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    #32
    Gary L
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    To be ashamed of one's immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one's morality. Nietzsche


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    #33
    browndoor
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    My humanity is bound up in your humanity, for we can only be human together.

    Bishop Desmond Tutu.


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    #34
    4512
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    " The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million men is a statistic" Stalin

    " Last words are for those fools who haven't said enough" Marx

    Those hardcore lefties sure new a quote or two!


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    #35
    Black Swan
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    To be, you must be, before you be.


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    #36
    Lavinia
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    Vincit qui partitur!

    (He who endures conquers!
    or
    He who perseveres conquers!)



    I really love that saying : )


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    #37
    Black Swan
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    "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." (Immanuel Kant)


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    #38
    Arcade_Tryer
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    Money isn't everything. Not having it is. ~ Kanye West


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    #39
    mzungu
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    "To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


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    #40
    Lavinia
    Registered Users Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭Lavinia


    Black Swan wrote: »
    "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." (Immanuel Kant)
    The only difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice.

    (my best friend's friend :d))


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    #41
    Peregrinus
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    "That's all very well in practice, but does it work in theory?"

    - Garrett FitzGerald*

    [* From memory. Don't quote me on this.]


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    #42
    Black Swan
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    "If we believe something to be real, it is real in its consequences" (William Isaac Thomas).


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    #43
    RichieO
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    Beware reality, it's not as it seems, it can be as manipulated as easily as your vote... M.E. me AKA RichieO


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    #44
    Black Swan
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    Political philosophy of Huey Long (paraphrased): Good news is the best news; bad news is the second best news; and no news is bad news for a politician.


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    #45
    Amerika
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    Black Swan wrote: »
    Political philosophy of Huey Long (paraphrased): Good news is the best news; bad news is the second best news; and no news is bad news for a politician.

    Sure seems to have been true in this US election.


    "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.”
    ― Donald J. Trump


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    #46
    Black Swan
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    “We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained” ( Derrick Bell).


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    #47
    mzungu
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    "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking." - Martin Heidegger


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    #48
    Black Swan
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    “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know” (Albert Einstein).


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    #49
    Amerika
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,176 ✭✭✭Amerika


    'There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.'
    - Frank Zappa


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    Black Swan
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    No one is value free (paraphrasing Max Weber, 1922, Economy & Society).


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