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>>And as we skeptics say:
>>>Sum, ergo cogito (I am, therefore I think) (with apologies to Descartes)
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>>Actually, isn't it "Cogito ergo reputo sum" (I think, therefore I think I am).>
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>Ok, but don't say that in a Spanish speaking place or you'll get beaten. A particularly not nice insult or expletive.
I can't remember if I told you this. When we were in Spain my wife always joked that if she didn't know the Spanish word for something she'd just tack 'o' onto the English word.
She was a big hit with the Spaniards. Every time she saw something she really like she'd exclaim "Cool-o!"
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.
