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Monday, October 3 - 5:16pm

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Government cannot be made to operate efficiently. You could just as easily expect a prostitute to be celibate. Government and efficiency are as mutually exclusive as politicians and the truth. Government is waste.
John Galt

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Monday, October 3 - 5:25pm

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Ciro, do you ever use the add content, quote button?

Otherwise nice quote.

---Landon

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Monday, October 3 - 8:53pm

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Landon I cannot start new threads for quotes, can you help ?

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Tuesday, October 4 - 11:44am

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John Galt is a fictional character who appears only in Atlas Shrugged. The word celibate does not appear in Atlas Shrugged.

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Tuesday, October 4 - 1:08pm

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Mr Pasotto John Galt was a Scottish writer.
This was the purpose of my quote, to see if people new about him.
Ciao

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Tuesday, October 4 - 4:07pm

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Ciro, hopefully by the time you read this I'll have sent you a solomail.

---Landon

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Tuesday, October 4 - 10:57pm

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Bravo, Ciro.

You beaned the finger wagger's ass but good!

LOLOLOLOL...

I found this line in the Wikipedia entry on John Galt (ahem... I mean the Scottish writer, before more knees start twitching out there...):

... one of Galt's last novels, The Member, has political corruption as its central theme.

Is your quote from this novel?

Michael

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Wednesday, October 5 - 9:25am

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Michael, Mr Pasotto did it to me first.
I love to fish lololololol. Certainly I didn't expect to have a big fish like him pulling at my hook.

Ciao
Ciro

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Wednesday, October 5 - 7:46pm

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Ciro,

When you drop context so flagrantly it amounts to fraud.

The context of this site is the works of Ayn Rand.

I have no interest in nor time for your childish games.

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Wednesday, October 5 - 8:48pm

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I am sorry Mr. Pasotto. I thought that you would have found the situation to be funny!I was wrong. It would not happen again sorry!
Ciro

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Wednesday, October 5 - 10:38pm

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Well I think it was funny as all get out.

That was not fraud, Rick,. He just tripped you up on your little finger wagging mind games a bit. There's a real world out there with real people in it.

Stings, don't it?

//;-)

Michael

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Thursday, October 6 - 7:30am

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Rick,

You're out of line. Ciro's quote simply exposes both the power and danger of human concept based thought. When we fail to check our assumptions about what someone is talking about we can arrive at quick but mistaken conclusions. Why do so many Objectivists, and others, find it so hard to apologise for errors? I feel that failing to apologise for something I've stated or done that is wrong totally trashes my self-esteem. Even if the person I apologise to is a bastard who I can't stand. Even if they crow and grand-stand about how I apologised. I'm not doing it for them. I'm not doing it to sacrifice my esteem in some public self-immolation event. I'm doing to maintain my self-esteem. Judge others, and judge yourself. Ciro exposed you on this one. So, say your sorry.

Ethan

(Edited by Ethan Dawe on 10/06, 8:54am)

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Thursday, October 6 - 8:52am

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Thank you Ethan!

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Thursday, October 6 - 11:02am

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Why do so many Objectivists, and others, find it so hard to apologise for errors?

Ethan,

Is Rick an Objectivist?

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Thursday, October 6 - 11:09am

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Hell Lance, I have no clue. My comment was in general as well. From what I recall in previous posts, Rick is an Objectivist. Rick, your comment?

Ethan

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Thursday, October 6 - 9:42pm

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I feel that failing to apologise for something I've stated or done that is wrong totally trashes my self-esteem.

You're right, Ethan. Very well said.

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Sunday, October 16 - 8:13am

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I now work in newspaper features, and I recently remarked that it was funny for a movie to tank so badly when its screenwriter is named John Galt.

Nobody got my joke.

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Sunday, October 16 - 8:37am

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Which movie was that, Christy?

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Sunday, October 16 - 5:13pm

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It was a movie released in September called "Undiscovered" ... more details at imdb.com ... It was a vehicle for (shudder) pop singer Ashlee Simpson.

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Sunday, October 16 - 5:42pm

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It sounds like Undiscovered will remain exactly that!