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Overnight Open Thread (05-20-2018 )

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

-- Lord John Russell

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that collossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

-- Samuel Butler

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.

-- Thomas Stearns Eliot

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Neat, clean, simple...and almost perfect.

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Lots of people love to criticize the Beatles for their many real or imagined flaws. This ain't one of them.

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Would this be popular in 2018 America?

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Go fvck yourself.
Cherry Hill East Principal Apologizes to Black Students for 'Party Like It's 1776' Prom Tickets
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The rate of extinctions is dropping. Bird and mammal extinctions peaked at 1.6 a year around 1900 and have since dropped to about 0.2 a year. The extinction rate has fallen farther in rich countries, where people can afford to pay for a cleaner environment https://t.co/oG5tcrxAYj

— HumanProgress.org (@HumanProgress) May 20, 2018

Why, it's almost as if market economies are a good thing!

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