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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang
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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:47 pm Post subject: Quotes of history |
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Who knows some real thought provokers?
I'm thinking...
'I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war:
This way of settling differences is not just.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows. Of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane.
Of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged - cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.'
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Napoleon had some doozies:
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." |
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southernman
Joined: 15 Jan 2010 Location: On the mainland again
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Late NZ prime minsiter, of the 70's, Robert Muldoon. Right wing, a tyrant and usually drunk by mid afternoon.
Was once asked by an Australian reporter his thoughts about massive NZ immigration to Aussie during the mid 70's
He didn't miss a beat, replied straight away.
I think it's great, it's raising the IQ's of both countries. Then he just smiled....
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daboss
Joined: 23 Sep 2010
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:32 am Post subject: |
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Listen to zis, ya?
Das Volk kann mit oder ohne Stimmrecht immer dazu gebracht werden, den Befehlen der F�hrer zu folgen. Das ist ganz einfach. Man braucht nichts zu tun, als dem Volk zu sagen, es w�rde angegriffen, und den Pazifisten ihren Mangel an Patriotismus vorzuwerfen und zu behaupten, sie br�chten das Land in Gefahr. Diese Methode funktioniert in jedem Land.
Now i will translate zis for you, ya? Read zis and sink, ya ya?
Ze people can always - wiz or wizout ze right to vote - be made to follow ze wishes of ze leadership. It's simple: You only have to tell ze people that zhey are under attack, and accuse ze pacifists of lacking patriotism and claim zhat zhey put zheir country in danger. Zhis method works in every country.
Zis is by Herman Goering, ya? Ze Jaegermeister of ze Grossdeutsches Reich, ya ya! Prost! |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:36 am Post subject: |
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e people can always - wiz or wizout ze right to vote - be made to follow ze wishes of ze leadership. It's simple: You only have to tell ze people that zhey are under attack, and accuse ze pacifists of lacking patriotism and claim zhat zhey put zheir country in danger. Zhis method works in every country. |
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Suspiciously similar to a Hitler quote... something along the lines of 'It's incredibly fortunate for the leaders of a country that the followers are idiots' |
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Fox

Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:59 am Post subject: |
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The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects;
The next best are loved and praised;
The next are feared;
The next despised:
They have no faith in their people,
And their people become unfaithful to them.
When the best rulers achieve their purpose
Their subjects claim the achievement as their own. |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010 Location: Multiverse
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:55 am Post subject: |
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"It's impossible to travel faster than the speed of light; and ceretainly undesirable as one's hat keeps blowing off."
Woody Allen. |
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Yahowho
Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Location: Beside the McDonalds
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: |
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"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword never encountered automatic weapons."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol."
- Steven Segal  |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I would have said number 2 and three were the best, if it wasn't for number 4.
Hmm - 'We are a way for the Universe to know itself' - Carl Sagan. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: In my Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:52 am Post subject: |
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"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.� - Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
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Mokpo_Wookie
Joined: 24 Sep 2010
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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"Who's more the fool...the fool, or the fool who follows him?" |
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maingman
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Location: left Korea
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: , |
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Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world
by Nelson Mandela |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Quotes of history |
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The Roman dictum:
To have peace one must be able to wage war. |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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My personal favorite by the famous fishing guide - Old Fat Farang:
"In the war against fish - nobody sleeps." |
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Quack Addict

Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther |
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