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Old 10-10-2010, 08:35 PM
 
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"Never pet a porcupine"

and,

"Never, ever...put a fire out with your face"




a couple of Jefferson's lesser-known quotes...

 
Old 10-11-2010, 07:18 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Looks like the tea party moved elsewhere. No problem with that as I'd rather have martinis with you guys.
They want to live within the quotes, but not within the context.
No big surprise.
 
Old 10-11-2010, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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I think, myself, that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. I believe it might be much simplified to the relief of those who maintain it. Your experiment seems to have .this in view. A society of seventy families, the number you name, may very possibly be governed as a single family, subsisting on their common industry, and holding all things in common. Some regulators of the family you still must have, and it remains to be seen at what period of your increasing population your simple regulations will cease to be sufficient to preserve order, peace, and justice. The experiment is interesting; I shall not live to see its issue, but I wish it success equal to your hopes, and to yourself and society prosperity and happiness.
Sounds like the old Soviet collective farms. TJ was a damn communist!
 
Old 10-11-2010, 03:43 PM
 
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I can't prove it either way ,I wasn't there and there was no tape recorder.Who can verify what anybody in history has said without the benefit of modern recording ?
 
Old 10-11-2010, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Sounds like the old Soviet collective farms. TJ was a damn communist!

It's easy to pick a quote, and use it anyway you want........
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