October 22, 2003, 20:15
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Originally posted by ADG
"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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But according to some people who pretend to be knowledgeable in history, slavery was never an issue in the United States. 
This quote must have been a product of your imagination, ADG. 
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October 22, 2003, 20:48
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#62
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I'm particulary attached to the Goldman quote in my sig.
I was watching a documentary a while ago about a bunch of strippers trying to unionize, and the parting scene said:
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"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
-Emma Goldman
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October 23, 2003, 00:26
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Originally posted by alva
Wow, Molly those are heavy !!
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It comes from being a cynic- or a failed romantic, if you like.
" To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way.
As a man is, so he sees."
William Blake
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October 23, 2003, 02:53
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"For man has closed himself up, until he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern, but if the doors of perception are cleansed, things would appear to men as they trully are..., infinite..."
William Blake
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October 23, 2003, 17:13
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"Stop thinking that science will fix everything and stop believing that your grandchildren will be okay because they can fly away in spaceships - that's really mean and stupid." -Kurt Vonnegut
"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!" -R.L. Stevenson
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October 24, 2003, 08:06
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Anonymous (at least I don't know the author, it was a popular saying)
"German rase of masters;
-blond like Hitler
-tall like Goebbels
-slim like Goering"
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I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
Middle East!
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October 24, 2003, 09:41
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"Yesterday this day's madness did prepare;
To-morrow's silence, triumph, or despair:
Drink! For you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! For you know not why you go, nor where."
-the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard Dawkins
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October 24, 2003, 13:34
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Aaah.
Wondered when someone would quote Edward FitzGerald.
Here's another, though I must say his joy clashes with my severity.
Come fill the Cup and in the fire of Spring,
Your winter garment of Repentance fling
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter and the Bird is on the Wing.
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