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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 08:29 PM
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You Cannot Kill an Idea...
"It is right, he told himself, not reassuringly, but proudly. I believe in the people and their right to govern themselves as they wish. But you mustn't believe in killing, he told himself. You must do it as a necessity but you must not believe in it. If you believe in it the whole thing is wrong." --Hemmingway


You cannot kill an idea

You can kill a man or a woman

You can kill a group of men and women

You can rape them, beat them, torture them and leave them to die

But you cannot kill an idea

Because an idea, unlike a man, goes beyond a person

An idea can inspire, an idea can enrage, an idea can inform

But it cannot be killed

Think of how many were killed to suppress ideas in the past

And many men and women died

But the idea outlived them

You can only kill a man - a man that is the same as you

The idea, is greater than you or anyone else

Peace
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 08:54 PM
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1. K & R !!!
:hi:

:kick:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 10:19 PM
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2. So mote it be!
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LuckyStrykes Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 10:34 PM
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3. You can't evict one either. Looking at you Mike...
Bloomberg.
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