a guest at the hotel and not some peddler (as they figured) who had come in to trade dollars, which of course was illegal at the time. Leningrad and the last stop on our Soviet trip before our return to the states. Leningrad I must say was more interesting at least from my point of view then Moscow. The city itself was different; after all this had been the capital of the country during the revolutions though that was the past even then as at that time the Winter Palace was the Hermitage. With the Hermitage being one of the world’s largest museums I could not help but spend one whole afternoon there out of the three I had; though one would really require more time to fully appreciate the entire museum. In Leningrad, I was fortunate enough to be given a hotel room which unlike the one in Moscow and Kiev I did not have to share with any of the members from my group. This factor would prove advantageous as I would go on to meet two very lovely young ladies from Kiev by the names of Victoria Ibanchenko and Svetlana. It was with these two friends that I would spend three very lustful evenings (two with Victoria, One with Svetlana), thanks to which I would draw inspiration for “Svetlana Ibanchenko”. Svetlana Ibanchenko being a fictional Russian soprano in my book “New York’s Opera Society”. There was something so romantic yet beautiful in these two that their dreams and ambitions took over me as I was creating this small but important character in my first book. Tragedy would also fill my stay in Leningrad as it was there that I found out that an American airplane (Pan Am) had been the victim of a bomb along with all of the passengers while flying over Scotland. At that moment there was little for me to do but be grateful that it was not I who had been on that flight and continue with the good time I was having; which is precisely what I did. The last night I would spend in Leningrad as I would be leaving the following evening was one I which will stay with me forever. My group and I went to see the Kirov ballet and what an experience it was. The Kirov was no less grand then the Bolshoi though different. My father had told me when I asked him that the difference was that the Kirov was more artistic while the Bolshoi was more dynamic and this I could see as I witnessed their performance of another Tchaikovsky piece; this time “Swan Lake” and what a show it was. They seemed to float in the air; almost as if they could fly and had an energy about them which let them to do as they wished with their bodies with such grace that it was almost like watching angels. Regarding my last two nights; these two were spent with Victoria and who knows what would have become of our relationship had it not been for the “Iron Curtain” which made it almost impossible for her to come live with me in America. I naturally tried to send her an invitation but even this was difficult given the closed system her country had at the time and though I did not have problems regarding money when it came to inviting Victoria over to the States still the matter was more complicated then I would have ever considered possible. It is hard for me to say what would have happened perhaps Victoria and I would have gone on to get married and have children but then my life would have been another, though also interesting. I for my part wish Victoria Ibanchenko from Kiev all the best in what ever she decided to do with her life. Upon my return to New York I naturally dedicated a lot of my time and money to trying to bring Victoria over to America; who in retrospective I can say I had fallen in love with and though my attempts ended in failure, I can in all sincerity say that I did make every effort to have her be with me in America. Once in New York; I also with the inspiration of having been in the Soviet Union still in me, went to see the world famous “Mosayeb” (Russian folk dance company) who just happened to be performing at “Radio City”. This too like the Bolshoi and Kirov was a performance that left me mesmerized as it combined grace and music in a way that also expressed so much though perhaps in a more modern fashion which was no less impressive. As a strange coincidence I will add that on that evening I bumped in to the man who had been our tour guide in the Soviet Union. Actually so much was my desire to have Victoria come to America and interest in what I had seen in the Soviet Union that I even started taking private lessons in Russian, which would come in very useful many years later in 1992 in Chile. A country I would have never imagined would require me to speak Russian. It was there in Santiago that one day after having taken photographs for one of the newspapers I was in contact with saw a poster advertising an upcoming performance by the Bolshoi. By then I was working as a freelance photographer and was not really planning on seeing the Bolshoi; believing it would be expensive but I was glad to see that they were in town. This being something to practically cheer about as there had been a time in Chile, not long before during the reign of Pinochet in which the Bolshoi and all other things from the Soviet Union were banned. It was on the same day after seeing the poster that I walked in to a shoe store where stood a couple; a woman whose slim body gave away that she must have been a ballerina with a man who had what I would classify as an athletic though not muscular build. In all frankness neither caught my attention till I heard them speaking Russian and it was at that moment that my mind put two and two together. The Bolshoi were in town, this woman was very slim and spoke Russian so it was at that moment that I decided to introduce myself; which I did so using the Russian I had learnt in Poland as well as my private lessons. I managed to get their names; hers being Nina Semizorowa (whom I would later find out was one of the Bolshoi’s biggest stars and their top attraction on that particular tour) and his being one which I have forgotten though he was Nina’s husband. Naturally, my being a photographer at the time made it that I had my camera which I used to get a snap shot of the two. I being ignorant about the ballet at the time did not realize that Nina was such a huge star of the Bolshoi and it was not her humble personality that gave her away either as her husband and her were among the most unassuming people I had ever met. This in spite of or maybe because both of them were stars of the Bolshoi; arguably the best ballet company in the world, where only the best are allowed. The Bolshoi being to ballet what the NBA is to basketball or the “Serie A” is to football, basically a collection of the world’s top talent. As a footnote I might add that an English actress named Joyce Frankenberg (later known as Jane Seymour or “Doctor Quinn” on the TV serial with the same name) was once accepted in to the Bolshoi in which she due to injury was only able to give one performance as a prima ballerina. After having chatted to Nina Semizorowa and her husband I quickly got the photo developed and took it over to the hotel where I knew they were staying and it was there where I got to meet the remaining members of the Bolshoi; who had made the trip to Chile. There was something about them that I must confess made them among the most interesting people not only to watch dance but to talk to and as I spoke to them one of their managers invited me over for the following day to not only watch them practice but to take photographs as well. It was that following day that I became a ballet fan, maybe it was knowing them and being able to ask them questions along with seeing the dedication they put in to what they did that made me appreciate the ballet all the more. I took many a photograph which would end up in a couple of Chile’s newspapers though in all truth I do not recall which but what mostly stuck out in my mind was the friendships I made with the members of the Bolshoi ballet specially with a very young dancer of twenty years of age by the name of Anna Petrova. It was through one of the member’s of their entourage that she asked if I cared to take her photograph and mail it to her which I naturally agreed to do. Anna was a shy young girl from Leningrad who spoke English well enough to at least hold a conversation which is what we did and what a delight it was as I not only took photographs (using a whole role of film on her) but getting to know her. She being one who could not have exceeded the 5 foot mark by much and whose weight could not have been that much over 100 pounds but in this body held the strength of one who could perform moves of incredible grace as the ballet requires. As far as our conversations were concerned, at least during our first encounter; they mostly centered around ballet with me asking her many question which ranged from what she felt was the difference between the Bolshoi and the Kirov with her telling me that it was difficult to put in to words however it was then that I wanted to try out my father’s theory which she admitted to there being some truth in. I also asked Anna what she felt about the Mosayeb which she claimed to be good but not as good as it had once been 20 years before. Many things were said between Anna and myself that day in a conversation that I found most fascinating but the one answer she gave me which distinguished itself in my mind the most was when I asked her what she thought of American Ballet. It was my question which yielded her reply and it I will never forget as I quote “American, French and British ballet are very strong and good but we’re the best”. A statement which would be hard to dispute prompted my comeback “as is the “dream team” in basketball”. My comment being made as that was the year in which Jordan, Bird, Magic Johnson, Carl Malone and many others showed their incredible talent during the Barcelona Olympic games as the now legendary “dream team”. On that day at the auditorium which had been designated to the Bolshoi; I also got to talk to other members of the Bolshoi; one of them being a friend of Anna’s who told me that he had received several offers from American ballet companies of more money but feared making the move given that he had heard perhaps rightly or wrongly that many American ballet companies went bankrupt. He however was considering the offer made to him by the Geoffrey Ballet but was not sure yet. Other things which this young ballet dancer told me included that he really did not have to watch his diet so much as some of the female dancers and that he felt that there were some dancers in the Bolshoi who had made it not so much because of their dancing abilities but their connections in the party. I of course could not say anything regarding this comment; me not knowing anything with regards but I was surprised at his comment, not so much at what he had stated but that he had at all as I could imagine there was a time, not that long before where one could have been in deep trouble for saying less. The day had been grand but the night would not be less as I was going to be seeing the Bolshoi ballet in action performing scenes from many ballets that included “Swan Lake”, “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky along with others such as “Giselle” by Adams. I particularly remember this last one given that it was the one that featured my new friend (whom unfortunately I have lost contact with) Anna Petrova in the lead role and what a performance she gave. In saying this however I must confess not to be a connoisseur of the ballet as I am other things such as football or singing or acting; which makes it difficult for me to give an impartial view of her performance that evening but to my eyes she was wonderful in the role she played. She danced like a bubble from a bath, bouncing not even on the stage but in the air as she delighted all those present, one of them being the president of Chile at the time; Patricio Aylwin. To me not only Anna but all the members of the Bolshoi danced not as if they were dancing to the music which was playing for them but as if their dancing was creating the music, such was the coordination between music and the moves that it seemed that they were one in the same. As if they were an image that was being created by the music and how grand it was that night as I got to see something that will last with me till the end of my days and all not only due to the spectacle I witnessed but the bond of friendship that had been created. The following day I went to the Holiday Inn to see off the members of the Bolshoi and specially my friend Anna Petrova; whom I had agreed to meet at a certain hour only to find out that she and the rest of the members of the Bolshoi, were not back from an extended interview they were giving to the Chilean press which lasted over two hours. I however did not mind waiting as it was while I was doing so that I met a man from Chile who had been one of the people responsible for bringing the Bolshoi to Chile. We as one can expect talked about the Bolshoi (in Spanish) and how they had been allowed to come to Chile now that Pinochet was no longer president. Freedom of speech however had not come completely as the government, influenced by the Catholic church had banned the British heavy metal group “Iron Maiden” from playing in Santiago on their 1992 tour of South America. Once my friend Anna returned to the hotel our time was limited to say good bye given her late arrival (which she apologized for) and the fact that she and the rest of the Bolshoi had little time to get to their flight on time. Anna and I went for a walk around the hotel which must have lasted about 15 minutes in which we did not talk about the ballet but our lives and taste in music; her claiming to like Elvis Presley apart from Tchaikovsky and me claiming to be found of Iron Maiden apart from opera and classical music. Unfortunately time was not on our side as I would have liked to take her to a nice place for lunch given, not so much due to my physical attraction toward her but my desire to enjoy her company, however this was not to be as we had to limit ourselves to exchanging addresses, so I could send her the photos I had taken of her. I for my part bought her a flower from a street vendor as a token of the short but friendly time we spent together. I would go on to send her the photographs though in all honesty I am not sure she ever received them as I got no reply from her but this does not matter so much as I was truly enchanted by not only me encounter with the Bolshoi but with Anna Petrova.

Gianni Truvianni
http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/an-encounter-with-the-bolshoi-ballet-593137.html

I have been in contact with USAF and US Navy recruiters for the past couple of months, I would like to go into special operations. I am torn between the two, I just dont know how to make up my mind. I want to enlist but also would like to finish college and get my degree, is there anyway to get the best of both worlds, be in the military yet still obtain my college degree, excluding ROTC programs? Please advise, thanks.

If you don’t mind being at sea a lot, join the Navy. Otherwise, join the Air Force.

I just finished the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and was wondering if anyone can recommend some books like those or a novel or history/non-fiction book about the War of the Titans.
Also if you know any good novel books on Perseus or Hercules or any other famous demigods that would be great.

Thanks.

Troy by Adèle Geras
Ithaka by Adèle Geras
Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B Cooney
Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War by Clemence McLaren
Quicksilver by Stephanie Spinner
Quiver by Stephanie Spinner
The Shadow Thieves (Cronus Chronicles) by Anne Ursu
The Siren Song (Cronus Chronicles) by Anne Ursu
The Immortal Fire (Cronus Chronicles) by Neil Swaab
Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl
The Thieves of Ostia (The Roman Mysteries) by Caroline Lawrence (entire series of books)
Gods of Manhattan by Scott Mebus
Iris, Messenger by Sarah Deming
Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs (series)
Pandora Gets Jealous by Carolyn Hennesy

Everyone I know says I am spaced out.

My wife tells me I’m distracted and self-absorbed. She says I have no sense of time, lose things constantly, and cannot be trusted with small appliances. She says these things are evidence of my dysfunction.According to her, I fade in and out of reality all the time… but she doesn’t know the half of it.

My friends think I’m a pie-in-the-sky dreamer too, a guy who spends most of his time in La La Land. They’re too nice to say it, but half the time they think I act like I’m from another planet. That’s because when they see me, half the time I have just come back from another planet. I’ve been hiding this for a long time, but the truth is…I am a REAL space ranger and I have traveled all over the galaxy!

I try to tell my buddies what I have discovered about the inner workings of the universe, but their eyes just roll back in their heads like the reels in a slot machine. It happens so often I have taken to cupping my hands under their mouths on the hopes I will hit the jackpot. So far the only payoff I’ve gotten is a spray of spittle when they burst into laughter.

I know I am hoist on my own petard. It’s my own fault that people question my credibility. Part of my problem comes from publishing a newspaper in which fact is indistinguishable from fiction. In the past, I must admit I have written a few things that stretch the truth. Many people doubt my in-depth interviews with Santa Claus and Bigfoot.

I understand that some folks question whether the Register is really locked in a vicious print war with the New York Times; that our columnist is really over two hundred years old; or that Round Top’s Town Marshall is really 6’9” tall and rides tornadoes.

These are reasonable doubts, and I cannot deny that I might have played loose with the facts a time or two for the sake of art.

But in all fairness, anyone who studies physics will find what most of us think of as “the real world” doesn’t exist. One of the founders of quantum physics, Erwin Schrödinger, points out that at the atomic level, all matter performs in a “completely disorderly heat motion, which opposes itself to their orderly behavior and does not allow the events that happen between a small number of atoms to enroll themselves according to any recognizable physical laws.”

That means if you look closely at the building blocks of the universe from which everything is made – your car, your kids, your dinner, your new pair of shoes – you won’t find anything that looks like facts or reality.

Reality is just a story humans tell one another so we won’t be utterly overwhelmed by the incredible complexity of the world in which we live. The universe is incomprehensibly vast. Life is unfathomably complex. Few of us have the slightest idea what is going on around us, and for the most part, we don’t want to know.

Accepting the truth about our insignificance in the grand scheme of things is a real blow to the ego, so who wants to do it.

The fact that everyone makes up their own reality is just one of the basic truths that even the most backward of the galaxy’s species takes for granted, but here on the old home planet we are still having a hard time getting the message.

People on our planet often think there is some “real and objective” world that is the same for everyone. This kind of provincialism is very embarrassing for a space ranger like myself.

Put yourself in my shoes. You are at a cocktail party at a penthouse in an upscale tourist colony orbiting a gas giant in the Betelgeuse system, and your host, who looks a lot like a six foot tall oyster with chrome hood ornaments suddenly shouts “Humans believe what?” and the whole party breaks up in riotous laughter.

This kind of thing makes it very hard to act cool. Belonging to what many interstellar beings consider “one of the goofiest-looking species in the universe” is hard enough, but being an intellectual laughing stock just adds insult to injury.

That is one of the reasons I have decided to come clean about my secret life and try to explain what is really going on in the universe to the rest of humanity.

Salt Crystals on a String

My strange situation began a long time ago when I first became a space cadet. It began innocently enough. I had a big imagination as a child and was fascinated with the workings of the world – why salt crystals appeared on a string suspended in salt water; why the program in your hand shivers and quakes in a concert hall when the strings crescendo at certain notes; why snowflakes are all unique and other amazing mysteries of science.

When I was a kid, the world was a source of wonder for me, and that wondering set me to wandering in my mind…and the next thing you know I was a space cadet.

It all started when I met Tom Corbette and the Space Rangers.

Tom was as all-American boy, tried and true, and a fellow cadet at the Interplanetary Space Academy. He and I teamed up with two other young cadets. Roger, who was real wise guy but a crack navigator was the first, and Astro, our massive but good-natured engineer was the other. The four of us rocketed all over the solar system before I was out of the sixth grade.

In the summer after I graduated from elementary school, I discovered a book called Glory Road, and found myself hopping from one dimension to the next.

That was where all the trouble started. It was fun, flitting from one alternate universe to another battling impossible odds, but there are serious consequences when you defy the laws of physics, and before long I was paying the piper.

I first began to notice strange things happening when I was in the seventh grade. That school year I lost three watches and four coats. My mother assumed I was simply careless, but as far as I could tell those personal items just disappeared. Right away I knew they had slipped into another time/space continuum but it was hard to prove to my mom.

Sadly, a little known effect of such quantum phenomena is that there is a corresponding perturbation in the electro-chemical energies passing through the synapses of the brain when they occur…which means you can’t actually remember the alternate universe events when they happen to you.

I knew those watches – including the one with Roy Rogers and Trigger on the dial – must lie half buried beneath the purple sands of a distant world. They were probably being crushed under the twelve armored feet of a methane-breathing three-headed desert beast rather than lost in my school locker. But no matter how articulate my argument, I couldn’t convince my unimaginative mother. When I came home from school without my coat for the third time, she grounded me.

That’s when I realized my life as starfarer was better kept a secret.

Now all these years later, I realize that I am not alone. There are other people like me out there in the world, lonely and lost, never seeming to fit in, observing a universe that their friends and neighbors can’t perceive. They seem like normal people except for a few unusual quirks.

They tend to lose anything not chained to their belts. They are constantly looking for their keys, their cell phones, their screw drivers and wallets. Important papers vaporize on their desks at work. They have no sense of time. They have a hard time remembering names and phone numbers and never read directions. They leave lights on all over the house and can’t be trusted with toaster ovens.

They spend a lot of time lost in thought, staring off into space with wistful expressions on their faces. Sometimes they become fixated watching a cloud, or a crawling bug, or the reflection of light on water, and you have to shake them to get their attention.

In other words, they have the attention span of a four-year-old.

If there is anyone in your life like this, I ask you to be patient and forgiving. They may be annoying and hard to live with, but they’re behavior is an unfortunate side effect of an important mission.

They’re secretly defending the earth against invasion by the forces of galactic evil, so give them a break. It easy to get a little distracted when you’re standing alone against the death rays of the machine-beings from the Crab Nebula.

Facing such responsibility, anyone could forget a birthday or two. These people deserve your respect because they are performing a valuable public service. Defending the planet earth from total annihilation is a thankless job, but someone’s got to do it.

To my clients, friends and neighbors, I am a regular guy who happens to be a little eccentric. They assume that I lose things and can’t remember people’s names because I simply don’t pay attention, or because my brain was damaged in the 1960’s by recreational drugs.

Actually, I am constantly cycling from one dimension of space to another. I’ll be in Round Top talking on the cell phone or sitting at the drafting board trying to design someone’s country house…and then all of a sudden I’m taking four G’s as my spacecraft leaves the atmosphere of the fifth planet out from Alpha Centauri in pursuit of insectoid aliens bent on galactic domination.

Needless to say, these circumstances make it difficult for me to maintain my professional composure at my architecture firm. It’s hard to explain what is really going on, so I find it necessary to preserve the charade that I am simply a garden variety ditz.

This guise has long worked to my advantage. You learn a few things about the behavior of sentient life forms when you hang out with aliens from all over the galaxy. I’ve seen it over and over in fifty different star systems. When some species find out you are different – and Homo Sapiens are among them – it makes them afraid, and organisms that are afraid have a tendency to get nasty.

It’s long been my opinion that it’s better to take a little lip, than to have your lip busted. As a result, I have lived a double life. But now I am throwing caution to the wind. I’m going to tell everybody what I have found out in my travels about what is really going on here on the planet earth.

I have to run to the house because I forgot to turn off the coffee percolator and the Queen is afraid I am going to burn the house down. I’ll clue you in as soon as I get back.

The Ultimate Truths of Life on Earth

Whew! That was close. The bottom of the coffee pot was starting to look like a black hole. Now back to the facts about life on earth. There are a many such truths of course, more than I can tell you now, so I am going to focus on the top seven.

1. The Aliens are getting restless.

For the last million years or so, most of galactic society has ignored human beings. I mean, there have been a few good sitcoms based on human beings, mostly comedies sort of like Bedtime for Bonzo, but for the most part no one really cared. Human beings were just funny monkeys scratching themselves. They felt safe from the various types of crazy violent madness we are so good at cooking up because we were stuck on our own planet.

But then Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and that changed everything. Those of us who were alive when that happened experienced a very rare event. Life on earth is roughly 3.8 billion years old. Each of us lives an average about 70 years. That means the odds that any individual organism would be alive when a representative of life on earth actually set foot on another world is 5,428,5714 to one.

It’s not just the Beatles that make us a unique generation and this fact is not lost on folks who live in neighboring star systems, especially because things are happening pretty fast. Our seed is spreading. Voyager I is now about 8.7 billion miles from earth and moving towards them at 46,000 miles an hour. They watch the History Channel. They know what maniacs we are and it is making them nervous.

Now what you need to understand is that most of our neighbors in the galaxy are pretty nice folks. They tend to be forgive and forget types. But there are races out there that view us the same way we view a venereal disease, and if they decide we need a dose of antibiotics, we are toast.

That’s the main reason I have decided to speak up. We need to get our act together in the next couple of generations, or our communal butts are going to be in a sling.

The second thing you need to know I already talked about above. It’s important truth number two.

2. You live in your own little world.

Each of us makes up our individual reality. I mean really. I’m not saying the material world doesn’t exist. There is a world out there, but each of us perceives it differently in significant ways.

Throughout the galaxy, every different organism has its own “real world.” Highly social species like us can coordinate our behavior by talking and mimicking each other, and by building a common living space to channel our actions, but those are just tricks our brains have evolved so we can get more food and make more babies than the other animals we compete with for survival.

Bottom line, you have to guess about what the other guy is thinking. After millions of years of evolution, our brains have gotten very good at guessing. But really…you don’t have the slightest idea what is going on in the minds of your wife, your husband, or your kids….let alone behind the fevered brows of Osama Bin Laden or Tom Delay.

There is no point in worrying about what other people think. There is no point in talking to other people about what they think other people think. There is no point to watching television shows or reading books about what other people think. You’ll never really know.

So just relax and pay attention, because the only way you are ever going to get any idea what a person thinks is by listening to them and watching their behavior.

On advanced worlds, listening and observing are competitive sports. You can get a Ph.D. in them. In many societies, talking is seen as an unpleasant but necessary metabolic process, something like urination or defecation. The smartest people never say a darn thing!

2. You are never alone. You just think you are.

You are really just a cell in a bigger organism. Every advanced society understands this. I know you think paying your own bills and having your own body makes you all grown up and independent, but the truth is that you and every other living thing is just a piece of the living earth.

All the incredibly diverse species that cover our planet are just specialized cells like those in your body. Some are liver cells. Some are stomach lining. Some are neurons.

I know this is a blow to your ego, but it is time to grown up and face the music. You aren’t really all that important in the grand scheme of things. Even humanity as a whole is not all that big a deal. Our living planet was growing and evolving just fine for billions of years before anyone invented a BMW. It may seem like the American Idol results show is the center of the universe, but it really isn’t.

The reason you think you are an individual is because all living systems are built of small pieces that must be distinct from one another if they are to work. Identity is necessary for their functioning, just as an individual cell is important to the functioning of your pancreas. What a liver cell thinks about the liver makes no difference. All that matters is whether it oozes bile.

The same is true for you. I know this is hard to swallow, but time is running out so I can’t afford to break it to you gently.

3. Everything in the universe is always running down.

Human scientists call this fact the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or entropy. Most physicists consider it the most general law of nature.

When the energy in any system – a star or a living organism – runs down to the point that it becomes a dead, inert lump of matter, it reaches a state that a physicist calls thermodynamic equilibrium, or maximum entropy. It can also be described as “greater order” as significant change in its form stops for all practical purposes.

Most substances degrade relatively rapidly from the relative disorder caused by heat to a more “stable order” as they cool to absolute zero, but the march towards maximum entropy exhibits itself in many other ways. When two solutions are mixed – for instance a jar of sugar water and a jar of plain water – the sugar has a “goal” of becoming equally distributed throughout the liquid water. When it reaches that state, maximum entropy is achieved.

Such effects occur throughout nature. For instance, Americans degrade the complex organisms we refer to as cattle at a mind-boggling rate. In the year 2000, somewhere around thirty-eight million of those highly organized and brilliantly functional organic systems, each capable of independently maintaining its energy level for a considerable number of years, were “degraded” to the more stable state we refer to as sewage by the process of our consumption.

That sewage is then consumed and degraded by specialized microorganisms even closer to thermodynamic equilibrium.

In that same year, each American converted an average of 195 pounds of red meat, poultry and fish into simpler forms. Every year of our lives, we convert more than our weight of other “higher life forms” into energy and protein which we use to battle the relentless march of entropy.

Each individual organism on earth is an efficient processing plant that is remarkably effective at making other organisms in the world around them – and even inorganic compounds – more “stable.”

Eating and finding food are so basic to the function of living things that in almost all organisms the brain is located near the entrance to the gut. There are several families of genes that govern both brain and gut development, which reflects the ancient relationship between the gut and the brain.

It is humbling to consider while pushing our carts through the grocery store that we may be utilizing the first and foremost purpose of our minds, but those are the facts. Like every other animal, our primary business in life is to find food that can be converted to energy to support the functioning of our bodies. What we do not use, we excrete as feces, urine, and perspiration.

Combined, the amount of waste generated by living things, both in life and in death, has altered a significant portion of the earth’s crust. Soil and limestone deposits, both results of millions of years of processing by living things, cover our planet.

All life is knee deep in birth and death, two extremes of a powerful entropic process. This universal contest is present not only in the grand scheme of nature, but also in the daily existence of everything in creation.

Our sun is a powerful generator of energy, but like all sources of energy, that energy is slowly suffering the attrition of entropy. The powerful heat and pressures within the core of our planet create complex mineral deposits, which emerge through volcanic activity and other geological phenomena to create mountains and other grand features, which are in turn worn down by wind, rain, glaciers and other natural forces, and turned into sand and soil.

Our bodies face entropy each day. Millions of years of evolution have built a grand engine in the human physique. Each human body has incredible abilities to persist in the face of entropy’s relentless march – but in the end – every individual living organism, every mountain, every energy source…wears down.

So the bottom line is that your decline is inevitable. No matter how much you work out and how well you eat, you are still on the way out. All you are ever going to do is eat, poop and die. I know that sounds like bad news, but every cloud has a silver lining.

Entropy means that there will always be plenty of work for doctors, remodeling contractors, cosmetics sales people and washing machine repairmen.

4. You only exist as a relationship.

Now this might be hard to understand, so I will use a metaphor that makes it easier. First, I have to tell you that you are what is called a “dissipative structure.” Such a structure accelerates the pace of entropy by taking energy from the world around it and hastening it towards thermodynamic equilibrium.

Dissipative structures are easily observable in nature. Whirlpools and tornadoes are two common examples, but galaxies and eco-systems also qualify.

When barometric pressure rises in a storm front, a regular form with a recognizable structure emerges. We call it a tornado. A tornado allows the high barometric pressure to dissipate more effectively in exchange for maintaining its structure. It has to have a thermodynamic imbalance to exist. When the build up of pressure is equalized, the tornado disappears.

In the early 1990’s, earth scientists performed a thermal analysis while flying over several varied ecosystems and discovered that the more developed the eco-system, the colder its surface temperature. They discovered what the rest of the galaxy already knows, that complex living systems dissipate the sun’s energy more effectively than those that are less diverse. The more complex the living system, the more effective dissipater it is.

Your body is a complex living system too, just like a jungle. The city you live in is also complex living system. Both you and the city are dissipative structures. You take energy out of the world around you like a tornado, and use that energy to avoid the impact of entropy. As pointed out above, you are very effective at turning cows into poop. You do this so you can continue being yourself. The cow is sacrificed to maintain your structure.

A tornado’s identity is a relationship between a high pressure storm system and a low pressure layer of air. A tornado is an identifiable thing, but though it has a structure you can see and it can blow a piece of straw through a fence post, all its parts are parts of other things. It has no distinct content. Its behavior is the only thing unique about it, and that behavior is completely determined by its environment.

So is yours. You are merely a relationship between your physical and cultural environment, and the genes you inherited from your family. The only thing that is “you” is how you act, and how you act is almost entirely determined by your instincts and your environment.

Sorry. I know it’s hard to feel like the most important thing in the universe when someone is trying to say you make decisions like a termite, but…well…you do.

5. Your brain is not designed to make you happy.

Have you ever noticed that it is incredibly difficult to get happy and stay that way?

We have been evolving for several million years. The amazingly brilliant brains in our skulls make us smart enough to get to the moon. Since almost all of us want to be happy, you would think natural selection would have done a better job of getting us that way.

The problem is that natural selection doesn’t care if you are happy unless your happiness makes your genes more likely to make it to the next generation. Genes are very selfish. They have their own agenda, and don’t care a whit about your happiness.

Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker makes this point as follows: “People don’t selfishly spread their genes; genes selfishly spread themselves. They do it by the way they build our brains. By making us enjoy life, health, sex, friends, and children, the genes buy a lottery ticket for representation in the next generation.”

So you see, your brain isn’t designed to make you happy. It is designed to give you grandchildren, and if they make you happy, that is because your genes want you to throw yourself in front of a lion so they can have grandchildren.

After they are born, you see, you are expendable. The reason for this is perhaps the most important truth of all for human beings.

6. All that really matters is sex.

There are plenty of galactic races that don’t have sex. They reproduce with spores, or through binary fission like a paramecium, or are manufactured in a factory. I met an alien one time that reproduced using a Xerox machine. There are many different ways to do it.

But in the long run for human beings, sex is all that matters. Ultimately, every man is a sperm, wiggling his little tail while racing all the other little men up the birth canal for a one-in-a-million chance of getting laid. Every woman is an egg, waiting for first few suitors to arrive, and then being picky about which one she lets penetrate her cell membrane.

That’s about it. Sex is the point of all human existence. Money, power, beauty, kindness, love, morality, success, and all our other cherished ideals are merely various strategies for making babies and helping them survive so they can make more babies.

There are currently about 6,451,058,790 human beings on earth. One year ago there were 6,376,863,118. That’s 74,195,672 more in a year. In 1950, the global population was 2,556,517,137. That’s more than a 250% increase in only 55 years. At that rate, in 110 years there will be about forty billion of us.

You can see why our galactic neighbors are so worried about what will happen if we move into their neighborhoods.

Christopher K. Travis
http://www.articlesbase.com/humor-articles/spaced-out-my-life-as-a-space-ranger-696400.html

In Saturday 10.1.09, just few days ago, thousands of people participated in an anti-Israeli demonstration in the center of Paris. The participants were Arabs, Muslims, Muslim extremists (among them holocaust denials), Stalinists and hidden Communists, Trozkists, supporters of Pol Pot, Iran, Sudan and other bloody dictatorships and… Le Pen with members of his  extreme right, anti-Semitic and fascist party of France. If any one needs an explanation what is the meaning of ‘holy alliance’ – this is the ultimate explanation. It is interesting what is the ideology and motivation of each member of the ‘holy alliance’, and how they are cooperating. Basically it is a combination between the traditional anti-Semites, fascists and Neo-Nazi’s; the religious Islamic extremists (delivering ‘opium to the people’ according to Karl Marx), and people which call themselves ‘left’, but their ideology has nothing to do with true ‘left’. Actually the ideology of those groups is combination of racism, worship of totalitarian systems and religious fanatics. The basic feature of those ideologies is hate, and this is the ‘triumvirate’ conducting the hostility, double standards, lies and the disinformation, against Israel and the Jewish nation. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze each group, some of its prominent personalities, their interconnection and some historical events connected with their activities.

It is natural that the fascists and neo-Nazi’s are part of this alliance. Their old traditional hate to Jewish people, includes now Israel and their thirst to Jewish blood includes now the thirst for elimination of Israel. Beside their attachment to fascist and Nazi ideologies, one of their ‘evidences’ against Jews is the old – false, anti-Semitic propaganda publication, ‘The protocols of old Zion leaders’. Although, it was proved long ago that it is a fabrication, the Neo-Nazi’s steel use that nonsense,  but not only they…The support which right extreme anti-Semites like Le Pen in France, Churka in Hungary and many others, give to the Arab propaganda, has deep roots in the past. This alliance of the fascists with Islamic and Arabic world (including Palestinians), would be mentioned later on.

The hate of Islamic and Arab world to Jews and Israel is not only because of the Israel – Palestinian conflict, it is also based on the concept of ‘civilizations conflict’, in which Israel and Jews are part of ‘heretics’, which has to be defeated. However, the use of bloody terror against civilians, for more than 60 years is inhuman, barbaric and its definition could be only ‘war crimes’. Every possible method was used to eliminate Israel: frontal wars with Arab armies; terror attacks against civilians; economical boycott; refuse to recognize Israel and to negotiate about peace treaty; terror attacks against air transport; the massacre of Israeli sport-team in Munich 1972; exploding civilian busses; suicide murders and finally the rockets terror from Gaza. All was accompanied by enflamed speeches – with twisted faces from hate – of terror leaders, thirstiness for blood, threats of elimination, glorification of death, holocaust denial, vainness and arrogance. Not only Israel and Jews are victims of that ideology, also other nations like the black Christian tribes in south Sudan, or the victims of 11 September, Lockhead and other terror activities. But not less terrible is the treatment given to their own Muslims or Arab ‘brothers’. It started in the fifties when Egyptian army use gas against rebels in Yemen, continued with a massacre of more than 20000 civilians in Alepo – Syria in the seventies, continued with thousands of victims in gas attacks by Sadam against his Kurdish civilians in the eighties, the terrible massacres executed by the Islamists in Algeria in the nineties and 20 years of genocide in Sudan, including Darfur today.  

A prominent feature of the Islamic and Arabic propaganda against Jews and Israel is the use of events from world war 2. But it contains an internal contradiction: from one side – the term ‘Nazi’s is used to describe Israel and its army, but from the other hand there are so many holocaust denials among those societies. So, If holocaust do not existed, what is wrong with the Nazi’s?… But this use of the Nazi’s for propaganda comes to be more pitiful when we look at the historical alliance between Arabs and the fascists: It started with the participation of Moroccan troops in the army of Franco in the Spanish civil war. For evidence let us look on few lines from the famous republican battle song – ‘No Passaran’ (they will not pass):      The moors (Moroccans) brought by Franco

                                                       want to come into Madrid.

                                                       As long as there’s a militiaman (republican) left

                                                       the moors will not pass.

At the same time of the Spanish civil war, Mussolini declared himself as “The protector of Islam” and for sure that it was not just because their beautiful eyes… But the cooperation was much more prominent along the world war. It was expressed by overwhelming support to Germany and its allies in the Arab world (especially among the Palestinians), impatiently waiting for Romel troops, executing a pro-Nazi revolt in Iraq, and an attempt to do so in Egypt. The most terrible example was the relationship between the chief-leader of the Palestinians – Haj-Amin-El-Husseini and the Nazi’s, including personal friendship with Hitler. Haj-Amin was a welcomed visitor in Hitler’s office, and they had many meetings at the time when Hitler was planning his ‘final solution to the Jewish problem’. It is probable, that beside weather they had some more subjects to discuss… But Haj-Amin was not just talking, he was an active person and one of his famous activities was the organization of Bosnian – Islamic S.S. division, in service of the Nazi’s. That division was very proud in its support to the Nazi war machine in Yugoslavia, especially they were proud in killing more that 80000 Yugoslavian partisans. But this cooperation was not over after the war, on the contrary – it continued: many Nazi war criminals escaped to Arab countries, part of them become Muslims. Many of them continued their ‘beloved job’ – eliminating Jews, by serving as instructors in Arab armies which invaded the newly established Israel in 1948. One of the famous Nazi war criminals – Alois Bruner – deputy of Eichmann and an important person in the Nazi death machine, find a shelter in Damascus, in the fascist dictatorship of Syria. A ridicules evidence of the alliance between Arabs and fascisms is expressed by the high rating of ‘The protocols of old Zion leaders’, in the Arabs countries, both in printed publications and TV programs. The shameless use of the term ‘Nazi’s’, by  Arabs, Palestinians and their allies, against Israel, is a cynical desecration of the memory of holocaust victims and survivors, the ghetto fighters, the Jewish soldiers in the allied armies and the Jewish partisans, which some of them, or their relatives are steel alive. The above historical review, shows the strong contact between the two groups of the ‘holy alliance’.

Pitiful as it is, the motivation and reasons of those two groups to hate Israel and Jewish people, could be identified, but this is not so easy in the case of the third member of the ‘holy alliance’, those which call themselves “left”. Therefore it is necessary to identify the term ‘left’ and to see if that group could be in the frame of the definition. So, real ‘left’ are not just socialists, but democratic socialists, they are humanists, people which believe in peace, justice, equality, freedom, the right of people and nations for existence and self determination, the right of self defense and total rejection of any totalitarian system. For real people of the left, every drop of blood is red and Arab blood has the same red color as Jewish. Steel we remember persons like Sartre, Enairin Bewan, Willie Brandt and many others which comply to all the definitions mentioned above. Those people, although criticizing aspects of Israeli politics, stayed firm beside Israel in critical times and never rejected its right for existence. For them, Arab blood has the same color as ours. But those today which call themselves ‘left’ who are they really? Actually most of them are people which supported and supporting today, totalitarian ideologies and regimes, naturally they are open or latent anti-Semites, rejecting a-priori the right of Israel for existence, no matter what is the Israeli policy. Among those people you can find the former Stalinists, communists and their allies; the Trozkists, Castro, che Gevara (which was converted from healer to killer) and Pol Pot supporters. Those people and their ideological parents, supported bloody regimes which were responsible for murder, torture or closing in concentration camps, millions of people. After the collapse of Soviet Union and the regime in Cambodia, they ‘change’ their faces, and assimilate themselves within the existing political and academic systems, but keeping their loyalty to the totalitarian, violent, anti-humanistic and anti-Semites ideology of Soviet Union and its allies. If somebody wants to see an example of the source and education of those people, it is a small booklet named “Enemy of Peace and Progress”, issued in the Soviet Union in 1984 and had been spread over all and the airports in the Union (free to take). It is a brutal, primitive, anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli publication, full of lies and disinformation, very similar to the famous ‘protocols’, but it gives an impression that the small Israel is the enemy no. 1 of the huge Soviet empire… (Every body could contact me and have this booklet). It is typical that all those hypocrites never condemned the terrible activities and the terrible speeches of the terrorist, never they saw anything wrong in the faces twisted with hate of Ahmed Inagad, Nassralla, Bin Laden and other terrorists. There were no demonstrations for the Kurds (except one in Prague 1990), not against the massacre in the Jewish community center in Buenos-Ayres, nor against the suicide-murderers which killed hundreds of innocent people, and of course not against Sudan. While they are crying today about the death of Palestinian children in Gaza – forgetting who is really responsible for this, they were completely indifferent to the death of our children, at the ‘high-season’ of the suicide murders. While they are screaming against what they call ‘collective punishment’, they had been supporting the bombardments against Serbian civilians. Another aspect which could make crazy every normal and honest person, is the attempt of those hypocrites to bring Israeli officers and politician to the international court, dealing with ‘war crimes’. This, after the strict instruction to Israeli forces in all wars and the unbelievable efforts from our soldiers to protect civilians and to avoid hurting them, when every body knows that the civilian victims are the result of using them as human shield by the terrorists. Not only that: using rockets against cities and suicide murders, is directed only against innocent people, but the hypocrites never talked about those activities as ‘war crimes’ and never do any appeal to the international court.  Why? because ‘war crimes’ is a term “designed” only for Israel and condemnation and demonstrations against barbarism of the terrorists is ‘not politically correct’ and it is against their concept of ‘understanding of the other’… It is necessary to look at some special example of that hypocrisy: In July 2006 was published by Australian ‘left’ (a copy of the European) on a street board in Brisbane,  a manifest against nuclear activity which includes the paragraphes: ‘no uranium mining’, ‘no nuclear power’, and… ‘no attack Iran’. The hypocrisy of the text is very clear  because Iran is the biggest uranium miner all over the world, their leaders are working hard to produce nuclear arms, and declaring on their wish to eliminate Israel. But the hypocrites, which are crying to remember the victims of Hiroshima, by ‘no attack Iran’, are giving the message that Israeli victims of Iranian nuclear bomb – are acceptable… Another example form Britain, which is now the most anti-Semitic country in the western world: A lady, parliament member, declared that many Palestinian women had been raped by Israeli soldiers. Such a brutal lie is similar to the old terrible lie about Jewish rituals in which blood of Christian children is used… After a short investigation the lady has to deny the accusation, but without any apology, similar to the Stalinist practice which says: ‘even if you are not guilty, you can be guilty’… Again an example from Britain: A lady, director of one of the famous TV channels, invited no other than Inagad, the neo-Hitler from Teheran, to bless British people for Christmas. Of course he was very nice, very peaceful and this time he did not mention his opinions about holocaust, nor did he repeated his threats to eliminate Israel… When the lady was asked, why she choose such a person to bless British people for the New Year, she said: ‘we have to understand the others’…

Therefore, that contact between the hypocrites (called themselves ‘left’) and the Islamic terrorists today, and the contact between the Arab world and the fascism, shown above is not just an accident, it is basically the result of similarity between ideologies. A colorful (as well as dreadful) example is the life of the international terrorist Carlos. He was born to a communist-Stalinist family, and his name was Vladimir Ilich Carlos. After many terror activities in service of extreme Islamists, it was just natural and easy to convert religions and become a Muslim. The strong relationship between the ‘Marxists’ – Hugo Chaves, Castro and the Sandinists in Nicaragua with the ‘reactionary and extreme clerical regime’ (according Marx) of Iran is another grotesque example. Therefore, the interactions between the first and second allies, and between the second and third allies, was shown and proved above. However, it is also easy to show the interaction between the first group (the fascists) and the last group. After the collapse of Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, many former communists and Stalinists converted easily into nationalists and right extremists. Several example could be mentioned among them Miloshevich from Serbia, Tudgman, the former Croatian president, which not only became a nationalist and anti-Semite, but also a holocaust denial. But the most interesting example is the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, which has a very interesting record. His story is the personification of the term ‘The holy alliance’. He started as a Stalinist, participating in brother killings (civil war) in Greece, but has some sympathy to Jewish people expressed by his poem ‘the ballade of Mauthausen’. However, when the attitude of the Soviet Union was changed against Israel, the ‘loyal soldier of the revolution’ changed automatically his views and become a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli. But it was not enough, in the last years he had another transformation from Stalinist to fascist (as was mentioned: easy to do), resulted in expressing anti-Semitic views, in which not only Israel is a target but all Jewish nation. In a published book, Theodorakis is treating in a primitive way the Jewish history and call the Jewish nation ‘the source of the evil on earth’, exactly the expressions used by Hitler and Gebels. In this example it is easy to see how all the members of the ‘holy alliance’ are interconnected.

Therefore, all those people and organizations, no one of them is a real ‘left’, because their ideology can be summarized in one single word: hate and their demon is like in the last 2000 years: the Jews. This is the ideological basis for the three parts of the ‘holly alliance’ .

   

Arie Itamar
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/the-holy-alliance-another-chapter-in-european-hypocrisy-721097.html

WAYNE FIELDS –“The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing your mind they’ll ease your will they’ll mend and charge you not a shilling.”

WB YEATS –“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are Jull of passionate intensity.”

WC FIELDS –“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”

WCLEMENT STONE –“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

WELSH PROVERB –“Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.”

WEMHER VON BRAUN –“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”

WEN JLABAO –“Please just hold on, people are going to get you out of here.”

WENDELL BERRY –“Energy is superhuman in the sense that humans cannot create it. They can only refine or convert it. And they are bound to it by one of the paradoxes of religion: they cannot have it except by losing it; they cannot use it except by destroying it…”

WENDELL BERRY –“Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.”

WENDELL BERRY –“We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.”

WENDELL PHILIPS –“Difference religion breeds more quarrels than difference of polities.”

WENDELL PHILLIPS- “Difference of religion breads more quarrels than difference of politics.”

WENDELL PHILUPS –“Low is nothing unless close behind it Stands a warm living public opinion.”

WENDY MARSTON –“Once you have the chance to be anything you want, you face the really tough question: What do you want?”

WERICK THE GREAT –“All religions must be tolerated. Every man must get to heaven in his own way.”

WERNER VON BRAUN –“Use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution.”

WERNHER VAN BRAUN –“Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go— and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”

WES NISKER –“if you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.”

WH AUDEN –“A poet is a person who is passionately in love with language.”

WH AUDEN –“No human being can make another one happy.”

WH AUDEN –“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.”

WH AUDEN –“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for; I don’t know.”

WH AUDEN –“We must love one another or die.”

WHITE –“In antiquity, every tree, every spring, every stream, every hill had its own genius loci, its guardian spirit… Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain, or a brook, it was important to placate the spirit in charge of that particular situation, and to keep it placated. By destroying animism, we have only ended up exploiting nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.”

WHITE HOUSE –“The sound of the Shafer heralds the beginning of a new year and a time of remembrance and renewal for the Jewish people. During these holy days, men and women are called to reflect on their faith and to honour the blessings of creation.”

WHITMAN –“The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”

WHITNEY HOUSTON –“It’s about believin’ when you ain’t got anything to believe in.”

WHITTIER –“The smile of God is victory.”

WHOOPI GOLDBERG –“It never occurs to me that there are things I can’t do.”

WIKIPAEDIA –“Researchers reason that all living humans descend from Africans, some of whom migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the world. If the mitochondrial analysis is correct, then because mitochondrial Eve represents the root of the mitochondrial family tree, she must have predated the exodus and lived in Africa. Therefore many researchers take the mitochondrial evidence as support for the “single-origin” or Out-of-Africa model.”

WIKIPAEDIA –“As Mahalakshmi, the supreme Goddess of Love and Delight, she lends grace and charms everything divine or human. As Mahasaraswati, the Goddess of Divine skill and Knowledge, she is the firefighter and trouble-shooter for the entire universe.”

WIKIPAEDIA –“Hypertextuality is the interconnectedness of all literary works and their interpretation. A woven fabric of cultural consciousness is imitated and, in fact, investigated.”

WIKIPAEDIA –“Primordial Parashakti is the ultimate dynamic energy of transcendental Brahmn… Brahmn is attributeless whereas Parashakti has many attributes. While, Brahmn has only to be cognised, Parashakti can be worshipped with name and form. She is Divine Will personified. She isconscious power beyond everything. She is the invisible and constant presence that sustains the world, linking form and name, holding them in interdependence. There is nothing impossible for Her She is the Universal Goddess. She is all knowledge, all strength, all triumph and all victory she is the Goddess Supreme, Maheshvari, who brings to us the total state of illumination.”

WIKIPAEDIA “Shakti is Mother of the universe. She creates, preserves, dissolves. She is the sat and so creates. She is chit, so she is life. She is ananda or bliss. He is also possessor and controller of opposite qualities: Destruction, death and terror as Mahakali, Goddess of Supreme Strength.”

WIKIPAEDIA –“Space-time entails a new concept of distance. Whereas distances are always positive in Euclidean spaces, the distance between any two events in space-time — called an “interval” — may be real, zero, or even imaginary.”

WIKIPAEDIA –“The real purpose of the Paryushan is to purify our soul by staying closer to our own soul, to look at our faults, to ask for forgiveness for the mistakes we have committed, and take vows to minimise our faults. We try to forget about the needs of our body and our business so that we can concentrate on our-self. Swetambers celebrate eight days of Paryushan and the last day is called Samvastsari. In these eight days most of Jains keep fast in many ways and all Jains keep fast on Last day of Paryushan. The process of shedding our KARMAS really begins by asking for forgiveness with true feelings and to vow not to repeat mistakes. The quality of the forgiveness requires humility and suppression of anger.”

WILCOX AND MUMFORD –““I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.”

WILFRED B L TROTTER –“The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folklore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.”

WILFRED PETERSON –“The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.”

WILILAM JAMES –“There is only one thing a philosopher can be truly relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”

WILL AND ARIEL DURANT –“The future never just happened. It was created.”

WILL DURANT- “Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.”

WILL DURANT –“In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”

WILL DURANT –“The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.”

WILL DURANT –“The trouble with most people is that they Think with their hopes or fears or, wishes rather than with their minds.”

WILL ROGERS –“An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”

WILL ROGERS –“Even you’re on the right track, you won’t get anywhere if you’re standing still.”

WILL ROGERS –“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”

WILL ROGERS –“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”

WILL ROGERS –“One revolution is just like one cocktail, it just gets you organized or the next.”

WILL ROGERS –“Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.”

WILL ROGERS –“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”

WILL ROGERS –“We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give them plenty of publicity.”

WILL ROGERS –“We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.”

WILL ROGERS –“You can’t say civilisation isn’t advancing, in every war they kill you in a new way.”

WILL SCHUTZ –“Man’s self-concept is enhanced when he takes responsibility for himself.”

WILLA CATHER –“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.”

WILLA CATHER –“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

WILLA CATHER –“Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.”

WILLA GATHER –“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”

WILLA GATHER –“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”

WILLA GATHER –“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”

WILLARD MARRIOTT –“Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the tree.”

WILLIAM A WARD –“Another fresh new year is here…/ Another year to live!/To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and I give!/ This bright New Year is given me/to live each day with zest…/To daily grow and try to be/my highest and my best! I have the opportunity/ once more to right some wrongs,/ to pray for peace, to plant a tree,/ and sing more joyful songs.”

WILLIAM A WARD –“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

WILLIAM A WART –“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD –“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.”

WILLIAM ASHWORTH –“Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.”

WILLIAM BENNETT- “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”

WILLIAM BLACK- “A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“A dog starv’d at the master’s gate/ Predicts the ruin of the State./ A horse misus’d upon the road/ Calls to heaven for human blood./ Each outcry of the hunted hare/ A fibre from the brain does tear,/ A skylark wounded on the wing,/ A cherubim does cease to sing.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“Ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses… choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“He who binds himself to a joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity’s sun rise.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care/ Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness,/And put on intellect… Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I’ve a wife that I love and that loves me; have all but riches bodily.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“Man’s Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“Scientists, in trying to decipher that which should remain indecipherable, would turn that which is soul and life into a mill or machine.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“The strongest poison ever known/ Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.”

WILLIAM BLAKE –“The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.”

William borah- “The marvel of the history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”

WILLIAM BRAMWELL –“There is too much meat and drink, too little fasting and self-denial, too much taking part in the world… and too little self-examination and prayer.”

WILLIAM BUTLERYEATS –“Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.”

WILLIAM CHANNING –“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.”

WILLIAM CLAYTON –“The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.”

WILLIAM COFFIN –“Only reverence can restrain violence — reverence for human life and the environment.”

WILLIAM COWPER – “Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”

WILLIAM COWPER –“But war’s a game, which, were their subject wise,/ Kings would not play at.”

WILLIAM COWPER –“God made the country, and man made the town.”

WILLIAM COWPER –“The bud may have a bitter taste,/But sweet will be the flower.”

WILLIAM COWPER:- “Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”

WILLIAM DRUMMOND –“A man who cannot reason is a fool, a man who will not reason is a bigot, and a man who dare not reason is a slave.”

WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING –“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”

WILLIAM FAULKNER –“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

WILLIAM FAULKNER- “Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”

WILLIAM FEATHER –“A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.”

WILLIAM FEATHER –“Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.”

WILLIAM FEATHER –“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”

WILLIAM FEATHER –“We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.”

WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY –“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”

WILLIAM GARTNER –“What separates the entrepreneur from others is that entrepreneurs act on what they see.”

WILLIAM GLADSTONE –“Duty is a power that arises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us in the night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will.”

WILLIAM GLADSTONE- “Justice delayed is justice denied.”

WILLIAM HAVARD- “Our country welfare is our first concern, and who promotes that best, best proves his duty.”

WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.”

WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”

WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”

WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

WILLIAM HAZLITT –“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.”

WILLIAM HAZLITT –“There is heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING – “Error is the discipline through which we advance.”

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING –“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.”

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING –“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.”

WILLIAM HOCKING –“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”

WILLIAM HOMADY –“What I am inside determines the issue in the battle of life.”

WILLIAM J. BENNETT:- “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“Believe life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“If you care enough for the result, you will almost always attain it.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“Then you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”

WILLIAM JAMES –“This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.”

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN –“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.”

WILLIAM JONES –“Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.”

WILLIAM L GARRISON –“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”

WILLIAM L. SHIRER –“Most true happiness comes from one’s inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.”

WILLIAM LANDBURG –“Modern portfolio theory allows for the fact that financial markets are by their nature unpredictable. An infinite array of events that are, impossible to foresee or control affect returns — currency meltdowns, earthquakes, terrorist attacks and 100-year storms (which have a way of occurring every five years!). Logic and rational thinking rarely factor into the mix. As was seen in the dot corn era, a company’s underlying strength, reflected by such variables as profitability, earning prospects and market share, may have far less effect on share price than mindless exuberance. How else can we account for the swings and gyrations in the stock market in recent years?”

WILLIAM LANGLAND –“We should be low and love like and lean each man to the other And patient as pilgrims, for pilgrims are we all.”

WILLIAM LANGLAND –“We should be low and love like and lean each man to the other And patient as pilgrims, for pilgrims are we all.”

WILLIAM LAW –“A life devoted to the interests and enjoyments of this world, spent and wasted in the slavery of earthly desires, may be truly called a dream, as having all the shortness, vanity, and delusion of a dream; only with this great difference, that when a dream is over nothing is lost but fictions and fancies; but when the dream of life is ended only by death, all that eternity is lost, for which we were brought into being.”

WILLIAM LAW –“All other sacrifices that we make whether of worldly goods, honours, or pleasures, are but small matters compared to that sacrifice and destruction of all selfishness, as well spiritual as natural, that must be made before our regeneration hath its perfect work.”

WILLIAM LAW –“For Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies.”

WILLIAM LAW –“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God; hate nothing but the evil that stirs in your own heart.”

WILLIAM LONDON –“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”

WILLIAM M THACKERAY –“Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.”

WILLIAM Mc FEE –“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.”

WILLIAM MCDONOUGH –“Don’t get me wrong: love nuclear energy! It’s just that i prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there’s an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it’s wireless!”

WILLIAM MCGONAGALL –“Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean, Your stately mansions, and beautiful Green! Likewise your beautiful bridges across the river Clyde, And on your bonnie banks I would like to reside.”

WILLIAM MOMS –“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them to an art.”

WILLIAM MORRIS –“Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them.”

WILLIAM MOTHERWELL –“Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power to wander as it liketh them, by wizard oak and fairy stream.”

WILLIAM ODOUGLAS –“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.”

WILLIAM PENN –“Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of our sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.”

WILLIAM PENN –“He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at least.”

WILLIAM PENN –“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; r no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

WILLIAM PHELPS –“We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure — the eternal present, for it is always now.”

WILLIAM PITT –“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants.”

WILLIAM PURKEY –“Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like no one is listening and live like it’s heaven on earth.

WILLIAM R INGE –“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

WILLIAM RANDOLPH –“A politician will do anything to his job –even become a patriot.”

William S. Burroughs- “Be just, and if can’t be just, be arbitrary.”

WILLIAM S. GILBERT- “And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends up on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”

WILLIAM SAFIRE –“Never assume the obvious is true.”

WILLIAM SAROYAN –“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”

WILLIAM SAROYAN –“No man’s guilt is not yours, nor is any man’s innocence a thing apart.”

WILLIAM SEWELL –“We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – “We are such stuff as dreams are made of; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy The appetites .they feed.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Alas! How should you govern any kingdom, That know not how to use ambassadors.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Fear no more the heat of the sun, Not the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hath done, Home art gone, and taken thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Have more than thou showest, / Speak less than thou knowest, /Lend less than thou owest, / Ride more than thou goest, / Learn more than thou trowest, / Set less than thou throwest; / Leave thy drink and thy whore, / And keep in-a-door, / And thou shalt have more / Than two tens to a score.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons’ difference, as the icy fang And churiish chiding of the winter’s wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body. Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, “This is no flattery”.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“How poor are they that have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“If she be made of white and red,/ Her faults will ne’er be known,/ For blushing cheeks by faults are bred/ And fears by pale white shown:/ Then if she fear or be to blame,/ By this you shall not know,/ For still her cheeks possess the same/ Which native she doth owe.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Love all, trust a few: Do wrong to none.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE -“Love asks me no questions. And gives me endless support.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment. A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Poor and content is rich and rich enough.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Some rise by sin, some by virtue fall.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“When icicles hang by the wall,/ And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,/ And Tom bears logs into the hall,/ And milk comes frozen home in pail,/When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul,/ Then nightly sings the staring owl,/ Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note,While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.”

WILLIAM SHEDD –“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM –“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”

WILLIAM STYRON –“A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”

WILLIAM THOMAS- “No statement can be profound once it has been repeated by others.”

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY- “Blindness we may forgive but baseness we will smite.”

WILLIAM WARD –“The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain—he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem — he is challenged by it.”

WILLIAM WORDSWORHT –“Wisdom is often near when we stop than when we soar.”

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.”

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“I made no vows, but vows/ Were then made for me; bond unknown to me/ Was given, that i should be, else sinning greatly/ A dedicated spirit.”

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; little we see in Nature that is ours; we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not — Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; so might I, standing on this pleasant lea, have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“Wisdom is often nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”

WILLIAN ERNEST HOCKING –“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”

WILLIS HARMAN –“By deliberately changing’ the internal image of reality people can change the world.”

WILLIS PLATER –“A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment.”

WILLIS WHITNEY –“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”

WILLS DURANT –“India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of Our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity.. of self-government and democracy In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.”

WILLS DURANT –“It is the function of the youth to defend liberty and innovation; of the old to defend order and tradition, and of middle age to find a middle way.”

WILMA ASKINAS –“A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.”

WILMA RUDOLPH –“No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.”

WILMA RUDOLPH –“No one goes alone to the heights of excellence. Whether your business is building a loving family, a great idea, a meaningful career, a work of art, or a vast commercial empire, your success will depend on others, and theirs will depend on you.”

WILMA RUDOLPH –“When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God: Why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn’t just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.”

WILT ROGERS –“It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”

WIN PE –“Monk-poet Shin Maha Thilawuntha wrote poems on the thoughts in the Dhamma like the deep tone of a palace drum heard in the far end of the realm. Shin Maharathathara wrote of the nature of kingship and of matters secular in poems like an ensemble for an anyein or like the warble of a karaweik. I marvel at their use of language and a vocabulary both precise and rich. From which deep intellect did they draw it. By which attrition are we losing it. I feel sad for our collective forgetfulness.”

WINNIE THE POOH –“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart I’ll stay there forever.”

WINNIE THE POOH –“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL – “There are a lot of lies going around … and half of them are true.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL – “There are a lot of lies going around … and half of them with out socialism is slavery and brutality.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Democracy is the worst form of government Except for all the others that have been tried.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether He is prepared for the ordeal is another matter.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“I do not resent criticism even if for the sake of emphasis it parts for the time with reality.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“If you are going through hell keep going.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL -“If you have an important point to make don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack”.

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again, Then hit it a third time, a tremendous whack.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“In war, you can only be killed once, but in polities, many times.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures…”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“One voyage to India is enough; the others are merely repletion.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“The empires of the future are empire of the mind.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young grow wild oats, the old grow sage.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Without measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.”

WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

WINWOOD READE –“And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the air is Saharas that separate, planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land that will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters of the universe.”

WITHROP ALDRICH –“The price of power is responsibility for the public good.”

WM LEWIS –“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

WOLF BLITZER –“You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air.”

WOLFDYKE B KING –“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

WOODROW T WILSON –“All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.”

WOODROW T WILSON –“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.”

WOODROW WILSON- “It is not an army that we must train for war, it is a nation.”

WOODROW WILSON- “There must be, not a balance of power, but community of power, not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”

WOODROW WILSON –“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”

WOODY ALLEN – “How it is possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size.”

WOODY ALLEN – “Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.”

WOODY ALLEN –“Don’t let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.”

WOODY ALLEN- “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”

WOODY ALLEN –“Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”

WOODY ALLEN –“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

WOODY ALLEN –“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.”

WOODY ALLEN –“If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything.”

WOODY ALLEN –“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”

WOODY ALLEN –“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”

WOODY ALLEN –“I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

WOODY ALLEN –“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”

WOODY ALLEN –“No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.”

WOODY ALLEN –“People who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”

WOODY ALLEN –“Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experience go, it’s one of the best.”

WOODY ALLEN –“The heart wants what it wants. There is no logic to those things.”

WOODY ALLEN –“The heart wants what it wants…. There’s no logic to those things.”

WOODY ALLEN –“To you I’m atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.”

WOODY ALLEN –“You see me as an atheist. God see me as the loyal opposition.”

WORLD BANK –“If you are not reforming, another country will overtake you.”

WORLD BANK –“Reform is like repairing a car with the engine running— there is no time to strategise.”

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, 1948 –“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

WORLD SCRIPTURE –“In a family, parents are responsible for the welfare of children and offer children an embracing, unconditional love.”

WRITINGS OF BAHA WTAH –“No man shall attain the shores of the ocean of true understanding except he be detached from all that is in heaven and on earth.”

WRITINGS OF BAHA’u’LLAH –“That seeker must at all times put his trust in God, must renounce the peoples of the earth, detach himself from the world of dust, and cleave unto Him Who is the Lord of Lords. If anyone revile you, or trouble touch you, in the path of God, be patient, and put your trust in Him Who heareth, who seeth. He, in truth, witnesseth, and perceiveth, and doeth what He pleaseth, through the power of His sovereignty.”

WTPURKISER –“Not what we say about our blessings, but how he uses them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

XENOCRATES –“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

XHARYA MAHAPRAJNA –“The principle of anekanta symbolizes the fact that no element is either different or same as the total. It is both separate and integrated. A person is not entirely different from this universe; yet, he is not the same. We are undeniably connected — that is why we lead both dependent and independent lives.”

XUN ZI –“A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.”

Y V REDDY –“In India our mandate encompasses both growth and stability.”

Y.B.YEATS –“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of fire.”

YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO –“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bear it in mind. When one understands this settling into single- mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.”

YAMANA ESKIMO –“Do not seek to benefit only yourself; think of other people also… If you were lucky in hunting, let others share it. Moreover, show them the favourable spots… let others, too, have their share. If you want to amass everything for yourself other people will stay way from you; no one will want to be with you. If you should fall ill one day no one will visit you because, for your part, you did not formerly concern yourself about others. Grant other people something also. The Yamana do not like a person who acts selfishly.”

YANN MARTEL –“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”

YASNA –“All these, indeed, gather unto Thee, 0 Mazda! They who have done Thy work, whose actions accord with the Truth, Whose words proceed from the Good-Mind, Whose Inspirer art Thou from the very beginning.”

YASNA –“At the last turning of life to the faithful making the right choice according to his norm doth Ahura Mazda, the Lord Judge, in His sovereign power Bestow an end better than good. But to him who shall not serve the cause of good, He giveth an end worse than bad, at the last turning of life.”

YASNA –“He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, he who Upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed, he, indeed, is thy most valued helper, 0 Ahura Mazda!”

YASNA –“I shall take the awakened soul to the exalted abode with the help of the Good-Mind, Knowing the blissful rewards of the Wise Lord for righteous deeds. As long as I have power and strength I shall teach all to seek for Truth and Right.”

YASNA –“May the true-spoken word triumph over the false-spoken word.”

YASNA –“Through Thy power, 0 Lord, Make life renovated, real at Thy will.”

YASNA –“With Truth moving my heart, With Best Thought inspiring my mind, with all the might of spiritual force within me, I venerate Thee, 0 Mazda, with songs of Thy praise. And at the last when I shall stand at Thy Gate I shall hear the echo of my prayers from Thy Abode of Songs.”

YASSER ARAFAT- “Choose your friend carefully. Your enemy will choose you.”

YASSER ARAFAT –“I extend my congratulations to the Israeli people towards the Jewish new year. I hope this holiday will be the beginning of a new era of peace and security between the two peoples — the Israelis and Palestinians and other people m the region.”

YASSER ARAFAT –“Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.”

YEHUDI MENUHIN –“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.”

YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO –“Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”

YIDDISH PROVERB –“The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.”

YIDDISH PROVERB –“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul?”

YIDDISH PROVERB –“With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.”

YITTA HALBERSTAM & JUDITH LEVENTHAL –“At times, all we have to do in life is show up, be present, and allow the magic to unfold.”

YOGA SUTRAS –“When one is established in non-injury, beings give up their mutual animosity in his presence.”

YOGI BERRA –“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”

YOGIBERRA –“You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”

YOHYA B. MU’AD AL RAZI- “Paradise is the prison of the sage, just as the world is the prison of the believers.”

YOKA DAISHI –“The Mind like a mirror is brightly illuminating and knows no obstructions, It penetrates the vast universe to its minutest crevices; All its contents, multitudinous in form, are reflected in the Mind, Which, shining like a perfect gem, has no surface, nor the inside.”

YORUBA PROVERB –“Lack of respect to the constituted authority is the source of most conflicts in the world.”

YORUBA PROVERB –“Lying does not mean that one could not be rich; Treachery does not mean you may not live to old age; But it is the day of death (judgment) about which one should be baffled.”

YORUBA PROVERB –“Offend me and I will question you — this is the medicine for friendship.”

YORUBA VERSE –“Only few people act in our interest in our absence, When we are not around. But in our presence, all display their love for us.”

YOSHIDA KENKO – “Ambition never comes to an end.”

YOSHIKO NOMURA –“The law of cause and effect without exception rules all events that take place in the phenomenal world. There is no effect without a cause and each effect becomes a new cause.”

YUL BRYNNER –“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”

YURI GAGARIN –“To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature—could one dream of anything more? When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is, Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!”

Z.A.BHUTTO- “Democracy is a flexible art. What appears impossible today is possible tomorrow.”

ZACHARY SCOTT –“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”

ZADOK RABINWITZ –“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.”

ZAFARNAMA -“God is the Master of the earth and the sky: He is the Creator of all men, all places. He it is who creates all — from the feeble ant to the powerful elephant, and is the Embellisher of the meek and Destroyer of the reckless. His name is: “Protector of the meek”, And Himself He is dependent upon no one’s support or obligation. He has no twist in Him, no doubt. And, He shows man the Way to Redemption and Release, From the Guru’s.”

ZAHARIAS –“Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.”

ZARATHUSTRA –“Courage begets strength by struggle with hardships. Courage grows from fighting danger and overcoming obstacles. Develop the courage to act according to your convictions, to speak what is true, and to do what is Right.”

ZARATHUSTRA –“Seek your happiness in the happiness of all. Regard the sorrows and sufferings of others as yours and hasten to assuage them.”

ZARATHUSTRA –“These two Primordial Principles in One, Of Light and Darkness, Good and 111, that seem Apart from one another, yet are bound Inseparably together, each to each In Thought, in Word, in Action, everywhere. Are they in operation; and the wise Walk on the side of Light, while the unwise follow the other until they grow wise? These ancient Two, in mutual wrestle-play Give birth to Twin- Desires, high and low, that shape as Hate-Mentality in some, in others as the Better Mind of Love. 0 Mighty Lord of Wisdom, Mazada! Supreme, Infinite, Universal Mind!, Ahura! thou that givest Life to all!,/ Grant me the power to control this , mind,/ This Lower Mind i of mine, this egoism, And put an end to all Duality,/And gain the reign of One as is desired/ Unconsciously by even the graceless ones,/ The evil sinners, in their heart of hearts.”

ZARATHUSTRA-“Courage begets strength by struggle with hardships. Courage grows from fighting danger and overcoming obstacles. Develop the courage to act according to your convictions, to speak what is true, and to do what is right.”

ZAUQ- “An increase in love increases the light in the world.”

ZELDA FITZGERALD- ‘I don’t want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally.”

ZELDA FITZGERALD –“I don’t want to live- I want to love first and live incidentally.”

ZEN –“Life is the only thing worth living for.”

ZEN BUDDHISM –“A University Professor went to see Nan-in, a Zen Master, to find out more about Zen. As their meeting continued Nan-in was pouring Tea and continued to pour even though the cup was overflowing. The Professor cried. “Enough! No more will go in!” Nan-in replied, “Like this cup you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

ZEN BUDDHISM –“The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile and it smiles back.”

ZEN MASTER KYONG HO –“Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life … Attain deliverance in disturbance.”

ZEN SAYING –“To know and not to do is not yet to know.”

ZEN STORY –“One day it was announced by Master Joshu that the young monk Kyogen had reached an enlightened state. Much impressed by this news, several of his peers went to speak with him. “We have heard that you are enlightened. Is this true?” they inquired. “It is”, Kyogen answered. “Tell us”, said a friend, “how do you feel?” “As miserable as ever”, replied the enlightened Kyogen.”

ZEN THOUGHT –“Before enlightenment —chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment — chop wood and carry water.”

ZHUANG ZI –“Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.”

ZIG ZIGLAR – “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them every where.”

ZIG ZIGLAR – “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

ZIG ZIGLAR –“A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”

ZIG ZIGLAR –“All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we’re doing what we have been told or asked to do.”

ZIG ZIGLAR –“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”

ZIG ZIGLAR –“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”

ZSA ZSA GABOR –“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.”

ZSA ZSA GABOR- “Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”

ZSA ZSA GABOR –“Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.”

ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.”

ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I know nothing about sex because I was always married.”

ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire.”

ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I’m an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the home.”

Mr. Ashok Sharma

Anyone know of any great novels set in France during world war two? I already read sarah’s key about the vel d’hiv which was wonderful.

Suite Francaise
Sarah’s Key
Evensong
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Can i join the us military with a german citizenship?

If you have dual US/German citizenship, you can join the US military. If you only have German citizenship, but also have a US Resident Alien Card (Green Card) you can also join the US military, but are limited to the number of years you can serve. You will also not be allowed into some job fields.

What are some books about civil war in Africa, like in the movie Blood Diamond?Very violent, realistic books.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle