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Post by outcast on May 3, 2014 11:27:00 GMT
"Thus an axiomatic belief is defended by an equally axiomatic rejection of the means by which to analyze it: a process familiar to both psycho-therapeutics and to historians of the Church."
Arthur Koestler
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Post by outcast on May 4, 2014 22:13:05 GMT
"A system of chaos, not a system of law."
Benjamin Forenz, on the concept of, "pre-emptive war."
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Post by Stumour on May 5, 2014 0:31:33 GMT
Chris Steward - a Conservative councillor in York – said people shouldn’t donate food to food banks because poor families “can’t budget” and if they were given food would only have “more money to spend on alcohol, cigarettes etc“.
Yeah... I help out in a food bank... tory values are driving people there in need of food, not luxuries.
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Post by Stumour on May 5, 2014 0:33:39 GMT
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
Boris Johnson... in a rare slip of honesty for a politician
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Post by outcast on May 6, 2014 22:20:25 GMT
"The national media that views the Prime Minister with a blend of fear and admiration previously reserved for cinematic bogeyman Kaiser Soze."
Scott Reid
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Post by Stumour on May 7, 2014 0:51:26 GMT
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend
Adolph Marx (his real name... Groucho)
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Post by Stumour on May 7, 2014 1:06:35 GMT
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy.
Sir Ernest Benn, whose nephew, Tony, was one of a rare breed... a politician of the people. Anthony Wedgewood Benn gave up (and had to fight to do it) a peership in order to be a member of parliament.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 2:23:41 GMT
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out". John Wooden
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Post by outcast on May 11, 2014 12:46:08 GMT
"The human mind is so weak an instrument, and is so easily enslaved and prostituted by human passions, that one is never certain to what degree the fears of the ruling class (of anarchy and revolution) are honest fears; which may be explained in terms of their imperfect perspective on social fact; and to what degree they are dishonest attempts to keep the advancing classes at a disadvantage."
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2014 18:46:37 GMT
I'm not sure what to think of that. I choose to believe that I'm not weak minded. Maybe that is a weak minded belief?
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Post by outcast on May 11, 2014 19:59:36 GMT
And nothing stands But for his scythe to mow
Shakespeare
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Post by outcast on May 13, 2014 13:45:54 GMT
"Despotically controlled industry, in a culture that espouses democracy as an article of faith, is an anachronism that cannot endure."
Clarence Marsh
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Post by Stumour on May 15, 2014 22:35:27 GMT
I have great faith in fools... self-confidence my friends call it. - Edgar Allan Poe
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Post by Stumour on May 29, 2014 21:29:37 GMT
If life gives you melons, you're dyslexic.
anon
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Post by Stumour on Jun 2, 2014 0:23:10 GMT
Found a huge collection of "Bushisms" as served by Dubya himself...
"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times."—Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 18, 2002
Pearl Harbor was extremely unifying... as was the outcome of it...
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