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| All marriages are... |
Jul 15, 2008 2:01 am
85 Views | "All marriages are...mixed marriages."
Chantal Saperstein, Professor, Academy of Arts University (AAU), San Francisco, USA
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist, 1919-1983
"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together."
Robert C. Dodds, New York Cleric and Counselor,, 1910-1989 | |
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| Why do some people think... |
Jul 5, 2008 9:36 pm
202 Views | ...that you are entitled to have friends.
There is no law, no rule and no sacred human code the deems every person should have friends.
Is there some set of rules that decides who lives and who dies? Not even Christians believe in that.
So crying when you (think) you lost some or don't have some is just a waste of time really...
...because they were never your to begin with...
Friends are only ever a priviledge.
It can sometimes take weeks, months or years to find out that someone was never really a friend to you.
So what?
This happens all the time to everyone and it is partly what make the ones you do have worth that much more.
Case closed^^ | |
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| KFF "Friend" function |
Jun 15, 2008 12:47 am
484 Views | Why do some people think that being in someone's network means that you are friends?
Of course you could be friends, but it is more likely that you are aquaintances because you will often only know them on the Internet.
Some people interact alot with those people on their friends list.
Other people just have it ias a group of contacts of people that they wanna keep contact with...
I know that KFF and other programmes like Facebook call them friends but I an many other people have "friends" on those websites that are simply classmates, or aquiantances rather than what would be considered friends in the real world.
Rant over. | |
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| My favourite Quotes^^ |
Jun 10, 2008 12:46 am
Mood: thoughtful, 440 Views |  | "Thinking is the hardest work there is - that is why so few engage in it" Henry Ford (American Industrialist)
‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’ George Bernard Shaw, UK playwright (1856-1950)
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." (Dom Helda Camara, 1970)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 194
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." (Plato, 347 B.C.)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." (Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910)
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." (Chief Seattle, "Cree" North American Indian Tribe)
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902)
"To repeat what others have said requires education; to challenge it requires brains." (Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 193
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." (H.L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956))
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." (James Russell Lowell,American - poet, critic, essayist, editor and diplomat; 1819-1891)
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964. US psychologist (1904 - 1990)
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Lenin, Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924)
"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."
Henry Stimson, US politician (1867 - 1950)
"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself." (Chinese Proverb)
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli, British politician (1804 - 1881)
"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science." Louis Pasteur, French biologist & bacteriologist (1822 - 1895)
"The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself." Noam Chomsky, US activist & linguist (1928 - )
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."(Louis Dembitz Brandeis) |
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| Locked "Friends only" Blogs |
Apr 29, 2008 3:38 am
954 Views | I am not judging (or maybe I am) but it seems that the people who have blocked their blogs are into "Internet Arguments"
Am I right? | |
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| Elder Brother Responsibility |
Apr 18, 2008 8:23 am
831 Views | I am giving a speech at my Korean School tomorrow on the difference between eldest brother responsibility in Korea and New Zealand and in particular on how eldest brother responsibility is changing these days in Korea.
I will say that in Korea the duty to care for the parents and limited auithority over the younger siblings is being diffused as daughters and younger sons take on more of the financial burden of supporting their parents.
In my culture it has always been a joint responsibility of all the children and the eldest brother never had any special status because of this. it seems that slowly Korea is going this way too.
Am I right? If so why is this happeneing? Economic reasons? The influence of Western culture? | |
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