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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

Booth Tarkington

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“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”
Ezra Pound

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"The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did."
Newt Gingrich: (2010)

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"There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us."
Newt Gingrich: (2008)

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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.”
Nikita Khrushchev

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"People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz."
Newt Gingrich (1994)

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Democrats will bring to the United States "the joys of Soviet-style brutality and the murder of women and children."
Newt Gingrich (1980s)

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The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.
- Richard Nixon

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@edgarblythe,

"Who would love had he not heard of love?"

La Rochefoucauld.

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@spendius,

babies, young folks, soul mates, older couples -

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@edgarblythe,

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The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

I take it that Booth was eager to get to the work station.

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@edgarblythe,

It refers to the Viconian idea that language is not a tool of culture, it is culture.

Love is not to be compared to habituated mutual dependence. It's a madness.

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@eurocelticyankee,

Both Democrats and Republicans have brought to the poor of the world America's unique brutality and the murder of women and children, [strike 'women and children'] the murder of innocents.

jtt [today]

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• The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

Susan B Anthony

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@edgarblythe,

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Susan B. Anthony

What a great lady.

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You spent the summer with Zane Grey? I don't remember ever seeing you before. I happen to be Zane Grey.
Zane Grey

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@edgarblythe,

The only thing we knew about Henry Porter was that his name wasn't Henry Porter.

Bob Dylan.

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God said to Abraham
Kill me a son
Abe said man you must be puttin' me on
God said no
Abe say what
God said you can do what you want to Abe
But the next time you see me coming you better run
Well Abe said where do you want this killing done
God said out on Highway 61

Bob Dylan

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@edgarblythe,

But Abe didn't kill his son. And so a new God had arisen which didn't require human sacrifice which was a long standing tradition.

I saw Dylan start the 1984 Newcastle and Wembley Stadium gigs with that bombshell. Bang. Wearing a long black smock.

On "God said no" at Newcastle a pair of panties were thrown on to the stage.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

On "God said no" at Newcastle a pair of panties were thrown on to the stage.

Can't have been from Darras Hall then, 'fur coats, nae knickers.'

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