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Jimbuna 04-22-14 04:06 AM
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve 04-22-14 11:04 AM
“We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.”
—Persian proverb

Paulebaer1979 04-22-14 11:31 AM
"There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary numbers and the others." - I don´t know who told this.

Sailor Steve 04-22-14 12:39 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulebaer1979 (Post 2200242)
I don´t know who told this.
Neither do I, but I believe it's taken from a much older saying: "There are three types of people in the world: Those who can count and those who can't."

flatsixes 04-22-14 01:02 PM
Deos fortioribus adesse.
(The gods are on the side of the stronger.)
- Tacitus, Histories

vienna 04-22-14 01:04 PM
“I think, from all I can learn, that heaven has the better climate, but hell has the better company.”

Benjamin Wade

Jimbuna 04-23-14 05:36 AM
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve 04-23-14 07:44 AM
“The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something.”
—Commonly attributed to Plato, but there is no direct source

Jimbuna 04-24-14 06:53 AM
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve 04-24-14 11:43 AM
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
—Plato

Sailor Steve 04-25-14 01:39 PM
"Do not forbid that which you lack the power to prohibit."
—Plato

Jimbuna 04-26-14 04:52 AM
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

Sailor Steve 04-26-14 10:53 AM
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
—Laurens van der Post

Jimbuna 04-28-14 07:17 AM
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

Platapus 04-28-14 05:29 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 2201088)
"Do not forbid that which you lack the power to prohibit."
—Plato
One of my favourites.. especially in the context of US foreign policy.


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