Tuesday Jan 20, 2004

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Thought:

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan, March 1977

Tuesday Jan 20, 2004

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"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings:
Sunward I ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence: hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung...
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Tuesday Jan 20, 2004

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Thought:

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
- Barry Goldwater, Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, July 16, 1964
egon:
I have to wonder what you're studying in grad school, as you have well though out political beliefs. I must say tho, that I envy you being in tampa right now. I did my undergrad over in orlando. Even tho 9 months out of the year, I wouldn't trade the delaware valley weather for anything, I do miss those florida winters.

It's funny how you would consider yourself an ultra liberal republican, with almost the same definitian that I would use to describe myself as a fiscally conservative democrat. I think that sometimes it is the issues that concern us the most (for me, it is equal rights for homosexuals, privacy rights, and a true reform of primary education that could actually eliminate the need for affirmative action by actually getting everyone up to the same level before college) that define our party affiliation.

Enjoyed talking in the SOU thread

Monday Jan 19, 2004

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Thought:

There is a great difference between the idols of the human mind and the ideas of the divine, that is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the worlds of creation as they are found in nature.
- Francis Bacon, New Organon (1620)