Who agrees with the wartime quote "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough"?
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John Betjeman  (later Sir John) was the Queens Poet Lauriate - I love his poems which include incidentally I Like a Nice Cup of Tea:  Slough was I suppose the Essex of its day:\n\n\nSlough \n\nCome friendly bombs and fall on Slough!\nIt isn't fit for humans now, \nThere isn't grass to graze a cow. \nSwarm over, Death! \n\nCome, bombs and blow to smithereens \nThose air -conditioned, bright canteens, \nTinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,\nTinned minds, tinned breath.\n\nMess up the mess they call a town- \nA house for ninety-seven down \nAnd once a week a half a crown\nFor twenty years. \n\nAnd get that man with double chin \nWho'll always cheat and always win, \nWho washes his repulsive skin \nIn women's tears:\n\nAnd smash his desk of polished oak \nAnd smash his hands so used to stroke \nAnd stop his boring dirty joke \nAnd make him yell.\n\nBut spare the bald young clerks who add \nThe profits of the stinking cad; \nIt's not their fault that they are mad, \nThey've tasted Hell. \n\nIt's not their fault they do not know\nThe birdsong from the radio,\nIt's not their fault they often go \nTo Maidenhead \n\nAnd talk of sport and makes of cars \nIn various bogus-Tudor bars \nAnd daren't look up and see the stars\nBut belch instead. \n\nIn labour-saving homes, with care \nTheir wives frizz out peroxide hair \nAnd dry it in synthetic air \nAnd paint their nails. \n\nCome, friendly bombs and fall on Slough \nTo get it ready for the plough.\nThe cabbages are coming now;\nThe earth exhales. \n\n------------------
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During times of real international conflict, military people must often justify their killing of other people by believing "all is fair in love and war." The dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima has been justified because the Japanese leaders were evil and would have done the same to us if they could have. That is, dropping the bomb was "fair." \nThe phrase now, however, has entered into more popular culture to address more everyday conflicts. If someone tarnishes my character in public, I will likely do something to tarnish his character for not other reason than it is "fair." \n\nThe most interesting aspect of the adage is the combination of love and war. "All is fair in love" by itself does not mean very much. Of course everything is fair in love-if I buy my wife a dozen roses to express my love, who will argue that isn't fair? The complete adage, however, intertwines love and war. It suggests that the conquest of a lover is similar to the conquest of an enemy. In some ways it is-in both cases, the protagonist wants things to go his way and will go through any means to obtain it. Whether the means are "outgifting" a potential mate or "outslandering" an opponent, both are declared fair by the adage. \n\nI have to disagree with the message of this adage. Someone declared that everything was allowed in all attempts at conquest. This is a very selfish and short-sighted view of life. It may ease the minds of the men going into battle to think that the deaths they cause are okay because, after all, it is war. It may help a would-be lover to become a stalker because he believes it is a sign of his love. In both cases, they are hiding behind the adage without having to think too hard about what they are really doing. In fact, all IS NOT fair in love or war. Torture, stalking, and killing are never acts of fairness. Even if they are acts of retribution, does that really make it "fair?" No. \n\nTherefore, I suggest that this adage fall out of usage. It is a tool of the weak-minded to do what they desire without thinking about the consequences.
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Original quote was by Dr. William W. Purkey, an internationally recognized leader in the theory and practice of making schools and classrooms inviting places to learn, and the co-founder of the International Alliance for Invitational Education, an organization of more than 1200 individuals who believe that schools should be engaging places where students enjoy learning.\n\nIt was made popular in the song "Come From The Heart" written by Susannah Clark and Richard Leigh.
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Quote; "Anyone who starves themselves over any cause is stupid. Can't change things when you are dead, so yes the death was in vain. Even a gator could figure that out."\n\nGator has obviously never heard of Bobby Sands or the other 9 Irish Hunger strikers of 1981. As a result of their sacrifice, Bobby Sands was elected to Parliament while still on hunger strike, hundreds of people joined the IRA and the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Among other things, the Good Friday Agreement forced the brits to share governmental power with Irish Republicans AND forced the brits to release ALL IRA prisoners from their prisons! Don't tell me they died in vain. They were locked away in a prison, with no weapons, yet managed to change the whole course of Irish history.\n  Sadly, I must admit that I know nothing of Subhas Srivastava. But he has got people talking. And I will read up on him and his cause. So be sure, he did not die in vain.
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from http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/node143.html 'when I talked to Churchill  he unhesitatingly told me he favored the use of the atomic bomb.' \n\n"It would nevertheless be wrong and imprudent to entrust the secret knowledge or experience of the atomic bomb, which the United States, Great Britain, and Canada now share, to the world organisation, while it is still in its infancy. It would be criminal madness to cast it adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. No one in any country has slept less well in their beds because this knowledge and the method and the raw materials to apply it, are at present largely retained in American hands. I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and if some Communist or neo-Fascist State monopolised for the time being these dread agencies. The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. God has willed that this shall not be and we have at least a breathing space to set our house in order before this peril has to be encountered: and even then, if no effort is spared, we should still possess So formidable a superiority as to impose effective deterrents upon its employment, or threat of employment, by others. Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organisation with all the necessary practical safeguards to make it effective, these powers would naturally be confided to that world organisation."\nSinews of Peace Address by Winston Churchill http://www.hpol.org/churchill/
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Long live Free Poland!\n\n(I think that would be an accurate translation.)
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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Welcome to the Orwellian version of America.\n\nRemember always that "war is peace"
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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Benjamin Franklin, and so very,very true.\nhe also said:All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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"when your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."-????\n"better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven"-Milton\n"only the dead have seen an end to war"-Plato\n"woo-hoo! 4 day weekend!"-Homer Simpson
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The novelist George Orwell said, "Sport is war minus the shooting."\n\nHe was probably right.
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Actually, it was:\n\nNever give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.\n\nWinston Churchill
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“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” \n Winston Churchill quotes\n\nbut, i think\n\n “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” \n George Santayana said that first\n (1863-1952)
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You are upsetting me.  I have searched all of Orwell's works with that quote and no source is turning up, just that it is a quote attributed to Orwell.  I have read 1984 several times, and this quote is ringing all kinds of bells.  It has to be from that book.  I will keep looking for it.  It is personal now.\n\nGot it...\n"The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell" Volume 4, page 51
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voltaire\n\n"I may not agree with what you say but I'll fight to the death to defend your right to say it"
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The famous GW quote.\n\nFool me one, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me\n+\nWon't Get Fooled Again - by The Who\n= \none fool too many