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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.

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Grandioso

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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

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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."

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'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

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“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

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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."

source?

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Lao Tzu

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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

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"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

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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. 

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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.

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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

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Carried a copy of this with me for the last 15 years, every day, no exception:

 

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

 

-Nelson Mandela

 

 

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