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I posted a quote by Goethe earlier which addresses my problems with ignorance, which ties in with a deeper-seated intolerance. I really get upset with people who talk down to me. I've been thinking about this topic a lot for the past few days and find myself coming back to this same mind-thread. Very few people know who I am, where I come from, and what my life experiences are. I share these things with those who are, in my opinion and experience, worthy of my respect. I guess what it boils down to is, if you haven't walked my walk, take a chill pill and relax; life is too short to get excited about things you know nothing about...
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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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