"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
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Abigail Adams
(1744-1818) wife of John Adams
Date:
1780
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You're kidding!!! (ha) I thought all that was needed to be a genius was to "feel good" when you got the wrong answer and be able to put a condom onto a bananna. Small wonder we have children with diplomas they cannot read and who cannot make change for a dollar. I actually had someone ask me what time it was...and when I replied "A quarter past 8" she said "Is that 25 minutes after 8?" Sad.
 -- MIchael , Houston, TX     
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     -- Mike, Norwalk      
    And certainly today, independent study is more important than ever.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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     -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US      
    Sounds smart, but NO DUH!
     -- Abigale Adams, Jamestown     
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    this is a good quote!
     -- me'chelle, stiilwater     
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    i think she could have a longer life
     -- Anonymous     
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    Way ahead of her time on issues of slavery and womens rights - smart lady!
     -- Caroline, Moscow     
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    You helped slavery end - SMART LADY!!!
     -- Bridgette Amuse or Smits, Wisconsion     
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    Smart women.
     -- Johann Hollar, St. Paul     
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    Great! but only half the need - the other being wisdom. This doesn't come from learning but from observing. To have both is truly great!
     -- Robken     
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    Michael, Houston, I'll go you one better. My wife was talking on the phone to a cousin in Florida, a lady about 45 or so years old. She asked my wife what time it was in Texas, and then asked if that was AM or PM. Florida is on Eastern Standard Time and is one hour ahead of Texas.
     -- jim k, Austin, Tx     
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    A more realistic statement could not have been spoken!
     -- Mary - MI     
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    The Tree of Liberty has grown rapidly once again. this through Education, not indoctrination. Self evident, that the need to "know" has enlighten many a Patriot to their sovereign individuality. 
    WWG1WGA MAGA to KAG. 
     -- Ronw13, OR     
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    I sought for many years the reason why we have rich and why we have poor. It was the minimum wage. The solution to rich and poor is the maximum wage.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, you need to keep seeking for the reason why there are rich and poor. I, in your possessed "we have" does not exist — I neither have rich or poor. You will never find the reason or solution to your seeking as long as you keep changing the meanings of words, can't define words and concepts and can't define a correlation of what you've decided is a problem.

    I was once so poor my young family didn't have as much as a car to sleep in or food to provide a next meal. Neither a minimum or maximum wage helped to change that condition. Your circular word salad defines nothing, gives no solution(s) and doesn't make sense on any level. Your ignorance of economics looms huge. 
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, I don't change the meaning of words as much I just give them sound legitimacy. The pseudo society must be lead to a legitimate destination. The maximum wage will lead the way to sound economic foundations by releasing you from the Dialectical of Materialism. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create the maximum wage. 


     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, you regularly change the meaning of words — by example: socialism. Socialism has had a static meaning for centuries and you try to change it often. You've given nothing sound legitimacy, you've only dribbled circular word salad. You make idiotic / non-relatable nothing. By example: "The maximum wage will lead the way to sound economic foundations by releasing you from the Dialectical of Materialism." That is idiotic dribble that means nothing. First, you haven't defined what "maximum wage" is, what "Dialectical of Materialism" or how those two correlate. Please define terms and the cause and effect between the 2.

    Socialism is a primary challenge to noble / human abilities (individually and socially) and the creation of prosperity.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, good day, I'll start with minimum wage. The minimum wage came about to the rational mind to provide at least a subsistence wage. But if worked for it over a period of time you'll find you cannot subsist on it. So, it not based rational processes. It's based irrational processes.

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, minimum wage part 2. So, one, the reasonable individual, asks what is the reason for the the minimum wage? The reason for the the minimum wage is to justify your employer's greed. He, if you notice, I noticed it, always pays you over the minimum wage. See, from the start they are in competition with you. There's no justification when they start their business to pay you less than themselves, but they do and the justification is minimum wage.  The employer assured themselves you are greedy, if you weren't you would insist on the minimum wage. So, they say to themselves you the employee must think yourself better than others and so you by your act of working for more than your fellows, but that's been only Mr Frederick William Sillik and he don't count, deserve to be exploited. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create another Socialist. 

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, maximum wage would be the admission of equal regard for all by laboring for the legislated computerized maximum wage of $4.25 hourly established by the world's first Socialist Mr Fredrick William Sillik in 1995. Dialectical Materialism is inability to express oneself directly notable described by the Musical bad  Cold Play , "never an honest word when I ruled the word."  And as always, Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create.

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Correction: Musical band, Cold Play.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk,  I do count in factorization of human equation, and I request that you join me. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, in regards to our firearms buddies, in a authentic revolution, all firearms are disbanded, and we all raise our glasses to a toast to the revolutionary horizon. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create a revolutionary toast.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, ever more coherently, in regards to our firearms buddies, in an authentic revolution, all firearms are eliminated, and we raise our glasses to a toast to the revolutionary horizon. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create a revolutionary toast.

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, once again — my shaking lowered head, combined with a smile that is almost audible can't believe how complete your ignorance is (from economics to being able to define a term). You give your emotional heart felt reason why something may occur but you refuse to define any "something". By example: what is a maximum wage? By your explanation, the first socialist god established "maximum wage" to be $4.25 an hour. What is the scientific methodology and correlation — cause & effect of the maximum wage to a "Dialectical Materialism"? Outside emotional / heart felt mush, what exactly is "Dialectical Materialism"? Please refrain from your circular word salad of explaining nothing.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, the maximum wage was established in 1995. In 1995, on a hunch, the first individual requested to labor, Mr  Fredrick William Sillik, for the federal minimum wage. This action simply destroyed the capitalist justification for her basic establishment of inequality. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create the maximum wage.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, trying stay on relevant street, doesn't it make sense for an individual to try to remain in a position to utilize resources in the most proficient manner. Don't these wasteful millionaires and billionaires just demonstrate financial and economic obesity permeating their whole character and perspective. Doesn't a maximum wage prove to be more wise than minimum wage? Doesn't it prove to be the harbinger of financial and economic fitness?

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create economic fitness.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, I don't know — you haven't defined minimum or maximum wage or their relationship(s) to any harbinger of financial and economic fitness. No, your circular word salad doesn't prove anything.


     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Socialism is a problematic challenge to all noble / human abilities (individual and social). Socialism creates a demise of economic fitness. Sillik, do you define socialism like the rest of the world has for the last couple of centuries? Socialism is: any of various economic, religious and political theories, philosophies or movements outside nature’s law advocating collective or governmental / religious ownership and administration of property (real / chattel / sensorial beings, etc.) along with the means of production and distribution of goods.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, I'll go alone with the traditional idea that Socialism is the means of production controlled by the community as a whole.  The difference from traditional approaches is my route starts not with gaining control of the means of production, but gaining control of myself.  It's starts with the individual, as I gain control of myself I believe the machinery will ever so slowly be operated by me the human, for you the machine not really understanding machinery are controlled by the machinery of your own production. In the conventional system the means of production controls you, contrarily Socialism and the Socialist control the means of production. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create the means of production.

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mike, Norwalk, minimum wage, and I believe your psychology is aware of this. Minimum Wage was instituted in a monetary imbalancing scheme by the  players to justify themselves taking in unfair monetary portions and giving themselves huge monetary advantages over the non player. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create the maximum wage. 
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, your circular word salad remains void of any definition of minimum or maximum wage. Your incomprehensible word salad only states that a collective phantasm can create a NON-definable.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Fred, "gaining control of myself" is not socialism, it is individualism, it is classic liberalism.  Freedom absolutely requires the responsibility of being in control of oneself and not being the subject of another's will. 

    Please stop calling your approach 'socialism.'  You are mixing up self-determination and utopia.  There would be no way to impose a maximum or minimum wage without allowing oneself to give up self-determinism and to become subservient to an external authority.

    I know you have got a lot invested in your motto "socialism is the challenge ..." but you will never reconcile freedom, independence, and personal responsibility with socialism — they are polar opposites and completely incompatible. 

    Your heart is in the right place, only your proposals are authoritarian on their face and can never and will never accomplish anything but complete subservience to the state and to whomever seizes the seats of power and will dictate to the rest of us.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    BTW "the challenge of social abilities to create the means of production" is not socialism, it's "capitalism."
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Mr Archer, and this along the lines of Mr Marx, but the present conventional arrangement, "capitalism," produces only it's grave diggers. Mr Marx is undeniably correct in his examination of the results of this conventional arrangement.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Mr Archer, gaining control of yourself is definitely Socialism, for you must first start to be social with yourself before you can social with the universe. 

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, your attempt to redefine "capitalism" (differing only slightly from Marx's new definition / fiscally incorrect) only goes to negate your continuing circular word salad. In a system of debt where socialist gods own all sentient chattel, property and actions (the grave and present conventional arrangement) capitalism is a foreign concept with no possibility of coexistence. A term — "crony capitalism", has been floated, that more accurately addresses the concept I think you are trying to set forth.


     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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