My ring!

"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!"

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"It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds."

-Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State



John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things....

The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Michelle



*****************************So many sparklies.....So little time!

Congratulations on the proposal and your ring is so pretty.  I love that you were able to incorporate your dear grandmother's earrings

THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND - The Dude

"To love and be loved is like feeling the sun from both sides"

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When the axe came into the forest, the trees said the handle is one of us.
-bumper sticker

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DFW PS GTG Planner Extraordinaire :)

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"...we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute."-Francis Schaeffer

Skippy

"The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible" Rich Devos

*and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart... i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) ~e.e. cummings

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If you judge people, you have no time to love them ~Mother Teresa

Venice

Coati, G.G.