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"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail"
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It is difficult to imagine a government more shameful, more corrupt, more evil than the one in Washington, D.C.- Paul Craig Roberts
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
----- I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a mans reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. ---- Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble. |
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... "Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." --P. J. O'Rourke |
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We make ourselves real by telling the truth. Man can hardly forget that he needs to know the truth, for the instinct to know is too strong in us to be destroyed. But he can forget how badly he also needs to tell the truth. We cannot know truth unless we ourselves are conformed to it. We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true by manifesting the truth as we see it. - Thomas Merton, From No Man Is an Island [1955]
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And oh I couldn't understand it
For I felt I was rich And I told them of the love My momma sewed in every stitch And I told 'em all the story Momma told me while she sewed And how my coat of many colors Was worth more than all their clothes But they didn't understand it And I tried to make them see That one is only poor Only if they choose to be Now I know we had no money But I was rich as I could be In my coat of many colors My momma made for me Made just for me Dolly Parton. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. (unknown) |
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Misuse of government power, particularly in times of stress, has brought suffering to humanity in all ages about which we have authentic history. Some of the world's noblest and finest men have suffered ignominy and death for no crime unless unorthodoxy is a crime. Even enlightened Athens had its victims such as Socrates. Because of the same kind of bigotry, Jesus, the great Dissenter, was put to death on a wooden cross. The flames of inquisitions all over the world have warned that men endowed with unlimited government power, even earnest men, consecrated to a cause, are dangerous. Hugo L. Black, The Bill of Rights [1960]
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"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln
rokytnji gets my vote for the best quote in the thread - "Be the person your dog thinks you are" Oh, what a tangled website we weave... |
"When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy".
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life...." - John Lennon Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, "It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver." - Babe Ruth "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." - H. L. Menchken "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin One night at Cheers, Cliff Clavin explained the " Buffalo Theory" to his buddy Norm: "Well, ya see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers. |
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. John F. Kennedy Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. Eugene McCarthy |
"The bubble winked at me and said,
You’ll miss me brother, when you’re dead.” — Oliver Herford |
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