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"Politics is like a sneeze that doesn't happen."

[XxGandhixX]

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
Gandhi

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http://twitter.com/#!/Derek_Ogilvie/statuses/112193863011155969

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Nadat een oologzuchtige Amerikaan tegen mij gezegd heeft dat ik niet weet hoe de mensheid in elkaar zit en ik citeer: "History supports me and *snip*, not you." heb ik maar weer eens het één en ander opgezocht;

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.- Howard Zinn

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. - Aristotle

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles. - George Wilhelm Hegel 

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history. - Andre Trocme

En deze is ook wel goed;

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum 

[NipponExpress]

For instance it is almost inconceivable isn't it for a US president to get elected who is not a believer in god? And yet it does clearly state in the constitution "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

[NipponExpress]

"You also seem to forget that every provider that doesn't comply with authorities will get their services and servers closed down immediately."

Counterexample: Mafia

"It seems you'd like the web be flooded with child porn, pedophiles, spammers and other cybercrimes."

The web is already flooded with child porn and pedophiles without privacy. Government doesn't use privacy invasion to protect you, mam. Just take a look at what's been done with the Patriot act. It was written to fight terrorism, but is used instead to lock up non-violent drug users for simple-posession.
http://visiontoamerica.org/4038/patriot-act-used-for-drugs-not-terrorism/

You seem to be under the impression that laws are both just and effectively enforced.

"And you don't see any difference between revolutionists in Egypt and pedophiles? All should be handled the same way?"

You fail to understand the underlying problem. They can't be differentiated online until *after* their privacy is violated. If you pass a well intended law to catch kitten-smashing-neo-nazi-coke-dealing-slave traders online, you enable the monitoring and persecution of the little old lady down the street who disagrees with a corrupt politician.

[NipponExpress]

"You can't toss aside everything you care about just to be safe.." -Shepard uit Mass Effect 2.

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"De laatste zullen de eerste zijn."

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True friends tell you the whole truth not what they think you want to hear.

Sometimes in life people just don't get it but its not always our job to let them know where they've gone wrong. Karma helps with that.

[Rikketikkie]

Ik heb er hier drie... Weet niet of ze al genoemd zijn, maar het zijn teveel quotes om ze allemaal in 1 keer te lezen. xD

Mijn favoriete: 'Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.'

Vond ik zelf ook nog een goede: 'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.... That's why it's called the present.'

Ooit eens zelf bedacht: 'Geluk heeft geen doel in het leven. Geluk is juist het doel van het leven.'