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Month: July 2015

The Terrible Trio – Cash, Kristofferson and Nelson

July 16, 2015 ebrightwing Leave a comment

I started listening to country music early.  Both my grandparents and my parents listened, but my dad liked the newer…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: audible, autobiography, biography, johnny cash, june carter, kris kristofferson, legends, movies, music, outlaws, poetry, willie nelson

Think for Yourself!

July 13, 2015 ebrightwing Leave a comment

I've seen a string of movies related to individuals combatting impersonal and even inimical institutions and customs. Woman in Gold…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: authority, catholic, chaos, church, custom, hitler, institution, movies, politics, power, religion, thinking

A Woman in Gold (2015) and the American Holocaust

July 10, 2015 ebrightwing Leave a comment

I watched A Woman in Gold (2015), the story of Maria Altman and her court case against the Austrian government…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: art, austraila, austria, canada, compensation, holocaust, jew, justice, marie altman, movie, native american, nazi, painting, united states, woman in gold, women

Wild Words from Wild Women Quotes

July 9, 2015 ebrightwing Leave a comment

"Why do men like intelligent women?  Because opposites attract." – Kathy Letta, prose producer "I was forty before I learned…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: age, dating, freedom, men, mind, relationships, security, women
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“There’s no proof of anything,”  – President Donald Trump (2018)

“Hope requires action.” – President Barack Obama (2018)      <You choose!>

“If it’s really true that no one’s listening, why are they all so intent on making us shut up?” – Clementine Ford, Feminist

“You have to act as it were possible to radically transform the world.  And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis, Political Activist and Author

Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS!’
(https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/17/us/florida-student-emma-gonzalez-speech/index.html)

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” – Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panther

“We have a faith that says life is not to be worshipped.  It’s the quality of life that counts.” – Francie Emerick, Oregon Death with Dignity Exerciser

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Naive as it may sound, inoculating society against the antisocial requires, at bottom, persuading people of what is palpably true:  that society has value and everyone should contribute.” – Bruce Cannon Gibney, Author

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