sheila smith erley:
CLASS OF 1973
Burroughs High SchoolClass of 1973
Ridgecrest, CA
sheila smith's Story
sheila is from ridgecrest, california. her schools include burroughs high school., and west shore
community college.
she retired from meijer. a grocery chain located. in the mid=west, in february 2021
music sheila likes includes dan fogelberg, most anything from 70's and 80's, and most rock
music.
books sheila likes include the dune series.
movies sheila likes include being there, serendipity, apollo 13, elf, a knights tale.
tv shows sheila likes include house, criminal minds,. highlander (i like the movies, as well)
one of sheila's favorite poems is: 'some thirty inches from my nose,' by w. h. auden
from as i walked out one evening (vintage).
some thirty inches from my nose
some thirty inches from my nose
the frontier of my person goes,
and all the untilled air between
is private pagus or demesne.
stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
i beckon you to fraternize,
beware of rudely crossing it:
i have no gun, but i can spit
government should protect you from other peopleâs stupidity, but leave you to suffer from your
own
often called the industrial decalogue ~ also known as the american charter
you cannot bring about prosperity
by discouraging thrift
you cannot strengthen the weak
by weakening the strong
you cannot help little men
by tearing down big men
you cannot lift the wage earner up
by pulling the wage payer down
you cannot help the poor
by destroying the rich
you cannot establish sound security
on borrowed money
you cannot...Expand for more
further the brotherhood of man
by inciting class hatred
you cannot keep out of trouble
by spending more than you earn
you cannot build character and courage
by taking away people's initiative and independence
you cannot help men permanently by doing for them
what they can and should do for themselves
the rev. william john henry boetcker
often attributed to abraham lincoln
when the thirteen colonies were still a part of england, professor alexander tyler wrote about the
fall of the athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time:
a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. it can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. from that moment on,
the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury,
with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a
dictatorship.
the average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. these nations
have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual
faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to
selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to
dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
alexander tyler
a government big enough to give
you everything you want, is strong enough
to take everything you have.
thomas jefferson
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