#FuckIsrael

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Or to be more eloquently blunt:

Henry David Thoreau & Serge Nubret

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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

-- Henry David Thoreau

or as bodybuilder Serge Nubret put it:

Anaïs Nin

exempli gratia

(see side panel)

Anne Lamott

On that note, might I interest you in one of my lovely books listed on the left-hand side of the screen? Your other left hand. I certainly haven't written warmly of people who have pissed me off. Hello!

Hitting the gym pretty hard

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I've been hitting the gym pretty hard and principled these past couple of weeks in preparation for a summer of bodybuilding contests -- and, too, weight-training helps sharpen my focus outside of the gym. My restlessness has gotta be put to good use one way or another. Besides, how else would I maintain this collegiate figure?

Indeed, achieving the pump feels gooood!

Charles W Chesnutt

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Scholar Spartan

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A racist is something one hates being called 
but not necessarily hates being.

-- Scholar Spartan

It takes two to tango

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Life is too short to engage with idiots, morons, know-it-all's; and unless you work as a spy it is fruitless to deal with the anonymous blowhard. Question: Who is he/she/it who hasn't the balls to stand by his words? Answer: Persona non grata. In as much as I am mindful to not act on unfounded fears so, too, do I practice short tolerance for faceless agitators on the Web. In other words, arguing with someone you can't see is as asinine as shadow boxing in the dark.  

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

- Mark Twain

Kurt Vonnegut

I write to be healthy and wealthy

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I am a writer because I write. In doing so I am sharing the best of me - my vivid imagination - and always feel fulfilled and more productive for it.

Today is a good day to be healthy, wealthy and writing. 

-- Scholar Spartan

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Walking down a road to nowhere / every sound was relevant

- C.D. Wright

"Approximately Forever"

Travel is fatal to prejudice...and narrow-mindedness....

- Mark Twain

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

- Tennessee Williams

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- George S. Patton

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

--Coco Chanel

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There are no foreign lands. 
It is the traveler only who is foreign.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel to go

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...I do not travel to go somewhere. I travel to go.

I travel for travel's sake.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

At the end, regret only what you didn't do

Charlie Rose upon answering what is his motto

(...which is the same as expressed by Mark Twain on the front of this web log!)

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Mark Twain