Quote of the Day

[coyote101]

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." - Thomas Huxley

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken

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"I think Barack Obama is a threat to the integrity and future of the Republic. My country first." - James Woods

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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." - H. L. Mencken

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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

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"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got." - Art Buchwald 

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"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar N. Bradley

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"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one." - Mark Twain

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"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will." - Alexander Hamilton

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere." -  C. S. Lewis

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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." - Groucho Marx

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"After all is said and done, more is said than done." - Aesop

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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre

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"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart

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"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein." - George Washington

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"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." - Francesco Guicciardini

[Okanagan]

Pat, really appreciate this thread and your diligence to make it high quality.  You've posted a number of extra good ones lately.  Thank you.

[KySongDog]

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”  - George Orwell

[coyote101]

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." - H. L. Mencken

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"It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant." - Don Herold