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Theben is offline Theben
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Dance Dance for the Revolution!
Jan 1970
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"No plan survives contact with the enemy."

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"Pity the man who loves what death can touch." -Eugene O'Neill

"That's why I love philosophy: no one wins." -Shunryu Suzuki

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CLOWNS WIT DA DOWNS 4 LIFE YO!
Jan 1970
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

George Bernard Shaw

Not to forget the gentleman in my sigue sigue sputnik...

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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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"you can fool some of the people all of the time,
you can fool all of the people some of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time"

- Lincoln -

It is a bit dated though, absolutely no connection to present day sadly...

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Jun 2000
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"God, forgive me. All my life was one great sin"
Frederick August The Strong
"I am not king of your conscience"
Sigismund August

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Oct 2001
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"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Jonathan Swift

"Integrity is praised and starves."

Juvenal

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Oscar Wilde

" A lawyer's dream of heaven- every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers."

Samuel Butler

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Helsinki, Finland
Jun 2001
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"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit"

("There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain")

-Cicero 45 BC

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Jun 2000
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"Constitute-Prostitute"

(marschall Pilsudski about Polish constitution; he didn't behave well. He called off parlamentarists nicely as well)

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Jun 2001
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"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
-- Abraham Lincoln - March 17, 1865 - Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment

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Republic of Flanders
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Wow, Molly those are heavy !!

Arrian is offline Arrian
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
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I've never tried searching for it to see if it's true, but a friend of mine who read the Anarchist's Cookbook in highschool says the quote about omlettehood in my signature was in there, attributed to Mao.

I like it, even if he didn't say it.

-Arrian

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Sure it was !!!
Never heard of:

Little red cook book...!!!! Little red cook book ....!!!!

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Arrian is offline Arrian
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
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Alva, this is not an episode of Dress to Kill



-Arrian

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Sure it is, afterall, all life is

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Smith, Wesson, and the RODINA!!!
Mar 2002
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"I'd rather be a pessimist. That way I'll always be either correct or pleasantly surprised." - Winston Churchill

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Tory Party of 'Poly
Jul 2001
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In France, this "historical quote" is taught as "Tu quoque fili" (you too, my son). WTG historical accuracy !


didn't suentonius quote caeser saying this in greek?

kai su, teknon?
(even you, child?)

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Oh my, is that a Maggie Avatar I see?

-Arrian

edit: and it apparently blinks in and out of existence. Impressive. Most impressive.[/Vader]

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Tory Party of 'Poly
Jul 2001
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Oh my, is that a Maggie Avatar I see?

-Arrian

edit: and it apparently blinks in and out of existence. Impressive. Most impressive.[/Vader]


yes, it is mrs T

though i had a few probs shrinking it looked rather more dashing in its original 160x160 pixles.

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Dec 2002
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"If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee!" - Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

"If you were my wife, I'd drink it!" - Churchill's retort.

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Aug 2001
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Got this from the book I'm reading at the moment, I thought it was funny.

Descended from apes! My dear, we will hope it is not true. But if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known. - Attributed to the wife of the Bishop of Worcester

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Swimming with the mermaids...
Aug 2003
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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - JFK

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question" - Albert Camus

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy" - Tony Benn

"Biologically, if something bites you its more likely to be female" - Desmond Morris

"No snowflake in the avalanche ever feels responsible"

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"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."
"It is impossible to experience one's own death objectively and still carry a tune."
-Woody Allen

"Telescope (n): A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of a telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details." -Ambrose Bierce

"Don't tell me how I feel and I won't tell you what you think." -Dorothy Parker

"Two people who love the dream above all else would soon vanish altogether. One of them must be on earth to hold the other down. And the pain of being held down by the earth, that is what love for others will be." -Anais Nin (but I strongly suspect this may be Jean Harlowe)

"Democracy is the theory that the average man knows what he wants and deserves to get it GOOD AND HARD." -H.L. Mencken

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Omnipresent conscience
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Sinister Penguin
Aug 2001
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

George Bernard Shaw

Nationalism is an infantile disease; it is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

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"In any discussion on physics, men often wax Planck and wane Newton."

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Jun 2002
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"Given a choice between two evils, I always choose the one I've never tried before"

-- Mae West

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"If you harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, if you try to hide a terrorist, you, yourself, are just as guilty as the terrorist." - George W. Bush

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Jun 2001
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"Gentlemen, the time for counsel is past and the time for fighting has come."
- Admiral Don Juan of Austria, on the eve of the battle of Lepanto

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"If you harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, if you try to hide a terrorist, you, yourself, are just as guilty as the terrorist." - George W. Bush


You could at least get the quote right, ya Texan melon farmer. What he actually said was:

quote:
"If you terror a harborist, if you fist an errorist, if you try to hiderize a terrorizer, you, yourselfness, are just as guiltized as the terrorizers." - George W. Bush

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