ism isms...no poetry

I'm a pilot fish that swims with a shark(goodguy) to get parasites(post ideas).

'if you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.' - wilson mizner
'feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream' - rush limbaugh
'feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians' - pat robertson
'feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings' - cheris kramerae
'too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists' - gk chesterton
'magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refridgerators' - dave barry
'patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it' - george bernard shaw
'when a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of it's voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of it's hands and purity of it's heart' - ralph waldo emerson
'idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive' - william f buckley
'if there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion' - edmond and jules de goncourt
'the power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it' - george bernard shaw
'to avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing' - elbert hubbard
'puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy' - henry mencken
'if you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married' - katherine hepburn
'america is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization' - oscar wilde
'the place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum' - havelock ellis
'the basis of optimism is sheer terror' - oscar wilde
'communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff' - frank zappa
'my pessimism extends to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists' - jean rostand
'under capitalism, man exploits man. under communism, it's just the opposite' - john kenneth galbraith
'seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. and if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some' - alfred hitchcock
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Posted: Jul 2010

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freeatlast64847
"Pessimists are right more often than optimists, but who's happier?" - Robert A Heinlein

Great selection of quotes hedi!
amahlala
Interesting "Isms"......thumbs up bouquet
trurorob
what a mind, I would never have thought of this!
rob
ironman
I like the thoughts assembled in this poem
Excellent poetry
Keep up the good work
Blessings always
agoodguy2have
ism isms...no poetry ...how wrong you are hedistuff...this is shear poetry...i am standing in the face of ... greatness!

especially liked the john kenneth galbraith, though all are gems!

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