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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2015, 01:42:57 PM »
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2015, 01:44:23 PM »
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
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« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2015, 01:45:16 PM »
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
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« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2015, 01:46:02 PM »
Liberalism is I think resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2015, 01:46:57 PM »
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
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« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2015, 01:47:48 PM »
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary although it has often been made has never proved widely persuasive.
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« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2015, 01:48:29 PM »
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention but it has no persuasive value at all.
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« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2015, 01:50:05 PM »
Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
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« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2015, 01:50:54 PM »
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2015, 01:51:40 PM »
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
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« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2015, 01:52:43 PM »
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
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« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2015, 01:53:30 PM »
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
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« Reply #27 on: January 07, 2015, 01:54:17 PM »
In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
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