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a psychiatrist gets sent to concentration camp.
"I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom." "I was again conversing silently w my wife.. nothing could touch the strength of my love." "this body here, my body, is really a corpse already." DEAD IN FLESH under influence of world which no longer recognized value of human life /dignity, which has robbed man of his will &had made him object to be exterminated.. under influence the personal ego finally suffered a loss of values. if the man ..did not struggle against this in a last effort to save his self respect, he lost the feeling of being an individual, a being with a mind, with inner freedom &person value. he thought of himself then as only a part of an enormous mass of people; his existence descended to the level of animal life. the men were herded -sometimes to 1 place then to another; sometimes driven together then apart -like a flock of sheep without a thought or a will of their own... it was, therefore, in an attempt to save one's own skin that one literally tried to submerge into the crowd. we have come to know Man as he really is. after all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwit; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the shame Israel on his lips. -H.S. Kushner ("he who has a why 2live4 can bear almost any how." man without God is a monstrosity).
 our imagination pretendings come to life. stomach doesn't exist w/o yada yada yada. "at once," everything
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fav animal?
"in order2be able2think you have2risk being offensive."JBP
D.E.A.R. 
i am no bird; &no net ensnares me. -charlotte bronte
the good kind
"never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -in nothing, great or small, large or petty -never give in except to convictions of honor &good sense." -w. churchill. 10/28/41
the man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. m.t 
2013
i am not afraid of storms, for i am learning how to sail my ship. -louisa may alcott
nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. persistence &determination alone are omnipotent. -calvin coolidge i am not an extraordinary man, &i am quite ordinary. but God chose me for something quite extraordinary. -a. valladares receives '16 canterbury medal.
not failure, but low aim, is crime -james russell lowell
a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus -mlk jr. i don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. i cannot even spell the word. -"mad dog mattis" soft minded men always fear change -mlk jr. it is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust &sweat &blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again &again because there is no effort without error &shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best knows in the end the trump of high achievement, &who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold &timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. -theodore roosevelt 
loving comes natural to me /
building of the sf bay bridge, 1935.
2009
we are what we repeatedly do. excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -aristotle
no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -eleanor roosevelt 
i have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears &sweat. -winston churchill, 1940
i keep my ideals, because in spite of everything i still believe that people are really good at heart. -anne frank the most courageous act is still to think for yourself. aloud. -coco chanel 
89-johnstown-flood / fragile world
art is the signature of man.
a dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.-gk c. 
swaggie
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