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I am a half century old progressive who enjoys good satire as a way to comment on society. Do it with a smile.
My favorite quotes...
"I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
-- Taken from a letter by Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval - Monticello, July 12, 1816.
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change
their minds cannot change anything." -- George Bernard Shaw
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