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fuzzywuzzy
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by fuzzywuzzy » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:19 am
I need help with my addled brain to remember!
fuzzy
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
— Mark Twain
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
- Judy Garland
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earendel
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by earendel » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:47 am
fuzzywuzzy wrote:I need help with my addled brain to remember!
fuzzy
This might be a good item to make sticky.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:19 am
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.