"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Let us all resolve to always insert some indication of our joking intention when we mean no harm. A smilie, 'j/k', [/joke], something to distinguish our humorous intent from a group-bash.
This text-based environment, where we can't see tongues-in-cheek, or facial expressions or body language, demands it.
I'm sure all here agree.
This ends today's public service announcement.![]()
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
Does that make my claim illegitimate? When I said that Roman Catholicism was the largest denomination was I wrong? It means that you are statistically more likely to meet a Catholic throughout Australia than a member of ANY other individual religious denomination. Classing protestants together is also convenient if you neglect the reality that many "Protestant" denominations are more different from one another than Episcolalians/Anglicans and Lutherans are different from Roman Catholics.
Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 08-29-2008 at 22:11.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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