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Country Joe and The Fish.................................An Untitled Protest

 

Opening paragraphs........................

     None of it would have come to pass - not the desperate quest for the traitor, not the strained alliances nor the needless deaths - were it not for poor Heathcliff.  He was their tragic figure, their broken promise.  In the end, he would prove to be yet another feather in Gabriel's cap.  That said, Gabriel would have preferred that Heathcliff were still on his side of the ledger.  Assets like Heathcliff do not come along every day, sometimes only once in a career, rarely twice.  Such was the nature of espionage, Gabriel would lament.  Such was life itself.

-Daniel Silva,  the Other Woman

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The Byrds....................................................Wasn't Born To Follow

 

Out-of-step, culturally..................

Here is a list of the 100 Best TV Episodes  since the year 2000.   Reasonable people can can disagree about many things, especially lists.   Out of the 100 TV shows listed, I have only watched four.  Of those four, I did happen to see these two "best episodes."  Maybe I should watch more TV.   Likely not.





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Jefferson Airplane..............................................................Lather

Fun with the language..................

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Pink Floyd...............................................Let There Be More Light

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Strawberry Alarm Clock...............................Shallow Impressions

 

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Them.......................................................She Put A Hex On You

 

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The Lemon Pipers.................................I Was Not Born To Follow

 

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At the movies...Robert Mitchum & Dean Martin in Five Card Stud

 

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Grass Roots.......................................Who Will You Be Tomorrow

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It's A Beautiful Day........................................................White Bird

 

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Quicksilver Messenger Service.................................Pride of Man

 

Don't await......................

We want things to go perfectly, so we tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right, or once we have our bearings.  When really, it'd be better to focus on making do with how things actually are.

-Ryan Holiday, as culled from today's entry

By all means........................

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The Moody Blues............................................Tuesday Afternoon

...it certainly has been an elusive goal...

In almost all philosophy doubt has been the goad and certainty has been the goal.  There has been doubt about the senses, doubt about science, and doubt about theology.  In some philosophers one of these has been more prominent, in others another.  Philosophers have also differed widely as to the answers they have suggested to these doubts and even as to whether any answers are possible.

-Bertand Russell, as excerpted from here

Main instruments...............

"More thorough and scientific medicines employed, even equally free of charge, by doctors of the first reputation, would not have brought nearly so many poor people together and, above all, would not have done them so much good.   There would have been lacking the main instruments of healing - prevention, respect, faith, and gratitude.  Man is composed of a soul and a body and it is the that governs the later.  The wounded who have received consolation, the sick who have been persuaded to hope are already in a state to be cured;  their blood circulates better, their nerves are strengthened, sleep returns, and the body revives,  Nothing is more efficacious than confidence; ..."

-Duff Cooper,  Talleyrand

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Vanilla Fudge...................................Take Me For A Little While