Quoted in The Grove:
This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
~David S Landes
To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.
~Norman Mailer
Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
~Hubert H Humphrey
EndQuote:
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Harvested from: Wordsmith.org (A.Word.A.Day)
Curated by: Wordgrove
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Prewritten Exercise Theme: the camera
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Posted from the Grove
*Not Too Late For The Christmas
Scroll down to use, much of it in.genious
https://twitter.com/BlossomHacks
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Planet Earth’s Gift to You: Strange Mysterious Places (12:39)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahC5SWe79Uw
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*Five Crackling Hours of Fire’s Hypnosis: The Darth Vader Yule Log
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVJzibVS2YM&feature=youtu.be&utm_source
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~Rowan Atkinson: Mr Bean Christmas Special (47:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRi_Xrs73yw
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~ BBC: Christmas Curmudgeon’s The Grumpy Guide to Christmas (1:07)
To be savored the day after the magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyTYmmkbsjw
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*Thx to: Rusty’s Electric Dreams
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Winter Solstice
© Greg Thweatt, 2019
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The artist’s musical pairings
~Katzenmammer, Øystein Dolmen og Det Norske Jentekor: Den lengste natten (3:23)
Charming & disarming, a Christmas without borders
~The Drifters: White Christmas (2:48)
With Santa & his Reindeer, animated
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@Writers Platform
Prewritten Theme: the city
~BarTalk:
Enter The Center
Tempted by the glitz and the glamour of Broadway
Threatened by the harrowing Narrows of low pay
Unraveled by the bustling hustle of frayed nerves
Endless hassles for the dreamers who do serve
Building towers to the stars furthering mankind
Remembering the lost the forgotten and left-behind
Scraping gutters to salvage the lowly deplorables
The unappealing the sick and less adorables
The story of each is the study of all of us
The amorous the gory and glorious
The greedy who steal from the needy
The entirety of our race call it humanity
This totality our secret unfathomable sanity
The census of lives under the City’s rich panoply
Where excluding just one is the only profanity
AnyOne less than the whole fails at our deity
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city synopsis
break into theater
halls of music and drama
the demand is for talent
no need for diploma
the smell of success
the only accepted aroma
where the dollar decides
small change is a curse
streets claiming fame
promote long term identity
abandon roads to abodes
and second place family
boulevards for awards
ward off ruinous anonymity
when the dollar decides
then change is a curse
churches build altars
each the one true exalter
reined saddle and halter
science unable to alter
when doubt is the assaulter
then faith starts to falter
if the dollar decides
any change is a curse
high rising spires
in honor of commerce
mean praise for the coin
enhanced powers of purse
the privilege to coerce
the authority to enforce
where the dollar decides
spurring change is a curse
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5-7-5 x 6
streets paved with pot holes
stoplights herd the mavericks
compost for the arts
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city and mountain
long climb up the great fall down
views worthy the trip
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chance reach for success
toxic air and attitudes
the burg never sleeps
too little too much
endlessly entertaining
the town never sleeps
beating like a heart
day and night in the jungle
village never sleeps
ruthless in judgement
decides a win for the world
plays hard ball for keeps
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