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We should have a nice revolution somewhere. Try to have a free society for a change. See how it will work out. We will probably fuck it up at some point, but it would be nice it we tried at least once.
 
I have been browsing through quotes from various presidents. And surprisingly the actor is much more sophisticated than the son of a son of a career politician.

Ronald Reagan said:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
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Well...that time has come it seems.

Ronald reagan said:
People don't start wars, governments do.
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Yep.

Ronald Reagan said:
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Except when oil is add stake!

Mahatma Gandhi

added the bold.
 
I tend to think people focus on the bad more so than the good, which the latter happens more than the former.
 
What's funny about "good" and "bad" is that regardless of the ontological reality of what a person experiences, it is their perspective that renders it "good" or "bad". The same thing could happen to everyone and in no case would everyone agree whether it was exclusively "good" or "bad". So when people focus on "the bad", they condition themselves to experience everything as "bad", in general.
 
bad example I'd say, at least for me.

if I asked everyone I knew, I'm pretty sure they'd be much more likely to remember that the US liberated some countries in europe than to remember that germany invaded holland specifically.

I understand the point, I just think it's flawed thinking. Yes, I think Ghandi's wrong. *shrug*
 
Good example. It's about the Dutch people. Not the americans.


Dutch don't care anymore about the US liberating Holland.

They do care about Germany invading Holland.
 
what the fuck is this?!?! i take a nap, and wake up to find a real discussion going on?

absane, wes.....you know better than to poke the monkey.

spuriousmonkey....GET BACK IN YOUR CAGE!!!!
 
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