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| 1 We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. | |
| 2 -- La Rochefoucauld | |
| 3 ----- | |
| 4 Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-) | |
| 5 -- Larry Wall in <1992May12.190238.5667@netlabs.com> | |
| 6 ----- | |
| 7 However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. | |
| 8 There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious | |
| 9 beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than | |
| 10 Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. | |
| 11 But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf | |
| 12 should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing | |
| 13 throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. | |
| 14 They are trying to force government leaders into following their position | |
| 15 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a | |
| 16 particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of | |
| 17 money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political | |
| 18 preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be | |
| 19 a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C," and "D." Just who do | |
| 20 they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the | |
| 21 right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as | |
| 22 a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who | |
| 23 thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll | |
| 24 call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every | |
| 25 step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all | |
| 26 Americans in the name of "conservatism." | |
| 27 -- Senator Barry Goldwater, from the Congressional Record, September 16, 1981 | |
| 28 ----- | |
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| 35 `"""""`` | |
| 36 ----- | |
| 37 System going down in 5 minutes. | |
| 38 ----- | |
| 39 No End | |
| 40 | |
| 41 When government is lazy and informal | |
| 42 The people are kind and honest; | |
| 43 When government is efficient and severe | |
| 44 The people are discontented and deceitful. | |
| 45 Good fortune follows upon disaster; | |
| 46 Disaster lurks within good fortune; | |
| 47 Who can say how things will end? | |
| 48 Perhaps there is no end. | |
| 49 Honesty is ever deceived; | |
| 50 Kindness is ever seduced; | |
| 51 Men have been like this for a long time. | |
| 52 So the sage is firm but not cutting, | |
| 53 Pointed but not piercing, | |
| 54 Straight but not rigid, | |
| 55 Bright but not blinding. | |
| 56 -- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" | |
| 57 ----- | |
| 58 "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a | |
| 59 cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H. L. Mencken | |
| 60 ----- | |
| 61 "I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of | |
| 62 that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put | |
| 63 more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it | |
| 64 might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not | |
| 65 otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be | |
| 66 otherwise.'" | |
| 67 -- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland" | |
| 68 ----- | |
| 69 1893 The ideal brain tonic | |
| 70 1900 Drink Coca-Cola -- delicious and refreshing -- 5 cents at all | |
| 71 soda fountains | |
| 72 1905 Is the favorite drink for LADIES when thirsty -- weary -- despondent | |
| 73 1905 Refreshes the weary, brightens the intellect and clears the brain | |
| 74 1906 The drink of QUALITY | |
| 75 1907 Good to the last drop | |
| 76 1907 It satisfies the thirst and pleases the palate | |
| 77 1907 Refreshing as a summer breeze. Delightful as a Dip in the Sea | |
| 78 1908 The Drink that Cheers but does not inebriate | |
| 79 1917 There's a delicious freshness to the taste of Coca-Cola | |
| 80 1919 It satisfies thirst | |
| 81 1919 The taste is the test | |
| 82 1922 Every glass holds the answer to thirst | |
| 83 1922 Thirst knows no season | |
| 84 1925 Enjoy the sociable drink | |
| 85 -- Coca-Cola slogans | |
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