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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:32 AM
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Your Favorite "Quotable Quotes"
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:49 AM
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1. Beware of Stupid People In Large Groups
- Anon
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:50 AM
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2. A few of my favorites. . . .
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination." -- John Keats

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job" - Douglas Adams

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." - Rummie :)

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone—it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." —Dwight Eisenhower

"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace." —Benjamin Franklin

"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war." —Abbie Hoffman

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." —General Douglas MacArthur
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:52 AM
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3. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" - John Keats eom
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:32 AM
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4. "While it is not true that all conservatives are stupid...
it is certainly true that all stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:32 AM
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5. "It's not rocket science,
if you like people, they will like you back."
William Jefferson Clinton
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jogi1969 Donating Member (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:36 AM
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6. i got a few
better to die on you feet
than live on your knees -- E. Zapata

If you know yourself and you know the enemy
You can fight a thousand battles
and never fear loss -- Sun Tzu

In a time of universal deciet
telling the truth is a revolutionary act -- Orwell
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