I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.
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"Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn’t." – Ani Difranco
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Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. -Proverb, African
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. -Proverb, African
Life too near paralyses art. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life too near paralyses art. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author’s enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim’s outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.<br/><br/>Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy’s tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well — Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. –Barney Stims" – Ambrose Bierce
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"We are simply exhausted by the endless postponement of financial gratification – and we think other investors are, too." – Henry Blodget
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Charm
Things forbidden have a secret charm. – Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. -Henry David Thoreau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. -Henry David Thoreau
Progress is the stride of God. -Hugo, Victor
Progress is the stride of God. -Hugo, Victor
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. -Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised. -Browning, Elizabeth Barrett