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"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

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"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice."

Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)

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No it isn't.

~The Contradiction Rabbit, 2003

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"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

Karl Marx

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"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Originally posted by ivanhoe

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

Karl Marx
Reason has never existed, but always in a reasonable form.

~The Contradiction Rabbit

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"But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,
And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil."

-William Shakespeare, King Richard III

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-----------------------IN THE COURTS OF MAHOUND------------------------NOR DO I SEE HIM STANDING UNAFRAID----BEFORE THE SOLDAN AND HIS WARRIORS QUAINT---BUT SOME WHO SAW HAVE TOLD ME HOW HE PRAYED.--- IN MAHOUNT'S COURTS ;WHILE THEY FOR FEAR WAXED FAINT.--- NOW THEY AND I GROW OLD , AND HE IS GONE.--- WHOM WE LOVED WELL LONG ERE MEN CALLED HIM "SAINT"------------------------- From the Italian of TOMMASO DI MONTALTO---circa 1232 ....

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"Knowledge is power."

-Francis Bacon

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"Knowledge is not power."

~The Contradiction Rabbit

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"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

-William Makepeace Thackeray

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Little children do not have lips or hearts.

~The Absurdity Wombat

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"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

-Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 1964

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Originally posted by ivanhoe

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."

-Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 1964
Forgiveness does not exist.

~He Who Forgives

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