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>A lot of my best friends as a kid went to Catholic schools. Their school stories were an awakening for me because somehow I had an image of nuns as sweet old ladies. Not hardly. They knocked the snot out of students and if you said anything you got it twice as hard. There did not seem to be any correlation between abstinence and kindness.
Actually, maybe there is. I think abstinence makes them *mean* . <bg>
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.
