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eppur_se_muova

(36,261 posts) Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:22 AM Mar 2016

Well, it was a little disconcerting to see this chosen as a random quote ...

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It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)

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Well, it was a little disconcerting to see this chosen as a random quote ... (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Mar 2016 OP

It's been that way for at least a century. Kalidurga Mar 2016 #1

Which century ? :^) nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2016 #3

the last one hundred years Kalidurga Mar 2016 #4

But so appropriate nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #2

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

1. It's been that way for at least a century.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:24 AM

Mar 2016

eppur_se_muova

(36,261 posts)

3. Which century ? :^) nt

Reply to Kalidurga (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:25 AM

Mar 2016

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

4. the last one hundred years

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:26 AM

Mar 2016

my memories and the stories I have heard from my elders only go back that far. I suppose it could have been this way in this country since it's inception.

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

2. But so appropriate

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sun Mar 6, 2016, 12:25 AM

Mar 2016

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