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Post by Tails82 on Aug 26, 2013 19:31:13 GMT -5
Because it contradicts itself? That too, but mainly cuz you can learn many things from history. Didn't you wanna be a history teacher? Weeeeeell if you see how people are making the same mistakes when they should know better..."We" as the collective keep repeating them. I don't completely agree with the quotes at times. I put them up to think/discuss. If all you do is copy-paste a quote, "I agree with this" is exactly how it looks. Gotta discuss something to imply there's discussion to be had. >_> I spose, but I'm not gonna force it.
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 27, 2013 10:24:52 GMT -5
“People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.” – Stevie Smith
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 28, 2013 14:12:46 GMT -5
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." -MLK
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Post by Jordan Ω on Aug 28, 2013 14:16:53 GMT -5
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." -MLK Didn't he get shot in the face? I'm gonna take that quote with a grain of salt.
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Post by little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Aug 28, 2013 16:20:47 GMT -5
Cases like that is where you emphasize the, "right, temporarily defeated," part.
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 28, 2013 16:33:54 GMT -5
Cases like that is where you emphasize the, " right, temporarily defeated," part. Because race relations and the black race in general are doing so well right now, 50 years later.
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Post by little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Aug 28, 2013 16:41:07 GMT -5
I'm sorry, what's that have to do with anything? I'm honestly failing to see the connection you're making. I was simply talking about a man who spearheaded some massive improvements getting shot in the face.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 28, 2013 18:02:39 GMT -5
Better than ever. The problems left are mostly personal failures.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 29, 2013 18:59:19 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 31, 2013 10:56:45 GMT -5
"The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope." -Churchill
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 31, 2013 15:03:40 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 31, 2013 19:36:06 GMT -5
Those who would have us return to the failed policies of yesterday, offering only the equivocating and uncertain leadership that got us into this mess, would take us once again down a garden path that's laid out like the traffic circles of Washington: We would continue going around and around getting nowhere, constantly in motion yet neither coming nor going. This nation has turned away from the dizzying years of tax and spend and tax and spend. We will not go back.
Some of the same people who ran this country for the last 20 years—who pushed us to the brink of economic disaster—now want to steal your tax cut before you even get it. And let me point out that the so-called tax cut, historic as it is, only lessens the previous tax increase...And yet, I don't recall any of them in those past years, when they were in control of both Houses of the Congress, ever protesting much about deficits. It seems to me that I remember hearing them say, "Oh, we don't have to worry about the national debt. We owe it to ourselves." And I remember them saying, "A little inflation each year is good for us. It maintains prosperity." Well, listening to the born-again budget-balancers moan about deficits now is kind of like hearing a mugger in Central Park complain about crime in the streets.
Oh Reagan you're so dreamy~
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 31, 2013 19:42:02 GMT -5
Trust a conservative to be obsessed with things that have been dead for years.
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Post by Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Aug 31, 2013 20:55:30 GMT -5
""no we won't have one cos the black bitch is mouthing off next door"" - my dad
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Post by Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Aug 31, 2013 20:55:55 GMT -5
oh cos he was gonna put on the BBQ
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