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A "well regulated militia" had a different meaning back then. Also, there's a comma in the middle of the amendment that means the first phrase is only a clarification. The second clause stands on its own.
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Not a quote, just a single word that's overused to death, and you can probably already guess the word...
"Woke"
Just shut the fuck up! Please please please just shut up!
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"
You do realise that people who are awake during the night are of equal importance, who's gonna run those power plants and radio stations and petrol service stations and police forces and whatever else? If they shut off during the night, there'd be chaos. At least a chaos that most folks won't see because they're asleep or something.
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"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" -stupid monkeys
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That trickle-down economics quote. There's studies about it [not working] published but it's just studies.
The original quote is "If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows" from Galbraith.
I imagine people are not yet ready to learn this "promise" ain't holding water.
So we all get to eat shit? Is that the point of the quote?
I don't understand how that is meant to be supportive of trickle-down economics.
"horse and sparrow" discourse was intended to be a criticism of supply side economics, not supportive of it.
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"Settled science." Used by people who don't understand that science at its heart is constantly questioning everything.
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I said what I said...
Even worse when they admit they were wrong and still say “I stand by what I said”
"You must be funny at parties"
Specially if you're not around, bitch
"Blood is thicker than water" followed by the equally erroneous "covenant" explanation.
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We need to be like Amazon and hyper focus on the customer
640k ought to be enough for anyone.
Bill Gates didn't even say it. And even if one only takes the spirit out of that quote whereupon software and hardware should be planned with foresight, it's so overused.
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