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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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    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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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.
    - -- Aristotle

    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
    - -- The Buddha

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    - -- Aristotle

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    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
    This is known as “bad luck.” - Robert Heinlein

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    "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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    I Have A Copy Of That
    I Also Remember That You Had Done A Good Job Of Tracing The Money Trail Around AGW
    Good Job, Miss...

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    anything by judge andrew napolitano
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    http://www.amazon.com/Original-Argum...1463073&sr=1-1

    The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century
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    Seriously, read Das Kapital.

    Because the majority of people who spout all manner of nonsense about 'Marxism' should actually educate themselves as to what Marxism is.

    (clue: it is not what Barack Obama thinks, or does, or dreams about when he's smoking a joint on the Whitehouse lawn)

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    Quote Originally Posted by charver View Post
    Seriously, read Das Kapital.

    Because the majority of people who spout all manner of nonsense about 'Marxism' should actually educate themselves as to what Marxism is.

    (clue: it is not what Barack Obama thinks, or does, or dreams about when he's smoking a joint on the Whitehouse lawn)
    To true. I read it when I was in college along with Adam Smith's Capitalism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by charver View Post
    Seriously, read Das Kapital.

    Because the majority of people who spout all manner of nonsense about 'Marxism' should actually educate themselves as to what Marxism is.

    (clue: it is not what Barack Obama thinks, or does, or dreams about when he's smoking a joint on the Whitehouse lawn)
    No thanks. Why should I fill my head with more of something that I already disagree with on the surface? I'm quite certain that Karl Marx was well intentioned, but there's no way in hell that anyone can trust mankind to effectively administer such an undertaking.
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    I have, though not in German. Also "The Communist Manifesto."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Annie View Post
    I have, though not in German. Also "The Communist Manifesto."
    I never associate your posts with half witted attempts to associate things like taxes or democrats with the philosophy of Marx so i'm more than willing to believe you.

    Unfortunately, i fear you are the exception.

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