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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.
"We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."
Alison Lurie (September 3, 1926)
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Abraham Maslow - April 1, 1908
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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