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@Lustig Andrei,

Possibly not to Pooh Bear.

@edgarblythe,

Good point, edgar. Hunny will fix anything for him.

@Lustig Andrei,

“The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.”
— Aristotle

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“If we don't end war, war will end us.” - H.G. Wells

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“After enlightenment, the laundry.”
Zen Proverb

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

“After enlightenment, the laundry.”
Zen Proverb

I doubt that (I mean that it's a Zen proverb).

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you."
Dennis A. Peer

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@Lustig Andrei,

How is "caliber" defined Andrei?

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@spendius,

Same as 'calibre' is defined in the UK, Spendi.

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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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"The World is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper,"
Bertrand Russell

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“If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word”
Barbara Walters

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“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
John F. Kennedy

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"On;y mothers can think of the future -- because they give birth to it in their children."
Maxim Gorky

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@Lustig Andrei,

Which links so amazingly with--

“All men must fear death, only the artist fears him not. He will move future generations when the bones of kings have long mouldered away. And secure in these convictions Mozart could stand there, when a thousand ears were listening for every quivering of a string, every whisper of a flute… Be it fanatical enthusiasm, be it genuine human feeling; enough, at the moment I would rather have been Mozart than the Emperor Leopold.”

Stendal. (I just love the "at this moment").

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@spendius,

amen

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@Lustig Andrei,

Goodness gracious!! I typed Stendal. I meant Stendhal of course.

My excuse is that I had cataract surgery this afternoon and I can only make out an illuminated rectangle at the moment and I have to work the keyboard by placing my nose adjacent to the space bar.

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@spendius,

That's cool, Spendi. I knew perfectly well who you meant. Take care of the ocular concern; good health.

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“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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"The fact is that all philosophy labours under the difficulty of having to express non-sensuous thought in language which has been evolved for the purpose of expressing sensuous ideas."
--W. T. Stace in "A Critical History of Greek Philosophy"

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“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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