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pepperbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 07:37 PM
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"
-Oscar Wilde
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 07:39 PM
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1. heheh.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 07:40 PM
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2. Not So
Edited on Thu May-20-10 07:41 PM by Demeter
All of the Middle East, the Byzantine Empire, Africa, most of the world, in fact.

And some places were always too poor to get decadent.
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 07:44 PM
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3. Yeah not the only one but one of several
Edited on Thu May-20-10 07:45 PM by Raine
what is so sad is that this country had such promise.
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 07:49 PM
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4. Also attributed to George Bernard Shaw, as . . .
"America is the only country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization."

(Which, frankly, sounds more like Wilde than Shaw.)
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 08:21 PM
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6. I thought it was Shaw too.....nt
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Yeahyeah Donating Member (741 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 08:07 PM
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5. We got out of barbarism?
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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-10 08:22 PM
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7. One of my favorite quotes! k&r n/t
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