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Just one more thing . . . I have these quotes on my wall and they always provide great inspiration for me. I got them in Pheonix, AZ around 1991 and the words seem so familiar - probably because I understand them. I suspect most - if not all of you - will understand also. (And to be politically correct you must realize that the word "men" or "man" refers to all of us - not one gender!!) Enjoy. ---------- Jay
Some men are acutely sensitive to their environment, their inheritance from the past and the future of mankind. Their maturity comes from having lived life in its fullest sense; they stand as individuals. These men possess a tremendous need to share their findings and express their subsequent emotions. They do so by externalizing their sum total in very personal symbolic terms. These men are called artists. They are the men who will lead mankind to peace, for their sensitivity places them closer to the lifestream from which oneness will evolve.
A true artist isn’t necessarily the painter, the poet, the sculptor, the musician, etc. He may be a man quietly wending his way through life – only he is set apart from the mass of humanity by his insight into the nature of things. And his search for “reasons why” has brought him higher on the human scale of things
------------------ Jay Allen
"The object of the superior man is truth." -Confucius
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good stuff Jay! I always knew you were deep, I may have to use this stuff so people will think I know what I'm talking about. Hang in there Buddy!
Dan
------------------ Success comes in CANS - Failure comes in Can'ts
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Good post Jay.....I also have posters on my wall which inspire me....."Grain Belt...Have a Premo Night!" or this one......"Hamm's Brewed from sky blue waters"......I also have 3 Budweiser girls in Bikini's on a beach saying "This Bud's for you!"
"He who Fart in Church, sit in own Phew!" Confusius
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--------------------------------- Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winched nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
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Jay, Observations historically show that the ohilosophers hung out and partied with the artists who's function seemed to be taking the ideas and converting them into images that would be accepted by the sector of the masses that would change a society. Some of the arts baffle me with their statements. Remember a few years back when folks were getting those pants that meke them look flat? I wondered what the fashion designers were prepping us for? Art and philosophy define beauty (or the lack of it) to the masses.
------------------ The SignShop Mendocino, California "Where the Redwoods meet the Surf"
Oh, for the faith of a spider! He begins his web without any thread.
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"Choose your life's mate carefully...from this one decision will come 90% of all your happiness....or misery"
------------------ Jackson Smart Jackson's Signs Port Angeles, WA ...."The Straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and Olympic National Park in my backyard...
"Living on Earth is expensive...but it does include a free trip around the Sun"
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