Nov
4
Voting Quotes
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“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.” – J. Stalin
“Trust, but verify.” – R. Reagan
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” – T. Jefferson
May
21
Quote on learning
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To learn is to Succeed. – Lee Elliott
May
16
Jerry Falwell
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“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists,
and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians
who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle,
the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have
tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face
and say ‘you helped this happen.’” –Jerry Falwell (September 13, 2001, The 700 Club)
“Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.” –Jerry Falwell
May
11
When Insults had Class
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“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” – Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?” – Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.” – Moses Hadas
“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.” – Abraham Lincoln
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” – Mark Twain
“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” – Oscar Wilde
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.” – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.” – Winston Churchill, in response.
“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.” – Stephen Bishop
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” – John Bright
“I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.” – Irvin S. Cobb
“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.” – Samuel Johnson
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” – Paul Keating
“He had delusions of adequacy.” – Walter Kerr
“There’s nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won’t cure.” – Jack E. Leonard
“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.” – Robert Redford
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.” – Thomas Brackett Reed
“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.” – Charles, Count Talleyrand
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” – Forrest Tucker
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” – Mark Twain
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” – Mae West
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… for support rather than illumination.” – Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Billy Wilder
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” – Groucho Marx
Apr
21
Organizations
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. – Art Buchwald
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. – J.K. Galbraith
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt
As found in Men’s Health, December 2006
Apr
17
10 Quotes from Martin Luther King
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1. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven & earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
2. Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical & immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
3. There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a large segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it;
who feel that they have nothing to lose. People, who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
4. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
5. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
6. 10 thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while 1 wise man forgets himself into immortality.
7. All progress is precarious, and the solution of 1 problem brings us face to face with another problem.
8. The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents & discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
9. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles & misguided men.
10. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort & convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Apr
17
Literary
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
–illiam Jennings Bryan (1860 – 1925)
“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.”
–arcus Aurelius
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
–Hannah More
“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“vera incessu patuit dea”
(her very walk revealed the goddess)
–Virgil
Apr
17
Dr. Seuss
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“Be who you are and say what you feel because the people who mind don’t matter and the people who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
Apr
17
Joseph Stalin
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“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” –Russian dictator Joseph Stalin
Apr
17
Julius Caesar
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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fevered pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. -
Julius Caesar