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| Thread ID: 137127 | 2014-05-25 10:01:00 | Typical Cic. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1375829 | 2014-05-25 10:01:00 | "The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero , 55 BC So, evidently we've learned bugger all over the past 2,069 years. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1375830 | 2014-05-25 10:35:00 | Do they listen? You're obviously casting pearls before swine. However, they have learned to ignore the obvious more expensively, thanks to all those consultants. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1375831 | 2014-05-25 20:44:00 | The Truth: This alleged quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero that began circulating on the Internet in October, 2008, is based on a true statement from the great Roman orator, but someone added a lot to it to make it match some of what the United States was facing economically. The actual quote is: "The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall." Rome fell because they kept expanding (Taking over) more and more nations.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1375832 | 2014-05-25 21:44:00 | The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. | Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1375833 | 2014-05-25 22:48:00 | There was one in our office many years ago that I really liked, turns out it's a popular fake. We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.� I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D. Apparently it dates back to the late 40's and occupied germany but nobody knows who started it. Still hits the mark despite it's fake origins. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1375834 | 2014-05-25 23:08:00 | The Truth: This alleged quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero that began circulating on the Internet in October, 2008, is based on a true statement from the great Roman orator, but someone added a lot to it to make it match some of what the United States was facing economically. The actual quote is: "The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall." Rome fell because they kept expanding (Taking over) more and more nations.... It's called poetic license, it's the principal that counts. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1375835 | 2014-05-26 02:19:00 | It's called ignoring the facts to fit (Whatever) to your own agenda. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1375836 | 2014-05-26 04:01:00 | Rome was doing quite nicely until christianity infested the place, then it just flaked away. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1375837 | 2014-05-26 05:51:00 | It's called ignoring the facts to fit (Whatever) to your own agenda. What part of this........... The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Do you disagree with? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1375838 | 2014-05-26 06:49:00 | What part of this........... The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Do you disagree with? Looks good to me, it has been translated from Latin who wants to nitpick about a few details?. Have to agree we humans seem doomed to repeat **** ups in generational cycles. The best one imo was the kippers forgetting to put on heaps of AA armament on their ships when they took them to the Malvinas. Seems we forgot lead in the air is lethal to attacking planes or incoming missiles. They even had to dive down and get the waist and flight deck brownings from a sunken frigate. |
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