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Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus
Joined: 17 Jun 2001
Posts: 27256
Location: United States of America
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 Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:34 pm Quotes ONLY (you can converse via quotes) |
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"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius
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Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with our scars
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Puck
The Texan
Joined: 05 Jan 2004
Posts: 5596
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| Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:35 pm |
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"I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error." President James A. Garfield
(thanks T  )
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Link, the Hero of Time
Vice Admiral
Joined: 15 Sep 2001
Posts: 5581
Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:51 am |
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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." President Thomas Jefferson
"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck." Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Puck
The Texan
Joined: 05 Jan 2004
Posts: 5596
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| Sun Jul 04, 2004 11:03 am |
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| Quote: | | "As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences." |
Eugene McCarthy
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Link, the Hero of Time
Vice Admiral
Joined: 15 Sep 2001
Posts: 5581
Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:04 pm |
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| Quote: | Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk |
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Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus
Joined: 17 Jun 2001
Posts: 27256
Location: United States of America
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| Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:44 pm |
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| Quote: | As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
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And some of us sail through our troubles
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Link, the Hero of Time
Vice Admiral
Joined: 15 Sep 2001
Posts: 5581
Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:52 am |
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| Quote: | Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists" |
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Theresa
Lux Mihi Deus
Joined: 17 Jun 2001
Posts: 27256
Location: United States of America
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| Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:16 pm |
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| Quote: | Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol |
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Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with our scars
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Link, the Hero of Time
Vice Admiral
Joined: 15 Sep 2001
Posts: 5581
Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:31 pm |
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((This is starting to get fun))
| Quote: | Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947 |
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Kyre
Commodore
Joined: 15 Mar 2002
Posts: 1263
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| Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:35 pm |
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| Quote: | Who cares about this stupid election? We all know it doesn't matter who gets elected president of Millard. You think it's going to change anything around here, make one single person happier or smarter or nicer? The only person it matters to is the one who gets elected. The same pathetic charade happens every year, and everyone makes the same pathetic promises just so they can put it on their transcripts to get into college. So vote for me, because I don't even want to go to college, and I don't care, and as president I won't do anything. The only promise I make is that if elected I will immediately dismantle the student government, so that none of us will ever have to sit through one of these stupid assemblies again!
- Tammy Metzler (Jessica Campbell), Election (1999) |
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:51 pm |
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| Quote: | | Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. |
No idea who said it, wasn't Ceaser, but it's one of my favourite quotes.
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Link, the Hero of Time
Vice Admiral
Joined: 15 Sep 2001
Posts: 5581
Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:39 pm |
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((I've been looking for that full quote, thanks))
| Quote: | The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964) |
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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." President Thomas Jefferson
"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck." Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Pah-Wraith
Sheikh
Joined: 30 Nov 2001
Posts: 6012
Location: Londonistan.
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| Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:07 pm |
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| Quote: | | "No man is true in the truest sense of the word but he who is true in work, in deed, and in thought."- The Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (Sallahu Alaihi Wa Salaam). |
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Link, the Hero of Time
Vice Admiral
Joined: 15 Sep 2001
Posts: 5581
Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:23 pm |
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| Quote: | The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) |
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