Year: 2005
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Growth
There are as many ways to live and grow, as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.Evelyn Mandel
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Deer Ticks
I just hate people who forward too many warnings as much as anyone, but this one is important! Send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list! If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey on deer ticks and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around to…
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Getting Ugly in Mass-a-two-shits
Who owns the air? by ZDNet‘s Dana Blankenhorn — I can easily imagine private apartment complexes and commercial structures using such language to keep WiFi out, then selling the “right” to “sell” such service to someone else.Unless the FCC steps in and corrects this kind of abuse pretty soon, there will be lots of unhappy…
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Compensation
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without also helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A War by Any Other Name
Four and a half weeks after I posted Bush declares “Win” in “Drug War”, in the 8 August 2005 issue of Time Magazine, they posted the following:The U.S. has a long history of fighting wars on nouns. In the 1930s, F.D.R. fought a war on crime. Lyndon Johnson launched a war on poverty in 1964. …
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Caution
Geese lower their heads when flying under a bridge, no matter how high its arches may be.Julius Caesar Scaliger