Sponsor |  Blueeyez | Sep 18, 2004 6:04pm | | The object would be to post a quote similar to the previous quote posted to see where our quotes lead us. Note- if your quote does not seem to have anything to do with the others, you're disqualified. The winner receives a quotation book from Amazon- my treat. Any takers? |
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| | angsthammer | Sep 18, 2004 6:19pm | America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde |
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Sponsor | | Blueeyez | Sep 18, 2004 6:23pm | | Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. ~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855 |
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Sponsor | | kmkrebs | Sep 18, 2004 6:37pm | A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.
-- Chinese Proverb.
PS: How exactly will the winner be determined? It is entirely possible that this thread could go on until doomsday. |
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 |  121517 | Sep 18, 2004 6:41pm | The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez |
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Sponsor | | numbernone | Sep 18, 2004 6:43pm | When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
* Georgia O'Keeffe |
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Sponsor | | Blueeyez | Sep 18, 2004 6:46pm | I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, "Officer of the Day"
(perhaps when it reaches a certain amount of posts (if it does?) How about you decide how we end it, K? |
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| | 121517 | Sep 18, 2004 6:54pm | I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil |
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Sponsor | | Blueeyez | Sep 18, 2004 7:01pm | | Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power. -Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming |
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Sponsor | | DazeNNites | Sep 18, 2004 7:31pm | | Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. - Samuel Lover |
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