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[meta?] [infinities?] This means something, but I don't know what.
 
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Proginoskes Wrote:I call Overzealous Translation. Most cultures capable of imagining space travel call their planet of origin by a synonym for "soil" or "ground".
"We come from Planet Dirt."

(Of course, there is at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_f ... _Is_Forest]one exception...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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[No subject] - by robkelk - 11-25-2011, 05:33 PM
[No subject] - by M Fnord - 11-27-2011, 02:26 AM
[No subject] - by robkelk - 11-27-2011, 02:50 AM
[No subject] - by Proginoskes - 11-27-2011, 08:04 PM
[No subject] - by Black Aeronaut - 11-30-2011, 01:24 AM
[No subject] - by M Fnord - 12-16-2011, 05:46 AM
[No subject] - by Black Aeronaut - 12-16-2011, 09:09 AM
[No subject] - by Bob Schroeck - 12-16-2011, 04:40 PM
[No subject] - by Proginoskes - 12-17-2011, 07:39 PM
[No subject] - by robkelk - 12-17-2011, 10:45 PM
[No subject] - by HRogge - 12-18-2011, 12:13 AM
[No subject] - by M Fnord - 12-24-2011, 11:00 PM

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