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14 Oct 03 22:04

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29 Nov 03 02:21

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

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29 Nov 03 02:24

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Gloria Steinem (attributed)

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30 Nov 03 00:55

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

- Will Durant

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30 Nov 03 23:51

"What do you take me for, an idiot?"

- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy

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30 Nov 03 23:58

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

- General George Patton (1885-1945)

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01 Dec 03 03:39

Originally posted by ivanhoe

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

- General George Patton (1885-1945)

I believe it is "the other poor dumb bastard". But I could be wrong on that.

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01 Dec 03 07:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'I hate quotation'

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01 Dec 03 12:05

Originally posted by royalchicken
No it isn't.

~The Contradiction Rabbit, 2003

"This isn't an argument. It's just contradiction!"

Monty Python's Flying Circus

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01 Dec 03 15:50

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."

- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

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01 Dec 03 18:57

Originally posted by Acolyte
"This isn't an argument. It's just contradiction!"

Monty Python's Flying Circus

You're wrong, Colin 😛.

It is an argument and is most certainly NOT a contradiction.

Except inasmuch as it contradicts what you said. However, what you said contradicted what I said, which is the point of the joke (I assume), but in any case my contradiction of your contradiction of my contradiction is (contradictorily) not a contradiction and is rather an argument 😉.

This brings up a question (not a contradiction). Based on your experience, if I pull that in my Cambridge interview, will it get a positive response?

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01 Dec 03 22:57

yes - or no - as the case may be

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02 Dec 03 01:03

"I would have made a good Pope."

- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

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02 Dec 03 01:04

Of course--does the Pope wear a funny hat?

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02 Dec 03 01:29

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."

- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

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03 Dec 03 00:16

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

- Tom Clancy