Rick

People, the World, the Universe, and what makes them tick. And everything else.
This is Bruce Springsteen and his band singing 'If I Should Fall Behind'

This is John Lennon singing the Ben E. King song 'Stand by Me'

This is the Pogues singing 'Dirty Old Town' Shane MacGowan is the singer.

This is the Pogues with Kirsty MacColl singing 'Fairytale of New York'

This is 4 guys from Finland singing the Leonard Cohen song 'Hallelujah'

This is Tori Amos singing the Tom Waits song 'Time'

This is Tom Waits singing 'I Don't Wanna Grow Up'

This is Tom Waits singing 'Tom Traubert's Blues'

This is Bob singing 'With God on our Side'

.....'America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.'
Abraham Lincoln .....

'To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men'
Abraham Lincoln

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'It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets'
Voltaire.....

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...The only thing necessary for tranquility in the world is that every child grows up happy.
~Dan George........
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.....We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves... The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.
~N. Scott Momaday..........
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.....Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
~Jim Beggs..........
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...Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the titanic.
~Dave Berry..........

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.....Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
~James Allen..........

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.....We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
~John W. Gardner..........
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.....When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
~Leo Burnett..........

.....We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
~Roderick Thorpe..........
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.....A crowd of troubles passed him by As he with courage waited; He said, "Where do you troubles fly When you are thus belated?" "We go," they say, "to those who mope, Who look on life dejected, Who meekly say 'good bye' to hope, We go where we're expected."
~Francis J. Allison.....