Re: Just As True Today As It Was In 1779

On Jul 2, 1:17=A0pm, Jack Linthi*** <jacklinthi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 2, 11:48 am, "William Black" <william.bl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > "Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"
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> > > -- George Wa****ngton (letter to James Warren, 31 March 1779)
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> > All revolutionaries come out with crap like that:
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> > "the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight,
> > without seeking our own interests..."
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> > Oliver Cromwell....
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> > William Black
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> > I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
> > Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
> > I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough
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> > All these moments will be lost in time, =A0like icecream on the beach
> > Time for tea.
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> "Just as true today as it was in 1779" is not exactly total backing
> for the statement that follows

One may argue that the cause of 1779 (whatever it was) did not REALLY
apply to the WHOLE 'makind' so, the 'Just as true....' may, quite
well, mean 'BS'. :-)