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'''Del Fuego:''' The Seňor will forgive me. May I ask the Seňor how, under ordinary circumstances, he catches a wild horse?<br /> |
'''Del Fuego:''' The Seňor will forgive me. May I ask the Seňor how, under ordinary circumstances, he catches a wild horse?<br /> |
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'''Barker:''' I never catch a wild horse.<br /> |
'''Barker:''' I never catch a wild horse.<br /> |
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'''Del Fuego:''' Precisely, and there ends your absorption of the talents. That is what I complain of your cosmopolitanism. When you say [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|you want all peoples to unite]], you really mean that you want all peoples to unite to learn the tricks of your people. If the Bedouin Arab does not know how to read, some English missionary or schoolmaster must be sent to teach him to read, but no one ever says, 'This schoolmaster does not know how to ride on a camel; let us pay a Bedouin to teach him.' You say your civilisation will include all talents. Will it? Do you really mean to say that at the moment when the Esquimaux has learnt to vote for a County Council, you will have learnt to spear a walrus?|''The Napoleon of Notting Hill'' by [[ |
'''Del Fuego:''' Precisely, and there ends your absorption of the talents. That is what I complain of your cosmopolitanism. When you say [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|you want all peoples to unite]], you really mean that you want all peoples to unite to learn the tricks of your people. If the Bedouin Arab does not know how to read, some English missionary or schoolmaster must be sent to teach him to read, but no one ever says, 'This schoolmaster does not know how to ride on a camel; let us pay a Bedouin to teach him.' You say your civilisation will include all talents. Will it? Do you really mean to say that at the moment when the Esquimaux has learnt to vote for a County Council, you will have learnt to spear a walrus?|''The Napoleon of Notting Hill'' by [[G. K. Chesterton]]}} |
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{{quote|Should a 400 lb man advise us on the evils of over-consumption?<br /> |
{{quote|Should a 400 lb man advise us on the evils of over-consumption?<br /> |
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
—Don Marquis (1878-1937), American author and humorist
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Lemme get this straight... you guys wanna permanently separate Pokémon from humans somehow, so that Pokémon will finally be our equals? And in order to do that, you guys attack Pokémon with your own? What is this I don't even--
—Black, Black Adventures
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Some folks in this world spend their whole time hunting after righteousness, and can't find any time to practice it.
—Josh Billings
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Barker: Pardon me, pardon me, President, my sympathies are with no nation. You misunderstand, I think, the modern intellect. [...] We moderns believe in a great cosmopolitan civilisation, one which shall include all the talents of all the absorbed peoples -- —The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
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Robert: I'll tell you what I've found to be the key to a great marriage. |
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?
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You have a strange sense of nobility, Captain. You'll lay a man out for implying that I'm a whore, but you keep calling me one to my face.
—Inara, Firefly
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