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12495...Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child Samuel Butler, 17th Century poem. Likely Savant-4/23/2015
12494Yes, they crossed my mind when I came across that quote. . .Stan-4/23/2015
12493But then, there are those 'payback' presidential pardons....Savant-4/23/2015
12492A man can, consistently, do many things as a mere man, which he cannot, consisteStan-4/22/2015
12491"Politically correct" means never stating the obvious. ~ Joe BattagliStan14/21/2015
12490And yet another twist... “Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horriSavant14/20/2015
12489Solomon wrote something similar in Ecclesiastes: "For in much wisdom is muStan14/20/2015
12488EH *might* have read from Thomas Gray... Thomas Gray, in his poem "Ode onSavant14/20/2015
12487“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” Ernest HemingwayPogeu Mahone-4/20/2015
12486Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone.For the sad old eaSavant-4/8/2015
12485And if the ruling model for women is Lilith and Eve? What does that say for theSavant-3/21/2015
12484"It looks as if we are all we have. Given what we know about ourselves and Stan43/19/2015
12483[graphic]Savant22/27/2015
12482 "Apu, your arranged bride, Manjula, is a sweet, refined, chaste woman.&quoStan-1/27/2015
12481I would have loved to have witnessed it too...or at least to have had it passed Sun Tzu-1/18/2015
12480"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they weFJB-1/15/2015
12479“Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we FJB11/11/2015
12478Excellent read,,well crafted speeches can be inspiring,,I would have liked to hagg cox-1/10/2015
12477Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the Sun Tzu61/9/2015
12476A Locrian who proposed any new law stood forth in the assembly of the people witStan-1/3/2015
12475“Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, he eats for tSavant-12/12/2014
12474“We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty ratharno612/9/2014
12473“Obama has fundamentally wrecked our Constitution, economy, labor force, nationaarno112/8/2014
12472"I'm gonna throw my date book over the fence And buy me one for five oElmer Flugum-11/30/2014
12471GIVEN THE ongoing frenzy over photos of Kim Kardashian’s rear end, it’s easy to Pogeu Mahone111/15/2014
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