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Old 06-19-2011, 07:15 PM   #225
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Mark Twain is much too recent... try again.
Ah, it must be one of the Ancients. A moralizing Greek, eh?

Could it be Diogenes? or Aristotle? not Socrates, is it?
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Old 06-19-2011, 08:25 PM   #226
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You're on the right track... one more try...
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Old 06-20-2011, 05:41 PM   #227
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Just one, eh? Alright, Cicero or Plato, lol. Those boys were almost of a single mind...
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Old 06-20-2011, 09:10 PM   #228
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Plato it was.... Your turn!
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Old 06-20-2011, 09:53 PM   #229
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Whew! I thought I'd never get it.

Okay, it's time for a little friendly, non-revenge, reverse psychology to lull you all into a false sense of knowing it all.

"I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

This is a pretty good translation from the original French, and I oughta' know...
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Old 06-20-2011, 09:59 PM   #230
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You and your foreign language quotes.... OK, gotta think on this one...
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Old 06-20-2011, 10:25 PM   #231
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You and your foreign language quotes.... OK, gotta think on this one...
Distress yourself not. This quote is known to most people only in its common English translation. I did NOT translate it, except in reverse translation for my own amusement. I recognize its author, and I have read many of his works in the original French, that's all. I ain't being a wiser guy than usual, lol.

Do ya' want a hint? He was imprisoned by the French king, in the middle 1700's, more than once, for his "dangerous ideas" of liberty.
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Voltaire???

Speaking of French.....
"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."
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Old 06-21-2011, 06:10 PM   #233
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Voltaire???

Speaking of French.....
"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."
Ooh yeaah, good ol' Voltaire. Now, for your selection, hmm, it must be a French military commander who lost his rank or his commission somehow. That would definitely fit "le Grand Aspèrge", Charles de Gaulle, after the debâcle of 1940.
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Close - but no cigar....
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Old 06-22-2011, 06:04 PM   #235
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Okay, It's gotta' be French, so General Patton is out. Could it be Maréchal Ney, or Amiral Darlan? They both lost commands.
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Okay, It's gotta' be French, so General Patton is out. Could it be Maréchal Ney, or Amiral Darlan? They both lost commands.
Did I stump you??? WOW! Yay for me!!!! Now what do I win???
It was Napolean Bonaparte....
Shall I try to stump you again?

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
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Old 06-22-2011, 10:53 PM   #237
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Napolean was Corsican, not French.
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Did I stump you??? WOW! Yay for me!!!! Now what do I win???
It was Napolean Bonaparte....
Shall I try to stump you again?

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
Sorry but Ivas will get a later chance to be stumped by you.

The lad who wrote the Communist Manifesto stated the words above. Karl Marx .

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare."
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