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1 We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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2 -- La Rochefoucauld
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4 Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-)
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5 -- Larry Wall in <1992May12.190238.5667@netlabs.com>
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7 However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
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8 There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
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9 beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than
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10 Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.
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11 But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf
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12 should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing
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13 throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom.
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14 They are trying to force government leaders into following their position
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15 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a
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16 particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of
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17 money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political
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18 preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be
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19 a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C," and "D." Just who do
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20 they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the
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21 right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as
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22 a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who
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23 thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll
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24 call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every
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25 step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all
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26 Americans in the name of "conservatism."
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27 -- Senator Barry Goldwater, from the Congressional Record, September 16, 1981
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31 ( \ -/__
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32 \ \__)
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33 / \
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34 jgs / _\
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37 System going down in 5 minutes.
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39 No End
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41 When government is lazy and informal
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42 The people are kind and honest;
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43 When government is efficient and severe
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44 The people are discontented and deceitful.
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45 Good fortune follows upon disaster;
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46 Disaster lurks within good fortune;
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47 Who can say how things will end?
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48 Perhaps there is no end.
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49 Honesty is ever deceived;
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50 Kindness is ever seduced;
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51 Men have been like this for a long time.
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52 So the sage is firm but not cutting,
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53 Pointed but not piercing,
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54 Straight but not rigid,
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55 Bright but not blinding.
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56 -- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"
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58 "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a
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59 cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H. L. Mencken
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61 "I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of
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62 that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put
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63 more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it
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64 might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
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65 otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
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66 otherwise.'"
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67 -- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
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69 1893 The ideal brain tonic
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70 1900 Drink Coca-Cola -- delicious and refreshing -- 5 cents at all
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71 soda fountains
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72 1905 Is the favorite drink for LADIES when thirsty -- weary -- despondent
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73 1905 Refreshes the weary, brightens the intellect and clears the brain
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74 1906 The drink of QUALITY
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75 1907 Good to the last drop
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76 1907 It satisfies the thirst and pleases the palate
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77 1907 Refreshing as a summer breeze. Delightful as a Dip in the Sea
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78 1908 The Drink that Cheers but does not inebriate
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79 1917 There's a delicious freshness to the taste of Coca-Cola
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80 1919 It satisfies thirst
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81 1919 The taste is the test
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82 1922 Every glass holds the answer to thirst
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83 1922 Thirst knows no season
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84 1925 Enjoy the sociable drink
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85 -- Coca-Cola slogans
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