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• Democracy can learn some things from Communism: for example, when a Communist politician is through, he is through.
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...
• Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744), _The Rape of the Lock_ (1712)...
• There are only two kinds of books--good books and the others.
  The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. -- Edward Abbey...
• The difference between communism and democracy is plenty.
• Abe: I'm a member! Homer: Huh? Abe: What? Homer: What?
  Abe: Huh? Lisa: You're a member of the Stonecutters, Grampa?...
• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
  The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time....