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    "..the fact that my parents' early faith in me was so strong has seen me
     through the bumpiest of times. To the heart that believes it is worthy,
     courage will finally come. And I realize that the magnitude of that
     gift is almost impossible to measure. It has made ALL the difference."
    
    				-- A Martinez

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         A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
                                    
                               Adlai Stevenson
    

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.  There are 
two other possibilities: one is paperwork and the other is nostalgia.

	Frank Zappa

    Re: .84
    
    ...this is a humiliating moment for me....
    

>    ...this is a humiliating moment for me....
     
    And here I thought I'd learned something really new about Adlai...
    

    
    humm.....

Re Mr. Stevenson -

I always thought of him as a man deeply in touch with his female side.  (if 
not always with the hole in the sole of his shoe...;-)   )

One of my all-time heroes,

D.

    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
    persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore, all
    progress depends on the unreasonable man."

                                        -- George Bernard Shaw

   

    
    	"Even if you are on the right track, you're going to get run 
         over if you just sit there."
    
    				--Arthur Godfrey (via AKmedia)

    
    
    "Long ago I learned that the act of playing guitar for people was a
     perfect activity. I played at parties and campfires and on the
     streetcorners and in thousands of bars. When you play music for people
     and find a connection, the experience needs no other elements. (Money,
     fame and power are not needs.) You might be just crooning in the
     moonlight, or leading your family in Christmas carols, but when it's
     done the old way, it simply cannot be improved upon. Recordings,
     managers, agents, sound engineers-- all that stuff just gets in-between
     the performer and the listener, and it can only interfere, which
     explains why I perform and record the way I do. I do not think it
     improves the spirituality of music performance to move it to a more
     glamorous setting. I am haunted lately by reading about the minstrels
     of old who actually would play for armies on both sides during a war.
     Those soldiers were camped in the woods and had no music, and were so
     grateful for music that they would allow the minstrels passage through
     war zones. Hmm."
    
                               -- Harvey Reid 

    
    <--- Play for both sides!  Wow! 
    
    

"How would the Americans feel if someone tried to sell the Liberty Bell to 
another country?"

--Kunani Nihipali, director of the Group Caring for the Ancestors of Hawaii
(quoted in an article in last Sunday's Boston Globe about conflict between
Hawaii and the city of Providence, RI over returning a sacred Hawaiian spear 
rest currently in the Museum of Natural History in Providence; it was scheduled 
for auction.) 

    
    "The first act of fascism is always to attack culture. There comes a
    time when you have ... to call a fascist act a fascist act." 
    
    -- French filmmaker BERNARD TAVERNIER, protesting the firing of a
    left-wing theater director and the closing of a cultural center by the
    right-wing mayor of Toulon. 

"The people who have been invaded are never fully colonized until they accept 
the colonizer's idea about who and what they are."

    "now the shoe, or the biker's boot, is on the other foot, and I've been
    identified in the minds of millions of people as another one of those
    metal scourges and scumbags, and I am being judged in the same way that
    I judged.  And I deserve it."
    
    Pat Boone commenting on the reaction of his metal lite album, "no More
    Mr Nice Guy"  

    
    Wow - Pat Boone's stock just went up in my book.
    

    so did Cal Thomas's.  
    
    He wrote one heck of an article on this.  First (and most likely last)
    time I agreed with any column written by thomas.
    
    

...who sang "April Love", right?  Are you telling me that he has a metal
album?

Wow.

    >Are you telling me that he has a metal album?                            

    Is that better than vinyl?

    Jamie.

>...who sang "April Love", right?  Are you telling me that he has a metal
>album?
    
     Same guy. He's got a "metal" album in that he does covers of metal
    tunes in a Boone-ized fashion.

    I imagine it's sort of like "Slim Whitman does Led Zep"...
    
    
    Actually, I'm waiting for the Boxcar Willie version of Tosca...

    Zamfir covers of Grand Funk or
    Sinatra doing Ted Nugent

"During the past 50 years, corporations have been permitted to release more
and more industrial chemicals and consumer products that damage the immune
systems of birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and mammals, including humans
....To prevent [such] damage to the immune system would require strong
action to curb the release of immunotoxic chemicals into the environment.
This would require a government that is independent of, and stronger than,
the corporations releasing the chemicals.  At present we do not have
anything close to that kind of government." 
              
(from this week's Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly)

    "I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that
    way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it." 
    
        -- Singer-basist RICK DANKO, a founding member of the Band

"The Camille Paglia take is that Julia Child is the real great feminist of
our time,..and I subscribe to that.  Julia Child is worth a carload of
Gloria Steinems, and women know it." 

(quoted in an article in the B. Globe last week about Julia Child)

today's Globe has an interesting letter in response.
    

    
      " One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good
    poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few
    reasonable words."
    
    			     Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
    

    
    	"Even if you're on the right track,
    	 you'll get run over if you just sit there."
    
    			-- Arthur Godfrey

    "For God's sake let's have a little more freakish behavior -- not
    less."
    
      -- Tennessee Williams, 1945

"We are all descendants of tribes.  But the tribes of the planet earth have
encountered a technological religious mind set that removes all spiritual
value and real value about life from the earth and puts it into theoretical
heavens or hells." 


(speaking at a memorial gathering last month for environmental activist 
Judi Bari)