Dec 23 2012 Fb status: favorite quotes

I added my first Favorite Quotes (I am going to record these in the Timeline when I change them, both to keep them and in case they engender comments).

From recent reading (Dec 2012):

"There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands."
-- Wendell Berry, "Waste," 1989

"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns."
-- Edward Abbey, "The Right to Arms"

(added commentary: Yes, modern weapons are damn freaky. But Abbey's old epigram is also true. We must face and keep firmly in mind both negative truths, as we move forward looking for long term, positive solutions.)
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