TheBanyanTree: Tree worthy challenge

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Woohoo!  perfect


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is this all there is? I asked, squalling, dissatisfied from the first.
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> All you can hope for, they said, don’t  complain.
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> No, I said, this won’t work.
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> And off I went, and when they saw me years later they said,
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> “We don’t recognize you.”
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> And that, I told them, was the point.
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-- 
Democracies are indeed slow to make war,
but once embarked upon a martial venture
are equally slow to make peace
and reluctant to make a tolerable,
rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr