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Old 05-27-2004, 07:09 AM
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

Theodore Roosevelt
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Old 05-27-2004, 12:13 PM
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Default Re: SOME THINGS NEVER SEEM TO CHANGE!

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Although this sentiment was penned some three score and six years ago, it could have been written just yesterday from a soldier in Iraq in my opinion!

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Phew! AMen to that. The reason is because it will never change. That's why there is a day of judgment, wher eeverything can be evened out.
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Old 05-27-2004, 01:14 PM
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"The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment."

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Old 05-27-2004, 05:16 PM
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?We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.? - Aristotle
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Another popular fallacy is to suppose that flying machines could be used to drop dynamite on an enemy in time of war.

? William H. Pickering, 'Aeronautics,' 1908. :ek:

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