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. . . KARMA see "ACTIONS" for related links Those who believe in Karma have to believe in destiny, which, from birth to death, every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does his cobweb; and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible prototype outside of us, or by our more intimate astral, or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man.... When the last strand is woven, and man is seemingly enwrapped in the net-work of his own doing, then he finds himself completely under the empire of this self-made destiny. It then either fixes him like the inert shell against the immovable rock, or carries him away like a feather in a whirlwind raised by his own actions, and this is - KARMA. --Helena Blavatsky, _Secret Doctrine_, vol 1, p. 639 Ramo's history proved she was surrounded by extraordinary karma-which is not some mystical force but the everyday processes whereby seeds sown in the past bear fruit in the present. Karma simply means that the choices you made yesterday affect the options you have today. It's common sense. Nothing is inevitable or predetermined. . . yet your actions and the actions of others can sometimes produce a cumulative momentum almost impossible to resist. That's what karma is: the momentum of cause and effect that drives you forward, occasionally into bottlenecks or booby traps. --James Alan Gardner, _Radiant_ We ourselves are the cause of this world and the conditions within it. Chaos comes because we have built it into our consciousness. The magnetic atmosphere gives back only that which is put into it by conscious thought. --Paul Twitchell _The Flute of God_  . . see also: ENVY JEALOUSY Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. --Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) American humorist Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. --William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-2006) American clergyman and peace activist Never try to keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper that way. --Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) _The Times_ [22 November 1999] It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist  KELLY (GENE) . . Gene Kelly (1912-1996) American dancer and actor see "ACTORS" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links see also: "DANCING" We still think of Gene Kelly as a guy in loafers and a tight T-shirt, tap-dancing up a storm all by his lonesome. --John Updike (1932 - ) American novelist and short-story writer, [August 1994]  JFK . . John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-1963] see "POLITICS" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links In Texas, Kennedy's 46,000-vote margin was the closest statewide race there since 1948, when Kennedy's running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, won a Senate seat by 87 votes (the origin of the nickname "Landslide Lyndon"). Morton's operatives, aided by local Republicans, uncovered plenty of political chicanery. For instance: In Fannin County, which had 4,895 registered voters, 6,138 votes were cast, three- quarters of them for Kennedy. In one precinct of Angelia County, 86 people voted and the final tally was 147 for Kennedy, 24 for Nixon. On and on it went. The Republicans demanded a recount, claiming that it would give them 100,000 votes and victory. John Connally, the state Democratic chairman, said the Republicans were just "haggling for headlines" and predicted that a recount would give Kennedy another 50,000 votes. But there was no recount. The Texas Election Board, composed entirely of Democrats, had already certified Kennedy as the winner. In Chicago, where Kennedy won by more than 450,000 votes, local reporters uncovered so many stories of electoral shenanigans--including voting by the dead--that the Chicago Tribune concluded that "the election of November 8 was characterized by such gross and palpable fraud as to justify the conclusion that [Nixon] was deprived of victory." --Peter Carlson, Another Race To the Finish, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36425-2000Nov16?language=printer - - It's incredible! ... They have a man that was ... instructed by the CIA and the Attorney General [Robert Kennedy] to assassinate Castro after the Bay of Pigs ... so he [Castro] tortured [them] and they told him all about it. [Castro] called Oswald and a group in and told them ... Go ... get the job done. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963-1969], telephone call to the attorney general, Ramsey Clark, 1967; in Gus Russo _Live by the Sword_ [1998] p.395. & see: You can imagine what the reaction of the country would have been if this information [about Cuban involvement] came out. I was afraid of war. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963-1969], to the columnist Drew Pearson _Washington Post_ [14 November 1993] If you looked at my record, you would know that I am a Roosevelt New Dealer. As a matter of fact, to tell the truth, John F. Kennedy was a little too conservative to suit my taste. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963-1969], [23 Nov. 1963]; in William E. Leuchtenburg _In the Shadow of FDR_ [1993 edn.] p.137. - - We now have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Remark made to New York Times columnist James Reston following the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna on June 1961.) Nellie Connally: You sure can't say Dallas doesn't love you, Mr. President. John F. Kennedy: (smiling) No, you can't. (Apparently Kennedy's last words, spoken moments before being assassinated on November 22, 1963, as recorded in William Manchester (1922-2004) _The Death of a President_ [1967], Ch. 2) - All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-1963], address at City Hall, West Berlin [26 June 1963] & note: What [Kenedy's speech writers] did not know, but could easily have found out, was that such citizens never refer to themselves as 'Berliners.' They reserve that term for a favorite confection, often munched at breakfast. So while they understood and appreciated the sentiments behind the President's impassioned declaration, the residents tittered among themselves when he exclaimed, literally, 'I am a jelly-filled donut.' --_New York Times_ [30 April 1988] - I think I made his back feel better. --Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) American actress, referring to her relationship with JFK - I was sitting in the airport in Nashville, Tennessee, thumbing through a magazine while waiting for an afternoon flight to Birmingham, when I noticed people clustering around a TV set in the lounge, staring in a strange silence. The date was November 22 [1963]. Three weeks before, I had been in Vietnam on the day that that country's president had been assassinated and the government overturned. This afternoon, the President of my country had been murdered. And while I had been off fighting for the freedom of foreigners, four little black girls had been killed by a bomb planted in Birmingham's 16th street Baptist Church. I had returned home, it seemed, to a world turned upside down. --Colin Powell (1937- ) _My American Journey_ [1995], "It'll Take Half A Million Men To Succeed"  KENT STATE . . see: "VIETNAM WAR" Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you. --Dr. Paul Williamson (Father of a Kent State student, [Circa May 1970]) ;void(0)) KENTUCKY . . . see "PLACES" for related links She was bred in old Kentucky, Where the meadow grass is blue, There's the sunshine of the country In her face and manner, too; She was bred in old Kentucky, Take her lad, you're mighty lucky, When you marry a girl like Sue. --Harry Braisted American songwriter, "She Was Bred in Old Kentucky" [1898] When I was introduced [to Abraham Lincoln], he said, 'Oh Mr. Emerson, I once heard you say in a lecture that a Kentuckian seems to say by his air and manners, 'Here I am; if you don't like me, the worse for you.' --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American philosopher and poet, referring to his recent meeting in Washington with the Kentucky-born president; in _Journal_ [31 January 1862] Oh, the sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, . . . Chorus: Weep no more, my lady, Oh, weep no more today! We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home, For the old Kentucky home, far away. --Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) American composer, "My Old Kentucky Home" [1853] Here's a health to old Kentucky, Where the fathers, through the years, Hand down the courtly graces To the sons of cavaliers; Where the golden age is regnant, And each succeeding morn Finds 'the corn is full of kernels, And the Colonel's full of corn.' --William J. 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