{"id":518,"date":"2006-08-14T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-08-14T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:44:00","slug":"almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2006\/08\/14\/almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/aeonflux1.jpg\" alt=\"I like this meme, but we could be at it all day!\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>Snaffled from <a href=\"http:\/\/sciolist.livejournal.com\">Sciolist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Instructions: Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3\">http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3<\/a> and look through random quotations until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Then post them in your journal.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. \n<p>Bertrand Russell  (1872 &#8211; 1970) <\/li>\n<li>People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.<br \/>\nAnatole France (1844 &#8211; 1924) <\/li>\n<li>You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.<br \/>\nGavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006 <\/li>\n<li>Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.<br \/>\nAlbert Einstein (1879 &#8211; 1955) <\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;d be fools not to ride this strange torpedo to the end. \n<p>Hunter S. 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