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Post by acptulsa on Nov 18, 2017 19:14:12 GMT -8
'...an increasing tendency among modern men [is] to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.'--Friedrich Hayek
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 21, 2017 19:22:46 GMT -8
'Don't write us and say we're being disrespectful of the candidates. Politics is a silly business.'--Johnny Carson
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Post by acptulsa on Nov 21, 2017 19:34:03 GMT -8
'In order to become the master a politician poses as the servant.'--Charles deGaulle
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 12, 2017 5:41:44 GMT -8
"My mother always said, 'The world lost a great man the day your Uncle Harvey was born.'"--Gracie Allen
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 12, 2017 5:55:03 GMT -8
'There would be fewer people needing help if there weren't so many people helping them.'--Gracie Allen
Modern liberalism in a nutshell. And, honestly, where better to put modern liberalism than in a nutshell?
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Post by acptulsa on Feb 4, 2018 14:53:00 GMT -8
'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.' ― Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Post by Origanalist on Feb 4, 2018 19:17:50 GMT -8
'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.' ― Alexander Fraser Tytler Uplifting and inspirational, no?
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Post by acptulsa on Feb 5, 2018 4:51:16 GMT -8
Uplifting and inspirational, no? How uplifting it is depends on where in that cycle your community is at the time... I find it depressing, myself.
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 5, 2018 18:32:43 GMT -8
'What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.'--Havelock Ellis
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Post by acptulsa on Dec 15, 2018 9:51:23 GMT -8
'I was with [Will Rogers] for years in the Follies and he did an entirely different monologue every night--a thing I have never known in my thirty-seven years of trouping.'--W.C. Fields
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 21, 2019 17:19:29 GMT -8
"A person without memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country."--Mary Astor
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Post by acptulsa on Mar 22, 2020 11:36:43 GMT -8
'I was with [Will Rogers] for years in the Follies and he did an entirely different monologue every night, a thing I have never known in my thirty-seven years of trouping.'--W.C. Fields
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