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    Quote Originally Posted by cafolini View Post
    Our purpose is not to conquer Leningrad and Moscow, but to completely destroy the enemy and plow the land for the expansion of the Aryan race. ~ Goebbels

    Later, he and his wife kill their children and commit suicide.
    you see to delite in posting borderline offensive quotes. There is no value to be gainedfrom your Goebbels quote and I don't see why it would be anyones favourite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bulfinch View Post
    you see to delite in posting borderline offensive quotes. There is no value to be gainedfrom your Goebbels quote and I don't see why it would be anyones favourite.
    Thanks for posting it again. You are right, I mean, dead right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cafolini View Post
    Thanks for posting it again. You are right, I mean, dead right.
    no need to get passive aggressive.

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    Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. Willie Nelson, Country Singer
    According to our creation story, night came first: darkness upon the deep. Put another way, night is older than day; night is older than time; night is the womb from which the world emerged. ... I’ll have you praying for dawn. Excerpts from Night Shifts, by Elissa Wald.

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    Meeting F D Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne. ~ Winston Churchill during a visit to FDR's grave in 1946.

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    People should be born dead. Then they will be honest. ~ Mark Twain

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    When you go to heaven, leave your dog out. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would go out and the dog would go in. ~ Mark Twain

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    A the peak of his success, Mark Twain realized the importance of Huckleberry Finn:

    I am not an American. I am THE American. ~ Mark Twain

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    If the marvels of the world took into account actions, one most majestic one would have to be the link of the railroad to California through the Sierra Nevada. It was done with explosives, advancing 8 inches per day. ~ C A Cafolini

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    “I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    It is unfortunate that some people, as soon as they realize how easy it is to pull a trigger, become criminal instead of suicidal. ~ C A Cafolini

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    Live every day as if it were your last because one it will be. ~ Breaker Morant

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    Some people place the idea upsidedown when they say, for example, "that is hard to believe." In reality, to believe is easy. The difficulty is in knowing. ~ C A Cafolini

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    Of all the mental strategies I must place valor as the priority for a person. It is in its firmness that we might enter old age with dignity. ~ C A Cafolini

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    It was a saving grace that Albert Speer was such an ignorant asso when it came to calculate strength of materials. The allies were able to destroy the large network of underground tunnels he designed for the manufacturing of the V2 rocket and later, chemical gases, destined to destroy London. ~ C A Cafolini
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