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I'm glad you brought up D-Day and Italy, as I think that they are particularly pertinent to this discussion because.....oh never mind.
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Originally posted by IdaGno
If I had a copy of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book, I'd know precisely where to shove it.
Mine's on the bookcase, next to the Koran and the Authorized Version of the Bible.
In the fiction area.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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That's the right place for it!In the fiction area.-- What history has taught us is that people do not learn from history.
-- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Comment
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Close by Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"?ftp://ftp.sff.net/pub/people/zoetrope/MOO2/
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Originally posted by Zoetrope
Close by Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations"?
Indeed (albeit 'The Wealth of Nations' has the virtue of being well-written, whereas 'The Little Red Book' doesn't, at least in translation) .Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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