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Accountable
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For Kelvin, I'm sure it means AMERICA ... BAD!
To me it means that liberty without the balance of responsibility causes despotism, tyranny, and collapse of the housing, finance and banking industry.
To me it means that liberty without the balance of responsibility causes despotism, tyranny, and collapse of the housing, finance and banking industry.
freakofnature
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What about glasses in a stone house? :unsure:
i dont know. im probably wrong
Minor Axis
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I know this is a setup but I'll say it anyway:
Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.
Accountable
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Don't throw anything in any house. You can put somebody's eye out. :eek
Minor Axis
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Now let me teach you guys the meaning::24:
This is the origin of the quote:
'Liberty too can corrupt, and absolute liberty can corrupt absolutely.' -Gertrude Himmelfarb
Jewish intellectual and historian Gertrude Himmelfarb has been an influential voice among New York intellectuals for half a century, beginning with her first published book Lord Acton: A Study of Conscience and Politics. It is in fact Acton whom she paraphrases in today's quote, as he said about the pope, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," known today as "Lord Acton's Dictum."
Absolute power corrupts absolutely:
This is a quotation from Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Acton was preceded by William Pitt the Elder, who voiced a similar thought in a House of Lords speech in 1770:
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins."
Now replace the word "power" with "liberty" and you get the same result.
Liberty is the concept of ideological and political philosophy that identifies the condition to which an individual has the right to behave according to one's own personal responsibility and free will. - Wikipedia.
Now replace the word "power" with "liberty" and you get the same result.
Liberty is the concept of ideological and political philosophy that identifies the condition to which an individual has the right to behave according to one's own personal responsibility and free will. - Wikipedia.
spot on.
Screw that, she's French :yuk
Toungue in cheek Ed
By that, I mean I'd put my tongue in any attractive woman's cheek, regardless of nationality.
Unless the whole "french women don't shave anything" stereotype is true :yuk
Toungue in cheek Ed
By that, I mean I'd put my tongue in any attractive woman's cheek, regardless of nationality.
Unless the whole "french women don't shave anything" stereotype is true :yuk
Oh I don't doubt that. And I'm sure you wouldn't stop at just your tongue.
I don't know about the shaving thing, I'm guessing that some do, some don't...
Toungue in cheek Ed
By that, I mean I'd put my tongue in any attractive woman's cheek, regardless of nationality.
Unless the whole "french women don't shave anything" stereotype is true :yuk
opcorn2:Yes... where else would you put your tongue...:ninja
Yes... where else would you put your tongue...:ninja
i have been known to give a rousing tongue bath......just with the tip though.....takes longer that way :ninja
Accountable
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That just says where it comes from - nothing at all about what it means.
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