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Bogartiana

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Bogartiana  ©
“I am Jimmy boy to my friends,” I said nonchalantly to the Flinty Eyes, whose eyes, gimlet like were seeking chinks in my armor, as I pulled up a chair.
“So you are an out-of- work agent, well,” he said rocking his chair gently and his ripples of fat sent waves sloshed within his well [...]

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No Holiday For Ambition

Posted in life, tagged , , , , , on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If our lives are a succession of trivial pursuits how come we still hold onto our lives as though life were the most precious gift?
Let me briefly write from the life of a king. Albert I of Belgium.
Born Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad in Brussels, he was the fifth child and second son of Prince [...]

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Election Sallies

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Theodore Roosevelt
At the G.O.P’s rally Presidential candidate Roosevelt was addressing the crowd when a drunk stood up and yelled,”I’m a Democrat.”
Rosevelt asked him calmly why.”Because my grandfather was a Democrat and my father was a Democrat”.
“Let me ask you this, sir,” Teddy Roosevelt asked,”If your grandfather had been a jackass and your father had been [...]

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