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Patriotism is love for your country. Nationalism is hatred for everybody else's country.

If you can keep your head when those about you are losing theirs, you obviously don't know what's going on.

Someone once asked me: "What would you do if all the people and the nations of the world gave up all their guns and weapons?"
My response: "Rule wisely...."

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -- Tacitus

The irony is, if the Bush administration had used the alert system appropriately and responsibly, they could probably get away with cranking up the national fear level right before the election. But raising the terror alert level is now met with the same enthusiasm as a new Paris Hilton video. -- Wil Wheaton 10/30/04

If you want to learn how to fight properly and effectively with the long sword, so that you may, without gloves and without all armour, guard your hands and your entire body against all kinds of weapons, against sword, against spear, against halberd, against long knife and also against other weapons, then firstly mark that you know well the strikes and the steps, and mark that you always turn your hands upward with the hilt, and always hide behind the sword, and hold the head close to the hilt. -- Hugo Wittenwiler, ca 1493

People showing up and being all activist isn't a message corporate America wants to be seen by average voters. They want to foster a sense of apathy and mild despair, not hope and inspiration. -- Weaver95

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

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