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---- Author Unknown
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
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it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
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---- anonymous
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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---- Thomas Merton
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
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probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Farenheit 911
Haven’t seen Farenheit 911 yet? Well now you can download it here. I enjoyed this movie and it confirmed a lot of my beliefs, but when you watch it, it is important to take it with a grain of salt. Moore has an agenda and that is very clear. While he doesn’t outright lie in the film he does manipulate things by having events and quotes out of chronological order. All-in-all this is a must see.
Found via Kerim
Thee wrote 208 words on Friday Oct 29, 2004 at 02:29 PM
As a grown man, I have tears of gratitude in my eyes, as I seriously thank Mark Perkel for making this movie available. Or more precisely, for making a “blip on the public radar screen” to let a much wider audience know that this movie is available to view for free.
There ARE many, many people like myself (for example, all my friends, family and co-workers) that would not have known that Fahrenheit 9/11 was freely available, except for the clamor caused by Mark Perkel’s action.
In my humble opinion, Mark Perkel could NOT have spent his money any better. Even, if he had purchased flu vaccine and made it freely available to those “at risk” groups that will not receive the vaccine this year because of “our” goverment.
I suspect that in this year, Bush’s policies and his war have killed, maimed and caused more grief and agony for American families than the flu will. Multiply that by the duration of his administration and there is no doubt that Bush is a much worse disease on this planet than the flu and has to be stopped!
Perhaps, just perhaps, Fahrenheit 9/11 is the vaccine for Bush. There is no such thing as making a vaccine too available.