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Quotients:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” .
“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” - Friedrich Hegel quotes (German Philosopher (1770-1831)"
“The Fed has had very few periods of relatively good performance. For most of its history, it’s been a loose cannon on the deck, and not a source of stability.” - Milton Friedman (1999) .
"Everybody knows that if I’m at 100 percent they have to fasten their seatbelts, like on an aeroplane." .
"To race bicycles is to drink greedily from a bottomless chalice of agony." .
Say what you will about Steve Jobs, but, it used to be way, WAY harder to buy a Norwegian Black Metal album with your phone at 9:15 on a Thursday night .
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Subsidised “Green Gas” No Better than Coal
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Promiscuity
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2 comments:
Uh-huh!
Certainly given your own attempt at washing a couple of days ago, I'd have to say it's a good thing it's not your job :))
Not really a new idea. See this blog post, from 2008: http://jokes2all.blogspot.com/2008/01/give-it-to-your-wife.html
And it was old then.
I think there's someone out there selling these labels, which you can then sew into whatever you want as a joke.
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