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 Aug 11 2006, 11:26 PM
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For me, I never got how "All's fair in love and war" made sense.
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Aug 13 2006, 12:35 AM
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Don't know if it's right, but I never understood "An eye for an eye will leave the world blind."
.. Or something like that. 
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Aug 13 2006, 12:54 AM
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QUOTE(coldricesux426 @ Aug 13 2006, 1:35 AM)  Don't know if it's right, but I never understood "An eye for an eye will leave the world blind." .. Or something like that. Well, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth', you know what that means, right? Well, if everybody was trying to get revenge that way, then nobody would have 'teeth' anymore because they were all taken away as revenge. I think that's just a way of making the quote sound negative. |
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Aug 13 2006, 12:27 PM
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QUOTE(soEXCLUSIVE @ Aug 13 2006, 1:54 AM) Well, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth', you know what that means, right? Well, if everybody was trying to get revenge that way, then nobody would have 'teeth' anymore because they were all taken away as revenge. I think that's just a way of making the quote sound negative. That's not entirely true. That quote comes from Mesopotamia (I think Old Babylon, but I could be wrong). It's the "eye for an eye" law. For instance - if someone beat you up, they would cut off his hand, or something like that. |
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My Cinderella. What famous phrases don't you get? Aug 11 2006, 11:26 PM
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