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Interesting quote from the past
"When we observe world affairs, is it not quite plain that fortune cares little for wisdom or foolishness but converts one to the other with capricious delight?"
Tacitus, Annals III, c 110 AD
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I'll add one of my faves from Juvenal...
"It is hard not to write satire..."
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Them old timers were rather astute..
How little things have changed over the centuries. POlitics is still politics...
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08-24-2004, 08:06 PM
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No...Human Nature is still Human Nature....
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Human nature is...ummm....inhuman?
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