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The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

Edited by Lao Tzu

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

 

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the entire government working for you. - Will Rogers

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln (or Brisket - I can't remember)

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. - Victor Hugo

God was busy protecting America's military who are out protecting your right to say stupid shit like that, so he sent me to fill in. - A marine who was taking college classes between his deployments to Afghanistan

FML - who gave the new URL to Swam4Texas and Clearlakehorn?  

 

---- Deech

"your mom"

-henryjames

There is no right or wrong, just fun and boring. -Eugene "The Plague" Belford

God is a comedian playing to an audience afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.- Tocqueville

Edited by ShaggyBevo RIP

Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away.  - Winston Churchill

Get up. Shit, shower, shave and go to work.  I don’t care how much you drank.

 

-My Father

Edited by Incredulity

Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.   - Frank Zappa

“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from  any who might attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government.” – George Washington

9 minutes ago, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from  any who might attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government.” – George Washington

That's a purposeful misquote. Here's GW's real quote from his first annual address to Congress:

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."

'You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates. - LBJ

“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And it's not easy.”

-Terence McKenna

5 hours ago, softlynow said:

That's a purposeful misquote. Here's GW's real quote from his first annual address to Congress:

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."

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In governing one’s life and serving the nature,

There is nothing better than to follow the Way of simplicity.

Simplicity is to restrain one’s desires.

To restrain one’s desires is to practice the virtue of Nature Way.

By practicing the virtue of Nature Way,

One is capable to accomplish anything.

With the ability to accomplish anything,

One can achieve the infinite realm.

By achieving the infinite realm,

One can then become a true leader of a nation.

To govern a nation with the Law of Nature is to be long enduring.

This is regarded as a profound and firm foundation of the everlasting Tao.

- my username

"You can get a good look at a butcher's ass by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn't you rather to take his word for it?"

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

- C.S. Lewis

On 3/27/2018 at 1:50 PM, Grandioso said:

God was busy protecting America's military who are out protecting your right to say stupid shit like that, so he sent me to fill in. - A marine who was taking college classes between his deployments to Afghanistan

I thought Einstein said that.

17 hours ago, Incredulity said:

Get up. Shit, shower, shave and go to work.  I don’t care how much you drank.

 

-My Father

Brother?

Unpopularity, gained by doing what is right, is not unpopularity at all........But Glory!   Cicero.

On 3/28/2018 at 7:37 AM, Cheeseweasel said:

"Not tonight"

-My ex-wife

" Not tonight."

-My current wife.

On 3/27/2018 at 9:28 PM, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from  any who might attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government.” – George Washington

Yeah, the guy that become the first president largely because of the squashed Shays' Rebellion totally said that exact quote. 

On 3/27/2018 at 1:50 PM, Grandioso said:

God was busy protecting America's military who are out protecting your right to say stupid shit like that, so he sent me to fill in. - A marine who was taking college classes between his deployments to Afghanistan

Fuck that preachy mother fucker.

Yeah, the guy that become the first president largely because of the squashed Shays' Rebellion totally said that exact quote. 
And then later squashed the Whiskey Rebellion as President.
"All right then, I'll go to hell."
 
- H. Finn

 

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

No California gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the east. Only the scum of the population do it; they and their children. They, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America.

Mark Twain

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. - Jim Morrison

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." –Mark Twain

42 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." –Mark Twain

Did he tell you this over breakfast?

 

"The masses are asses."

- Bill Swigert, my high school Psychology teacher

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