>Now this is one of the cool things about this site. I was completely wrong. I have misunderstood that word all this time, and learn better. Mia culpa, mia maxima culpa. (Plucked from my limited vocabulary of pidgin Latin).
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My favorite moment like that was when Viv or Alan or somebody used "Parthian shot" where I had always just assumed "parting shot" and I learned about the Parthian archers who knew how to pivot in the saddle and fire at pursuers while retreating. Pretty cool (and in that case weirdly apros po in that they both actually mean the same thing.
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.
