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Hereafter, I want you to tell me, candidly and in secret, what people are
saying about me. And if you see anything in me that you regard as a fault,
feel free to tell me in private. For from now on, people will talk about me,
but not to me. It is dangerous for men in power if no one dares to tell them
when they go wrong.

~Thomas Becket (to a friend, just before his ordination)

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@George,

In Local Hero the Burt Lancaster character orders the cops to "shoot to kill" a guy who does that.

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@spendius,

"High in the rank of her most serious and heartfelt felicities, was the reflection that all necessity of concealment from Mr. Knightley would soon be over. The disguise, equivocation, mystery, so hateful to her to practise, might soon be over. She could now look forward to giving him that full and perfect confidence which her disposition was most ready to welcome as a duty.

Jane Austen, Emma.

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Mistakes are always forgiveable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- Bruce Lee

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"A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world."
-- Leo Buscaglia

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“There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.”
― Will Rogers

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

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@Lustig Andrei,

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

And if you entertain the thought in a certain way you might have to accept it.

Suppose an atheist entertains the thought that the Church is a good thing for society, for example. It is easy to get stuck with the thought that the Church is a bad thing. It is a bit of an obstacle it has to be admitted. And can be readily portrayed in a negative way.

But an educated man, assuming Aristotle's definition of "educated" stands unchallenged, cannot avoid the thought that the Church is a good thing. And if he is prepared to entertain that thought in a certain way what can he do if he finds that it is a benefit to western society?

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“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
― Anthony Hopkins

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"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule."
--Samuel Butler

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"When I first heard ELVIS PRESLEY's voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs." - Bob Dylan

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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@edgarblythe,

She's describing the American disease, Ed.

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

"When I first heard ELVIS PRESLEY's voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs." - Bob Dylan

sidebar.... I saw Elvis in 1956 and decided then and there my career path. I never wavered.

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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)

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@edgarblythe,

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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Guantanamo exposes reality of US fascism

by Finnian Cunningham

They are essentially dead men who just happen to breathe. That is the grim assessment of the legal representative for the inmates in the American concentration camp, otherwise known as Guantanamo Bay.

More than 11 years after this penal colony was opened on the American-occupied territory of Cuba, there remains some 166 prisoners who live in a nightmarish world of indefinite detention.

Hundreds of others have been ground through the machine, spewed out like human waste. Denial of human freedom is torture; denial of any sense of when that torture ends adds a whole new barbarous dimension of cruelty.

American vanity likes to indulge in berating other countries for human rights violations: Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are paraded in the American media as pariah states, accused of failing international legal standards. In the past, the Soviet Union and its system of gulags was a particular favourite feature for Americans to contrast their supposed freedoms. How the ‘high and mighty’ self-proclaimed moral titans now stand exposed as hypocrites, charlatans and low-life perverts.

Thanks to the suffering of prisoners at Guantanamo, the world is seeing some shocking home truths about the real nature of American government and its formerly grandiose pretensions. Without Guantanamo, the world may have been duped a little longer by the American art of deception. But not anymore. The American style of dictatorship has everything that the old Soviet system had, but with an added insidious trait - the American delusion of exceptionalism.

Think about it. In Guantanamo, they have been rendered from all over the world by their captors like so much wild animals, physically and mentally tortured, humiliated and defiled. Most of them are Muslim, coming from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, where the US has been waging its permanent charade ‘War on Terror’ since 2001.

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http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/03/26/295256/guantanamo-exposes-reality-of-us-fascism/

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@JTT,

The theory prevalent here when the Cold War ended was that the US would have to find an enemy.

I think it was based on the idea that the US taxpayer would not stand for a military like in Bilko. Which is all there is without an enemy.

A question was asked not so long ago in the House of Commons about not a single member of the armed forces having been killed in the previous year and deaths in other occupations were in the thousands.

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@spendius,

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The theory prevalent here when the Cold War ended was that the US would have to find an enemy.

That theory turned out to be the equivalent of what some might call a biblical truth.

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I think it was based on the idea that the US taxpayer would not stand for a military like in Bilko. Which is all there is without an enemy.

I think that you give too much credit to US taxpayers. The vast majority have lived lives totally duped by their governments. When there was ever a measure of truth spoken, given the propaganda they had received that Uncle Sam was a benevolent gentleman, the problems were either forgotten or shunted to a place never to be seen or heard.

But this same problem exists for the UK, though how bad it is there, I really can't say. How bad is it, Spendius?

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A question was asked not so long ago in the House of Commons about not a single member of the armed forces having been killed in the previous year and deaths in other occupations were in the thousands.

Don't stop now.

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