Quote of the Day

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"You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in." - Dr. Seuss

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“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” - Bertolt Brecht

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"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus

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"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." - Ayn Rand

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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

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"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead." - Les Brown

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"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson

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"...the people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority, either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches..." - John Witherspoon

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“The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.” - Charles Nodier

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"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality." - Thomas Sowell

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"Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you." â€" Larry Kersten

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"In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college." - Joseph Sobran

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“Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” â€" Abraham Lincoln

[Frogman]

I found this one recently . . .

“Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your guns away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it.  This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians”

Aaron Zelman and I. Neil Smith, Hope, 2001

   
Jim

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"If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?" - Steven Wright

[FinsnFur]

LOL...I'd wave it on

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"I liked things better when I didn't understand them." - Bill Watterson

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"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." - Paul Tournier

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"If in the opinion of the People the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield." - George Washington

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"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." - Bertrand Russell