04-27-2006, 08:08 PM
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#45 (permalink)
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Deja Moo
Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Seaver
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
-Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC)
How do you say... pwned? All generations are the same. We are ALL arrogant and self-centered as young adults.
If we were all of the mindset of middle-aged men we would never be driven to explore, invent, or improve society.
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That is the silliest thing that I have read in years.
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