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Is refering to someone as down to earth basically a polite way of

treemanshope
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Posted 10/02/09 - 07:51 AM:	#11
Desidude666 wrote: Probably a polite way of telling them that their successors might not stand a chance in the complex but competitive biological existence. It is definitely not a desired skill, or motivation and should be rectified in today's world - so that your kin may survive with the most at hand. I think that is how the Nazis interpreted it.
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Posted 10/04/09 - 11:47 PM:	#12
treemanshope wrote: I think that is how the Nazis interpreted it. Or how capitalism interprets it?
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Posted 11/07/09 - 04:32 PM:	#13
I believe everyone has their own meaning for this phrase. When I think of someone being "down to earth", I think that it is someone that has a sort of humbleness about them. That does not look down on others, but give the same equal treatment that they would want others to give them.

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