Under the Catalpa: A List Of Things That Very Likely Should Cease To Exist

Saturday, October 17, 2009

A List Of Things That Very Likely Should Cease To Exist

I have often thought that the city of Los Angeles (although it is arguably more a pit than a city) is really quite worthless after all is said and done. But recent events have started me thinking that there are many other things that the world would most probably be significantly better without. So I have begun compiling a personal list of Things That Very Likely Should Cease To Exist. The list is very much a work in progress. Please feel free to add your own.

A List Of Things That Very Likely Should Cease To Exist:

Los Angeles, the city

Obama as president

The Nobel Peace Prize

mean people

in-car video players

pants with stuff written on the butt

litter

anything besides the military that the federal government feels the compulsion to spend money on

veal

"presidents" who are actually dictators

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MeganOctober 22, 2009 at 12:23 AM
I agree with 7 out of your 10 items so I would say that is pretty good. :) I would also like to add 1. swine flu 2. Free Credit Report.com commercials that come on and stay in my head for hours and 3. Cake Batter ice cream (only because I lose all self control when I am around it and become a fatty mcbutterpants.)
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JessicaFebruary 17, 2010 at 10:35 PM
-mosquitos
-movies that have attempted to copy fabulous books and failed miserably
-brussel sprouts
-high heel shoes (which I always try to wear in an attempt to look cute/sexy and end up walking barefoot)

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JessicaFebruary 18, 2010 at 2:44 PM
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot
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Books I love...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickins
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
East of Eden by Steinbeck
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Words I love...

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -Goethe
"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened." -Thomas Jefferson
"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." -Abraham Lincoln
"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws." -Tacitus
"Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies." -St. Augustine
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Ghandi
"Be careful how you interpret the world. It's like that." -Erich Heller
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." -H.L. Mencken
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." -Ronald Reagan
"An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it." --Jef Mallett
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." -Ernest Benn
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -Dorothy Parker
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are insitituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." - The Declaration of Independence
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." -Bernie Siegel
"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." -Garrison Keillor
"We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one." -John Updike
"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot
"If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. -Andrea Boydston
"The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try." -Shakespeare
"God grant that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'" -Benjamin Franklin
"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours." -Swedish Proverb
"The great secret of succes is to go through life as a man who never gets used up." -Albert Schweitzer
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -Scottish Proverb
"Hate is baggage." -from American History X
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
"We dance around in a ring and suppose, But the secret sits in the middle and knows." -Robert Frost
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it." -Maxwell Anderson
"Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent." -Justinian I
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." -Tom Stoppard
"If the signt of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." -Eleonora Duse
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness." -Kahlil Gibran
"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them don't exist except in our imaginations." -Steve Allen
"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once." -Frank A. Clark
"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times." -St. Augustine
"People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loopholes." -William Rotsler
"Nearly all people can stand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Lincoln
"If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have." -Gerald Ford
"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it." -Don Marquis
"Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there."
"If one is a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance." -John Andrew Holmes
"What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might." -Cicero
"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow." -William McFee
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?" -Emerson
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." -Deepak Chopra
"God has entrusted me with myself." -Epictetus
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." -Charles Dickens
"a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful." -Yann Martel from Life of Pi
"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic."
"Be kind. Everyone is fighting a hard battle."
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." -Chinese proverb
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -Thoreau
"He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their alters and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland." -Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -Robert Frost
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." -Irish proverb
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -Nietzche
"Speak softly, people will listen. Take your time, the world will wait." - Starbuck's wall
"Perseverence keeps honor bright: to have done is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery." -Shakespeare
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Einstein
"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting fron an explosion in a printshop." -Einstein
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace." -Victor Hugo
"Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'" -Virgil
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it." -Charles Buxton
"though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing." -E.E. Cummings
"It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it." -Steinbeck
"Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them." -Cormac McCarthy from The Road
"Somewhere, all stories are real, all songs are true." -Terry Pratchett
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman" -Willa Cather
"How wondrous familiar is a fool." -Herman Melville from Moby Dick
"Make not impossible That which but seems unlike." -Shakespeare