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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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Originally Posted by astroid60
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Originally Posted by astroid60
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
-- Australian Aboriginal Proverb
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not tryin' to rain on your parade, buddy, but red (warrrreagl) kinda set the parameters for this thread...
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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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