>I think I understand the Morality of the Great Jim Nelson.
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>It is wrong to insult someone, but insulting millions is fun.
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>Got it.
Stalin said, "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. "
( hey, it was my politcal ox being gored - you'll forgive the expression - but it was kind of clever ;-)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.