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A wonderful and revealing quote from a commenter over at The Big Picture:

In America, a person who saves their money and lives within his means is a sucker.

'nuf said.


Sean Paul Kelley March 4, 2008 - 4:58pm
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One quote I find applicable, too...

$100 placed at 7% interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000--by which time it will be worth nothing. --notebooks of Lazarus Long

this one works, too...
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

-5.75,-4.05
"We're all fucked. It helps to remember that." --George Carlin

justadood March 4, 2008 - 5:11pm
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heinlein!

that's one of his books i *haven't* read.
and need to.

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Zuma March 4, 2008 - 7:34pm
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Oddly,

that's the only book of Heinlein's that I've picked up to read... and I got 3/4ths of the way through it before stopping. I don't quite recall why, though I think I may have just gotten bored with it.

Bolo March 5, 2008 - 12:55am
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It's about that point...

Lazarus took full rejuvenation, and the story took a few unusual twists (to be euphemistic). That last 1/4 takes patience to get through, but it wasn't as bad as what little I read of "I will fear no evil". THAT one struck me as much too androgynistically self-indulgent (there, my quota of big words for the day). Heinlein was just feminist enough in his latter years to make on wonder if he wanted to be a woman....or what.

-5.75,-4.05
"We're all fucked. It helps to remember that." --George Carlin

justadood March 5, 2008 - 1:06am
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Try "Farnham's Freehold".

It put me off quoting Heinlein for good.

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch March 5, 2008 - 3:17am
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stupid headlines

Gaza Clashes Eclipse Rice's Peace Plea

Tina March 4, 2008 - 6:02pm
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try saying it 5 times fast [eom]

-5.75,-4.05
"We're all fucked. It helps to remember that." --George Carlin

justadood March 4, 2008 - 7:37pm
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That *is* rather good.

- eom

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch March 5, 2008 - 3:14am
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anyone who believes that

anyone who believes that sentiment has absolutely no understanding of happiness. It is the sentiment of a fool.

Scotjen61 March 4, 2008 - 10:28pm
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Not

when the bills come due.

orangutan March 5, 2008 - 7:53pm
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