SHIPIBO TREASURE TEA™ – Rejuvenating and Relaxing
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This delicious nutritional herbal beverage does not actually contain any tea. In each bag is blended the bark of several plants including Jatoba, Uña de Gato (Cats Claw), Tahari (Pau D' Arco) and Chuchuhuasi, with leaves from the Stevia bush and the whole plant of Chanca Piedra (Quebra Pedra). Shipibo Treasure Tea™ is known to oxygenate the tissue of our body, balance energy, rejuvenate our cellular structure, support the immune system, reduce inflammation and offer a sense of mental clarity and wellbeing. It’s as if thousands of years of ecological harmony and balance are transferred with each nutritious sip. *

Jatoba: Brazilian lumberjacks traditionally drink tea from the bark of this tree for more stamina & energy. It's probably why so many people say they feel more "up and alive" when they drink Shipibo Treasure Tea. It is also known for its neutralizing effects in the presence of Candida, fungus, yeast and mold and to support digestive and pulmonary function. The anti-inflammatory properties of this bark are remarkable. * Its wide range of phytochemicals helps the immune system fight off infections, helps eliminate parasites in the system, lowers blood sugar, and is anti-oxidant. *

Uña de Gato: High in anti-oxidants. The inner bark from this vine has been used by the Indians to enhance the body's natural defense system. It’s phytochemicals stimulate immune system; promote elimination of infections and pathogens, as well as being anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-parasitic Cat's Claw is an adaptogen and is proven to help alleviate intestinal dysfunctions. It supports the lungs and acts as an anti-bacterial aid. Uña de Gato is recognized as being one of, if not the most important herb of the Amazon Rainforest. *

Tahari (Pau d' Arco): The inner bark of this beautiful Rainforest tree has historically been used to fortify and purify the blood. Tahari or Pau d' Arco also called Lapacho is considered a powerful antioxidant. In South American medicine it is known to be anti-inflammatory/ bacterial/fungal, an astringent, and a mild laxative. *

Chanca Piedra: Translated as "shatter stone", this botanical is traditionally used by the natives to provide nutritional support for proper kidney, liver and gallbladder function, facilitating the elimination of Kidney stones. It helps the body destroy foreign chemicals in the body. In recent studies Chanca Piedra was shown to act as a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, this effect breaks up and limits the ability for viruses to replicate. *

Chuchuhuasi: The bark of a large tree growing throughout Amazonia, Chuchuhuasi is historically consumed as a tonic for common joint discomfort such as arthritis. It also helps in balancing the adrenal and endocrine systems. It has Triterpines that help the body eliminate abnormal cells, and has anti-rheumatic properties, relieves spasms in the body. Local healers use this botanical as a general tonic to speed healing! *

Stevia: A small shrub whose leaves have been used for centuries in South America, and is used in South America and Japan as a flavor enhancer. It continues to be researched for its ability to help the body regulate blood sugar levels and support proper metabolic function. It also helps eliminate plaque build-up on teeth. Plus it makes the tea taste delicious. *

Directions: You can make individual satisfying cups of Treasure Tea™ by pouring boiling water over the bag and steeping for 5 minutes. Leaving the bag in as well as pressing the bag with a spoon will further strengthen the flavor. Being made of mostly bark more flavor and nutritional value is obtained from the bags by simmering them in boiling water for 10-15 minutes. In brewing a pot of tea each bag can make 2 to 4 cups of tea, depending on your individual taste. Experiment with it to discover what works best for you. Shipibo Treasure Tea™ is great iced on a hot day. Brew it a little stronger to make up for the melting ice and use Stevia as desired for extra flavor. Drinking Shipibo Treasure Tea™ especially when adding a few extra drops of Stevia to a cup or glass can be used to stave off certain metabolic cravings and rebalance your blood glucose levels. *

Note: You can safely drink as many cups of Shipibo Treasure Tea™ daily as you like. It is a nutritious food product. The more you drink the more benefits you receive. Remember that along with fortifying your immune system Shipibo Tea™ as well as other AHC formulas will also detoxify your body and act as a diuretic (removing excess fluids). In addition to drinking the tea it is important to drink additional glasses of water each day to hydrate and flush toxins out of your system. *

* The above statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, mitigate, treat, cure or prevent disease.

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“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
~Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
~Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true.”
~John Lily (1910-2001)

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~Anais Nin (1903–1977)

“When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.”
~Patrick Overton

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
~Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

“An extremely valuable insight that is learned by all spiritually evolved persons in the course of their development is seeing one’s own personal consciousness as the decisive influence that determines all that occurs in one’s life.”
~David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

ADAGES, ALLEGORIES, APHORISMS, ANECDOTES, APOTHEGMS, AXIOMS, CENTOS, FABLES, MAXIMS, PARABLES, PLATITUDES, PROVERBS, QUOTES, QUOTATIONS, SAYINGS, TRUISMS, WORDS-OF-WISDOM AND WITTICISMS.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself. Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation. The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. The most eloquent speakers are quoting people all the time. Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world. The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. One would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. Nothing is said nowadays that has not been said before. What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation. Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. A great thought is a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked, then he who is the first to utter it, and then in a lessor, but still in a considerable degree, the man who is the first to quote it to us.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. The reader likes maxims because they make him think... They are like a light that suddenly illumines a large area. There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. I think quotations are very dangerous things. I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. Proverbs wage an eternal war. Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. A witty saying proves nothing. The success of Conversation consists less in being witty than in bringing out wit in others...

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. The text is a machine for producing meaning. We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air. I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual? To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotation. Reading means borrowing. I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow. I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author. Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. A concisely expressed general truth or principle or rule of conduct, drawn from experience. They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. The epigram has been compared to a scorpion, because as the sting of the scorpion lieth in the tail, the force of the epigram is in the conclusion. To leave a sting within a brother's heart. Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more. Epigrams succeed where epics fail. Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The aphorism, the apophthegm,…, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say on a book. I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. For aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of order and connexion is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off. So there remaineth nothing to fill the aphorisms but some good quality of observation. Everyman is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. Our best thoughts come from others. The biographies of many notable men tell us that one great thought in one paragraph, or on one page, or, in an amazing case, one great phrase, was enough to change the career of its reader, a great man. In this way one thought can be said to have influenced many persons for many years--and will continue to do so, perhaps for centuries. A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument. A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

Aphorisms themselves are not always true, they are thoughts their creators had on truth. Few maxims are true in every respect. An aphorism never coincides with the truth: … it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. An aphorism does not have to be a truth, but it is good if it has some truth in it. Truth has to get somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half-truth. Plurality of reference is in the very nature of language, and its management and exploitation is one of the joys of writing. Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. The ideas I stand for aren't mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. ...If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? I quote others only in order the better to express myself. There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again. The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram. The aphorism, the apophthegm, …are the forms of 'eternity' Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Life itself is a quotation.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism. The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life. He loved to invent aphorisms. Well, it was the best way to cut life into intelligible bits and pieces. Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Shakespeare haunted Freud as he haunts the rest of us; deliberately and unintentionally, Freud found himself quoting (and misquoting) Shakespeare in conversation, in letter-writing... Coleridge was a peculiar genius... He borrowed, but he usually borrowed creatively, incorporating other men's views with his own views as bricks in a wall, and reaching ultimate conclusions which were essentially his own... For quotable good things, for pregnant aphorisms, for touchstones of ready application, the opinions of the English judges are a mine of instruction and a treasury of joy. Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers. Marx was a good journalist, he made brilliant use of epigrams and aphorisms, he had a rare gift for pointing up the sayings of others and using them at exactly the right stage in the argument, and in deadly combination. But he found writing a major book impossible, even Capital is a series of essays without any real form Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. …theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting. I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose… If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself! A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. You are what you collect.

I am one of those readers who, from time to time, copy out long passages from the books I read. I find these citations everywhere whenever I begin going through my belongings. I like to have quotations ready for every occasion - they give one's ideas so pat, and save one the trouble of finding expression adequate to one's feelings. On days when I can't write worth a damn, at least I know how to quote people who can. I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. It is always easier to quote an authority than to carry on a chain of reasoning. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound, if I can remember any of the damned things.

The only book I could prepare now would be a book of maxims of suggestive ideas. I have not the patience to go on and on, telling someone in a hundred pages what I could put into a single page. The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything. A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

Anthologies are predigested food for the brain. Anthologies of aphorisms are usually arranged according to themes.... This is not the best method for the aphorism, because it often has several themes and interpretations. The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water; and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within… In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own.... Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine.... it becomes something different in its new setting. The originality of an aphorist has always been discussed on the level of single aphorisms; we have to remember, that even if every idea and image has been published somewhere, a collection of aphorisms is still an independent whole. An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. As someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them.158 A book which hath been culled from the flowers of all books. The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. I often quote myself. It adds spice to the conversation.161 It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

I am fully conscious of the fact that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity. Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate. There are many famous, sometimes brilliant and often very great quotations attributed to notable persons, which though false or incorrect, are usually improvements by anonymous requotes. Steal! to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? I prefer to twist a good saying in order to weave it into my argument, rather than twist my argument to receive it. I improve on misquotation.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted... Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. It is one of the functions of literature to turn truisms into truths. We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. The difference between a great old truism and a quote is that on the quote they remember who said it first. Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said. Examine what is said, not him who speaks. To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. They are like a melody: we cannot know, whether we heard them before or whether the songs come out of ourselves. They become alive only when we fill them with the warmth of our own soul. The maxims of men reveal their characters. The maxims of men disclose their hearts. The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved, into perpetuity, by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk wisdom, maxims, aphorisms and quotations. Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Life is too short for a long story. An aphorism is a small package with the capacity to deliver a great weight.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on. The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood, as we write with it, turns to mere dull ink. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. You must not read to swallow words, but to see what you can use. Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience. Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to ACT, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. All the good maxims already exist in the world; we just fail to apply them.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. However we choose to define a classic, a sine qua non is that the material lend itself to reinterpretation in the light of changing circumstances. Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own. People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Nothing is said that has not been said before. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple; take it and copy it. I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them. Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle. Begin with another's to end with your own. There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. Genius might well be defined as the ability to make a platitude sound as though it were an original remark. The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. The thinker and the reader together create the aphorism. A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance… Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship. The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. Why do I write these short aphorisms? Because words fail me! I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

Creating aphorisms is a danger for culture, because it turns us away from deep and far-reaching thinking, that culture is based on. Nothing is more dangerous to the state than persons who try to govern kingdoms according to maxims drawn from books. Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth. It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right. You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race. The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

Quote me as saying I was misquoted.

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1. Benjamin Disraeli
2. Sir Francis Bacon
3 .Mark Twain
4 .William R. Alger
5. Samuel Johnson
6 .Isaac D'Israeli
7. John Morely
8. Barry Hayes
9. Samuel Johnson
10. Mary Pettibone Poole
11. Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. Mark Twain
16. Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) as quoted by Donatus
17. Henry David Thoreau
18. Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters
19. Christian Nevell Bovee
20. Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Amos Bronson Alcott
22. Christian Nevell Bovee
23. William Hazlitt
24. Ambrose Bierce
25. James Thurber
26. Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
27. James Thurber
28. James Thurber
29. Minna Antrim
30. Paul Valéry
31. James Baldwin
32. John Jay Chapman
33. Kate Bush
34. Robert Burns
35. Brendan Francis
36. W. I. E. Gates
37. Lichtenberg
38. Andre Malraux
39. Amanda Cross
40. Horace Mann
41. Voltaire
42. Jean de La Bruyere
43. The Talmud
44. Octavio Paz
45. Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. Lord Byron
47. Arab Saying
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49. Henry W. Fowler
50. Samuel Johnson
51. Walter Benjamin
52. William Gilmore Simms
54. Robert Chapman
55. Christian Nestell Bovee
56. Isaac D'Israeli
57. Cervantes
58. Dame Ethel Smyth
59. William R. Alger
60. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
61. Joseph Roux
62. CE Montague
63. Lichtenberg Montague
64. Woodrow T. Wilson
65. Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. Samuel Johnson
67. Louise Guiney
68. William R. Alger
69. Aristotle
70. John Morley
71. James Ramsey
72. Benjamin Disraeli
73. W. Somerset Maugham
74. Samuel T. Coleridge
75. Oscar Levant
76. Lilius Gyraldus
77. Edward Young
78. Seneca
79. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
80. Persian proverb
81. Guy Debord
82. Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. Friedrich Nietzsche
84. Oscar Wilde
85. Thomas Love Peacock
86. Winston Churchill
87. Sir Francis Bacon
88. Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. Ralph Waldo Emerson
90. George Seldes
91. Friedrich Nietzsche
92. Tryon Edwards
93. Sophocles
94. Ihab Hassan
95 .Denis Diderot
96. Edwin Percy Whipple
97. Samuel Johnson
98. James Murray
99. William JokineN
100. Vauvenargues
101. Markku Envall
102. Karl Kraus
103. Joseph Farrell
104. Leo Rosten
105. Shailer Mathews
106. Santayana
107. William Mathews
108. Anthony Burgess
109. Edward Teller
110. Niels Bohr
111. Marlene Dietrich
112. Dale Carnegie
113. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
114. Pierre Bayle
115. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
116. E.P. Whipple
117. Friedrich Nietzsche
118. Ralph Waldo Emerson
119. Jorge Luis Borges
120. Hendrik Willem van Loon
121. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
122. Ralph Waldo Emerson on William Shakespeare
123. Elias Canetti
124. Seija Sartti
125. Orson Welles
126. Harold Bloom on Sigmund Freud [Henrik Tikkanen]
127. GNG Orsini on Samuel Taylor Coleridge
128. Benjamin N. Cardozo
129. Benjamin Disraeli
130. Paul Johnson on Marx
131. Karl Kraus
132. Wendell Phillips
133. Yossi Klein Halevi
134. Çao Xueqin
135. Ralph Waldo Emerson
136. C. Wayne Owens
137. Henry Miller
138. Robert Burns
139. Barbara Bretton
140. Dorothy L. Sayers
141. William Hazlitt
142. Dorothy Parker
143. Paul Brunton
144. Nicolas Chamfort
145. Robert M. Hamilton
146. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
147. Ralph Waldo Emerson
148. Susan Sontag
149. Rebecca West
150. Markku Envall
151. F.H. Bradley
152. Ralph Waldo Emerson
153. Ralph Waldo Emerson
154. Sir Henry Wotton
155. Robert Burton
156. Markku Envall
157. Sir Walter Raleigh
158. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
159. George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
160. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
161. George Bernard Shaw
162. Havelock Ellis
163. Erkki Melartin
164. Samuel Johnson
165. George Seldes
166. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
167. Hesketh Pearson
168. Doctor Who science fiction character
169. Simeon Strunsky
170. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
171. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
172. Cary Grant
173. Carl Van Doren
174. G. K. Chesterton
175. Clifton Fadiman
176. C. Wayne Owens
177. Thomas à Kempis
178. Plato
179. Ralph Waldo Emerson
180. Erkki Melartin
181. Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
182. French proverb
183. Francis Bacon
184. From the Preface to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, adopted as the motto of the Society of Authors
185. William Feather
186. James Macintosh
187. Mark Twain
188. Miguel de Cervantes
189. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
190. TeaMan
191. Peggy Noonan
192. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
193. F.H. Bradley
194. Oscar Wilde
195. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
196. Henrik Ibsen
197. John Dewey
198. Francis H. Bradley
199. John Keats
200. John Keats
201. Richard Kemph
202. William James
203. Lord Chesterfield
204. Aldous Huxley
205. Norman Douglas
206. Che Guevara
207. Van Wyck Brooks
208. Blaise Pascal
209. André Gide
210. Thomas Alva Edison
211. Janet Malcolm
212. Matthew Gurewitsch
213. Philip G. Hamerton
214. Jean de la Bruyere
215. David H. Comins
216. Alfred North Whitehead
217. Anatole France
218. Publius Terence
219. Seneca
220. Rupert Hart-Davis
221. Matti Kuusi
222. Baltasar Gracian
223. Cliff Fadiman
224. L. B. Walton
225. William M. Thackeray
226. ames Russell Lowell
227. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
228. Armo Hormia
229. John Russell
230. Samuel Johnson
231. Ihab Hassan
232. E.M. Cioran
233. W. Somerset Maugham
234. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
235. Caldwell O'Keefe
236. Yrjö Kivimies
237. Cardinal Richelieu
238. Jean Rostand
239. Elaine Gill
240. Bertrand Russell
241. Mark Twain
242. Charles A. Beard
243. Stanley Baldwin
244. Norman Douglas
245.C.S.Lewis
246. Groucho Marx

Friday, October 07, 2005
Amazon Herb Company review:
John Easterling, rainforest herbs and more

By The Health Ranger (Mike Adams)

In this report, I'm going to share with you why I'm so excited about the Amazon Herb Company and what it means for you, your health, our community, and our planet. Recently I had the honor of attending a live presentation by Amazon John, also known as John Easterling, the founder of the Amazon Herb Company (www.amazonmystic.com). I've been watching this company for some time, reading their materials and interviewing a few of their distributor