Hill Roberts: My own quotable (?) quotes

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Friendship >> it's really genuine rivalry coupled with close encounters with fact and fiction thrown in to prolong the agony of pretense. - Part 4, A Collection of Quotable (?) Quotes, out in August 2010

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On CNN>>What went wrong? They got too big for their boots? Or the boots don't fit anymore?

Just my thought for today having realised that CNN has become too boring, redundant, subjective and tiring. I haven't watched CNN on a regular basis but somehow, this American network should now shut down for good.

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Ignorance - you pretend to be in a trance wondering  if there's an ending to it.

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Concern >> some kind of unwanted sympathy that helps explain the lack of sincerity. Part 4, Quotable (?) Quotes, out in September-October

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Facebook Profile>>It's a photoshop directed at those who fancy themselves to be ahead of themselves, only to make shallow comments with a good dose of insincere words.

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Coffee>> it's a wonder drug in the nicest possible way.

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This is the 21st century and people forget that it is a new century! Why? The new millennium was celebrated with pomp and ceremony--but that was all. Nothing much has happened since then. Sooner or later, what we will see would be more troubled countries harking for a different system of government, other than the overrated democracy. -- Democracy is a sham in the 21st century--true or false? http://fb.me/DCcWGNs4  this is a non-profit (new) community page I opened just over a month ago and everybody is welcome! Cheers!

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Democracy is a sham in the 21st century--true or false? http://fb.me/DCcWGNs4
The desire to put someone who doesn't have a clue even how to run a local council, and catapult the same person because they value his "simplicity" and  good-natured camaraderie, also perverts the real objective to have a ruler who can boast of  more than enough dynamism and drive to push initiatives for the benefit of all.

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Democracy is a sham in the 21st century--true or false?  http://fb.me/DCcWGNs4

The split of idealism, the lack of drastic changes after the turn of the century, the wasted promises, the elected representatives and leaders who have squandered the first decade  of the 21st century--these are largely more obvious than what's deeper: cultures haven't evolved. They remain contemptuous of and to the environment,  and their dismissal to change their attitude is nonetheless rooted in their lack of objectivity.

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Democracy is a sham in the 21st century--true or false? http://fb.me/DCcWGNs4

It will be a wasted democracy if the elected leaders do not follow through their aims and promises to make a nation worthy. A nation must have promise, and if this is absent, then democracy's failings would be all the more questionable.

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Democracy is a sham in the 21st century--true or false? http://fb.me/DCcWGNs4

If they, indeed, manage to convince their constituents that the "bread they have earned" is not taken away from them by hook or by crook, and play up to the affability of their smiles, then it's only fair that these elected leaders become more aware of the basic needs of their people.

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Democracy is a sham in the 21st century--true or false? http://fb.me/DCcWGNs4

The backbone of each country, the industry, is sometimes overlooked, yet with each industry that comes along, the economy improves and employs, as one would expect supply and demand  as a barometer for measuring the economic scale.

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Democracy is a sham in the 21st century -- true or false? http://fb.me/DCcWGNs4

Who breeds these tyrants? Tyrants usually start off as simply elected leaders whose constituents put them there, waiting for them --to serve them, since that's what their job entails and requires of them. Yet, as they warm their seats, their power grows like a bad bacteria and converts that power into something more sinister.

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"Years teach us more than books." - Berthold Auerbech, German-Jewish Poet

We know that no amount of books can replace our day-to-day experience. Books are there to enrich us, to educate us, to guide us, to add to our sense of culture and well-being, to teach and tell us more about the intricacies of philosophy, science, maths, languages. Experience is a totally different kettle of fish.  In reality, no one dictates to us what to do in life--that's our prerogative. We are the book ourselves--the book is in us.

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"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government." Thomas Jefferson

Oh, really? Now the Americans are planning  to wage a war against Iran, which they consider a rogue state. Another "conquering moment" for the CIA, who knows, because of Iran's stubbornness in developing nuclear weapons. They are considered "dangerous". But who  dropped the first Atomic bombs? Who have been dropping "dirty bombs" in Iraq and Afghanistan? Who dropped napalm in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos? No, the Americans aren't into conquering another country--only by way of wanton destruction to make them tow the American line.