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There will be blood on the moon as she enters Aquarius [see below], and a deed will be done for everyone to talk about throughout the entire world.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Well, I've had a happy life. |
St Joseph of Cupertino |
Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
Greta Garbo, Swedish-born Hollywood movie actress, born on September 18, 1905
There is no one who would have me ... I can't cook.
Greta Garbo
Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.
Greta Garbo
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Greta Garbo
I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.
Greta Garbo
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is a whole world of difference."
Greta Garbo
She gave you the impression that, if your imagination had to sin, it could at least congratulate itself on its impeccable taste.
Alistair Cooke, on Greta
Garbo
I was in a building called the Thalberg Building. It
was a building that was built to honor Irving Thalberg, who was our producer at
MGM, and a woman backed into the elevator. And this woman was wearing a hat. I
had nothing to do, I'm bored, so I take the back of the hat, and I push it up,
and I turn around and it's Greta Garbo. The biggest star in all of show
business. I didn't know what to say. And finally I said "I'm terribly sorry, but
I thought you were a fella I knew from Kansas City."
Groucho Marx on Greta
Garbo Source
It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was
big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon
... We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was.
One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen
unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I'll make every piece of
information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the
scientists.
[Saddam Hussein] has amassed large clandestine stocks of biological weapons ... including anthrax and botulism toxin and possibly smallpox. His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas ... [he] has at this moment stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
Donald Rumsfeld, USA Defense
Secretary; slightly fibbing to the House Armed Services Committee, September
18, 2002
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Feast Day of St Joseph of
Cupertino (Joseph Deas; Joseph of
Copertino), 'the Flying Friar', confessor
An ecstatic and levitator, this St Joseph (June 17, 1603 - September 18, 1663) was born at Cupertino (Copertino), a small village between Brindisi and Otranto in the Kingdom of Naples. His father was a carpenter and he was born in a stable. Joseph was a sickly and dull youth, nicknamed 'Bocca Aperta, 'the gaper' because of his appearance when he entered a trance. Throughout his life he was considered by all to be unworldly, unlearned and not too intelligent, but with great powers of divinity. In March, 1628 he was raised to the priesthood, but this was not the last time he was 'raised'.
He experienced levitations,
ecstasies, and the healing of diseases. Because of his levitational
disturbances, disrupting the services and distracting the congregation, he
was excluded from much of the daily life of his order, which had admitted
him after he had been their stable boy. According to tradition, he once
flew into an olive tree and remained kneeling on a branch for about 30
minutes. On another occasion, according to a witness, he "flew like a
bird on the high altar, where he embraced the tabernacle".
He had seventy levitations, even performing this feat before Pope Urban VIII, or so it is said. Another eyewitness was Duke Johann Friedrich, the employer of Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716).
From Wikipedia: On August 10, 1663, Joseph became ill with a fever, but the experience filled him with joy in knowing that he would soon be completely united to God. During the weeks that followed, Joseph's health shifted between being so weak that he could not rise from bed, to experiencing one last "flight" on the feast of the Assumption (August 15) while saying Mass. In early September, Joseph could sense that the end was near, so he could be heard mumbling, "The jackass has now begun to climb the mountain!" The 'jackass' was his own body. After receiving the last sacraments, a papal blessing, and reciting the Litany of Our Lady, Joseph Desa of Cupertino died on the evening of September 18, 1663. He was buried two days later in the chapel of the Immaculate Conception before great crowds of people who were touched by his Franciscan life and witness. Joseph was canonised on July 16, 1767 by Pope Clement XIII. In 1781, a large marble altar in the Church of St Francis in Osimo was erected so that St. Joseph's body might be placed beneath it; and it has remained there ever since.
Appropriately, St Joseph is patron of air crews, air travellers, aircraft pilots, astronauts and paratroopers and of pilots who fly for the NATO Alliance, as well as students and test takers.
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