Sunday, December 31, 2006

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from Machiavelli, 'The Prince' "When the duke occupied the Romagna he found it under the rule of weak masters, who rather plund...
Friday, December 08, 2006

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In a thread about the value (or lack of value) of "pressure points" in martial arts (Systema), Charles wrote as below: From my exp...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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“When you have robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power. He is free again.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Friday, November 24, 2006

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Bless what you call your misfortune. It created the strength of your beautiful soul. — Socrates
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

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"Nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical humans." -Spock
Saturday, November 11, 2006

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Democratic Party talking heads are already out there talking about how the election results are not only the best thing since sliced bread,...
Friday, November 10, 2006

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“I made my money by selling too soon.” – Bernard Baruch
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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"I'd much rather have a soccer player beside me in a fight than a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. The soccer player can dodge and dive....
Sunday, November 05, 2006

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The Ultimate Ensemble is a speculative possible feature of theories of everything (TOEs), suggested by Max Tegmark. Related to the Anthropic...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

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November 02, 2006 ****************** INVESTMENT DETAILS ****************** Peak Oil: A Pass/Fail Intelligence Test by Dan Ferris You know ab...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

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The proof is simplicity itself; if something COULD be done, someone in all of history would have thought of it by now, as they have all, at ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

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"La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid" (Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos - 1782)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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Imperialism And Slavery By Herbert Spencer "You shall submit! We are masters and we will make you acknowledge it!" These words exp...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

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"Socially and psychologically repressed, people are drawn to spectacles ofviolent conflict that allow their accumulated frustrations to...

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. (Dr. Seuss)
Monday, October 16, 2006

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I'm really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea ...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

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Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only hav...
Monday, September 25, 2006

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Brave New World Revisited Huxley said: "'...The older dictators failed because they could never supply their subjects with enough b...

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Brave New World Revisited Huxley said: "'...The older dictators failed because they could never supply their subjects with enough b...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

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Contrast [the USA 9/11 reaction, when 19 Arabs with boxcutters, directed by an Afghan caveman, penetrate the multi-billion-dollar U.S. natio...