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Source: Physalis

Where force rules, justice does not exist.

• 1. A bear that dances in your neighbor’s house might soon dance in yours.
• 2. A good friend is recognized in times of trouble.
• 3. Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
• 4. Feed a dog to bark at you.
• 5. If my neighbor is happy, my own work will go easier, too.
• 6. The brain is not in the pocket, but in the head.
• 7. Think twice, say once.
• 8. What one fool can ensnare, not a 1000 sages can fix.
• 9. Where force rules, justice does not exist.

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The Pope is an immigrant to the EU
Everybody who lives in the Vatican city  is an immigrant…100%
If they can do it,why not us.
We want more like

The surgeon who operated on my face and made me look as good as before .. so people say.He is Greek

My GP is Indian and is a Hindhu.

My newsagent is from India possibly via Africa

My new dentist is a child of immigrants, I believe from India.

My neighbours are from Tottenham so they are foreign too!
Most of my close friends  are Irish  or partly Irish like me.We like telling stories and talking.And singing.Eeeeeeh,I am a foreigner now!Send half  of me back to Denmark and half to the Irish Republic and I will be happy in heaven.But which half is Irish?
I think it’s the lower half. and the top half is Danish.No wonder I am so talented or would be if my brain was not from Lapland.

I am one of God’s frozen people.I made that up myself!

And is it wrong to grieve when a cardboard box
Became for a moment,you?
As if my eye sees my need’s joy
Then,alas,the truth.
Is it wrong to grieve,when the birds are nesting
And I have no young?
When people say,we thought you didn’t want any
And,what you’ve never had you never miss~
As if.
Is it wrong to show a sad face or to weep
When the cow bellows for its calf
And the cat is distracted by loss of a kitten.
And is it wrong to be alive without
The one who knows you?
Is it wrong  to grieve when nobody speaks
And others say,I didn’t know  what to say.
When it’s the saying, not the what ,that matters.
The sound of a voice
A word,laughter,a phrase.
Some people say you never get over it
Is it a stile or a mountain?
A heap of rocks or bricks?
Shall I undress and go naked into the mouth of the cave
For clothes hinder movement
And in heaven we’ll have none.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/29/dannie-abse

Splendidly, Shakespeare’s heroes,
Shakespeare’s heroines, once the spotlight’s on,
enact every night, with such grace, their verbose deaths.
Then great plush curtains, then smiling resurrection
to applause – and never their good looks gone.

The last recorded words too
of real kings, real queens, all the famous dead,
are but pithy pretences, quotable fictions
composed by anonymous men decades later,
never with ready notebooks at the bed.

Most do not know who they are
when they die or where they are, country or town,
nor which hand on their brow. Some clapped-out actor may
imagine distant clapping, bow, but no real queen
will sigh, ‘Give me my robe, put on my crown.’

Death scenes not life-enhancing,
death scenes not beautiful nor with breeding;
yet bravo Sydney Carton, bravo Duc de Chavost
who, euphoric beside the guillotine, turned down
the corner of the page he was reading.

And how would I wish to go?
Not as in opera – that would offend –
nor like a blue-eyed cowboy shot and short of words,
but finger-tapping still our private morse,’…love you,’
before the last flowers and flies descend.

One cannot please everybody and one would rather knit
Two cannot  please themselves when one would rather not.
The don thinks everybody  reads poetry like himself.
The box winks at everybody who reads in front of it.
Proof is the club that knocks down and kills every body’s mind
Logic is the good that  tramples over and kills our hearts and their reason
When the fee is down, everybody runs to the doctor’s
When the tea goes down ,everyone runs to the privy
Smiling and winking holds body and soul together.
Beguiling and singing moulds body to body
Everybody knows best where his own  truth pitches.
Every body shows best where her own truth leads
Everybody knows good counsel except him who has  died of it.
Everybody bellows, good housefull except those who are  tired to death of it
Everybody  must have one chair or we will  have to play musical floor.
Every body must hug one bear or we will pay  the circus evermore

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 All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

(As You Like It by William Shakespeare

 

 

http://literarydevices.net/rhetorical-question/

This is a really good website for those who want to know more

Following my previous post I realised that it implies we all see the world differently and unless we are very open to talk with other people we cannot know how they see it except by analysing their behaviour,perhaps
So if people kill others who seem harmless to us clearly their world view is different.
It is possible and it has happened that some political leaders managed to persuade their countrymen and women that some other human beings were not really human and so could be killed.
I believe the Nazis did this vis- a-vis the Jews describing them as rats or cockroaches.And denying lavatories to people in Concentration Camps so  they soiled themselves made it  easier for the guards to kill them as their dirtiness reduced their status and made them seem less human.It’s not logical because anyone would soil themselves in such conditions but when has reason ever been used much in politics or ordinary life?
That is a rhetorical question.

 

My  older brother kindly sent me some interesting maps etc

 

Top 10 Countries With The Largest Immigrant Populations

 

Top 10 countries by relative share of the population made up of immigrants

1. Vatican City – 100% (800; <0.1% of world total)
2. United Arab Emirates (UAE) – 83.7% (7.8 million; 3.4% of world total)
3. Qatar – 73.8% (1.6 million; 0.7% of world total)
4. Kuwait – 70% (2.9 million; 1.3% of world total)
5. Monaco – 64.2% (21,000; <0.1% of world total)
6. Sint Maarten – 59.7% (27,000; <0.1% of world total)
7. Andorra – 56.9% (42,000; <0.1% of world total)
8. Bahrain – 54.7% (729,000; 0.3% of world total)
9. Brunei – 49.3% (206,000; 0.1% of world total)
10. Luxembourg – 43.3% (249,000; 0.1% of world total)

Quotation by H. A. Hodges

• 1. Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

 

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1. If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

2. Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

3. A little body doth often harbour a great soul.

4. A man need never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door.

5. Easier to bend the body than the will.

6. The mind is the emperor of the body.

7. If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.

8. Everybody is wise after the thing has happened.

9. Everybody must live.

10. He had need rise early who would please everybody.

 

I looked in the dictionary thrice
To find out what is a conundrum
Then I used all  my computer mice
To turn my  hand into a fulcrum.

Language as leverage’s useful
To persuade a consumer to borrow
Say what you like, if you’re truthful.
We all may be dead by tomorrow.

It’s a crisis but not a conundrum
We all have to vote right on  Thor’s day
For we have a  troubled referendum.
Democracy’s folly  in wordplay

 
Well,give me  some brandy,if handy.
I’m ancient and foreign and cheerless
No-one can live well on candy
I’m weeping inside but I’m tearless

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Pronunciation: /kəˈnʌndrəm/

Origin

Late 16th century: of unknown origin, but first recorded in a work by Thomas Nashe, as a term of abuse for a crank or pedant, later coming to denote a whim or fancy, also a pun. Current senses date from the late 17th century.

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