Behold

I get it done
behold plenitude
focused
behold joy
behold greatness of god
behold wonderful life
behold charisma
behold

poem by Johnny Walks
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

quote by Karel Capek
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

quote by Daniel Boone
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

quote by Herbert Simon
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

quote by Herbert Simon
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Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider.

quote by Buffalo Bill
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Prosperity

Come, thou queen of every creature,
Nature calls thee to her arms ;
Love sits gay on every feature,
Teeming with a thousand charms.

Meet me mid the wreathing bowers,
Greet me in the citron grove,
Where I saw the belle of flowers
Dealing with the blooms of love.

Hark! the lowly dove of Sharon,
Bids thee rise and come away,
From a vale both dry and barren,
Come to one where life is gay.

Come, thou queen of all the forest,
Fair Feronia, mountain glee,
Lovelier than the garden florist,
Or the goddess of the bee.

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poem by George Moses Horton
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There, there the land of bounty lies

Many fingers point to the land
of bounty.
All feet lead to it.
All hearts cry out
and are satisfied.
All thirst quenched.
All needs catered by the
Owner of the Land of Bounty
He who also owns
the skies and seas.

You are a sad man.
Why?

Why do you always
shy away from the Man of Bounty?

This is something that
I cannot really understand.
Sad man, you must tell me.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Beauty but bounty avails nought.

Scotch proverbs
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Abundance breeds arrogance.

Argentine proverbs
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Abundance is from activity.

Turkish proverbs
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Pensioners

Pensioner

There are problems in the land and you are a pensioner,
austerity is like a sweat horse blanket that doesn’t dry.
Medicine old people needs are getting more expensive,
and come to think of it isn’t old folks pension to high?
Many young people think so as their old age is far away.
Look at them the smug old bastards, have no mortgage
to pay, they are no good consumers don’t buy furniture,
and have savings in the bank. The new society doesn’t
need people who believe in old values, what silly notion.
So tax their savings and their medicine so they can begin
to feel our pain. They had the best of times when work
was plentiful, they lived at a time of copiousness, so let
them try how it feels like to be young today.
An old lady, on Zimmer frame, was robbed yesterday.

poem by Oskar Hansen
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King Billy Chips In

Boss Oberseer, Dat BULLUMTIN! Goo' day, boss Plurry 'ot!
Bloke tell me writum BULLUMTIN, bin plenty bacca got.
'You Billy, makum writin'-yabber,' bloke he say to me;
'Him quick bin pay fer writin' - plenty tsugar plenty tea.'

S'pose mine write it pretty good, you gib it two t'ree poun'?
Bin teachum mishum station plenty good write yabber down.
Mine jes' bin readin' BULLUMTIN alonga scrub. Ma word!
Mine tink it Gub'mint yabber 'bout de bee' de kin I heard.

Mine tink it pitcher budgerry - dat Lin'say an' dat Hop.
Mine tink it dem corrob'ree songs been alla same up top.
Bin plenty good, dat lubra yabber; Red Page, berry fine;
Dat White Australia policy jes' same alonga mine.

But, tell you straight, boss, all dat talk 'bout 'possum, 'roo and snake,
Bin pull your leg, mine tink it. It bin all a plurry fake.

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poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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Liquid Generosity

The ocean offers her abundance;

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?
Why would she refuse to give this gift to anyone?

Fish do not hold her sacred liquid in cups
They swim in huge liquid freedom…

Be a fish;
Swim in your boundless abundance
Share that abundance

Generosity is only limited by unwillingness

ROTMS

poem by Ray Lucero
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

classic quote by Nat King Cole
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I Got Plenty O Nuttin

I got plenty of nothing
And nothings plenty for me
I got no car - got no mule
I got no misery
Folks with plenty of plenty
Theyve got a lock on the door
Afraid somebodys gonna rob em
While there out (a) making more - what for
I got no lock on the door - thats no way to be
They can steal the rug from the floor - thats ok with me
cause the things that I prize - like the stars in the skies - are all free
I got plenty of nothing
And nothings plenty for me
I got my gal - got my song
(I) got heaven the whole day long
- got my gal - got my love - got my song

song performed by Ella Fitzgerald
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Leaving

He left
gradually
like water
evaporating
after the rains

no moment
signalled the
beginning
of his leaving

the lushness
that surrounded him
just slipped away

waters became
muddier
crowded with
predators
snarling snapping

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poem by Diana Rosser
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Abundance of law breaks nane.

Scottish proverbs
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Abundance begets indifference.

German proverbs
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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