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charlatan, i hope you're wrong regarding common usage changing the rules of grammar. this is just my opinion but i see our language eroding to the point where we will eventually be "gangsta' rappin'" to each other and not making any sense at all. nothing irks me more than to hear newscasters, politicians, or other public figures misuse their native language, especially when they influence so many...
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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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