User:Arx Fortis

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User Summary This user lives in the United States of America. This user lives in or hails from North Carolina. en This user is a native speaker of English. HL7 This user is fluent in HL7.

List of contributions made 30 January 2005 to 27 June 2006 (prior to creating an account, plus a few additional edits through 25 August 2006) are available here. My contributions since creating an account are listed here.

I resisted creating an account for some time, but got tired of people assuming my edits were vandalism (without actually reading the edits) simply because I didn't have an account.

Areas of education, study and interest where I usually focus my efforts on Wikipedia:

• Linguistics (English dialects)
• Botany
• History (US and World)
• Geography
• Wildlife
• Theology
• Sinology
• Information Technology (specifically in Healthcare)

[edit] Gallery

Sabatia angularis	Kalmia latifolia	Lilium superbum	Rhododendron calendulaceum
Madison County Court House, Marshall, North Carolina	North Mills River, in Western North Carolina

[edit] Favorite Quotes

• "If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." -Alice Cooper

• "The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion." -Winston Churchill

• "Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil." -Winston Churchill

• ..."the will to live" differs greatly from "the will not to die." -Willem Wanrooy, Dutch Soldier, Survivor of the Junyo Maru, and Prisoner of War - WWII

• "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." -William Inge

• "History is a vast early warning system." -Norman Cousins