Because they have more knowledge of the world and their minds are better stored with observations; their conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreeable. Because when women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their influence over men, they supply the diminution of beauty by an augmentation of utility. [...]
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Benjamin Franklin’s Eight Reasons To Marry An Older Woman
Posted: December 16, 2011 in QuotesTags: good woman, old woman, prostitutes
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Whoever controls the image & information of the past will determine what & how future generations will think; and, whoever controls the information and images of the present, will also determine how those same people will view the past. –George Orwell, 1984 The events which transpired 5,000 years ago; five years ago or five minutes [...]
Semper fidelis “Always Faithful”.
Posted: April 16, 2011 in QuotesTags: free, freedom, liberty, life, Marines, responsiblity
The brave have always defined what the rest of us wish to be. But bravery is misunderstood. It is not the absence of fear, but the will to overcome it. -USMC Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share. -USMC For over 221 years our Corps has done [...]
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament he would be a criminal. If he would strictly follow the teachings of the New, he would be insane ~ Robert Ingersoll As Gandhi once said, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win “Kill [...]
Thomas Paine
Posted: April 13, 2011 in Consumer Fast, General Strike, Liberty, QuotesTags: blog, paine, revolution
Common Sense SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness Positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining [...]
