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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, it was a little disconcerting to see this chosen as a random quote ...
Thought of the MomentIt was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
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Well, it was a little disconcerting to see this chosen as a random quote ... (Original Post)
eppur_se_muova
Mar 2016
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)1. It's been that way for at least a century.
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)3. Which century ? :^) nt
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)4. the last one hundred years
my memories and the stories I have heard from my elders only go back that far. I suppose it could have been this way in this country since it's inception.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)2. But so appropriate