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OT Happy New Year

And a Happy New Year toy you too,RC....it's nice to see you getting the swing of things. middle:guinness:
 
Happy New Year in many languages

http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/christmas.htm


to my friends in here as you know i changed my handle was loverboy1 now rocketred for 2012 ....there was one mate in here who was offering to help me set up pearl harbour , i lost your information in transit ,of change over, please do re consider me as a student of pearl and teach me the win 7 set up , then i can help others etc.......


a chain can happen ... i think he was an cannuck .....you know who you are , if you can reach me again id apprecaite it ,




now happy new year


what ive learnt this year from this soh


more on historical missions and the understanding of what it means , thanks to sir led....and a few more


more on graphics and set up ...for dynamite effects of mix /mashing and adding on eto-bobs-cfs3



thanks to many who explained through threads

but most of all ive learnt whats important is not whos right and whos wrong , rather i see more team work ... in many ways . charing is caring - and the sohg board is making this happen .


some have experienced loved ones passing and shared hobbit, flyer01, - the pouring out of heart felt concern and solice is of great warmth to see in this day and age of

global sitins , and financial debauchery..and greed .


and now finally i end to say thank you all for being you .

[h=2]PROLOGUE.
WHAT I HAVE LIVED FOR.[/h]
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy -- ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness -- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what -- at last -- I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.


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This is the prologue to the Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, written on 25 July 1956 in his own hand. The text follows:
 
And a Happy New Year to you too, rich! I hope the Spring comes early in Pa, I have happy memories of the Poconos from thirty years ago.
 
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