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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:34 am

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Location: an ahwangan 		"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." : Bertrand Russell

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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:08 pm

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Location: an ahwangan 		Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:41 am

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Location: an ahwangan 		"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking
about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -George Bush-

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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:00 am

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Location: an ahwangan 		"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots, and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering, and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. With just a little witty skepticism we can kill a good deal of the future in a young person. Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet." - Hermann Hesse -

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SharynS
Post Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:13 pm

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Location: the 'puter 		Awesome insight.

And the choices are - you can live off the land or you can live off the people of the land. Which one are you?

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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:14 pm

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Location: an ahwangan 		How Did You Die?

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way
With a resolute heart and cheerful?
Or hide your face from the light of day
With a craven soul and fearful?
Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it.
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only how did you take it?

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?
Come up with a smiling face.
It's nothing against you to fall down flat,
But to lie there-that's a disgrace.
The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce;
Be proud of your blackened eye!
It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts;
It's how did you fight and why?

And though you be done to death, what then?
If you battled the best you could;
If you played your part in the world of men,
Why, the Critic will call it good.
Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
And whether he's slow or spry,
It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,
But only, how did you die?

-Edmund Vance Cooke-

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taffy
Post Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 11:24 pm

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Only fools and donkey,s work under those conditions, I did not raise fools and you are no donkey.
Quote # My Father when I complained about my "first" Abuse by management
In his memory, what year? 1959
wow how things have changed///////
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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:46 am

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Location: an ahwangan 		Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. -Thomas Paine-

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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:47 am

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Location: an ahwangan 		Paradox
by Jeff Dickson

• The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

• We spend more, but have less.

• We buy more, but enjoy less.

• We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.

• We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

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yankeebythewater
Post Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:15 pm

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"The comfort of the rich depends on an abundance of the poor"

Who said this - anyone know - what was the year, the scenario involved?

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rogead
Post Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:15 am

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I’m reasonably sure that it was Voltaire. I believe he wrote it while he was exiled in England from 1726-1729. I don’t know the context, but Voltaire seems to have been very impressed by what he saw as a far more socially conscious monarchy than were the rulers of France.
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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:52 pm

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Location: an ahwangan 		I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives. Molly Ivins

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:36 am

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Location: an ahwangan 		"What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider.....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think....for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about.....and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated.....by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us.....

"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next.

"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.

"That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed.

"You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father.....could never have imagined."

Milton Mayer

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atuuschaaw
Post Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:27 am

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Location: an ahwangan 		"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.": Oswald Spengler - (1880-1936)

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