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    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
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    Grind’s got you beat by miles. He is very intelligent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
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    It's a bunch of platitudes rolled together with a terrible synthesizer version of a patriotic American song playing in the background. I could hardly stand the first 20 seconds.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    it was kind of a patriotic overload.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Threedee View Post
    Not everyone hates the concept of patriotism...
    Everyone should hate the concept of patriotism.

    This is just bad work. Just because you wrap your stuff in a flag doesn't mean I have to enjoy it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Threedee View Post
    Okay, don't partake in or enjoy it... Swastikas work just as well as Old Glory anyhow.
    This is the flag I fly:
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Whether or not you support this war, the last, the next, this is the American Warrior. They do not choose where or when to fight, but they will when called upon.

    My dad did not want to fight. He did not want to be drafted. He hadn't a clue to where Hawaii was, nor did he care. But he was drafted. He went and he did what the warrior does.

    So are the 18, 19 year olds today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Kathianne View Post
    Whether or not you support this war, the last, the next, this is the American Warrior. They do not choose where or when to fight, but they will when called upon.

    My dad did not want to fight. He did not want to be drafted. He hadn't a clue to where Hawaii was, nor did he care. But he was drafted. He went and he did what the warrior does.

    So are the 18, 19 year olds today.
    Here's one that if you listen through raises a $ for Fisher House:

    http://whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com/...view/id/739470

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    Patriotism is not stupidly fighting for a bunch of bankers who will send your job overseas when the war is over. Fuck these people. The military fights for itself. We are on our own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Oh Hell! I thought you were referencing the great Warrior Weyapiersenwah!

    You know 30 years ago no one would have had the balls to publish this kind of propaganda as the answer to "Who is this warrior" would have been, "some schmuck who got drafted."

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    I hate America.
    Last edited by FUCK THE POLICE; 08-17-2008 at 07:32 PM.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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