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Honestly

2008-10-06T17:50:47Z

There are opportunities for corruption and blackmailing, of which
unscrupulous men are well known to take advantage. Such men are
fortunately few; [...]and the rest of the Senate, however it may blush
for them, is obliged to work with them and to treat them as equals. The
contagion of political vice is nowhere so swiftly potent as in

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2008-10-06T13:03:57Z

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Re: Myth-Logical

2008-10-06T11:37:02Z

At seventy eight to be addressed as Young man is indeed quite delightful !
I have been around too, seen most of this globe in my travels and they do say
that 'travel broadens the mind' I would have to agree. I shrugged off 'gods'
at age around twenty.
"People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God

Re: Myth-Logical

2008-10-06T07:27:58Z

Dearie me! I simply posted a nice little apposite quote. I forgot some
readers use keyword searches on newsgroups.
...
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding
iron as well as eye appeal.
~Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Bracken 1918- 2007, I Didn't Come Here to Argue (1969)
> Bob

Re: Drink heavily and recycle

2008-10-06T07:27:40Z

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What a very generous aluminium can rebate that is! I may migrate.
...
Give beer to those who are perishing,
wine to those who are in anguish;
let them drink and forget their poverty
and remember their misery no more.
~Prov 31.6-7

Re: Myth-Logical

2008-10-06T03:43:01Z

Man would say that I suppose, since he makes all of his gods up in the
first place !
"The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is
the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the
enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice. He who desires to

Re: Myth-Logical

2008-10-05T21:33:10Z

> My grandfather at seventy
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You remember someone said that God gave us memory so that we might have
roses in December.
~James M.Barrie, 1860-1937, 'Courage', The Rectorial Address Delivered
at St. Andrew's University (May 3, 1922)
//(((Hugs)))
Granny Knott
**Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Re: You Are What You Eat

2008-10-05T21:26:44Z

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Scientists theorize that as the koala, which once ate a variety of
foods, evolved to eat a circumscribed diet (of eucalyptus leaves), its
brain actually shrank; food faddists take note.
~ Michael Pollan

Re: Moody Woman

2008-10-05T21:23:53Z

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O, there is a charm
Which morning has, that gives the brow of age
A smack of earth, and makes the lip of youth
Shed perfume exquisite. Expect it not,
Ye who till noon upon a down bed lie, Indulging feverous sleep...
~ Rev.James Hurdis 1763-1801, The favourite village, with an additional

Re: POL The Jihad

2008-10-05T15:00:10Z

<%EzFk.2841$sc2.1...@news-serv er.bigpond.net.au>:
If a kid's going to go into a school and kill
everybody, it doesn't have anything to do with
music. But I'll tell you, if we've got a bigger
influence on your kid than you do, then there's
something way, way wrong at your house.
--Joseph Frank "Joe" Bruce (1972- )

Re: Myth-Logical

2008-10-05T15:00:08Z

<EHzFk.2846$sc2....@news-serve r.bigpond.net.au>:
As far back as there are records of human
intelligence, the most prized mental gift has been a
well-cultivated memory. My grandfather at seventy
could still recall passages from the three thousand
lines of the Illiad he had to learn by heart in
Greek to graduate from high school.

Re: Moody Woman

2008-10-05T15:00:07Z

<dHzFk.2844$sc2.1...@news-serv er.bigpond.net.au>:
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon;
yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great
sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early
will ever do any good.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
_Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1785],

Re: Look, Up In The Sky!

2008-10-05T15:00:04Z

<gc83uj$4n...@news.datemas.de> :
Thank you, Sea! Occasionally, you post some pretty
good ones yourself. :-)
ObQuote:
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only
to its scarcity.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
_The Rambler_ [June 6, 1751]

Re: Enemy Of The State

2008-10-05T15:00:03Z

<GEzFk.2839$sc2.1...@news-serv er.bigpond.net.au>:
. . . we had the stories of Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction, which turned out to be false, but not
before they had served their purpose of getting the
Iraq war underway. It did not matter that the UN
chief inspector told the Security Council that

You Are What You Eat [was: Philosophy]

2008-10-05T15:00:15Z

<OBIFk.2934$sc2.1...@news-serv er.bigpond.net.au>:
It's a very odd thing,
As odd as can be;
That whatever Miss T. eats,
Turns into Miss T.
--Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
_Miss T_