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Strange things that people say
Posted At: 11/18/2022 9:35:55 AM
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The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.<br/>- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Posted At: 11/10/2022 10:57:25 AM
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"Inflation, as this term was always used everywhere and especially in this country, means increasing the quantity of money and bank notes in circulation and the quantity of bank deposits subject to check. But people today use the term `inflation' to refer to the phenomenon that is an inevitable…
Posted At: 7/6/2020 8:58:42 AM
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"The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t…
Posted At: 4/24/2018 9:31:25 AM
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When Zarathustra arrived at the nearest town which adjoineth the forest, he found many people assembled in the market-place; for it had been announced that a rope-dancer would give a performance. And Zarathustra spake thus unto the people:<br/>I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be…
Posted At: 2/19/2018 8:07:54 PM
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"Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like 'struggle.' To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."<br/>-- Mr. Rogers
Posted At: 2/2/2012 7:43:39 PM
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"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we've got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it."<br/>~…
Posted At: 8/13/2011 12:43:15 AM
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“You can’t use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!”<br/>~ From 'The Education of Henry Adams', By Henry Adams (American journalist, historian, academic and novelist, 1838-1918)
Posted At: 8/11/2011 7:29:22 PM
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The ATF plan to prevent American guns from being used, in Mexican gun violence, is to provide Mexican gangs with (Wait for it...) American guns.<br/>IfTHISis the plan that they went with, what plan did wereject?<br/>-- John Stewart