Tag: politics
member name: Bill Allin
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August 07, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."
- Alfred E. Wiggam
"A liberal is a man who believes that misery should be spread equally."
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August 30, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
- Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- )
"They" are bullies, though they may wear suits. Like more traditional . . .
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July 29, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
- Thomas Paine, American . . .
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August 12, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
"Political tags-such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth-are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
Science plays a critically important role in our lives. It not only influences the technology we use, it also affects our politics (global warming being but one example), our religion ("Is God just . . .
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July 09, 2006 07:54 PM EDT --
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
- Gore Vidal, US writer
Never at a loss for words . . .
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July 23, 2006 02:43 PM EDT --
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mohandas K. ("The Mahatma") Gandhi
Note that the "Great Soul" did not advance the cause of . . .
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August 27, 2006 07:07 PM EDT --
"There is no such thing at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you that dares to write your honest opinions, and . . .
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December 24, 2006 04:10 PM EST --
After several years of cowering in fear of the wrath of loudmouths of the politically correct movement, by using "Happy Holidays!" or "Season’s Greetings!", several large businesses . . .
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July 15, 2006 05:57 PM EDT --
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
- Stewart L. Udall, U.S. politician
Though I hesitate to quote politicians at any time (I quote acknowledged statesmen on occasion), Mr. Udall . . .
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August 02, 2006 03:39 PM EDT --
Shadow owes its birth to light.
- John Gay, poet and dramatist (1685-1732)
Without light, we know nothing about shadow. On the other hand, without shadow, we have no means of evaluating or appreciating . . .
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August 06, 2006 05:17 PM EDT --
"About the only thing oppressors really have to fear is rising awareness. Unfortunately for them, it is also the hardest thing to stop, because awareness can come from almost any communication, and . . .
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August 11, 2006 11:23 AM EDT --
In a different forum, a reader of my article about judging people based on their actions rather than on their words, my response to one of those who replied seemed to deserve its own place.
Naomi wrote: . . .
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August 20, 2006 05:15 PM EDT --
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
- Lewis Carroll, mathematician and writer . . .
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September 08, 2006 03:00 PM EDT --
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham Greene, novelist and journalist (1904-1991)
It's an awkward way of delivering the message, but the wisdom is within.
If a society has . . .
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October 01, 2006 09:03 PM EDT --
Doubt everything at least once, even the proposition that two times two equals four.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)
Are you serious, Georg? [pronounced Gay - org] . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- Stendal (Marie Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)
For those of us who have no idea what this quotation . . .
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October 16, 2006 06:29 PM EDT --
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (1632-1677)
Many disagree with Spinoza. . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:11 PM EST --
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
- Herbert Spencer
A well-educated person may be stoked full of knowledge. But so is an encyclopedia. Unused encyclopedias are used as . . .
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February 16, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
- Bob Moawad, Chairman and CEO of Edge Learning Institute . . .
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