From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28412 invoked by alias); 1 Jun 2011 21:47:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 28403 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jun 2011 21:47:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_80,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nihxway4out.hub.nih.gov (HELO nihxway4out.hub.nih.gov) (128.231.90.112) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:47:29 +0000 X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiMBAHuy5k2cKEcW/2dsb2JhbABTl1eOWXAHrQObA4YgBJU1imc Received: from unknown (HELO NIHHT03.nih.gov) ([156.40.71.22]) by nihxway4out.hub.nih.gov with ESMTP; 01 Jun 2011 17:47:28 -0400 Received: from NIHMLBX02.nih.gov ([156.40.71.32]) by NIHHT03.nih.gov ([156.40.71.22]) with mapi; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 17:47:28 -0400 From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" To: "cygwin-talk@cygwin.com" Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:47:00 -0000 Subject: RE: quote needed Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209ED1BF8A2@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> References: <19260.2916773923$1306853180@news.gmane.org> <4DE509C5.5020001@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4DE509C5.5020001@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q2/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 Charles Wilson sent the following at Tuesday, May 31, 2011 11:31 AM >Okay, how about these three from Samuel Clemens: > >"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely >food for laughter, they are an entire banquet" - Mark Twain > >"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; >and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve >men every day who don't know anything and can't read" - Mark Twain > >"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any >copyright law on the planet." - Mark Twain > >and a bonus: > >"The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar >territory." -- Paul Fix And from Twain's: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court http://www.gutenberg.org/files/86/86-h/86-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/86/86-h/p6.htm#c30 The painful thing observable about all this business was the alacrity with which this oppressed community had turned their cruel hands against their own class in the interest of the common oppressor. This man and woman seemed to feel that in a quarrel between a person of their own class and his lord, it was the natural and proper and rightful thing for that poor devil's whole caste to side with the master and fight his battle for him, without ever stopping to inquire into the rights or wrongs of the matter. This man had been out helping to hang his neighbors, and had done his work with zeal, and yet was aware that there was nothing against them but a mere suspicion, with nothing back of it describable as evidence, still neither he nor his wife seemed to see anything horrible about it. This was depressing--to a man with the dream of a republic in his head. It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by the slave-lords around them, and who owed their base condition simply to the presence of slavery in their midst, were yet pusillanimously ready to side with the slave-lords in all political moves for the upholding and perpetuating of slavery, and did also finally shoulder their muskets and pour out their lives in an effort to prevent the destruction of that very institution which degraded them. And there was only one redeeming feature connected with that pitiful piece of history; and that was, that secretly the "poor white" did detest the slave-lord, and did feel his own shame. That feeling was not brought to the surface, but the fact that it was there and could have been brought out, under favoring circumstances, was something--in fact, it was enough; for it showed that a man is at bottom a man, after all, even if it doesn't show on the outside. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are certainly not made on behalf of NIAID.