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@edgarblythe,

I came into this world to provide my mother and father with a degree of respectability and normality and as an object on which to exercise their tender, loving care.

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@spendius,

Well, you are out loud, spendi.

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“I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.” ~Spike Milligan

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- OSCAR WILDE

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Sydney J. Harris

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“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

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"I do not like green eggs and ham....I do not like them Sam I Am" -Ted Cruz, addressing important issues

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"I do not like green eggs and ham....I do not like them Sam I Am" -Ted Cruz, addressing important issues of the day

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/simonschuster/11-quotes-from-authors-on-censorship-banned-book-cpw7

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“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
― George Carlin

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@tsarstepan,

You engage in censorship all the time, Tsars.

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
–Thomas Paine

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@edgarblythe,

That is a beauty, Ed, a gem of gems.

You were badly bamboozled on Afghanistan. And you see and have seen this same bamboozling going on among your fellow Americans since before you were knee high to a grasshopper.

Why do y'all put up with it? Where's this loudly proclaimed but patently false "government by the people"?

Why do so many supposedly brave and supposedly free people just keep contentedly munching grass and offer up their fleeces?

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@JTT,

Don't you think "offering" is a better word JT?

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@spendius,

Gee, Spendius at a loss for words.

You can be my full time editor, Spendi.

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@JTT,

I suppose it is because nobody has any other ideas about what to do.

It keeps the grass down in the park and provides a pleasant surface on which to have a stroll. And the hard nodules of sheep **** don't stick to the shoes.

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@spendius,

Quote:

“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
― Mae West

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“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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@edgarblythe,

Quote:

“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

And FDR practiced heedless self interest, as have all US prezes, with a vengeance.

Just consider the pain and suffering the US has heaped upon the millions and millions of people over the course of two centuries.

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