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Jim's Quote of the Day:
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral
- doctrine 'that violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure
up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them
debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the
Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled
more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion
is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have
always paid for it with their lives and freedom."
- Robert Heinlein (in a lecture by Colonel Dubois in the novel "Starship
Troopers")
