Month: November 2006
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Two days after election day
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But then—we elected them.Lily Tomlin
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Ten reasons why some men prefer guns over women
10. You can trade an old 44 for a new 22.9. You can keep one gun at home and have another for when you’re on the road.8. If you admire a friend’s gun and tell him so, he will probably let you try it out a few times.7. Your primary gun doesn’t mind if you…
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Thinkers Anonymous
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then – just to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone – “to relax,” I told myself – but I knew it wasn’t true. Thinking…
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Awakening
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.Dennis Gabor
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I voted today… did you?
I don’t know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.Anonymous Chinese student, during protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
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Expectations
Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.Jennie Jerome Churchill