I Stumbled Across This Quote Looking for An Article on Solar Power:

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I Stumbled Across This Quote Looking for An Article on Solar Power.  It's a good one. Here iy is in the color font that I found it:

Raison d'être

"This is the true joy in life:

To being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. To being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live.

I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

[cathlab3]

For the harder I work, the more I live.

 
 
YES ! Self determination....welcome to the club 13.Have you seen the light?
The harder you work the more reward,why can the government take it from you?
Becasue according to Pete Stark (d)  "they can do anything they want"

[chuck_curtis]

Good for you, George.  Just as long as you don't think it's right for you to coerce others into your personal revelation, my best wishes to you (May God bless your dead socialist soul).

[Byteryder]

!3, I think you have badly misinterpreted Shaws words.

[D2D]

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Okay...  interesting responses...

For the harder I work, the more I live.

YES ! Self determination....welcome to the club 13.Have you seen the light?
The harder you work the more reward,why can the government take it from you?
Becasue according to Pete Stark (d)  "they can do anything they want"

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I've known that for most of my life, cath.  Because not only did I see the people around me in my family working extremely hard when I was little, but also my Great Aunt Clara who read tea leaves had a good friend who read palms...  and she showed me that my Life Line faded slightly and then branched into my Work Line and grew doubly strong and went all the way past the heel of my hand to where the line wraps around my wrist.  She told me:  "See?  Where your work is strong, your life is strong!"

Good for you, George.  Just as long as you don't think it's right for you to coerce others into your personal revelation, my best wishes to you (May God bless your dead socialist soul).

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Well, at least we know GBS, wasn't a Communist for sure per this quote of his:  "Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool."

But checking back some of his ideas do seem a bit outre.  I just liked the particular quote I posted.
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!3, I think you have badly misinterpreted Shaws words.

Er... I didn't interpret them, I just posted the quote, byte.  But even as a supposed socialist, Shaw was very much in favor of people pulling their own weight.  Check out this article in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

And...  uhm...  thanks for your thoughts on that, cath & chuck & byte.

[chuck_curtis]

I can appreciate your interest in the quote, 13.  GBS was a very intelligent man.  Where he and I part ways is in his supposition that someone who is human is capable of judging when another human is pulling his weight as far as "society" is concerned.  A human is worthy of living for his own sake and to hell with "society".  There is nothing wrong with the human in question.  It is GBS's idea of society that is flawed.  I need never justify my existence to any man, much less to society.  If I can successfully beg the sympathy of a fellow man and survive from that, nature, as allows, is the proper judge.  Likewise if I cannot successfully do so.