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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. 
Andy Goldsworthy

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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
Aldous Huxley

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Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. 
André Gide

Gettysburg: Stars & Bars

I've just come back from a few days at Gettysburg.  More photos will be forthcoming.

To start, I was surprised at the number of Confederate flags on the battlefield and at the trinkets and trash stores around town.  The almost equal time given to this symbol creates the impression that this was all a civilized discussion that got tragically out of hand.  I wonder how Americans would feel about the Germans putting swastikas all over Omaha beach?  To me its almost the same thing.  This is a symbol of slavery, discrimination and the ruthless exploitation of people for profit. 

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. 
Voltaire

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.  
Dostoyevsky

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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.  
Friedrich Nietzsche

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No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. 
Niels Bohr

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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em. 
Yogi Berra

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The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. 
Margaret Atwood

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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. 
Niels Bohr

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The future ain't what it used to be. 
Yogi Berra

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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I made a stupid mistake today. 

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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. 
Albert Einstein

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From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. 
Niccolò Machiavelli

This could have been Stalin's motto.

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Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
Neils Bohr 

Personally, I understand quantum theory just enough to find it completely incomprehensible. 

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They don't think it be like it is, but it do
Oscar Gamble

I just have to add this photo of the inimitable Mr. Gamble

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A protest sign from the Colbert/Stewart rally in Washington last year.

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Ah, better be a poor fisherman than meddle with the government of men!
Georges Danton

Well, it is when you lose.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde