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The Last of the Light Brigade (complete version) — by Rudyard Kipling
1 Comment Published by Captain Iso June 18th, 2009 in Other Topics, Poetry, SocietyThere were thirty million English who talked of England’s might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.
They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;
They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.
They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,
That though [...]
Isolated Quotations
0 Comments Published by Captain Iso June 30th, 2007 in Isolated Quotations, Other Topics, Society
“All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
HELP! Chess Sets Needed in Prisons
2 Comments Published by Schroeder June 26th, 2007 in Chess, Prison Chess Program, SocietyHELP! I have written to every prison in the State of Washington asking if they want any chess sets. A prison official called and said they can use forty sets. The second prison official that called said they can use forty sets. That’s the way it goes.
Forty tournament size solid plastic sets and forty vinyl [...]
The Last of the Light Brigade (penultimate verse edited out) — by Rudyard Kipling
7 Comments Published by Captain Iso June 17th, 2007 in Other Topics, Poetry, SocietyThere were thirty million English who talked of England’s might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.
They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;
They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.
They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,
That though [...]
The Charge of the Light Brigade–by Alfred Lord Tennyson
0 Comments Published by Captain Iso May 27th, 2007 in Other Topics, Poetry, SocietyThe Charge Of The Light Brigade
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Memorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854
Written 1854
Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a [...]
The Measures Taken–by Erich Fried
0 Comments Published by Captain Iso May 2nd, 2007 in Other Topics, Poetry, Society
The lazy are slaughtered
the world grows industrious
The ugly are slaughtered
the world grows beautiful
The foolish are slaughtered
the world grows wise
The sick are slaughtered
the world grows healthy
The sad are slaughtered
the world grows merry
The old are slaughtered
the world grows young
The enemies are slaughtered
the world grows friendly
The wicked are slaughtered
the world grows good
Isolated Quotations
0 Comments Published by Captain Iso February 21st, 2007 in Isolated Quotations, Other Topics, Society
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
–Blaise Pascal
Isolated Quotations
0 Comments Published by Captain Iso February 21st, 2007 in Isolated Quotations, Other Topics, Society
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
–Voltaire
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
–Napolean Bonaparte
Isolated Quotations
0 Comments Published by Captain Iso February 5th, 2007 in Isolated Quotations, Other Topics, Society
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
–Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Isolated Quotations
0 Comments Published by Captain Iso January 24th, 2007 in Isolated Quotations, Other Topics, Society
“When you are hungry, do you put up pictures of bread?”
–Wolfgang Luth, WWII U-boat commander, on the subject of forbidding the display of “pin-up girls” on his boats.